Chapter Summaries

Mu Zi trained Su Rou under a deal with the Great Qing imperial family, then used the supplied resources to reach the Creation Realm and improve her Spirit Symbol and artifact-refining skills. After Su Rou broke through to the Nirvana Realm, Mu Zi prepared for the Hundred Dynasty Battle and headed back to the Great Yan Dynasty, while Su Rou looked forward to the competition.

• The Great Qing empress asked Mu Zi to coach Su Rou and offered her cultivation resources, and Mu Zi agreed to train Su Rou ruthlessly.
• Over nearly half a year, Mu Zi's training strengthened Su Rou's combat skills and resolve, while Mu Zi consumed resources to reach perfection in the Qi Creation Realm.
• Mu Zi broke through to the Creation Realm Minor Accomplishment and Advanced Spirit Symbol Master, then strengthened her body and refined Earth Rank Spirit Treasures.
• Su Rou reached the Nirvana Realm and bid farewell to Mu Zi, who judged that she no longer needed further tempering.
• Mu Zi refined new clothes, shoes, an upgraded Heavenly Net Umbrella, and a White Lotus Spirit Treasure before setting off for the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Su Rou watched Mu Zi depart and looked forward to facing opponents at the coming Hundred Dynasty Battle.

Mu Zi revealed her mastery of the Dao of fire and summoned her self-created Spirit of Martial Dao to confront Fire Spirit Old Ancestor. The chapter ended as her new Sovereign Dharma Body attacked him.

• Maha You watched Mu Zi suppress Fire Spirit Old Ancestor and realized how far his strength fell short of hers.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor summoned the Flame God Dharma Body and used the Nine Revolutions Flame God Art to hold off Mu Zi's attack.
• Mu Zi answered Fire Spirit Old Ancestor's Dharma Body by summoning her Spirit of Martial Dao and merging it with the Primal Chaos Dao Seal.
• Mu Zi sent her enlarged Spirit of Martial Dao to attack and suppress Fire Spirit Old Ancestor.

Lin Dong reached the passage into Divine Maiden Gorge and defeated the Giant Demon Emperor with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Finger. After entering, he refused Shi Tianhuang’s offer to become a follower, claiming he had to rebuild the destroyed Desolate Demon Clan.

• Lin Dong ignored the Giant Demon Emperor’s challenge to prove his qualifications and struck him down with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Finger.
• The injured Giant Demon Emperor cleared the passage, and Lin Dong entered Divine Maiden Gorge.
• Shi Tianhuang mistook Lin Dong for a gifted member of the Desolate Demon Clan and offered him a place as a core trainee of the Corpse Demon Clan.
• Lin Dong refused the offer, drawing pressure from the Corpse Demon Clan’s Demon Emperors.
• Lin Dong showed them the Desolate Demon Clan’s chieftain token and said the clan had been destroyed, leaving him to rebuild it.

Mu Zi rejected Shi Luo’s attempt to recruit her into Great Spirit Mountain, then faced two Heavenly Sovereigns from the Mahayana Ancient Clan, who demanded the return of Maha You’s Immortal Origin. Their presumptuous demand provoked the experts gathered in the Sacred Abyss, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Mu Zi explained to Shi Luo that her resonance with the Buddhist Technique did not mean she wished to join Great Spirit Mountain, and Shi Luo withdrew his offer.
• Two Heavenly Sovereigns from the Mahayana Ancient Clan arrived at the Sacred Abyss and asked whether Mu Zi was the Martial Ancestor.
• The middle-aged Heavenly Sovereign thanked Mu Zi for disciplining Maha You, then asked her to return Maha You’s Immortal Origin so the clan could put the dispute aside.
• Mu Zi showed the purple-gold Immortal Origin in her hand, and the Mahayana Ancient Clan’s representative claimed its return would let them turn hostility into friendship.
• Experts across the Sacred Abyss condemned the Mahayana Ancient Clan for demanding the Immortal Origin and insulting Mu Zi.

Tang Xinlian challenged Mu Zi and was effortlessly defeated, then led her to meet Mo Luo at the Flame God Hall. Mo Luo greeted Mu Zi after hearing Qing Zhi had praised her.

• Tang Xinlian challenged Mu Zi to a fight, and Mu Zi agreed.
• Tang Xinlian’s Heavenly Phoenix Crimson Moon attack vanished before reaching Mu Zi.
• Tang Xinlian used the Flame God Transformation Art and attacked as a Fire Phoenix, but Mu Zi stopped her with one hand and extinguished her flames.
• Tang Xinlian conceded defeat and told Mu Zi that Mo Luo had returned to the Flame God Hall.
• Tang Xinlian led Mu Zi to Mo Luo, who welcomed her and said Qing Zhi had praised her highly.

