Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu used the Plague Immortal Banner to absorb the Yellow Millet Plague Toxin and discovered that Lü Yue’s scheme involved using it to devour victims’ Spirit Gods. After Han Ying was captured with an emptied Plague Toxin Pot, Zhou Tong and the others prepared to expose him and seek support, while Chen Mu listened and approved of the resulting commotion.

• Chen Mu used the Plague Immortal Banner to absorb the plague toxin spreading through Duzun Peak and traced another source of absorption to a cave south of the mountain.
• Chen Mu found a Plague Toxin Pot and discovered that it absorbed most of his collected toxin while releasing the rest, leading him to suspect Lü Yue’s real plan was to use the plague to consume Spirit Gods.
• Chen Mu analyzed the toxin and concluded that it grew heavier after infecting people because it devoured their Upper Fetus Spirit Gods.
• The plague gradually dissipated, most Dao Soldiers recovered, and the camp resumed its work while its commanders tried to repair the Heavenly Gate.
• Han Ying arrived at the cave, found the Plague Toxin Pot empty, and was captured by Zhou Tong, Fei Zhao, and Li Jiu after they accused him of conspiring with Green Worm Demon Lord.
• Zhou Tong decided to publicize Han Ying’s crimes and seek Elder Lan’s help, while Chen Mu listened and welcomed the uproar.

Chen Mu discovered that the Yellow Millet Plague had been used to refine the Spirit Gods of living beings into Emperor Flow Paste, then found that the paste greatly advanced his Giant Spirit God. He left the chapter eager to use it to complete the technique, while remaining wary of Meng Qingchan's hidden traps.

• Chen Mu accepted extra demon-dissolving work from Steward Wu in exchange for clean Beast Meat from the Tian Gong Department.
• After detecting no plague toxin for five days, Chen Mu advanced the Plague Immortal Method to Tier 4 and learned how to refine Emperor Flow Paste from the toxin.
• Chen Mu realized Lü Yue had used the Yellow Millet Plague to harvest living beings' Upper Fetus Spirit Gods, and compared it to the Qianji Sect harvesting ordinary people's Three Treasures.
• Chen Mu refined Emperor Flow Paste but chose not to consume it because he suspected Meng Qingchan might have planted a trap in it.
• Chen Mu fed the Emperor Flow Paste to his Giant Spirit God, which became complete and gained over two hundred experience.

Chen Mu listened as Zhou Tong captured Han Ying and learned that Lu Shenjun had spread plague toxin across dozens of Celestial Stars. Later, Lü Yue ordered Zhou Tong to prepare Han Ying for an altar ritual and said he would send people to Bian She Star to capture Li Jiu and Fei Zhao.

• Zhou Tong restrained Han Ying on Duzun Peak, rejected his offer to cooperate, and sealed his mouth after Han Ying revealed that Lu Shenjun had seeded plague toxin across the Thirteen Stars of Heavenly Gate, the Heavenly Pillar Eleven Star, and other Celestial Stars.
• Chen Mu eavesdropped from Tian Gong Camp and decided Han Ying’s capture would draw Lan Xiuzhu into conflict with Lü Yue while leaving him room to gather plague toxin for Emperor Flow Paste.
• Chen Mu watched his Jade Cicada Secret Manual progress and used Emperor Flow Paste to advance the Giant Spirit God, whose statue had regained its full body and could grow to over ten meters.
• Zhou Tong secretly contacted Lü Yue and explained that Han Ying was safe on Duzun Peak, while Li Jiu and Fei Zhao were watching him and the Plague Toxin Pot’s location had been exposed.
• Lü Yue ruled out Meng Qingchan’s remnant soul, ordered Zhou Tong to have Han Ying prepare an altar, and planned to send people to capture Li Jiu and Fei Zhao for questioning.

