Chapter Summaries

Bai Wuchen inspected the attacked Divine Hall while Bai Hai Zhou suspected him of hiding a connection to the Mechanical Empire and ordered him watched. At Zhiyuan Star Base, Farrow received reinforcements from Elder Zhan and prepared to launch an all-out offensive across the Red Rock Continent.

• Bai Wuchen questioned whether Fang Mo was linked to the Mechanical Empire’s attack, then dismissed Bai Hai Zhou’s accusations and returned to Red Rock City.
• Bai Hai Zhou ordered a Transcendent Realm cultivator to watch Bai Wuchen and vowed to hold the line himself.
• Farrow reported to Elder Zhan that the Mechanical Empire had gained the upper hand in the Ancient Realm but had occupied only one continent and established bases on three.
• Elder Zhan sent Level 6 warrior Talek and Level 5 reinforcements, ordering Farrow to hasten the campaign before the Tianli Sect subdued the Guoluo Star Domain rebellion.
• Farrow ordered Gu Poyue to knock out every teleportation point on the Red Rock Continent and begin an all-out war.

Tianli Sect experts tracked Meng Qing’s corpse to the battlefield and followed the lingering aura toward Luo Yun Kong’s group. At the tribe, Ye Qiuchen and the others confirmed Fang Mo’s strength before an alert revealed five approaching Transcendent Realm experts.

• Five Tianli Sect experts found Meng Qing’s corpse in a river and identified sword wounds on his bones.
• The five traced the river upstream to the battlefield, found residual aura, and used a Soul-Chasing Compass to pursue Luo Yun Kong’s direction.
• Ye Qiuchen, Long Hai, and their companion answered the tribe elders’ questions and confirmed Fang Mo could easily kill Peak Transcendent exotic beasts.
• Luo Yun Kong praised Gu Lianglong Yao for having Fang Mo as a junior descendant, and Gu Lianglong Yao joked that Fang Mo’s strength put pressure on him.
• A martial artist warned the tribe that five Transcendent Realm experts were approaching from the southeast, five thousand miles away.

Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong evacuated their underground base after the Tianli Sect tracked them, then flew out to draw the pursuers away. The five Tianli Sect warriors lost their trail but encountered a Mechanical Empire carrier, which attacked with six Particle Cannons.

• Gu Lianglong Yao ordered everyone to retreat underground while he and Luo Yun Kong drew the pursuers away.
• Ye Qiuchen delivered Fang Mo's Leather Pouch of True Liquid Pills to Gu Lianglong Yao, who said the pills improved his chances of surviving a fight.
• Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong flew off to confront the incoming threat.
• Cang Bo and the other Tianli Sect warriors lost the aura they had been tracking and decided to search ahead.
• The five Tianli Sect warriors mistook a twelve-mech hunting squadron's carrier aircraft for a smaller squad and prepared to attack.
• The carrier fired six Particle Cannons, and Cang Bo ordered the group to counterattack and retreat.

Bai Hai Zhou and Tianli Sect discovered that the Mechanical Empire was destroying Divine Halls while the Thirteen Alliances prepared a full-scale assault. As both sides mobilized their forces, Mo Xinghe ordered Tianli Sect to prepare for battle and activate the Sky Covering Grand Array.

• Bai Hai Zhou left the Divine Hall after receiving urgent reports that the Mechanical Empire was attacking more than a dozen Divine Halls.
• Bai Wuchen told Bai Hai Zhou that the grand array’s darkened foundations meant the Divine Halls’ Teleportation Arrays had been destroyed and warned that the attacks aimed to destroy them.
• At Galactic Alliance Command Center, the Thirteen Alliances watched the Divine Halls fall as Gu Poyue ordered their starships and mechs to prepare for battle.
• The Thirteen Alliances launched thirteen starships and the Alliance Warship, armed with a Starfall Cannon, along with their mech forces.
• Mo Xinghe placed Tianli Sect’s base on full wartime alert and ordered Bai Hai Zhou to organize True Man Realm experts and notify Venerable Ling to prepare the Sky Covering Grand Array.

Cang Bo and four Tianli Sect cultivators were killed by a Mechanical Empire mech squad on its way to the Divine Hall, while Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong pursued the squad. In Red Rock City, Bai Wuchen learned that the Mechanical Empire’s army had reached the border and that no reinforcements were coming, just as another array point flickered.

• Cang Bo led four cultivators in a failed attempt to escape eleven mechs, and a Level 3 Mech arrived and helped kill all five.
• The Level 3 Mech ordered its squad to hurry to the Divine Hall, and Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong watched the transport craft leave before looting the bodies.
• Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong pursued the craft, suspecting the Mechanical Empire was targeting the Divine Hall.
• Bai Wuchen demanded reinforcements in Red Rock City, but a cultivator reported that the Mechanical Empire’s army had reached the border and Bai Hai Zhou would send no support.
• Bai Wuchen cursed Mo Xinghe for prioritizing the front line, then noticed another array point flicker.