Lin Dong, Mu Zi, and the Great Desolate Monument discussed resources and recovery before the Ancestral Stone Spirit, Yan, emerged after absorbing Primordial Aura. Yan teased Lin Dong and Mu Zi about their past pill-making, nearly exposing Lin Dong’s private thoughts, but Mu Zi misunderstood his panic and the conversation moved on.

• Mu Zi considered refining a piece of skin shed by the Primordial Lord, but Lin Dong declined after learning it would yield only three or four light patterns, so she sealed it away as a resource.
• The Great Desolate Monument said Seventh Layer Primordial Aura could not restore it and named a complete Demon Emperor Armor as one recovery option, though it also suggested ancient factions might have resources.
• The Great Desolate Monument sensed that its old friend had survived, and the Ancestral Stone Spirit Yan emerged from the Stone Talisman after absorbing Primordial Aura.
• Yan and the Great Desolate Monument traded teasing remarks about their past battles and discussed their different strengths as divine objects.
• Yan teased Lin Dong and Mu Zi about using the Ancestral Stone to refine pills and hinted at Lin Dong’s thoughts about Mu Zi, but Lin Dong interrupted him before he could reveal them.
• Mu Zi mistook Lin Dong’s panic for hidden complaints about her, and Lin Dong denied having any while the Great Desolate Monument watched their exchange with interest.

Mu Zi entered the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet Space, joined Huangpu Jing, and explored the ruins of the Great Desolate Sect. They found a scoring tablet that rewarded Huangpu Jing with Nirvana Pills, and Mu Zi stepped up to test her own score.

• Mu Zi defeated the Wang Clan’s experts, and Shen Tong led the surviving juniors away as the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet opened.
• Mu Zi entered the Ancient Tablet Space, defeated a sandworm, and took a seventh-grade spiritual herb from a group fighting over it.
• Mu Zi rescued Huangpu Jing from an Ancient Beast, learned that Ling Qingzhu had given the Huangpu Clan five hundred thousand Nirvana Pills, and teamed up with her.
• Mu Zi and Huangpu Jing found the ruins of the Disciple Zone and discovered a square tablet that awarded ten Nirvana Pills to Huangpu Jing for scoring fifty-one points.
• Mu Zi approached the square tablet to test her own score as the gathered explorers watched.

Mu Lingsha asked Mu Zi to let her leave and temper herself, so Mu Zi tested her resolve by removing her low-grade Yin Energy through a painful cleansing. After Mu Lingsha endured it, Mu Zi helped her absorb ninth-grade Yin and Yang Energy and condense a Nine Stars Essence Core, then activated a token connected to Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.

• Mu Lingsha told Mu Zi she wanted to go out and grow stronger, and Mu Zi said she would allow it if her sister could condense at least a Nine Stars Essence Core.
• Mu Zi warned Mu Lingsha that cleansing her Yin Energy would cause severe pain, and Mu Lingsha insisted that Mu Zi continue despite the agony.
• Mu Zi removed Mu Lingsha's low-quality Yin Energy, reducing her cultivation while strengthening her foundation, then used the Extreme Yin Dragon Saliva and Six Yang Profound Spirit Grass to provide ninth-grade Yin and Yang Energy.
• Mu Lingsha advanced to the Small Yuan Dan Realm and condensed a Nine Stars Essence Core with the help of one thousand Pure Yuan Pills.
• Mu Zi activated the token bearing the name Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, causing its Essence Spirit brand to send a beam of golden light away.

Mu Zi’s power was temporarily weakened, so Lin Dong promised to protect her while she recovered. He left their hiding place to investigate their location in the Demon Territory, carrying the Luo River Pearl Mu Zi gave him to replenish his energy and avoid detection.

• Mu Zi explained that her power and physical abilities were sealed while the Source Dao Seal remained ascended, and Lin Dong promised to protect her.
• Lin Dong recalled becoming Mu Zi’s War General and said protecting her was his duty, easing her discomfort about relying on him.
• Lin Dong told Mu Zi he would scout the Demon Territory and find a way for them to return to the Great Thousand World.
• Mu Zi gave Lin Dong the Luo River Pearl, explaining that its energy could replenish him without attracting attention through demonic qi.
• Mu Zi admitted she had bathed in the pearl’s spiritual liquid, and Lin Dong teased her before leaving to investigate.

A Fire Cloud Sect group tried to seize Eagle Sect’s ancient inheritance, but its leader was defeated by the tall woman. Mu Zi appeared and revealed her overwhelming power, leaving the Fire Cloud Sect experts kneeling as she ordered them to kill themselves.

• The tall woman used the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Hand to defeat a Fire Cloud Sect expert and warned the group not to return.
• The three Death Profound Realm experts from Fire Cloud Sect joined forces and charged Eagle Sect.
• Mu Zi appeared, stopped their attack, and extinguished their fireball with a gesture.
• A Fire Cloud Sect elder recognized Mu Zi as the expert who had destroyed Yuan Sect, and the group knelt before her.
• Mu Zi confronted Fire Cloud Sect for coveting the Great Desolate Sect’s inheritance and ordered them to kill themselves.

