Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu fused the Twenty-Four Pearls into Weizhi Peak’s Earth Vein, allowing it to draw in far more Heavenly Star Vital Qi. The increased vitality transformed the peak’s training grounds, and Tang Zhimu and Li Chou decided to keep Chen Mu’s achievement quiet and resume cultivation.

• Chen Mu refined the Twenty-Four Pearls and realized he could use Weizhi Peak’s Primordial Earth Vein to connect them to the stars.
• Chen Mu used the Linglong Ghost Mark to fuse the pearls into the Earth Vein’s apertures, discovering that each aperture could hold eight pearls.
• Chen Mu activated the fused pearls, causing Heavenly Star Vital Qi to pour into Weizhi Peak and become seven or eight times denser.
• Li Chou felt the sudden surge of Earth Spirit Vital Qi at the training ground and asked what had happened.
• Tang Zhimu attributed the change to Chen Mu, and he and Li Chou agreed to keep quiet while cultivating on Weizhi Peak.

After two months of seclusion, Chen Mu learned that Weizhi Peak’s increased vital qi had produced White Jade Coins and used his share to buy Mutant Beasts. He advanced the Yellow Springs Gourd Method, then resumed cultivating after learning that an Outer Realm Demon had driven Mutant Beasts toward Nine Peaks Mountain.

• Tang Zhimu reported that Weizhi Peak’s Earth Spirit Vital Qi had risen to match Star Picking Peak, and Chen Mu attributed the change to Star Shift.
• Tang Zhimu explained that more than four thousand White Jade Coins had been nurtured in the Training Ground’s Earth Vein Spirit Spring, with half belonging to Chen Mu, who asked him to buy varied Mutant Beasts with his share.
• Chen Mu examined his seclusion gains and found that the Yellow Springs Gourd Method had advanced, though the Spiritual Treasure’s form still dissipated.
• Tang Zhimu brought Chen Mu sixteen kinds of Mutant Beasts and explained that an Outer Realm Demon in Yizhou had driven them to migrate, prompting Yuan Zhen to organize patrols and hunts.
• Chen Mu fed most of the Mutant Beasts to Yama Feast, rested for a day, and resumed cultivating the Yellow Springs Gourd Method.

After months of peaceful cultivation at Nine Peaks Mountain, Chen Mu advanced his Heavenly Demon Armor to its ninth layer. A strange golden silk rain appeared in the night sky, and Nine Peaks Mountain's supervisors suspected it was Emperor Flow Paste connected to a change among the Extraterrestrial Stars.

• Chen Mu used Yama Feast on Mutant Beasts until his Heavenly Demon Armor reached the ninth layer, gaining powerful defenses around his body and Dao Foundation.
• A golden silk rain fell over Weizhi Peak, prompting Chen Mu and the others to shelter behind their defenses until the phenomenon vanished.
• Tang Zhimu suggested the celestial phenomenon was Emperor Flow Paste, which ancient records associated with the Outer Realm Mili Heaven.
• Chen Mu met Yuan Zhen and Nine Peaks Mountain's Left and Right Supervisors at Star-Plucking Hall to discuss the event.
• Chen Mu recounted his experience guarding Bian She Star, and Yuan Zhen said he would contact the Upper Courtyard while Nine Peaks Mountain stayed vigilant.

Chen Mu learned that the Emperor Flow Paste came from Mili Heaven and could transform Mutant Beasts into intelligent Demons, prompting the Yellow Springs Sect to strengthen its defenses. He used the altered beasts to rapidly cultivate his Heavenly Demon Armor, but had nearly exhausted the local supply by the time its experience reached 1267/10000/Tier 9.

• Chen Mu ordered Tang Zhimu to prepare Weizhi Peak’s supplies and kept watch for danger while consuming Mutant Beasts.
• Yuan Zhen learned from the Upper Courtyard that the Emperor Flow Paste resulted from Mili Heaven and Hundred Intentions Heaven touching during the Luofu Dao’s counteroffensive.
• Yuan Zhen warned that Emperor Flow Paste could awaken Mutant Beasts’ intelligence and ordered stronger patrols and expanded manpower.
• Chen Mu decided to remain at Nine Peaks Mountain and discovered that Emperor Flow Paste-affected Mutant Beasts provided far more Heavenly Demon Armor experience.
• Chen Mu increased his purchases of Mutant Beasts, raising his Heavenly Demon Armor to 1267/10000/Tier 9 before exhausting most local packs.

