Chapter Summaries

Mu Zi reached the Plane Embryo and temporarily gained the authority of a Plane Lord, using it to stabilize the Tianxuan Continent and comprehend its laws. After three months of cultivation, she emerged vastly stronger and chose to relinquish the Plane Lord role before her coming Ascension to the Great Thousand.

• Mu Zi found the Plane Embryo in the Sea of Chaos and used the Supreme Heart Devil Scripture to merge her consciousness with it.
• Mu Zi temporarily gained Plane Lord authority, healed the planar rift, and repaired fragile spatial nodes across the Tianxuan Continent.
• Mu Zi cultivated through the Plane Embryo's insights for three months, advancing toward the Returning Origin Realm Late Stage and greatly improving her spirit array abilities.
• Mu Zi judged that she had gained what she needed and voluntarily gave up becoming the Plane Lord, intending to Ascend to the Great Thousand soon.

Mu Zi drew on Martial Gathering Island’s life force and overwhelmed the Five Great Families’ experts, while Lin Dong fought off the Life Profound Realm cultivators sent to seize him. The families’ Death Profound Realm fighters fell, leaving the island’s onlookers stunned by their defeat.

• Mu Zi’s Desolate Intent devastated Martial Gathering Island, and her rising aura drove many spectators to flee.
• Mu Zi attacked the Wei Family Head, then fought off him and the other family heads, overpowering the Death Profound Realm experts who joined the battle.
• Several Life Profound Realm Completion experts tried to capture Lin Dong, but his azure dragon form withstood their attacks unharmed.
• Lin Dong counterattacked with thirty Azure Dragon Light Markings and kept the experts occupied without being injured.
• Mu Zi defeated the Four Great Families’ Death Profound Realm experts, and the onlookers recognized that the Five Great Families had lost.

Mu Zi declined to pursue the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s Saintess position because becoming a candidate required years of competition and recovering a lost divine ability. She accepted the clan’s token and left to prepare the Heavenly Net Umbrella’s transformation.

• Crimson Flame Old Immortal explained that Mu Zi would have to compete for the Saintess position and earn the Great Spirit Ancient Clan’s recognition.
• Crimson Flame Old Immortal said recovering the Great Spirit Heaven Reaching Light from an Ancient Battlefield would win the clan’s support, but the battlefield would not emerge for about a dozen years.
• Mu Zi revealed that she had cultivated for only ten years and decided she had no fate with becoming the clan’s Saintess.
• Crimson Flame Old Immortal gave Mu Zi a Great Spirit Ancient Clan token and offered her help if she clashed with the Mahayana Ancient Clan.
• Mu Zi accepted the token, said she might visit the clan, and left to find a place to transform the Heavenly Net Umbrella into a Peerless Saint Artifact.
• Crimson Flame Old Immortal watched Mu Zi depart, called her a femme fatale, and rode away on his wine gourd.

Mu Zi met Lin Dong’s younger sister, Lin Qing Tan, and recognized her extraordinary Fiendgod Body. Her fascination with Qing Tan’s constitution alarmed both Qing Tan and Lin Dong, just as Lin Dong’s mother invited Mu Zi to dinner.

• Qing Tan approached Lin Dong and Mu Zi, and Lin Dong introduced her to Mu Zi.
• Mu Zi recognized Qing Tan’s Fiendgod Body and considered studying it to strengthen her Earth Yuan Seal.
• Qing Tan grew jealous of Mu Zi and reacted emotionally, releasing waves of cold qi.
• Mu Zi stared at Qing Tan with undisguised fascination, so Qing Tan hid behind Lin Dong and he shielded her.
• Lin Dong’s mother called him home for dinner and invited Mu Zi to join them.

Mu Zi fought Xing Zhen, a Life Profound Realm Completion expert from the Southern Xuan Region, and steadily overwhelmed him with her Four Symbols Spirit and martial skill. After Xing Zhen’s Asura Transformation failed to turn the tide, Mu Zi knocked him into the ground, where he could no longer rise.

• After Mu Zi defeated an earlier opponent with one punch, Xing Zhen eagerly challenged her to a fight.
• Mu Zi summoned the Four Symbols Spirit, whose coordinated attacks trapped Xing Zhen and wore him down despite his attempts to break free.
• Xing Zhen demanded a direct fight, so Mu Zi dismissed the spirits and repelled his full-force punch with her Vast Sea Intent.
• Xing Zhen used Asura Transformation to grow six extra arms and attacked Mu Zi, but her repeated punches broke his arms faster than he could sustain them.
• Mu Zi sent Xing Zhen flying, appeared above him, and drove him into the ground with a kick, leaving him unable to rise.

After half a year of cultivation, Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu advanced to the late Dao Origin Realm and discussed how to pursue further growth. Mu Zi explained that they could still seek transcendence in the Great Thousand World, then considered their question about what lay beyond Dao Origin.

• Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu broke through to the late Dao Origin Realm after cultivating under Mu Zi's guidance.
• Ling Qingzhu displayed her perfected sword intent, and she and Lin Dong agreed to exchange blows to test their understanding.
• Mu Zi told Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu that their realms stood at the peak of the Great Thousand World and that they should build a foundation for transcendence.
• Mu Zi explained that the Firmament List remained accessible, giving them the chance to pursue World Power, though both hoped to prove the Dao through themselves.
• Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu asked Mu Zi what world lay above Dao Origin, and she reflected on the realm she had begun to understand.

Mu Zi bid farewell to the disciples of Eagle Martial Hall and traveled toward the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, hoping to find the Universe Ancient Array. She arrived just as Lin Dong was losing to Hua Gu and killed Hua Gu with a vastly stronger Golden Platform Demon Suppression Palm.

• Mu Zi gave the Eagle Martial Hall disciples martial arts pointers, then joined their farewell drinking party and told them she considered them friends.
• After leaving Great Eagle City, Mu Zi sold Spirit Treasures and traveled toward the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet, thinking about Lin Dong and the Universe Ancient Array.
• Lin Dong fought Hua Gu, whose Great Accomplishment of Qi Creation Realm strength overwhelmed him as his body-tempering techniques began to fail.
• Mu Zi appeared in front of Lin Dong and used Heaven and Earth Return to Origin to form a massive golden platform.
• Mu Zi crushed Hua Gu with her Golden Platform Demon Suppression Palm, leaving Lin Dong astonished by its power.

Qing Tan dreamed that she overpowered and humiliated Mu Zi, then woke to find herself still cultivating under Mu Zi’s control. After Qing Tan made rapid progress, Mu Zi offered her a choice: condense a Yin Dan soon or wait for the Nirvana Tomb to seek a rare treasure, in exchange for a future favor.

• In Qing Tan’s dream, Mu Zi lost her Spiritual Power and Yuan Power, allowing Qing Tan to pin her down, tease her, and make her beg for mercy.
• Mu Zi woke Qing Tan and resumed guiding her cultivation, while Qing Tan resolved to grow stronger and eventually turn her dream into reality.
• After half an hour, Qing Tan reached the brink of breaking through from the Heavenly Yuan Realm Late Stage, and Mu Zi said she could soon condense a Yin Dan.
• Mu Zi offered Qing Tan the choice to condense her Yin Dan soon or wait for the Nirvana Tomb to open and seek the Extreme Yin Dragon Saliva, which could help her reach Yuan Dan Realm Completion.
• Mu Zi said Qing Tan could have the treasure only if she promised to act on Mu Zi’s behalf unconditionally once in the future.

Lin Dong and Mu Zi discussed how he had ascended into the Demon Domain and the danger this posed for others from Tianxuan Continent. Mu Zi explained that her weakened state came from a battle with a Heavenly Demon Emperor, and her scattered Martial Path True Intents were sublimating toward a breakthrough.

• Mu Zi realized Lin Dong’s unusual survival in the Demon Domain exposed a danger for future ascenders and planned to visit Tianxuan Continent after returning to the Great Thousand World.
• Lin Dong asked how Mu Zi had ended up in enemy territory, and she said she had fought a Heavenly Demon Emperor and killed him.
• Mu Zi thanked Lin Dong for rescuing her, and they agreed they would each risk themselves to save the other.
• Lin Dong asked about Mu Zi’s condition, and she explained that her power was temporarily unusable and her spirit was weak.
• Mu Zi revealed that her Martial Path True Intents had scattered into her divine treasures and were sublimating, an opportunity that would let her break through once they converged again.

Mu Zi emerged from the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array after defeating and suppressing the Heavenly Evil God, whose secret trump card she revealed to the Undying Lord and the other experts. As she considered strengthening herself to end the threat, she searched the array for the Immortal Great Emperor’s imprint but found no trace of him.

• Mu Zi emerged from the array and told the Undying Lord that she had heavily injured and suppressed the Heavenly Evil God, who could be worn away within a hundred years.
• The Undying Lord praised Mu Zi for protecting the Great Thousand World and asked how the Heavenly Evil God could have retained such power.
• Mu Zi explained the Heavenly Evil God’s scheme and his forbidden means of burning his God Bone to return to his peak.
• Mu Zi warned that the Heavenly Evil God might escape and resolved to increase her strength before he could threaten the Great Thousand World again.
• The Undying Lord remembered the Immortal Great Emperor, prompting Mu Zi to search the array for his life imprint, but she found no trace of it.

Mu Chen fought Nine Nether in a test to prove he could withstand merging with the Undying Flame. He defeated her with ten stacked Senluo Seals, and Nine Nether accepted his potential.

