Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo learned that the Alliance had developed Level 4 Mechs to bolster Tianli Sect’s mid-tier combat strength and introduced his new cultivation technique, the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art. The sect leaders began studying the technique as Fang Mo left to refine it with the Heavenly Venerables.

• Long Jianzhang explained that the Alliance had created beast-shaped Level 4 Mechs capable of fighting Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm opponents, and Fang Mo said he would inspect their performance once they were assembled.
• Fire-Refining True Lord and Thick Earth eagerly offered to order a thousand mechs each before Fang Mo dismissed Long Jianzhang and directed the sect to prevent the Mechanical Empire from partnering with the three sects.
• Fang Mo presented the foundational Wilderness Body Tempering technique he had deduced, and the gathered experts studied it.
• Thick Earth, Cen Feng, Fire Refining, Han Li, and True Lord Biqiong praised the technique’s compatibility and potential to strengthen Tianli Sect.
• Fang Mo named the technique the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art, invited everyone to help improve it, and left to deduce it with the Heavenly Venerables.

Fang Mo returned to the Yin Ruins after advancing to Void Comprehension and met with the Tianli Sect’s Heavenly Venerates. The Divine Corpse warned him that a Saint Realm aberration would emerge within three years, and Fang Mo confirmed that he had completed the cultivation technique’s deduction.

• Fang Mo entered the ninth layer of the Yin Ruins, where the Heavenly Venerates sensed his arrival and recognized his new strength.
• Fang Mo reached the Tianli Sect’s sacred mountain, where its nine Heavenly Venerates congratulated him.
• Fang Mo met the Divine Corpse in consciousness and learned that the Saint Realm aberration would emerge within three years.
• The Divine Corpse warned Fang Mo that his body could not yet bear the Ancestral Dragon Blade’s full might, but that he could borrow its power through the Ancestral Dragon Three Forms.
• Fang Mo returned to the gathering and told Xinghe that he had successfully completed the cultivation technique’s deduction.

True Lord Yuchen sought Mechanical Empire weapons and fortress technology for the three sects, and Mu Lei approved a deal intended to weaken the Tianli Sect. Meanwhile, True Monarch Qingshui met Purple Zenith and hinted that the Jihuang Sword Palace could obtain Tianli Sect’s technological defense system.

• True Lord Yuchen asked Flash Thunder to cooperate on fortress defenses, and Flash Thunder agreed to report the proposal to Governor Mu Lei.
• Mu Lei approved selling the three sects limited defense-system equipment at more than double the usual price, and Flash Thunder prepared a quotation with room to negotiate.
• True Monarch Qingshui visited Purple Zenith at the Jihuang Sword Palace garrison, and the two shared a meal while reminiscing about their past friendship.
• Qingshui and Purple Zenith discussed the worsening beast tides and the strain they placed on their sects’ defenses.
• Qingshui praised the Tianli Sect’s dual-layer defenses and offered to help the Jihuang Sword Palace obtain the technology.

Jihuang Sword Palace, Sword Soul Sect, and Nine Mandarin Duck Mountain weighed competing offers from Tianli Sect and the Mechanical Empire for Safe Zone dual-layer defenses. As more factions noticed Tianli Sect’s growing capabilities, Seven Star Sword Pavilion decided to negotiate with Qingshui as well.

• True Monarch Qingshui offered Ziji’s sects Tianli Sect’s dual-layer defense systems, and Ziji agreed to consider cooperating with them.
• Jihuang Sword Palace’s True Lords argued over Tianli Sect’s cheaper quotation and the Mechanical Empire’s equipment before Ziji called in Sword Soul Sect and Nine Mandarin Duck Mountain to discuss the offers.
• Wordless, Green Mandarin Duck, and Ziji agreed to use Tianli Sect’s quotation to press the Mechanical Empire for a better price and inspect Tianli Sect’s defenses and production capacity.
• Ziji contacted Qingshui to arrange an inspection, while the three sects continued negotiations with the Mechanical Empire.
• True Lord Blazing Sun chose to approach Tianli Sect rather than the Mechanical Empire and ordered Jianyun to send Qingshui a formal invitation.
• Other forces began moving to secure their own arrangements as Tianli Sect’s rise drew attention.