Demon Saint Kunpeng arrived at Tang Mountain to oversee the demon soldiers’ infiltration, while Chen Mu discovered that Emperor Flow Paste had awakened unusually pure demon bloodlines in Mutant Beasts. He volunteered to hunt them across the Southwest Land using his Yin Soul Monsters, eager to gain experience for his Heavenly Demon Armor cultivation.

• Demon Saint Kunpeng reached Tang Mountain with Black Mountain, who reported that demon soldiers were reincarnating into beasts without alerting the Human Demons.
• Chen Mu devoured a Red Fur Fox and discovered its unusually pure demon bloodline, suspecting Emperor Flow Paste had stimulated its ancestral reversion.
• Chen Mu warned Yuan Zhen that awakened Mutant Beasts might threaten Nine Peaks Mountain and offered to locate and hunt them.
• Chen Mu presented his Five Ghosts Bag as a form of Qianji Puppet Art and released a vast cloud of Yin Soul Monsters to help search for demons.
• Yuan Zhen accepted Chen Mu’s offer, and Chen Mu set off excitedly to hunt demons for Heavenly Demon Armor experience.

Green Barbarian descended into the mountains with two thousand Demon Soldiers, but Chen Mu’s hunt for Mutant Beasts wiped out most of them before Green Barbarian could possess a body. Chen Mu’s Heavenly Demon Armor advanced rapidly, and the Yellow Springs Sect supervisors expected Nine Peaks Mountain to remain safe for a long time.

• Green Barbarian sensed that the strongest Human Demon near Nine Peaks Mountain matched his cultivation and planned to gather his Demon Soldiers to possess and reincarnate through the Linglong Heart Link Technique.
• Chen Mu tested the Emperor Flow Paste that fell from the sky and confirmed that it differed from the paste refined through the Plague Immortal Method.
• Chen Mu used his Vermilion Feather Sword, supernatural abilities, Silver Souls, and Five Ghosts Little Paper Man to capture Mutant Beasts, raising Heavenly Demon Armor to Tier 9.
• Green Barbarian discovered that more than half of his two thousand Demon Soldiers had vanished and blamed local Human Demons for hunting them.
• Chen Mu recalled his Yinhun and Five Ghosts Little Paper Man after nearly clearing the area around Nine Peaks Mountain, while Lin Tu, Hu Sheng, and Yuan Zhen credited him with bringing peace to the Southwest Land.

Green Barbarian tried to infiltrate Nine Peaks Mountain and possess Hu Sheng, but Chen Mu devoured his divided soul and foiled his plans. Months later, Chen Mu advanced the Yellow Springs Gourd to the Eighth Tier and looked forward to completing its cultivation.

• Green Barbarian chose Left Supervisor Hu Sheng as his target so he could use Hu Sheng’s position to alter the Primordial Earth Vein and open the Mili Heaven Two-World Passage.
• Green Barbarian infiltrated Nine Peaks Mountain as a Jade Cicada, but Chen Mu’s Silver-Black Smoke trapped and devoured him, granting the Heavenly Demon Armor over three hundred experience points.
• Chen Mu hunted Mutant Beasts around Nine Peaks Mountain for two days, strengthening his Jade Seed Dao Foundation before stopping.
• After repeated failed infiltration attempts, Green Barbarian fled the area to seek another Human Demon to possess.
• After several months of Emperor Flow Paste showers, Chen Mu’s Yellow Springs Gourd reached the Eighth Tier, and he celebrated by planning to cook the Five-colored Pheasants he had caught.

Chen Mu cultivated Mutant Beasts with Emperor Flow Paste and completed the Heavenly Demon Armor while Nine Peaks Mountain took in displaced disciples amid the wider Yizhou crisis. Elsewhere, the Demon Saint Kunpeng's forces prepared to trade Blood Sacs with Luo Ding, as Chen Mu continued searching the mountains for threats.

• Chen Mu used Emperor Flow Paste to accelerate the transformation of more than twenty captive Mutant Beasts, finding a dose that would not kill them.
• Yuan Zhen told Chen Mu that displaced Lower Academy Disciples were arriving at Nine Peaks Mountain and that the Upper Courtyard could not help because the Thirteen Prefectures were in turmoil.
• The Muscular Old Man nearly killed Black Mountain, but Demon Saint Kunpeng intervened and killed him; Black Mountain reported that the demons had gathered 117 high-grade Blood Sacs for Luo Ding.
• Two months later, Chen Mu completed the Heavenly Demon Armor, whose thirty-two layers of Spiritual Light protected his Dao Foundation Jade Seed.
• Chen Mu released the Five Ghosts and Yin Soul Monsters to search the mountains around Nine Peaks Mountain for demons and Mutant Beasts.