After discovering Zhou Tong was secretly loyal to Lü Yue, Chen Mu poisoned Han Ying with the Yellow Millet Plague Toxin to force Zhou Tong to summon reinforcements and expose himself. Chen Mu returned to Jiwei Courtyard under Lan Xiuzhu’s protection, where he saw the lasting damage the plague had inflicted on other Dao Soldiers.

• Chen Mu learned that Zhou Tong had contacted Lü Yue and secretly poisoned Han Ying into an idiot with the Yellow Millet Plague Toxin.
• Zhou Tong discovered Han Ying’s condition, feared Lü Yue’s punishment, and used a secret art to contact Heavenly Pass City.
• Four days later, Heavenly Pass City sent Dao Soldiers to Bian She Star and ordered Chen Mu and Tian Gong Camp to return.
• Chen Mu returned to Jiwei Courtyard and concluded that Lan Xiuzhu’s intervention would keep Lü Yue from investigating him for a while.
• Chen Mu saw that Zhong Qing had been left mentally impaired by the plague and heard that several other Dao Soldiers had become walking corpses.

Chen Mu cultivated the Jade Cicada Secret Manual after returning to Heavenly Pass City, but the Heaven-Bearing Gourd crumbled just as Meng Qingchan reappeared in a child’s body. Their confrontation left Chen Mu facing her Plague Immortal Banner and her apparent defenses against his techniques.

• Steward Wu gave Chen Mu thirty jin of demon-cleansed Yin Wind Bone Horse meat and urged him to take more demon-cleansing assignments.
• Chen Mu’s Jade Cicada Secret Manual advanced toward its sixth stage, aided by vital energy from the Heaven-Bearing Gourd.
• The Heaven-Bearing Gourd crumbled, and Chen Mu sensed that Meng Qingchan’s presence in Thousand Lantern City had vanished.
• Meng Qingchan appeared as a little girl and accused Chen Mu of draining the gourd’s vital energy and disrupting her Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell Method.
• Chen Mu secretly used the Nightmare Victory Curse Method while urging Meng Qingchan to leave, but she revealed the Plague Immortal Banner and swept away his Seven Emotions Flame.

Chen Mu battled Meng Qingchan in Thousand Lantern City after her Seven Emotions Flame failed to stop her recovery, and he eventually forced her to withdraw. After she left, Chen Mu suspected that the Emperor Flow Paste awaiting Lü Yue might be part of one of Meng Qingchan’s schemes.

• Meng Qingchan’s Myriad Laws Immunity let her withstand Chen Mu’s attacks, and she shattered his attempt to escape Thousand Lantern City.
• Meng Qingchan battered Chen Mu with a transformed Wolf Fang Club, but he held her off with his Heavenly Demon Armor and Yin Fault Moon Blade.
• Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God secret art to strike Meng Qingchan, revealing that her Myriad Laws Immunity was incomplete.
• After half an hour of fighting, Meng Qingchan admitted Chen Mu had underestimated her, then ordered him to open the Cave Heaven entrance so she could leave.
• Meng Qingchan asked whether Lü Yue had come beyond the heavens, and Chen Mu told her he was waiting at the Heavenly Gate Heavenly Pillar for Inner Star to release the Yellow Millet Plague Toxin.
• Meng Qingchan departed, and Chen Mu wondered whether she had set a trap for Lü Yue involving the Plague Immortal Banner and Emperor Flow Paste.

After surviving a battle with Meng Qingchan, Chen Mu confirmed she had left Thousand Lantern City and learned more about the dangers of Demon Poison. He began considering how to secure enough vital essence for his cultivation without relying on Beast Meat.

• Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God, which had reached its limit and become a tangible Primordial Spirit avatar, to fight Meng Qingchan and survive their clash.
• Chen Mu confirmed through the Shadow Pupil that Meng Qingchan had left Thousand Lantern City and regretted losing the Heaven-Bearing Gourd, which had supported his cultivation.
• Chen Mu asked Steward Wu about Demon Poison and learned that Mili Heaven was its source and that it could corrupt cultivators and transform their bodies.
• Steward Wu said Southern Bright Lihuo Flame was the only known way to remove Demon Poison completely and warned Chen Mu not to consume it recklessly.
• Chen Mu realized that his limited supply of Beast Meat and cultivation ingredients would not meet his need for vital essence, so he had to plan ahead.

Chen Mu tested ways to detect and remove Demon Poison, but his Plague Immortal Method was still too weak to draw it out. After Meng Qingchan recovered the Plague Immortal Banner from Lan Xiuzhu, Chen Mu processed a valuable Green Jade Snail at Xin Si Courtyard and planned to keep training while earning Dao Merit for Foundation Cultivation Pills.

• Chen Mu used the Seven Emotions Flame on Beast Meat and found that it weakened but did not destroy the Demon Poison.
• Chen Mu discovered that the Jade Cicada Qi Mechanism strengthened the Demon Poison’s life pulse, then found his second-tier Plague Immortal Method could sense it better but could not move it.
• Meng Qingchan reunited with Lan Xiuzhu at Star Lord Palace and reclaimed her Plague Immortal Banner by absorbing his thirty-five red command flags into it.
• Meng Qingchan told Lan Xiuzhu that a Cunning Thief had exploited an opening and caused her Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell Method to fail.
• Chen Mu used his qi blades and Hundred Mile Qi Seal to remove the flesh from a Green Jade Snail without damaging its shell.
• Chen Mu saw that his Plague Immortal Method had reached Tier 3 but still could not extract Demon Poison, so he resolved to keep practicing and use his Dao Merit to buy ingredients for Foundation Cultivation Pills.

Chen Mu advanced his cultivation while limiting his Green Jade Snail work to avoid attention, but the Plague Immortal Method still could not remove the snails’ Demon Poison. He learned that Hu Buwei’s disappearance had ended the Dao Merit deductions and earned him a refund, giving him an unexpected boost to his cultivation funds.

• Steward Wu praised Chen Mu after finding that he had processed two Green Jade Snails, and Chen Mu persuaded him to leave so he could rest.
• Chen Mu cultivated the Jade Cicada Secret Manual and Plague Immortal Method, then processed two more snails and checked his progress.
• Chen Mu tried using the Tier 4 Plague Immortal Method to remove Demon Poison from Green Jade Snail meat, but it failed.
• Worried about his dwindling White Jade and cultivation expenses, Chen Mu considered processing more snails and using the Nightmare Curse to earn more.
• A bald, white-bearded elder told Chen Mu that Hu Buwei’s disappearance had canceled the Dao Merit deduction and made 1,043 previously deducted points refundable.
• Chen Mu celebrated the refund while pretending to mourn Hu Buwei, and the elder reacted with disbelief.

More than a month after Hu Buwei’s disappearance, Chen Mu bought plague-related supplies and discovered that combining the Plague Immortal Method with Jade Cicada Qi Mechanism could remove Demon Poison from Beast Meat. After testing the treated meat on Poison Dragon Scorpions, he tried to arrange a large purchase through Steward Wu, who unexpectedly offered to help.

• At Hundred Items Pavilion, Chen Mu learned that rumors of plague toxin spreading from sealed Heavenly Gate Star had prompted others to seek protective artifacts, so he bought a Seven Star Jade Purification Bottle and several Detox Pills.
• Using the Giant Spirit God to sharpen his True Hearing, Chen Mu found that the Plague Immortal Method attracted Demon Poison in Green Jade Snail meat but needed Jade Cicada Qi Mechanism to pull it out completely.
• Chen Mu extracted Demon Poison from more than ten pieces of Beast Meat, sealed it in the jade bottle, and fed the treated meat to Poison Dragon Scorpions as a test.
• After finding the Poison Dragon Scorpions unharmed, Chen Mu decided to seek Beast Meat in bulk and considered using the Nightmare Curse to keep the plan secret from Steward Wu.
• Chen Mu asked Steward Wu to supply all the Beast Meat processed by Xin Si Courtyard, but Steward Wu readily agreed and offered to obtain even more from Ding You Courtyard.