Flash Thunder agreed to cut the Mechanical Empire’s prices to secure the three sects’ order, while the Tianli Sect devised a plan to expose the Empire’s limited supply and showcase its own refurbished defense systems and Level Four mechs. The Tianli Sect arranged a demonstration for three days later, with Yunhe heading to the Yin Ruins to report to the Sect Master.

• Flash Thunder learned that the three sects demanded prices below thirty percent and, on the Governor’s orders, told his deputy general to negotiate and seize the order.
• Flash Thunder resented Silard and the Governor, believing they had denied him the commander-in-chief position and still did not trust him.
• At a Tianli Sect meeting, Qingshui reported that the Mechanical Empire had undercut their price, and the leaders rejected matching it because it would cause losses across the market.
• Long Jianzhang argued that the Mechanical Empire lacked production capacity and revealed that the Nine Alliance had refurbished at least thirty defense systems, with fifty expected by delivery.
• Long Jianzhang proposed demonstrating the Level Four mechs, and the Tianli Sect agreed to invite all parties to inspect the defense systems and watch a combat test in three days.
• Yunhe decided to report the plan to the Sect Master in the Yin Ruins, while Qingshui began arranging the visit.

Tianli Sect agreed to let the Mechanical Empire join its city inspection tour, despite concerns that the Empire might sabotage the event or learn about its Level Four mecha. More than a hundred factions gathered in Galaxy City, where Flash Thunder insulted Tianli Sect’s defenses before Qingshui began leading the visitors to ten Safe Zones.

• Purple Zenith, Wordless, and Green Mandarin Duck decided to attend Tianli Sect’s city inspection tour to inspect its defenses and push for lower prices.
• Han Li and the others agreed to let the Mechanical Empire attend, including the final Level Four mecha test, believing the reveal could demonstrate Tianli Sect’s strength.
• Flash Thunder ordered his deputy commander to prepare to undermine Tianli Sect and impress the visiting factions.
• Purple Zenith, Wordless, and Green Mandarin Duck arrived in Galaxy City and encountered more than a hundred factions gathered for the tour.
• Flash Thunder arrived with the Mechanical Empire’s delegation and insulted Tianli Sect’s defense system, provoking anger among the crowd.
• Qingshui stopped the crowd from retaliating and invited everyone aboard a ship to inspect ten Safe Zones under attack.

Fang Mo’s Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art was perfected by Tianli Sect’s Heavenly Venerates, revealing a path to refine evil energy and advance beyond Void Comprehension. Fang Mo was formally named Sect Master and left with Yunhe for Galaxy City while the Heavenly Venerates began investigating higher realms.

• Xinghe and Mu Cangming finished deducing Fang Mo’s cultivation art and realized it could refine evil energy, strengthen cultivators, and transform Tianli Sect and the wider martial landscape.
• Xinghe, Mu Cangming, Dangyun, Xuanqing, and the other Heavenly Venerates bowed to Fang Mo in recognition of his contribution to the martial path.
• Xinghe returned the completed Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art to Fang Mo, and the Bronze Mirror upgraded it to Saint Grade mastery.
• Xinghe entrusted the art’s inheritance to Fang Mo and asked him to handle the sect’s affairs while the Heavenly Venerates deduced realms beyond Void Comprehension.
• Mu Cangming officially appointed Fang Mo Sect Master, and the True Lords and Heavenly Venerates saluted him.
• Fang Mo left the sacred mountain with Yunhe and set out for Galaxy City.

During the inspection of Blackwater City, its layered defenses nearly destroyed a massive beast tide without the martial artists’ help, impressing the visiting factions. When a Heaven Penetrating Level Storm Winged Dragon appeared, a Destruction-Class Dark Energy Cannon and True Lord Qingya killed it, prompting factions to seek the system while Flash Thunder considered how to undermine the deal.