Chen Mu fortified Weizhi Peak and prepared Thousand Lantern City as a refuge while cultivating the Yellow Springs Gourd. He learned that Sacred Heart Academy had fallen to a great Demon and that Academy Supervisor Luo Ding was missing, leaving him secretly pleased because of their past grievance.

• Tang Zhimu reported that Weizhi Peak had produced over three thousand four hundred White Jade Coins and that the refugee disciples had settled in.
• Chen Mu denied that he planned to flee, then stored White Jade Coins in Thousand Lantern City so he could hide there if Nine Peaks Mountain became unsafe.
• Chen Mu spent half a year cultivating the tier 8 Yellow Springs Gourd, which accumulated just over three thousand experience points.
• Tang Zhimu told Chen Mu that a great Demon had breached Sacred Heart Academy and that its Academy Supervisor, Luo Ding, was missing.
• Chen Mu recalled Luo Ding’s role in the Contract Edict that had threatened him and decided to celebrate Luo Ding’s possible death with a funeral feast.

Luo Ding strengthened himself in Hidden Thunder Ravine and brought Sacred Heart Academy disciples to Nine Peaks Mountain, where he secretly planned to help Green Barbarian possess a host. Chen Mu learned Luo Ding had arrived and left to hunt Mutant Beasts, while Green Barbarian agreed to target him after Luo Ding revealed he held Chen Mu’s Dao Soldier Contract Edict.

• Luo Ding absorbed lightning and sought more Nether God's Blood Sacs to advance his cultivation.
• Chen Mu worked on the Lingbao Shuji Method to improve his progress with the Yellow Springs Gourd.
• Tang Zhimu told Chen Mu that Luo Ding had arrived at Nine Peaks Mountain and was staying at Moon Gazing Peak before heading to the Yellow Springs Sect's Upper Courtyard.
• Chen Mu made an excuse to leave Nine Peaks Mountain and went to clear Mutant Beasts in the southwestern region.
• Luo Ding told Green Barbarian that Chen Mu was a Dao Soldier and proposed possessing him to infiltrate Nine Peaks Mountain.
• Luo Ding revealed he held Chen Mu's Contract Edict, and Green Barbarian agreed to make Chen Mu his target.

Chen Mu hid from Luo Ding in a valley while Luo Ding attacked Yuan Zhen, who revealed the Spiritual Treasure Five Rams Furnace and drove him off. After learning that Luo Ding had escaped with the power of Blood Drop Rebirth, Chen Mu decided to return to Weizhi Peak for protection.

• Luo Ding learned that the peak master was away and left Weizhi Peak after failing to find Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu set up a concealed shelter in a valley and used the Five Ghosts Bag to grind the Lingbao Shuji Pian Secret Art.
• Luo Ding attacked Yuan Zhen in Sunrise Hall, but Yuan Zhen used the Five Rams Furnace to restrain him.
• Luo Ding used Heavenly Demon Self-Sacrifice and Blood Drop Rebirth to escape with the Emerald Flying Cicada.
• Yuan Zhen ordered Hu Sheng and Lin Tu to guard the mountain gate and asked them to summon Chen Mu back to Weizhi Peak.
• Chen Mu heard of Luo Ding's attack through the Vermilion Feather Sword and decided to return to Weizhi Peak.

Luo Ding returned to Nine Peaks Mountain and ambushed Chen Mu, hoping to capture him with a Contract Edict and an Emerald Flying Cicada. Chen Mu’s defenses thwarted the attack, and he unleashed Yama Feast to trap Luo Ding.

• Luo Ding and Green Barbarian decided to kill Yuan Zhen and silence everyone who knew about their dealings with the Demons of Mili Heaven.
• Chen Mu returned to Weizhi Peak, learned that Luo Ding had escaped after Yuan Zhen’s attack, and chose not to pursue the injured Dean.
• Luo Ding ambushed Chen Mu at night, binding him with dark green tentacles and freezing him with a Contract Edict.
• Green Barbarian’s Emerald Flying Cicada struck Chen Mu’s forehead but failed to penetrate his protective Spiritual Light, while Chen Mu’s Strange Force kept regenerating against the tentacles.
• Chen Mu broke free and activated Yama Feast, surrounding the cottage and trapping Luo Ding in Silver-Black Mist.