The Mechanical Empire attacked the Divine Hall with a carrier and twelve mechs, overwhelming its defenses while no reinforcements were available. Xiang Yunqing and six other Transcendent Realm cultivators helped blunt one barrage, but the Divine Hall's people had to evacuate through the Teleportation Array to Red Rock City alongside the trapped martial artists.

• The Divine Hall's alarm sounded, and a giant metal carrier approached as the market crowd realized an attack was underway.
• Twelve mechs bombarded the Divine Hall's defensive formation, and its overseers learned that no reinforcements were available.
• Xiang Yunqing and six other Transcendent Realm cultivators arrived and destroyed seven incoming blasts, but the formation continued to weaken.
• Xiang Yunqing ordered an evacuation, and the Divine Hall's overseer told everyone to gather supplies and destroy what they could not carry.
• Trapped martial artists blocked the Teleportation Array, so the overseer allowed them to evacuate to Red Rock City with the Tianli Sect members.

Xiang Yunqing evacuated the Divine Hall before the Mechanical Empire destroyed it, then reported the attack to Bai Wuchen, who ordered the Transcendent Realm cultivators to concentrate their forces. Five hidden explosive devices detonated in Red Rock City, leaving the city engulfed in destruction and darkness; afterward, Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong found the Divine Hall ruined and split up to investigate the Mechanical Empire’s plans.

• Xiang Yunqing held off the Mechanical Empire’s particle-cannon attack with his Myriad Sword Art, then escaped into the Divine Hall as its defensive array collapsed.
• Xiang Yunqing reported the Divine Hall’s destruction to Bai Wuchen, who ordered him to gather the Transcendent Realm cultivators for a concentrated strike against the attackers.
• Guards spotted suspicious martial artists near Red Rock City’s grand array, and the group fled after leaving a metal object behind.
• Bai Wuchen recognized the metal objects as explosives and moved five of them with the grand array, but they detonated near the city, destroying Red Rock City in a blast that plunged the area into darkness.
• Gu Lianglong Yao and Luo Yun Kong found their Divine Hall reduced to ruins and decided to investigate the Mechanical Empire’s larger plan, with Luo Yun Kong returning to the base and Gu Lianglong Yao checking other Divine Halls.

Mo Xinghe’s forces prepared to face the Mechanical Empire while debating whether to reinforce Red Rock City. A collapsing void passage severed their connection to the city just as the enemy army accelerated toward them, leaving the forces isolated and in immediate danger.

• Mo Xinghe refused to send reinforcements to Red Rock City until Xiao Jingsheng and others argued that the divine halls were vital, then ordered Xiao Jingsheng to lead a force back.
• Ling Cangyan warned that the void passage was collapsing and shielded the nearby martial artists as the passage erupted and vanished.
• The divine hall lost contact with Red Rock City, and the Teleportation Array shut down, cutting off troops and supplies.
• Mo Xinghe’s forces failed to reach Red Rock City or Bai Wuchen, while a report revealed that the Mechanical Empire army had accelerated and would arrive in fifteen minutes.

The Tianli Sect prepared for battle after the Mechanical Empire destroyed Red Rock City and cut off their retreat. As the Mechanical Empire fleet arrived, Farrow ordered its Super Battleship to fire a Destruction-class Weapon at the defenders.

• Ling Cangyan took command, activated the Sky Covering Grand Array, and ordered the Tianli Sect to form its battle formations.
• Mo Xinghe regretted letting the Mechanical Empire attack the Divine Halls after realizing their real target had been Red Rock City and the Tianli Sect army.
• The Mechanical Empire fleet arrived, and Ling Cangyan ordered the war drums sounded to strengthen the defenders’ battle intent.
• Farrow admired the Tianli Sect’s resolve, then deployed mechas and combat aircraft from the fleet.
• Farrow ordered the Super Battleship to fire its Destruction-class Weapon, while Ling Cangyan reinforced the sect’s defenses before the beam struck.

The Divine Hall discovered that Red Rock City had been destroyed by the Mechanical Empire, threatening the array and the Ancient Realm. As Venerable Daozhen prepared to rush to the front lines, a force blocked his way and the Ascension Ranking opened.

• Ji Mingfeng discovered that Red Rock City had lost contact with the Headquarters Grand Array, alarming Senior Brother Zhai and the True Persons.
• Ji Mingfeng realized the Mechanical Empire might have targeted Red Rock City again, leaving it isolated and complicating rescue efforts elsewhere.
• Venerable Daozhen arrived and reported that the Mechanical Empire had destroyed Red Rock City and was advancing, warning that the Ancient Realm might be its target.
• Tie Xiaochuan asked about Bai Wuchen, and Venerable Daozhen said Ling Cangyan had sent the report but the situation was unknown.
• When Venerable Daozhen tried to leave for the front lines, a surge of heaven-and-earth power closed his spatial rift and forced him back.
• The Ascension Ranking opened as a golden dragon rose from it and roared above the Divine Hall.