• Nine Nether suppressed her strength to the Heavenly Fusion Realm and challenged Mu Chen to last an incense stick, but Mu Chen insisted they fight to decide the outcome.
• Mu Chen’s Nine Divine Veins let him match Nine Nether’s strength, though her Undying Flame burned away his attacks.
• Mu Chen used the Little Flame Emperor Array and the Four Symbols God Sealing Array, but Nine Nether broke free with her flames.
• Mu Chen stacked ten Human Seals from the Senluo Seal and used them to overcome Nine Nether’s fire sparrow and force her to yield.
• Nine Nether asked about Mu Chen’s powerful Seal Art, and Mu Chen said the Martial Ancestor had taught him.

Mu Zi used her Martial Path Eye and precise control to expose and destroy the Spirit Sovereign’s powerful attacks despite their vast difference in strength. She kept up the fight without falling behind, and the Mahayana Ancient Clan’s Sixth Elder believed she could win if the battle continued.

• The Spirit Sovereign attacked Mu Zi with giant demonic palms, confident that his greater Power Foundation would overwhelm her.
• Mu Zi spotted the palms’ changing weaknesses, split them with a focused strike, and drained their demonic energy until they shattered.
• The Spirit Sovereign recognized Mu Zi’s method and launched a succession of stronger killing attacks, but she evaded and dismantled them.
• Mu Zi unleashed the Self-Sacrificing Demonic Intent and shattered the Spirit Sovereign’s attacks, leaving him exposed before the onlookers.
• The Mahayana Ancient Clan’s Sixth Elder said Mu Zi would likely win if the stalemate continued, as the Spirit Sovereign would eventually tire.

Ling Qingzhu arrived at the mountaintop, and the gathered experts joined forces to break the tomb’s seal. As the crowd rushed inside, Mu Zi anticipated their disappointment at what they would find.

• Ling Qingzhu arrived on an azure lotus, and Mu Zi called her a demoness while speculating that her bare feet might smell.
• Ling Qingzhu exchanged polite greetings with Qin Shi, Wang Yan, and the others, then suggested they tear open the seal.
• Wang Yan, Lin Langtian, and Qin Shi attacked the barrier, but their strikes barely weakened it.
• Ling Qingzhu used her lotus platform to crack and break the seal, prompting the experts and crowd to charge into the tomb.
• Mu Zi watched the crowd rush inside and smiled, hoping they would not be disappointed by what awaited them.

Lin Dong strolled through Dao Sect with Mu Zi, who had come to comprehend the Great Desolate Scripture, and learned more about the Symbol Ancestor and the treasures he had refined. The conversation left Lin Dong aware that his stone talisman was a damaged Ancestral Stone with power to suppress experts who had survived the Second Cycle Reincarnation Tribulation.

• Lin Dong took Mu Zi around Dao Sect's Back Mountain after Ying Huanhuan departed, and they reminisced about his experiences in the sect.
• Lin Dong asked whether Mu Zi had come to comprehend the Great Desolate Scripture, and she confirmed that she had.
• Lin Dong challenged Mu Zi to see who would reach the Reincarnation Stage first, and Mu Zi told him that the Ancestor Realm stood above it.
• Mu Zi explained that the Symbol Ancestor had refined the Great Desolate Monument, which Dao Sect's predecessors had discovered rather than owned.
• Mu Zi revealed that Lin Dong's stone talisman was the damaged Ancestral Stone, which at its peak could suppress experts who had undergone the Second Cycle Reincarnation Tribulation.

After the battle, Mu Zi reassured Qing Tan and prepared to return to cultivate, while the changed political situation caught newly emerged disciples off guard. The Taiqing Palace Master took Ling Qingzhu away and announced plans to ally with Qianhai Sect against Yuan Sect.

• Qian Yuanzi crushed several Yuan Sect division chiefs after learning they had helped attack Qianhai Sect disciples.
• Mu Zi joked with Lin Dong about joining Qianhai Sect, then urged him to return to Dao Sect.
• Mu Zi comforted Qing Tan, who resolved to train harder after feeling powerless during the fight, and thanked Chen Kui for looking after her.
• Mu Zi said she planned to return and break through to the Life Profound Realm, surprising Chen Kui, who remembered she was still in the Nirvana Realm.
• Hundreds of disciples emerged from Otherworldly Demon City and saw the devastated landscape outside.
• The Taiqing Palace Master took Ling Qingzhu away, told her Taiqing Palace would go to war with Yuan Sect, and said she would visit Qianhai Sect to discuss an alliance with Mu Zi.

Mu Zi comprehended One Qi Transforms into Three Purities through the Three Spirits Realm and deduced a higher form, but chose not to make it her own martial path. As she turned to a new insight involving reincarnation and time, the Heavenly Evil God broke free of the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array and fixed his gaze on Mu Zi.