Chen Mu defeated Luo Ding at Weizhi Peak when the Candle Dragon Dharma Body swallowed him, but discovered he had survived by leaving his Yama Sacred Heart elsewhere. Chen Mu tracked Luo Ding to a valley and killed him before returning to Weizhi Peak.

• Luo Ding demanded Chen Mu's tribulation-avoiding treasure, but Chen Mu resisted with his artifacts and summoned the Candle Dragon Dharma Body.
• Luo Ding's Law Breaking Divine Light failed against the Candle Dragon, which swallowed him and the fleeing Emerald Flying Cicada.
• Luo Ding reconstituted himself in a valley near Green Barbarian and promised to help break Nine Peaks Mountain's protective restriction.
• Chen Mu emerged from Ghost Gate Pass and ambushed Luo Ding with the Nightmare Curse and Candle Dragon Dharma Body, devouring his remaining flesh and spirit.
• Chen Mu searched the valley for lingering threats, put away his ghosts, and returned to Weizhi Peak.

After killing Luo Ding, Chen Mu concealed what had happened from Yuan Zhen and investigated the strange second heartbeat developing in his chest. He discovered that the Nether God Transformation had created a second heart, strengthening his body and expanding Thousand Lantern City.

• Chen Mu denied seeing Luo Ding when Yuan Zhen questioned him and used a Spirit-Connecting Mirror to check whether Chen Mu had been possessed by a Demon.
• After Yuan Zhen left, Chen Mu reflected on Luo Ding's attack and worried that devouring him with Yama Feast had caused a second heartbeat.
• Chen Mu consulted Tang Zhimu, who explained that Netherworld Ghost Sect practitioners could grow a second heart by cultivating Ghost Secret Arts; Chen Mu realized his Nether God Transformation was responsible.
• Chen Mu monitored his second heart and found that it improved his strength and physique without causing harmful effects.
• Chen Mu discovered that advancing the Nether God Transformation had also expanded Thousand Lantern City, and he connected the effect to the relationship between Yin Nether Insects and Yinhun.

Yuan Zhen and Hu Sheng concluded that Chen Mu had killed Luo Ding, while Chen Mu suspected the Cicada Demon had orchestrated the Mutant Beasts’ transformation. After preparing for a possible retreat from Nine Peaks Mountain, Chen Mu discovered that the Lingbao Shuji Method worked exceptionally well on Thousand Lantern City Cave Heaven, and its experience began to rise.

• Yuan Zhen and Hu Sheng investigated Luo Ding’s final location and decided not to question Chen Mu about his possible role in Luo Ding’s death.
• Chen Mu connected the Cicada Demon’s fragmented intent to his Jade Cicada Dao Foundation and suspected it had used a secret art to give the Mutant Beasts sentience.
• Yuan Zhen told Chen Mu that the Upper Courtyard had been informed of the crisis and that they could abandon Nine Peaks Mountain and retreat to the Borderland Sea if necessary.
• Chen Mu asked Tang Zhimu to prepare the disciples for a possible withdrawal, then cultivated in seclusion as Yama Feast’s changes stabilized and his body and Thousand Lantern City Cave Heaven grew.
• Chen Mu used the Lingbao Shuji Method on Thousand Lantern City through its Big Eyeball and found that the method’s experience was steadily increasing.

Chen Mu discovered that cultivating the Lingbao Shuji Method inside Thousand Lantern City greatly accelerated its progress, then learned that Demons from Mili Heaven were attacking Nine Peaks Mountain. As the mountain’s defenses began to fail and a three-headed Black-Furred Ape attacked Weizhi Peak, he sent Tang Zhimu to evacuate everyone.

• Chen Mu found that one session of cultivation inside Thousand Lantern City had added over two hundred experience points to the Lingbao Shuji Pian.
• Chen Mu told Tang Zhimu that Demons of Mili Heaven might target Nine Peaks Mountain and instructed him to prepare the people and supplies for evacuation.
• Two nights later, Demons attacked Star Picking, Moon Gazing, and Sunrise Peaks while Nine Peaks Mountain’s protective restrictions activated.
• A three-headed Black-Furred Ape appeared above Weizhi Peak and cracked its mountain protection Spiritual Light with a single leap.
• Chen Mu opened a Ghost Gate Pass and ordered Tang Zhimu to lead everyone down the mountain and evacuate.