Chen Mu discovered that Wu Gang knew about his secret, but used the Nightmare Curse to secure his silence and gained his help obtaining beast meat. After finding a steady supply of vital qi and testing the Giant Spirit God’s power, Chen Mu finished the chapter eager to experiment with more secret arts.

• Wu Gang revealed that his Returning Light Method had recorded Chen Mu removing the plague poison, and Chen Mu used the Nightmare Curse to bind him to secrecy.
• Wu Gang offered to obtain beast meat for Chen Mu, who asked him to bring five hundred catties first.
• Chen Mu used the Plague Immortal Method to remove demon poison from beast meat, then made Return Vitality Soup and Spirit Nurturing Wine, easing his Dao Foundation cultivation needs.
• At the Magnolia Enclosure, Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God to investigate the Desire Heaven Longevity Method and discovered its illusions consumed vital essence and that many of its practitioners were men in disguise.
• Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God to perform the Three Yin Slaying Demon Technique and prepare five Green Jade Snails, then decided to test the other secret arts in the Thousand Mountains Scripture.

Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God to accelerate his cultivation, reached the seventh tier of the Jade Cicada Secret Manual, and gained a transformed evasion art that could shrink the ground and move him a hundred zhang at a time. After celebrating his progress, he saw new Dao Soldiers arriving through the Heavenly Gate, suggesting Qianji Sect was replacing those lost to Lu Shenjun's poison.

• Chen Mu learned that Zhong Qing and the disabled Dao Soldiers from Bian She Star would be sent back to Haizhou, then decided to remain and cultivate on Heavenly Gate Star.
• Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God as a relay for the Soul Seizing Yuan Returning Technique and realized it could greatly accelerate his Dao Foundation cultivation.
• Over twenty days later, Chen Mu advanced the Jade Cicada Secret Manual to Tier 7 and saw golden patterns appear on his protective Spiritual Light.
• Chen Mu tested the enhanced Vertical Rainbow Light and discovered it could shrink the ground and move him up to a hundred zhang in a single jump.
• After returning to Heavenly Pass City, Chen Mu saw numerous new Qi Refining cultivators emerge from the open White Jade Heavenly Gate and recognized them as replacement Dao Soldiers.

Chen Mu learned that Dao Soldiers were being deployed to the plague-stricken Heavenly Pillar Stars and prepared for the assignment, building up his supplies and Plague Immortal Method. He arrived at Huodao Star and found it eerily silent, suspecting the Yellow Millet Plague Toxin had wiped out its living things.

• Chen Mu heard that Star Lord Jiao Mu was rebuilding the Heavenly Gate and that Dao Soldiers would likely be sent to the sealed Heavenly Pillar Stars.
• Wu Gang told Chen Mu that Dao Soldiers would have to obey their Contract and guessed the danger would be limited because Combat Soldiers would take the front line and Lu Shenjun was missing.
• Chen Mu bought supplies, exchanged his remaining Dao Merit for White Jade, and trained his Plague Immortal Method in case Lü Yue or Meng Qingchan used plague toxins again.
• Star Lord Jiao Mu began deploying forces to the Heavenly Pillar Stars, and Chen Mu received orders to leave for Huodao Star the next day.
• Chen Mu arrived at Huodao Star and found that, beyond the Dao Soldier camp, the star was unnaturally silent, leading him to suspect the Yellow Millet Plague Toxin had killed its living things.

After arriving on Huodao Star, Chen Mu exploited the plague-stricken demon beasts to gather cultivation resources and found a way to remove their Demon Poison. Zhou Tong suspected someone was secretly stealing the corpses and ordered an ambush, unaware that Chen Mu was responsible.