• Blackwater City’s long-range cannons and layered defenses decimated the beast tide as Qingshui explained the system to the visitors.
• Flash Thunder mocked the Energy-Gathering Particle Cannons, but Qingshui argued that their lower cost and reliable firing rate made them more practical than the Empire’s T5 Dark Energy Cannons.
• After factions praised the defenses and began discussing purchases, Flash Thunder warned that they could not stop Heaven Penetrating Level beasts.
• A Destruction-Class Dark Energy Cannon struck the Storm Winged Dragon, and True Lord Qingya finished it with a sword before taking its corpse.
• Heavenly Mystery Sect, Long Sky Palace, and other factions sought to purchase the system, while Flash Thunder resolved to find another way to sabotage the cooperation.

As sect leaders lost patience with the demonstrations, True Monarch Qingshui revealed the Tianli Sect’s prices and faced Flash Thunder’s attempt to undercut them. When Qingshui exposed the Mechanical Empire’s inability to fulfill orders and showed the Tianli Sect’s ready stock, buyers rushed to secure equipment, and he announced an early unveiling of the sect’s trump card.

• After the Heavenly Vessel reached Iron Mountain City, the sect leaders asked True Monarch Qingshui to stop the demonstrations and show them the prices and equipment.
• True Lord Xuanzhen, True Lord Qingshan, and other leaders announced plans to buy high-configuration sets, prompting True Lord Yuchen to ask for a bulk discount for Jihuang Sword Palace.
• Flash Thunder offered Jihuang Sword Palace a newer system at a twenty-percent discount, but Qingshui countered by challenging the Mechanical Empire to deliver an order of one hundred sets within a month.
• When Flash Thunder admitted the Mechanical Empire could not deliver even ten sets, Qingshui showed warehouses of Tianli Sect equipment and said one hundred sets could be supplied within a month.
• Buyers scrambled to place orders, so Qingshui stopped them and announced that the Tianli Sect would reveal its trump card that day.

Fang Mo arrived at the Rift Wind Plateau as Tianli Sect revealed its trump card to the gathered True Lords. Five colossal mechanical beasts transformed from falling iron masses, and their demonstration began with the beasts looming over the plateau.

• Qingshui gathered the guests aboard the Heavenly Vessel and told them to wait for someone before the final demonstration.
• Fang Mo arrived with Yunhe, Han Li, Thick Earth, and the other peak masters, and the True Lords bowed to him.
• Fang Mo ordered Qingshui to begin the performance, while Flash Thunder hid among the guests.
• Qingshui signaled the starship, which dropped five iron masses that transformed into a tiger, cheetah, bear, ape, and eagle.

Tianli Sect revealed five Level 4 beast-form mechs, prompting doubts about their usefulness from Flash Thunder and the other observers. The mechs demonstrated surprising agility and began slaughtering alien beasts on the battlefield.

• Qingshui introduced Galaxy City's five new Level 4 beast-form mechs, while Flash Thunder and several True Lords dismissed them as obsolete and impractical.
• Qingshui asked everyone to watch the mechs advance, and the giant tiger, silver leopard, bear, ape, and black eagle charged across the battlefield with unexpected speed and agility.
• The black eagle broke through a storm of wind blades and tore through the storm beasts, while the giant tiger and silver leopard swiftly killed other alien beasts.
• The giant bear unleashed a blast of energy that devastated more than a dozen miles of mountains.

True Monarch Qingshui demonstrated the full destructive power of the Tianli Sect’s Level 4 Mechs, prompting major sects to compete for orders despite their conflicts with the Tianli Sect. The chapter ended with Flash Thunder realizing the Mechanical Empire would have to reassess the Tianli Sect’s technological strength.

• The five colossal mechs slaughtered the storm beasts, and True Monarch Qingshui explained that their conventional abilities were only part of their combat strength.
• At Qingshui’s command, the mechs unlocked their dark energy armaments and fired beams powerful enough to pierce mountains and shake the Heavenly Vessel.
• True Monarch Qingshui announced that the Tianli Sect had twenty Level 4 Mech sets in stock, could produce ten monthly, and would accept reservations while training pilots.
• True Lord Xuanzhen, True Lord Qingshan, and True Lord Blazing Sun announced large orders for their sects, with Blazing Sun requesting thirty and a long-term supply agreement.
• Despite its blood feud with the Tianli Sect, True Lord Wuyan ordered thirty mechs for the Sword Soul Sect, and True Lord Green Mandarin Duck ordered thirty for Nine Mandarin Duck Mountain.
• True Monarch Ziji told Yu Chen to contact the Tianli Sect, while Flash Thunder concluded that the Mechanical Empire needed to reassess the Tianli Sect’s technological strength.