• Mu Zi entered the Emptiness Realm and rapidly cultivated One Qi Transforms into Three Purities through the Three Unions Realm, astonishing the Heavenly Emperor.
• Mu Zi reached the Three Spirits Realm, revealing the level the Heavenly Emperor had long sought to attain.
• Mu Zi deduced the Three Purities Realm, in which three avatars could match her strength, but dismissed the figures rather than adopt that art as her martial path.
• Mu Zi began comprehending a profound power of reincarnation that seemed to touch the River of Time.
• The Heavenly Evil God made his demonic power resemble the spiritual energy of the Great Thousand World, weakened the World Power chains, and broke free of the array.
• The Heavenly Evil God looked through the array toward Mu Zi as she approached through the air.

Yan and the Ancestral Stone Spirit praised Mu Zi and Lin Dong as Tianxuan Continent’s most outstanding young people while discussing their potential. After Mu Zi confirmed that the Primordial Lord slept on the tower’s eighth level, she searched for the Primordial Ancestral Symbol, found it absent, and prepared to leave the depleted seventh level.

• Yan and the Ancestral Stone Spirit praised Mu Zi’s talent and acknowledged Lin Dong’s resilience and potential to surpass the limits of cultivation.
• The Great Desolate Monument learned that the Lord of Ice had reincarnated in Dao Sect and was Lin Dong’s fellow disciple.
• Lin Dong asked about the Primordial Lord’s skin, and the Ancestral Stone Spirit revealed the sleeping Primordial Lord in the eighth level.
• Mu Zi searched the eighth level for the Primordial Ancestral Symbol but found no trace of it.
• Mu Zi noted that she and the Ancestral Stone had nearly consumed the seventh level’s Primordial Aura, and the two prepared to leave the tower.

Huangpu Jing returned from the Land of Inheritance with the Pure Orchid Divine Art and its auxiliary Mind-Calming Divine Orchid, while Su Rou entered the inheritance and obtained the Will to Shatter the Heavens. The group learned how Su Rou’s new martial will could strengthen her attacks and let her contend against Three Yuan Nirvana opponents.

• Huangpu Jing emerged from the Land of Inheritance holding the Mind-Calming Divine Orchid and explained that she had chosen the Pure Orchid Divine Art to improve her cultivation and help others focus.
• Mu Zi approved of Huangpu Jing’s choice, and Huangpu Jing told her she would now be able to help her.
• Su Rou entered the starry sky through her token and selected an inheritance from the balls of light.
• Su Rou returned with the Will to Shatter the Heavens, a martial will that strengthened her attacks and gave her the ability to contend against people at Three Yuan Nirvana.
• Mu Zi recognized martial will as a force that could amplify attacks and recalled Lin Dong’s Eight Extremes Fist Intent.

Mu Lingsha, Ling Qingzhu, and Mu Zi defeated the three Yuan Sect masters, then Mu Zi uncovered Third King Hall’s ambush and freed Zhou Tong from the Demon Emperor Lock. Third King Hall threatened the weakened Ying Huanhuan, and Mu Zi stepped forward to face him.

• Mu Lingsha killed Human Yuanzi, while Ling Qingzhu killed Heaven Yuanzi and Mu Zi destroyed Earth Yuanzi with the Endless Ice Seal.
• Mu Zi sensed someone trying to rescue the Yuan Sect masters’ Essence Spirits, traced the spatial fluctuation, and forced Zhou Tong out of hiding.
• Zhou Tong briefly warned Mu Zi about Yuan Sect before the Demon Emperor Lock took control of him again, and he attacked her with Space Wave Blades.
• Mu Zi blocked Third King Hall’s surprise strike, dissolved the Demon Emperor Lock, and sent Zhou Tong’s Essence Spirit to Ying Huanhuan.
• Third King Hall confronted Ying Huanhuan and threatened to kill her, but Mu Zi stepped between them and vowed he would not touch anyone.

Mu Lingsha used the Primordial Ancestral Symbol to overpower and nearly kill Lu Feng, Yuan Sect’s Great Elder. As she prepared to finish him, she vowed to kill the three Yuan Sect leaders, especially Human Yuanzi, for attacking her younger sister Mu Zi.

• Mu Lingsha’s successive arrows shattered Lu Feng’s demonic shadow and forced him to defend against a powerful Rune Arrow.
• Lu Feng’s demonic formation failed to stop the Rune Arrow, leaving his body broken and his aura nearly extinguished.
• Lu Feng’s Essence Spirit emerged from his destroyed body, still tainted by demonic Qi.
• Mu Lingsha prepared to kill Lu Feng and declared that the three Yuan Sect leaders, particularly Human Yuanzi, would be next.