Chapter Summaries

Chen Sheng trained Chen Xuanyuan in alchemy and Chen Binghe in formation setting while reflecting on his struggle to reach quasi Fourth-grade alchemy. He made progress concealing his cultivation aura and expected to eventually disguise himself even from Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• Chen Xuanyuan refined a Spirit-Concentrating Pill with three kinds of flame under Chen Sheng’s guidance.
• Chen Binghe completed a Spirit-Binding Array after Chen Sheng taught him to coordinate the Five Elements and yin-yang Formation Flags.
• Chen Sheng reflected that his alchemy had reached the top-grade third-grade level but that he still could not bestow a primal spirit on a Pill.
• Chen Sheng returned to his Cave Mansion and cultivated the Void Qi Concealment Technique until he concealed his late Golden Core aura to appear like an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Chen Sheng reached Golden Core Perfection, then spent two years refining three fourth-grade spiritual treasures to transform his Spirit Root. He emerged with a concealed Five Elements Heaven-grade Spiritual Root and a physique beginning to develop into a Five Elements Spirit Body, improving his prospects for reaching Nascent Soul.

• After seven days of cultivation, Chen Sheng absorbed enough mana to reach Golden Core Perfection at age three hundred and eleven, with Spiritual Sense extending one hundred and thirty-five li.
• Chen Sheng used the Void Qi Concealment Technique to hide his cultivation and Spirit Root before beginning the third level of the Myriad Origin Spirit Return Technique.
• Over six months, Chen Sheng extracted origin qi from Myriad Spirit Stone Milk, a Primordial Chaos Thunder Crystal, and a Nine Origin Spirit Fruit, then spent another six months refining it into three Spirit Marrows.
• Chen Sheng fused the Spirit Marrows with his Spirit Root over the following year, transforming it into a Five Elements Heaven-grade Spiritual Root and beginning his transformation into a Five Elements Spirit Body.
• Chen Sheng concealed the new runes and physique aura, preserving the appearance of his original High-grade Spiritual Root and concluding that his chances of reaching Nascent Soul had improved.

Chen Sheng replenished his Sword Core after his Spirit Root advanced to a Five Elements Heaven-grade Spiritual Root, then spent a century developing his cultivation arts and refining a Heavenly Yang Breakthrough Pill. He successfully produced a quasi fourth-grade pill, opening the path toward becoming a fourth-grade alchemist.

• Chen Sheng discovered that his newly upgraded Spirit Root had left his Sword Core's foundation insufficient, so he spent seven years feeding it Mana until it became dense and aligned with his Five Elements Heaven-grade Spiritual Root.
• Over the following hundred years, Chen Sheng's cultivation could advance no further, so he resumed artifact refinement and made the Myriad Transformation Cauldron his blood-bound treasure.
• Chen Sheng prepared the Myriad Transformation Cauldron with upper fourth-grade Earth Fire and used the Twelve Celestial Branches Formation to refine the ingredients for a Heavenly Yang Breakthrough Pill.
• Chen Sheng guided the pill through Spirit Infusion for more than a month and formed an incomplete pseudo primal spirit within it.
• Chen Sheng bound the pseudo primal spirit inside the pill and completed its refinement, producing a quasi fourth-grade Heavenly Yang Breakthrough Pill at age four hundred and twenty.

Chen Sheng presented a quasi Fourth-grade pill to the Three Origins Dao Sect, earning True Lord Qianyuan’s support and access to high-level Nascent Soul formation resources. He began planning how to prepare for the three tribulations, especially the Inner Demon Tribulation.

• Chen Sheng submitted a quasi Fourth-grade Heavenly Yang Breakthrough Pill to the Dao Sect treasury, earning three thousand major merit points and prompting Elder De Yu to report his achievement.
• True Lord Qianyuan reviewed Chen Sheng’s record, summoned him to the Main Hall, and gave him formation insights while granting access to restricted Nascent Soul formation spiritual items.
• Chen Sheng inspected the newly available resources and identified Hunyuan Crystal and Heartbreak Grass as materials for preparing against the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Chen Sheng planned to use Heavenly Thunder Wood to make Formation Flags that could weaken the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation.

Chen Xihua completed his Nascent Soul tribulation in Bright Tower Market Town, where he killed cultivators who tried to take advantage of his breakthrough. He then used Void Power to travel toward the Three Origins Dao Sect to support his father, while True Lord Mirage Shadow investigated the traces of his sword techniques.

• Chen Xihua learned that Chen Sheng had advanced to a quasi Fourth-grade Pill Master and decided to keep pace with his father's preparations for a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Chen Xihua activated his Spirit Gathering Array and began breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm as Rogue Cultivators gathered outside to watch.
• Chen Xihua shattered the Heavenly Lightning with his sword techniques and killed the Golden Core cultivators who had waited to loot him if he failed.
• Chen Xihua completed his breakthrough, formed a Sword Nascent Soul, and used a void fissure to travel toward the Three Origins Dao Sect.
• True Lord Mirage Shadow examined the tribulation's traces with the Mirage Shadow Pearl and wondered whether Chen Xihua's sword inheritance came from the Myriad Sword Sect.

Chen Xihua returned to the Three Origins Dao Sect after forming his Nascent Soul in the Western Wasteland, and True Lord Qianyuan welcomed him back. The sect’s Golden Core cultivators gathered to recognize Chen Xihua as its eighth Nascent Soul True Lord, while a grand celebration was postponed until the other True Lords returned.