Mu Zi refused Qin Shi’s offer to travel together and continued searching the Nirvana Tomb, collecting spirit herbs, Symbol Puppets, and other treasures. She broke into a sealed room and discovered the tomb master’s extensive collection of martial arts and cultivation techniques, offered as an inheritance to whoever found it.

• Qin Shi invited Mu Zi to travel with him, but she politely refused because she wanted to search the tomb independently.
• After Qin Shi left, Mu Zi found a mid-grade Symbol Puppet in the spirit herb pool and planted her Spiritual Power imprint in it.
• Mu Zi discovered more than a hundred low-grade Symbol Puppets at a training ground and packed them up to take home.
• Mu Zi broke the seal on a stone door and found a collection of Jade Slips and books containing martial arts and cultivation techniques.
• Mu Zi read the tomb master’s message declaring that the collection was an inheritance for whoever reached the room.

Mu Zi recounted her cultivation journey to Ling Qingzhu, who grew jealous after noticing how often Mu Zi mentioned Lin Dong. After their conversation ended, Mu Zi focused on her weakened state and sensed it might bring an unexpected gain.

• Ling Qingzhu asked Mu Zi to tell her story, and Mu Zi described her cultivation experiences from Mu Family Village to the Ancient Battlefield.
• Ling Qingzhu noticed Mu Zi smiled whenever she mentioned Lin Dong and asked whether he was the one she loved.
• Mu Zi denied having romantic feelings for Lin Dong, saying they were only friends.
• Ling Qingzhu compared herself with Lin Dong and privately regarded him as a potential rival.
• After Mu Zi finished her story, she focused on her weakened condition and sensed she might gain something from it.

Lin Dong secretly used the Stone Talisman to refine pills for Mu Zi before the arrival of the Great Yan Dynasty’s young experts at the Ancient Tomb. As Lin Langtian, Wang Yan, and Qin Shi gathered to break the seal, Mu Zi warned Lin Dong not to challenge Lin Langtian, and Ling Qingzhu arrived as the formidable guest.

• Mu Zi demanded ten thousand Yang Yuan Pills from Lin Dong, then accepted his offer to refine pills instead and had him wash his hand before using the Stone Talisman to turn elixirs into pills.
• Mu Zi gave Lin Dong a pile of elixirs to refine while Little Flame watched, and Lin Ke'er remarked on their closeness.
• Lin Langtian arrived on an Essence Power eagle, stirring Lin Dong's anger over the injury he had inflicted on Lin Dong's father years earlier.
• Mu Zi warned Lin Dong not to provoke Lin Langtian in the Ancient Tomb, and Lin Dong thanked her for the advice.
• Wang Yan and Qin Shi arrived with their spiritual treasures and beasts, and the young experts discussed breaking the seal while waiting for another guest.
• Ling Qingzhu arrived, and Mu Zi recognized her.

After Mu Zi forced the Five Great Families to compensate her, she and Lin Dong learned of a major trading fair offering a spiritual seal and set out for it. They arrived in the Heavenly Wave Sea Region and approached the crowded island where the fair would be held.

• Mu Zi cultivated while the Five Great Families paid her compensation, and the Gu Family sent Gu Yan and Gu Mengqi to make peace with her and Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong showed Mu Zi the fair’s invitation booklet, and she learned that a spiritual seal would be offered at the once-in-fifty-years trading fair.
• Gu Yan gave Mu Zi the Five Great Families’ detailed sea chart, and Mu Zi agreed to attend the fair in hopes of obtaining the spiritual seal.
• Mu Zi and Lin Dong left Martial Gathering Island, and Mu Zi reassured Lin Dong that she could protect him and find a way to afford the seal.
• Lin Dong and Mu Zi used the Heaven Sealing Array Diagram to reach the Heavenly Wave Sea Region and traveled toward the island hosting the trading fair.

Mu Zi destroyed the Wang Clan’s defenders and Clan Protecting Formation, then looted its treasury. Finding only fifty thousand Nirvana Pills, she decided it was time to leave the Great Yan Dynasty and leave its affairs to Lin Dong.

• Mu Zi interrupted the Great Elder’s attempt to reach Half-Step Nirvana and killed him with her Rebirth Finger, One Finger Judges Life and Death.
• The Wang Clan raised its Clan Protecting Formation, but Mu Zi crushed it with the Heavenly Net Umbrella and devastated the clan grounds.
• Mu Zi walked through the ruins as the surviving Wang Clan members knelt and let her pass.
• Mu Zi searched the clan treasury, took its Spirit Treasures and Nirvana Pills, and subdued the Blood Demon Asura Spear.
• After finding only fifty thousand Nirvana Pills, Mu Zi decided to leave the Great Yan Dynasty and let Lin Dong take over its stage.