• Chen Mu saw the enormous pile of demon beast corpses at Tian Gong Camp and realized the plague had made them easy to collect for cultivation.
• Chen Mu secretly gathered demon beasts into Thousand Lantern City, but it filled up within days, so he decided to improve the Plague Immortal Method and use the Bottomless Pool instead.
• Chen Mu made Wu Gang dismantle demons while he tested the Plague Immortal Method, absorbing all the Demon Poison from the corpses stored in Thousand Lantern City and raising the method to the sixth tier.
• After confirming the method worked, Chen Mu planned to put the newly transported demon beasts into the Bottomless Pool that night.
• Zhou Tong heard that someone was secretly collecting demon beast corpses, concluded a thief was stealing Qianji Sect property, and ordered an ambush.

Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God as an avatar to secretly gather demon beasts across Huodao Star while remaining at Tian Gong Camp. After Zhou Tong’s failed ambushes disrupted the camp’s work, he ordered everyone to stop pursuing the thief, leaving Chen Mu with a large supply of beasts and ready to cultivate in peace.

• Chen Mu linked the Giant Spirit God to his true body with a Qianji Talisman Seed and sent it to gather demon beasts while he stayed at Tian Gong Camp.
• The Giant Spirit God detected hidden Dao Soldiers near a demon beast settlement, and Chen Mu moved it away from their ambush.
• Wu Gang told Chen Mu that the Wuyun Department had been reassigned to search for the thief, halting demon dissolution work.
• The Middle-aged Daoist warned Zhou Tong that demon beasts were disappearing despite their ambushes and suggested they resume their camp duties.
• Zhou Tong agreed to stop pursuing the thief and let the missing demon beasts go, and Chen Mu decided he had gathered enough to cultivate.

Chen Mu’s Giant Spirit God collected demon beasts on Huodao Star until Zhou Tong ambushed it, forcing Chen Mu to retreat after a frightening encounter involving Star Lord Jiao Mu. Zhou Tong remained convinced the armored figure was a puppet tied to Lü Shenjun and sought to leave Huodao Star.

• Chen Mu’s Giant Spirit God collected a White Deer, but Zhou Tong appeared and bound it with Demon Binding Ropes, believing Chen Mu was connected to Lü Yue.
• The Giant Spirit God broke free, struck Zhou Tong with Ten Directions Hand, and nearly killed him before Zhou Tong summoned Star Lord Jiao Mu and vanished.
• Chen Mu searched for Star Lord Jiao Mu, then stopped collecting demon beasts and later recalled the Giant Spirit God to avoid further danger.
• Zhou Tong learned that the demon-beast thefts had stopped and concluded the armored figure was likely a Primordial Spirit-level puppet made by Lü Shenjun.
• After hearing that Elders Fei Zhao and Li Jiu would assist him, Zhou Tong decided to contact Lord Lan and seek a transfer from Huodao Star.

After Li Jiu and Fei Zhao arrived at Tian Gong Camp, Chen Mu learned that the Qianji Sect would wait and observe rather than investigate him, leaving him free to advance his techniques. He discovered that processing different demon beasts increased the Heavenly Demon Armor’s experience and found that the Qianji Method had advanced to a new tier.

• Li Jiu and Fei Zhao arrived at Tian Gong Camp, and Fei Zhao said Elder Lan had ordered them to wait and observe because the matter might involve Sect Master Lü.
• Chen Mu overheard that the Qianji Sect would not act rashly and felt relieved that he could stop sending the Giant Spirit God to gather demon beasts.
• Wu Gang offered to help process demon beasts in exchange for Nourishing Yuan Wine, and Chen Mu asked him to find beasts of different species.
• Chen Mu realized that processing new species of demon beasts increased the Heavenly Demon Armor’s experience.
• Chen Mu used the Giant Spirit God to cut up a great White Deer inside the Five Ghosts Bag and found that the Heavenly Demon Armor gained experience even when he did not process the beast himself.
• Chen Mu discovered that the Qianji Method had advanced to Tier 7 after he repeatedly used it to coordinate the Vermilion Feather Swords and Giant Spirit God.