Fang Mo completed the Circulatory Heavenly Stars, used star power to strengthen his body, and became confident he could withstand True Man Realm cultivators. The Ascension Ranking activated and the Yin Ruins trial began, drawing Fang Mo and other ranked martial artists away in golden light.

• Fang Mo condensed all three hundred and sixty Hegemon Body Battle Marks, drew down Circulatory Heavenly Star Power, and strengthened his body, blood qi, and Primal Chaos True Liquid.
• Fang Mo saw a colossal golden dragon appear in the sky and learned from the Safe Zone martial artists that the Ascension Ranking had activated and the Yin Ruins were about to open.
• A beam of golden light enveloped Fang Mo despite his attempt to evade it and carried him into the sky.
• Golden light took two people from the nearby Safe City and carried away martial artists throughout the Advanced Trial Area.
• Gu Liangyunzong was taken from Huiwu Pavilion in Star Sea City, and Mu Yunlan and the others learned that the Ascension Ranking had opened and the Yin Ruins trial was beginning.

After the Ascension Ranking transported the Trial Takers into the Yin Ruins, Fang Mo arrived alone and began fighting mutated beasts. He discovered the beasts yielded Primal Spirit Fragments, then set out to find the others while gathering more.

• The Ascension Ranking sent the Trial Takers away, and Daozhen, Ji Mingfeng, Tie Xiaochuan, and the others prepared support for the front line.
• Fang Mo arrived alone in the desolate Yin Ruins and found blood-red lightning filling the clouds above him.
• A Transcendent Realm mutated beast attacked Fang Mo, and he killed it with one punch.
• Fang Mo identified the beast's remains as a Primal Spirit Fragment and found that it strengthened his Primal Chaos Wheel.
• Fang Mo flew off to search for the others, killing each mutated beast he encountered with a single punch and collecting more than a dozen fragments.

Ling Cangyan held the Tianli Sect’s grand array against the Mechanical Empire’s Destruction-class bombardment, but a purple-gold Liquid Metal Warrior shattered the defenses. With the array down, Gu Bingbing ordered the Mechanical Empire forces to attack.

• A Destruction-class Weapon destroyed the grand array’s first two layers, but Ling Cangyan reinforced the third with the power of heaven and earth and held the blast back.
• Farrow launched more than a dozen Destruction-class attacks at the Tianli Sect, whose warriors poured energy into the grand array to withstand the bombardment.
• Mo Xinghe and Bai Hai Zhou regretted failing to send aid to Red Rock City as Ling Cangyan struggled to keep the array intact.
• Farrow sent in a purple-gold Liquid Metal Warrior, which slashed the grand array with a massive sword aura.
• Ling Cangyan and the warriors failed to stop the strike, and the grand array collapsed as Gu Bingbing ordered the Mechanical Empire forces to attack.

Fang Mo hunted exotic beasts and refined their Primal Spirit Fragments while searching the vast first level of the Yin Ruins, finding several Trial Takers dead and worrying about his maternal grandfather. On the seventh day, a force guided him toward Yan Gu, whom Fang Mo rescued from three powerful exotic beasts before rushing onward.

• Fang Mo refined a Primal Spirit Fragment, then arrived too late to save a Heavenly Human Realm martial artist from a Late Imperial Heaven Grade exotic beast.
• Fang Mo continued hunting and refining fragments, growing stronger as he searched the Trial Area and found the remains of other Trial Takers.
• On the seventh day, Fang Mo felt a force guiding him and raced tens of thousands of li toward its source.
• Fang Mo watched Yan Gu fight two Late Imperial Heaven Grade exotic beasts, then recognized him as the second-ranked Ascension Ranking genius.
• When a third beast joined the fight, Fang Mo killed all three with blood-red attacks and continued toward the place of guidance.
• Yan Gu collected the Primal Spirit Fragments and pursued Fang Mo, suspecting that the Guardian Beast had appeared.

Daozhen crossed the Sea of Fog and found the Tianli Sect’s base destroyed and its forces defeated by the Mechanical Empire. He located the survivors on an island, where he found Ling Cangyan gravely wounded.

• Daozhen reached the Red Rock Continent and saw the devastation left by the battle and the absence of the Tianli Sect’s forces.
• Mechanical Empire warriors attacked Daozhen, but he escaped into the Sea of Fog, where their detection systems could not track him.
• Daozhen deduced where the surviving Tianli Sect troops had fled and followed traces of wreckage across the sea.
• Daozhen found fewer than a thousand survivors gathered on an island with several damaged Heavenly Vessels.
• Daozhen entered a Heavenly Vessel and found Ling Cangyan badly wounded, with a festering sword wound that medicine could not heal.