Mu Zi appeared at the Secluded Shadow Continent and killed the fleeing Nameless Demon Emperor before he could escape. She then returned toward the Sacred Abyss with Qing Yue, a fellow mother and new friend, who revealed that she had joined the fight by her own choice.

• The Nameless Demon Emperor retreated into the Demon Domain after clashing with Qing Yue, but Mu Zi appeared in his path and froze him to death with a single word.
• Mu Zi stored the Nameless Demon Emperor’s frozen body in the Earthen Jar and joined Qing Yue on the Secluded Shadow Continent.
• Qing Yue told Mu Zi about her daughters, Qing Xuan and the young Qing Yan Jing, and Mu Zi learned that Qing Yan Jing had not yet begun cultivation.
• Mu Zi and Qing Yue left the continent together for the Sacred Abyss, growing closer as they talked about their daughters.
• Qing Yue told Mu Zi that she had come to fight by her own decision, not because the Buddhism Ancient Clan had assigned her.

Mu Zi destroyed the Demon Emperors’ Ten Thousand Demons Locking Spirit Grand Array despite remaining unconscious, and the surviving demons realized their attack had disturbed her. The chapter ended with Mu Zi charging after them in a terrifying rage.

• The Corpse Demon Clan’s Profound Demon Emperor tested Mu Zi, but she destroyed his body and forced him to rely on his natal Demon Corpse to survive.
• The Demon Emperors concluded that Mu Zi’s power fluctuated and agreed to attack together while Lin Dong slipped away from surveillance.
• More than ten Demon Emperors formed the Ten Thousand Demons Locking Spirit Grand Array and tried to bind Mu Zi with a Spirit Binding Cord.
• Mu Zi caught the cord, destroyed it, and caused the grand array to collapse, killing several demons and terrifying the survivors.
• The Demon Emperors retreated, but Mu Zi’s aura erupted and she charged after them, apparently provoked by their attack.

Mu Zi overwhelmed Nine Kings Hall and left him powerless, carrying out the will of the Great Desolate Sect’s fallen guardian. She killed him after showing that she had also killed the Third King Hall and Fourth King Hall.

• Nine Kings Hall attacked Mu Zi, but his strike failed to affect her, and he realized her strength was beyond his understanding.
• Nine Kings Hall grew into his enormous demon form as the guardian skeleton approached, reliving the Great Desolate Sect’s sacrifice and vowing to protect the sect.
• Mu Zi promised to carry out the fallen sect members’ will and summoned a vast Martial Spirit that pressed Nine Kings Hall into her palm.
• Nine Kings Hall exhausted his strength trying to resist the Martial Spirit’s hand, but his demon body shrank until he could no longer fight back.
• Mu Zi revealed the intact corpses of the Third King Hall and Fourth King Hall, then killed Nine Kings Hall.

Mu Zi used the Heavenly Net Umbrella and its Nirvana Demon Flame to kill Li Xuan and Li Huang, then fought Li Hao after advancing to the peak of Two Yuan Nirvana. She defeated him with the Rebirth Finger and sent him to his death, leaving the Great Li Dynasty’s leaders dead.

• Li Hao, Li Xuan, and Li Huang attacked Mu Zi to seize the Heavenly Net Umbrella, but Mu Zi unleashed its Nirvana Demon Flame and killed Li Xuan and Li Huang.
• Li Hao survived the flames and vowed to kill Mu Zi, while Mu Zi’s aura surged to the peak of Two Yuan Nirvana and her appearance turned emerald green.
• Li Hao used the Great Li Dynasty’s Li Fire Burning Flame Palm, and Mu Zi countered with the Rebirth Finger, breaking his Martial Spirit.
• Mu Zi’s third finger overwhelmed Li Hao with the vision of rebirth, and he rushed toward it before being reduced to ashes.

Xiao Yan completed the Spirit Power Tribulation and became a Sovereign, then thanked Luo Tian Shen by giving him two Nine Revolutions Golden Pills. Luo Tian Shen accepted them, and Xiao Yan began to see pill refining as a way to establish himself in the Great Thousand World.

• Xiao Yan stabilized his aura after passing through the Spirit Power Tribulation, and Luo Tian Shen congratulated him on becoming a Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan thanked Luo Tian Shen for guiding him through spirit power conversion and offered him two pills.
• Luo Tian Shen learned that the Nine Revolutions Golden Pills could help Sovereigns advance a grade and was shocked by their potency.
• Xiao Yan explained that pill refiners also held status in the Great Thousand World and considered how his craft could help him establish himself there.
• Luo Tian Shen hesitated to accept the pills, but Xiao Yan insisted, and Luo Tian Shen finally accepted them.