Chen Mu’s Qianji Talisman Seeds automated Demon dissection while he advanced his secret arts and built up layers of Heavenly Demon protection. When the Celestial Light arrived half an hour late, he investigated the anomaly and learned that Star Lord Jiao Mu’s renewed control over the Thirty-Two Stars had caused similar dimming elsewhere.

• Chen Mu used his Tier 7 Qianji Method to direct the Giant Spirit God and Vermilion Feather Sword to dissect Demons automatically, freeing him to cultivate other secret arts.
• Over half a year, Tian Gong Camp became a small city, and Chen Mu successfully dissected a valuable Yi Mei Fish for Wu Gang.
• Chen Mu advanced the Soul Seizing Yuan Returning Technique and found that his Heavenly Demon Armor had accumulated protective Qi Mechanisms from hundreds of Demon types.
• Chen Mu noticed the Celestial Light was half an hour late and suspected the hidden Lu Shenjun might be responsible.
• Fei Zhao told Zhou Tong that Star Lord Jiao Mu’s control over the Thirty-Two Stars had caused dim starlight across more than thirty stars, and Zhou Tong ordered a report to Heavenly Pass City so Elder Lan could help correct the problem.

Chen Mu investigated Huodao Star’s irregular day-night cycle and learned that damaged Vital Qi Wells were causing the delays, then celebrated his rapid Dao Foundation progress. The cycle’s failure turned into a Nether Demon Heaven invasion, and the attackers shattered Huodao City’s defenses and struck down its three Dao Foundations.

• Chen Mu repeatedly sent the Vermilion Feather Sword across Huodao Star and used True Hearing to check for danger, finding only eerie silence.
• Wu Gang told Chen Mu that damage to the stellar Vital Qi Wells was causing Star Lord Jiao Mu’s day-night cycle problems.
• Chen Mu’s Jade Cicada Secret Manual advanced to tier eight, bringing him close to establishing his Dao Foundation, and he spent the night testing his improved movement techniques.
• A Round-Faced Fatty argued with customers demanding refunds for his poison-warding pills as the sky grew darker instead of brightening.
• Zhou Tong ordered all Dao Soldiers to recite the Demon Sealing Curse and raised a barrier, but a blood-red sky and a giant black eyeball appeared over Huodao City.
• A beam from the eyeball shattered the city’s Demon-Sealing Spiritual Light and sent Zhou Tong, Li Jiu, and Fei Zhao crashing into the ground.

As Nether Demon Heaven invaded Huodao Star and destroyed Huodao City's Heavenly Gate, Chen Mu fled into hiding while investigating the Demons’ movements. He learned that Zhou Tong and the others planned to escape through the void using surviving Dao Soldiers as expendable protection, leaving Chen Mu to reconsider his options.

• Nether Demon Heaven Demons invaded Huodao City, and the Heavenly Gate's shifting restriction became unstable as Dao Soldiers tried to escape.
• A beam of bloodlight destroyed the White Jade Heavenly Gate before Chen Mu could use it, so he fled south from the city.
• Chen Mu hid in an underground cavern, concealed himself with restrictions and talismans, and used Vermilion Feather Swords to monitor Huodao Star.
• Chen Mu discovered that the Demons had occupied Huodao City and were spreading bloodlight across the star without expanding beyond the city.
• Zhou Tong, Li Jiu, and Fei Zhao discussed escaping to Yangmen Star through the void, and Fei Zhao proposed gathering more Dao Soldiers to serve as protection.
• Chen Mu overheard the plan and realized that Zhou Tong intended to sacrifice the Dao Soldiers to improve the leaders' chances of survival.