Venerable Daozhen examined Ling Cangyan’s severe injuries while Mo Xinghe and Bai Hai Zhou plotted to frame Fang Mo for the defeat. The chapter ended with Ling Cangyan spitting out black blood and opening his eyes.

• Venerable Daozhen arrived and began treating Ling Cangyan’s injuries from the Level 6 Liquid Metal Warrior.
• Mo Xinghe worried that he and Bai Hai Zhou would be punished for the losses and their failure to reinforce Red Rock City.
• Mo Xinghe persuaded Bai Hai Zhou to claim someone had colluded with the Mechanical Empire and to pin the blame on Fang Mo.
• Xiao Jingsheng suspected Mo Xinghe and Bai Hai Zhou were plotting against Fang Mo while he waited for Ling Cangyan to recover.
• Ling Cangyan spat out black blood and opened his eyes, alarming Mo Xinghe and Bai Hai Zhou.

Ling Cangyan awoke gravely wounded and privately told Daozhen that he had no hope of recovery. He asked Daozhen to give his belongings to Fang Mo and make him the next head of Taichu Peak.

• Ling Cangyan dismissed everyone so he could speak with Daozhen alone, while Mo Xinghe ordered Bai Hai Zhou to prepare to act against Fang Mo.
• Bai Jingsheng dismissed suspicions about Mo Xinghe and worried that Taichu Peak would have no future if Ling Cangyan died.
• Ling Cangyan explained that a Level 6 Liquid Metal Warrior had shattered his Nascent Soul Tribulation and that the enemy's energy was still corroding his body.
• Daozhen recognized that Ling Cangyan could not be saved and promised to help with his final request.
• Ling Cangyan gave Daozhen his ring and asked him to pass his belongings to Fang Mo, let him inherit his legacy, and appoint him head of Taichu Peak.

Ling Cangyan entrusted Fang Mo with his legacy and appointed him Taichu Peak’s executive head, asking Daozhen to oversee the arrangement. After Ling Cangyan explained his faith in Fang Mo, he died with Bai Jingsheng and the others present.

• Ling Cangyan asked Daozhen to help him entrust Taichu Peak and his orphaned legacy to Fang Mo, despite Fang Mo’s ties to the Mechanical Empire.
• Daozhen warned that Fang Mo had entered the dangerous Yin Ruins, but Ling Cangyan trusted he would return and revealed his belief that Fang Mo had reached True Human level.
• Ling Cangyan told Bai Jingsheng and Mo Xinghe that Fang Mo would become his Personal Disciple and Taichu Peak’s executive head, and ordered Bai Jingsheng to assist him.
• Bai Jingsheng questioned Fang Mo’s qualifications, but Ling Cangyan insisted on his decision and asked Daozhen to take the others back to the Divine Hall.
• Ling Cangyan closed his eyes and died, while Bai Jingsheng fell to his knees in grief.

Fang Mo reached the Land of Guidance and found a Guardian Beast evolving behind an impenetrable barrier, so he waited while cultivating. Several Trial Takers gathered nearby, hoping to witness the beast’s battle with Fang Mo, and two more arrivals appeared as the chapter ended.

• Fang Mo traveled toward the Land of Guidance, killed exotic beasts, and helped Trial Takers in danger along the way.
• Fang Mo found vast ruins and discovered a lizard-like Guardian Beast growing inside a powerful energy barrier.
• Fang Mo waited for the Guardian Beast to finish evolving while cultivating his sea of true essence liquid.
• Three Trial Takers arrived, recognized Fang Mo, and decided to wait for the Guardian Beast’s evolution and the coming battle.
• A man and a woman arrived and landed on a broken stone pillar nearby.

Fang Mo waited atop a stone pillar as Lian Qingyi, Yue Muhong, Yuan Jing'er, and Yan Gu gathered near the evolving Guardian Beast. When the Abyssal Yuan-Devouring Lizard emerged, Fang Mo struck it down with a single punch, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Yue Muhong and Lian Qingyi arrived and chose to watch Fang Mo rather than approach him or leave.
• Yuan Jing'er arrived and provoked Lian Qingyi over her past dealings with Fang Mo, but Yue Muhong stopped their argument when the Guardian Beast began to stir.
• Yue Muhong identified the emerging beast as an Ancient Desolate Beast, the Abyssal Yuan-Devouring Lizard, whose power could create a Primal Energy Void.
• Yan Gu arrived just before the light barrier vanished, and the lizard rose and fixed its gaze on Fang Mo.
• Fang Mo appeared before the Abyssal Yuan-Devouring Lizard and killed it with one punch, shocking everyone present.