Fang Mo managed the flood of orders for Tianli Sect’s city-defense systems and Level 4 Mechs while preparing to cultivate amid growing threats from the beast tide. In the Mechanical Empire, Mu Lei put Silard in charge of stabilizing the situation as the Empire struggled to develop its own Level 4 Mechs.

• Qingshui reported that factions had ordered 237 city-defense systems and 520 Level 4 Mechs, and Fang Mo instructed him to equip Tianli Sect’s peaks first and delay deliveries to factions that had clashed with them.
• Yunhe told Fang Mo that Mu Lei had recalled Silard and that the Mechanical Empire would likely begin building Level 4 Mechs; Fang Mo told Yunhe to have Raya develop slowly without exposing herself.
• Fang Mo left sect affairs to Qingshui and Yunhe, then entered the river of space-time to cultivate and comprehend laws.
• At Furnace Fortress, Silard told Mu Lei that Tianli Sect’s technology had advanced rapidly, while Mu Lei explained that the Empire could not mass-produce Level 4 Mechs until it miniaturized its dark-energy power furnace.
• Mu Lei rejected Silard’s suggestion to destroy Tianli Sect before the army arrived and ordered Silard to take charge while he returned to oversee the star gate’s construction at Star Fortress.

As Fang Mo cultivated in the river of space-time, the Great Dao’s resonance spread through his training ground and accelerated the cultivation of those nearby. The Tianli Sect’s leaders agreed to open limited areas for selected cultivators and to promote Fang Mo’s Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art.

• Fang Mo’s cultivation caused pure power of the Great Dao to fill his training ground, helping nearby cultivators make breakthroughs.
• Yunhe, Cen Feng, and the peak masters proposed using the training ground to help more sect members advance, while Zhen Yue warned that visitors could endanger Fang Mo’s cultivation.
• After Fang Mo sent his approval, the leaders agreed to open two rings and allow no more than five True Lords into the inner ring at a time.
• The leaders agreed that each peak would promote the foundational version of the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art and submit its plan to the command headquarters within a month.

Fang Mo absorbed space-time origin in the River of Time and Space, strengthening his Primordial Spirit and advancing his fleshly body. As thunderclouds gathered over the dojo and the Celestial Venerables prepared to guard against interference, a golden streak rushed toward Fang Mo in the river.

• Fang Mo refined space-time origin into his Undying Dragon Soul Fire, and a seed of space-time laws took root within his Primordial Spirit.
• Fang Mo's fleshly body broke through again, releasing Qi-Blood Power and an Ancestral Dragon phantom that shocked Zhen Yue and the others.
• Yunhe warned that Fang Mo's breakthrough could attract hostile factions, but Celestial Venerable Fu Ye and Celestial Venerable Han Shan arrived and ordered the disciples to defend Red Rock Continent and watch the sea.
• Han Shan ordered the dojo to remain open so more martial artists could benefit from the rich Great Dao power while the Celestial Venerables guarded the void.
• Fang Mo sensed the River of Time and Space's pressure easing and moved farther ahead, but a voice praised his Primordial Spirit as a golden streak shot toward him.

Fang Mo fought the Tyrant Heaven Emperor in the Space-time River and killed his Primordial Spirit with the Ancestral Dragon Blade, though the Emperor’s Origin Imprint escaped. After absorbing the Emperor’s power, Fang Mo recovered and grew stronger, then sat down to refine the acquired information and laws.

• The Tyrant Heaven Emperor attacked Fang Mo, seeking to devour his Primordial Spirit, and Fang Mo held him off with the Space-time Island’s support.
• Fang Mo invoked the Light-Reversing Dragon Soul Body and joined its Dragon Soul Dao Projection in a strike that wounded but did not defeat the Tyrant Heaven Emperor.
• Fang Mo burned his Primordial Spirit power and used the Ancestral Dragon Blade’s Dragon Skeleton: Prison Suppression to destroy the Tyrant Heaven Emperor’s Primordial Spirit.
• The Tyrant Heaven Emperor’s Origin Imprint escaped Fang Mo’s devouring attack, but Fang Mo absorbed the Emperor’s Primordial Spirit fragments and regained his strength.
• Fang Mo realized that Primordial Spirits in the Space-time River preyed on one another, then sat down to refine the absorbed information and laws.