Chen Mu used Ghost Gate Pass to evacuate the disciples and leaders of Nine Peaks Mountain as Demons overwhelmed its defenses. The White Crane Heavenly Demon took control of the mountain and ordered a search for the Hundred Intentions Heaven Spiritual Eye.

• Chen Mu decided to help Nine Peaks Mountain and flew from Weizhi Peak toward Star Picking Peak as its protective formation collapsed.
• Yuan Zhen revealed that the Nine Mountains Linked Formation had failed and prepared to stay behind while Hu Sheng and Lin Tu escaped.
• Chen Mu arrived and offered to evacuate everyone through Ghost Gate Pass while Yuan Zhen used the Pivot Jade Disk to hold the defenses.
• Chen Mu, Lin Tu, and Hu Sheng ushered the disciples from Star Picking Peak and the other peaks into Ghost Gate Pass, then brought the exhausted Yuan Zhen through as well.
• The White Crane Heavenly Demon arrived after the Ghost Gate Pass vanished and ordered Black Mountain to gather Demon Soldiers and search for the Hundred Intentions Heaven Spiritual Eye.

After leaving Nine Peaks Mountain, Chen Mu settled by the sea and trained the Lingbao Shuji Pian until it reached its limit. He discovered that its Life and Death Seal let him control objects inside Thousand Lantern City Cave Heaven, and he began rearranging the buildings there.

• Chen Mu established a quiet seaside base in southern Yizhou after escaping Nine Peaks Mountain.
• Tang Zhimu reported that Yuan Zhen had gone into seclusion, Hu Sheng was leading the survivors, and the Extraterrestrial Demons remained near Nine Peaks Mountain.
• Chen Mu spent the next half month catching seafood and training the Lingbao Shuji Pian until it reached its limit.
• Chen Mu discovered that the resulting Life and Death Seal resembled the Dragon Pearl Spiritual Mechanism and could enter Thousand Lantern City’s Pivot Eye.
• Chen Mu used the Life and Death Seal to lift the central tower and arrange the cave heaven’s wooden buildings into neat rows.

Chen Mu sought a way to draw down Heavenly Star Vital Qi so he could cultivate the Yellow Springs Gourd, but Nine Peaks Mountain lacked the Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation. Yuan Zhen then gave him a Divine Dispatch Order that could summon Star Lords and make even a barren region suitable for cultivation.

• Chen Mu noticed that his Mustard Seed Spell had gained experience after he used the Life and Death Seal to probe Thousand Lantern City.
• Restless during his idle days, Chen Mu considered raising the Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation or devouring the Exquisite Jade Disk to obtain a way to draw down Heavenly Star Vital Qi.
• Chen Mu asked Hu Sheng for the Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation, but Hu Sheng said Nine Peaks Mountain did not have it.
• Yuan Zhen visited Chen Mu and explained that he had no Lesser Cosmic Stars Formation, but offered him a Divine Dispatch Order instead.
• Chen Mu accepted the order, and Yuan Zhen promised to request merit for him and try to reduce the term of his Dao Soldier Contract.

Chen Mu used the Divine Dispatch Order to maintain the Heavenly Star Vital Qi around his cabin and discovered that the Life and Death Seal improved his Yellow Springs Gourd cultivation. After making progress toward the eighth layer, he took a break by fishing and replenishing his Spirit Nurturing Wine.

• Yuan Zhen told Chen Mu that the Divine Dispatch Order would last at most a year and that the Upper Courtyard had ordered them to gather Yizhou's scattered Qi Refining cultivators as Dao Soldiers.
• Chen Mu activated the Divine Dispatch Order and found that the Heavenly Star Vital Qi around his Wooden Cabin remained plentiful as he cultivated.
• With the Life and Death Seal refining his talisman-condensation process, Chen Mu condensed the sixty-fourth Spiritual Treasure Primordial Talisman and estimated he could reach the ninth layer in half a year.
• After seven days of seclusion, Chen Mu rested by fishing and used the Nine Revolutions Spirit Capturing Curse to draw Spirit Nurturing Wine from the Bottomless Pool.
• Chen Mu learned that the Black-Spotted Strange Fish was poisonous except for two delicious portions and sent the Five Ghosts Little Paper Men back to catch more fish.