Xuan Gang Peak’s disciples embraced the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art after Zhao Tieyi broke through and formed a battle beast, and its success spread across the Tianli Sect. As the technique gained thousands of followers and produced over a hundred new True Man Realm disciples, Thick Earth came to believe it could change the sect’s fate.

• Zhao Tieyi devoured exotic beast essence blood, broke through his ten-year bottleneck, and condensed a black wolf battle beast.
• Tie Xiaochuan explained the art’s benefits and invited disciples to sign up, prompting even the skeptical Sun Heng to join.
• Seven days later, seventeen disciples broke through and formed battle beasts, while Sun Heng watched with his own silver-white python beside him.
• News of Xuan Gang Peak’s results spread across the Tianli Sect, drawing thousands of disciples to the art and driving up exotic beast carcass prices.
• Thick Earth dismissed concerns about hidden dangers by citing the new True Man Realm disciples, then said he believed the art could change the Tianli Sect’s fate.

Yunhe and Qingshui reviewed Tianli Sect’s rapid gains from the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art while worrying about threats gathering during Fang Mo’s breakthrough. After testing the art, Ziji decided to seek it from Tianli Sect and consider joining forces with other sects if they refused.

• Yunhe and Qingshui noted that more than two hundred Tianli Sect disciples had reached the True Man Realm and discussed opening the Nascent Soul Tribulation Realm cultivation arts.
• Yunhe showed Qingshui reports of rising Sea of Fog beast activity and possible Void Comprehension Realm aberrations, prompting them to strengthen surveillance until Fang Mo completed his advancement.
• Ziji watched a third trial of the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art, in which three of five Jihuang Sword Palace disciples broke through and two failed.
• Yuchen explained that Jihuang Sword Palace lacked the art’s restricted core content and that its disciples stabilized their breakthroughs less effectively than Tianli Sect’s.
• Ziji ordered Yuchen to negotiate with Tianli Sect for the later parts of the art, offering any resources they wanted.
• Ziji told Yuchen to contact the other sects and sword factions if Tianli Sect refused, reasoning that the sect needed stability and their support while Fang Mo faced tribulation and other threats gathered.

Silard managed the Mechanical Empire’s crises and learned that Fang Mo was approaching a Primordial Spirit breakthrough while Tianli Sect rapidly grew stronger. He told Raya the Governor would soon return with the main force, and Flash Thunder warned Raya that he was watching her.

• Silard dispatched reinforcements to West Sand Fortress and ordered the eastern Fenyu Continent mines cleared and repaired.
• Raya brought Silard intelligence that Fang Mo was undergoing a tribulation and that more than two hundred Tianli Sect cultivators had reached the True Man Realm.
• Silard revealed that the Star Gate was nearing completion and the Governor would soon return with the army, then ordered Raya to monitor Fang Mo’s tribulation.
• Silard warned Raya not to act alone or go to Red Rock Continent, and Raya left without revealing her concern for Fang Mo.
• Flash Thunder confronted Raya in the corridor and warned that Silard’s trust did not mean everyone trusted her, promising to keep watch on her.

Mu Lei activated the Mechanical Empire’s star gate, allowing its main legions to enter the Ancient Realm as the Tianli Sect learned of the threat. As Fang Mo’s tribulation began, the sect placed Red Rock Continent under emergency lockdown.

• Mu Lei ordered the star gate activated after confirming that the Tianli Sect had not detected the operation, and Mechanical Empire warships began emerging through it.
• Yunhe told Qingshui that Raya and Star River Heavenly Venerate had reported the completed gate and the arriving Mechanical Empire legions.
• Qingshui summoned the Tianli Sect leaders, who discussed the risks posed by the empire, approaching sea beasts, and factions demanding the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art while Fang Mo underwent tribulation.
• Thunder and lightning signaled that Fang Mo’s tribulation was beginning, and Yunhe ordered safe cities to enter emergency status and Red Rock Continent’s coastlines sealed.