• True Lord Qianyuan sensed Chen Xihua’s powerful Sword Qi approaching and sent his Primordial Magnetic Avatar to meet him.
• Chen Xihua revealed his Daoist name, Xuanzhao, and explained that he had formed his Nascent Soul in the Western Wasteland before returning to the sect.
• True Lord Qianyuan recognized Chen Xihua from their encounter more than a century earlier and escorted him toward the Three Origins Dao Sect.
• The sect’s Golden Core cultivators gathered in the Main Hall, where Chen Sheng received their congratulations on his son’s breakthrough.
• True Lord Qianyuan introduced Chen Xihua as True Lord Xuanzhao, the Dao Sect’s eighth Nascent Soul True Lord, and said a celebration would be held when the other True Lords returned.

After returning to Yunlan Mountain as a Nascent Soul cultivator, Chen Xihua reunited with the Chen Clan and learned that his brother Chen Xiyu had been killed by the Blackwater Profound Mansion a century earlier. He vowed to seek justice, then gave Chen Sheng the Seven Emotions Sword Scripture to aid his future breakthrough, leaving father and son to discuss their plans over tea.

• Chen Xihua reunited with the Chen Clan, whose members celebrated his breakthrough and discussed the family's steady growth.
• Chen Xilong told Chen Xihua that Chen Xiyu had died from injuries inflicted by the grandson of True Lord Xu, and Chen Xihua vowed to seek justice from the Blackwater Profound Mansion.
• Chen Xihua asked Chen Sheng about the Dao Sect's resources for Nascent Soul formation, and Chen Sheng described his plans to obtain spiritual items and use a formation against heavenly lightning.
• Chen Xihua offered to pass an ancient sword inheritance down through the family, and Chen Sheng cautioned him to choose inheritors carefully.
• Chen Xihua gave Chen Sheng the Seven Emotions Sword Scripture to help him face the Inner Demon Tribulation, and Chen Sheng advised him to stabilize his cultivation before confronting True Lord Xu.

Chen Sheng cultivated the Seven Emotions Sword Scripture for two years and attended Chen Xihua’s Nascent Soul celebration, where he learned True Lord Cloud Talisman had seized a Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator’s body. At Goldlight Peak, Chen Xihua explained his plans to seek justice for Xiyu at the Blackwater Profound Mansion and departed the next day.

• Chen Sheng studied the Seven Emotions Sword Scripture and began cultivating its emotional states to prepare for overcoming Inner Demon Tribulations.
• After two years in seclusion, Chen Sheng attended Chen Xihua’s Nascent Soul celebration, where True Lord Hanlou gave him alchemy insights about Longevity Pills.
• Chen Sheng saw that True Lord Cloud Talisman had changed into a young man’s body and later learned that he had seized a Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator’s body after his original body was destroyed.
• At Goldlight Peak, Chen Xihua told Chen Sheng that he would go to the Blackwater Profound Mansion to seek justice for Xiyu.
• Chen Xihua used sword mist to travel toward the Blackwater Profound Mansion, leaving Chen Sheng behind.

Chen Xihua confronted Xu Tianhe at Blackwater Profound Mansion and demanded justice for his younger brother by handing over Xu Ming. After overwhelming Xu Tianhe and his Guardian Array, Chen Xihua killed Xu Ming and left, while Xu Tianhe accepted the defeat.

• Chen Xihua arrived above Blackwater Profound Mansion and challenged Xu Tianhe, demanding Xu Ming for gravely injuring Chen Xiyu.
• Xu Tianhe attacked Chen Xihua with the Blackwater True Method and Void Power, but Chen Xihua’s Sword Intent broke through both attacks.
• Xu Tianhe raised the Blackwater Profound Formation, but Chen Xihua battered its barrier and threatened to destroy the mansion unless Xu Ming was handed over.
• Xu Tianhe summoned Xu Ming, and Chen Xihua killed him with a single sword strike that also annihilated his soul.
• Chen Xihua warned Xu Tianhe not to provoke the Yunlan Chen Clan again and vanished into the void.
• Xu Tianhe vented his rage on the Blackwater River, then accepted the loss.

After a century of preparation, Chen Sheng broke through to the Nascent Soul realm at Goldlight Peak, overcoming the Core Shattering trial, Inner Demon Tribulation, and Heavenly Lightning Tribulation. He emerged to congratulations from Chen Xihua and the Dao Sect cultivators.

• Chen Sheng used the Seven Emotions Sword Scripture and three auxiliary Pills to begin his Nascent Soul breakthrough, drawing Spiritual Energy toward Goldlight Peak.
• Chen Xihua sensed the breakthrough and guarded the outskirts of Goldlight Peak while Chen Sheng reversed his cultivation method and shattered his Golden Core.
• Chen Sheng’s Nascent Soul formed and absorbed the Golden Core fragments, then he saw through and destroyed the Inner Demon Tribulation illusions.
• Chen Sheng activated his All-Heaven Lightning Transformation Array, which absorbed and dissolved the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation until the thunderclouds dispersed.
• Chen Sheng emerged beside Chen Xihua as a Nascent Soul cultivator, and Chen Xihua and the nearby Golden Core cultivators congratulated him.

After Chen Sheng advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, he addressed the Dao Sect’s Golden Core cultivators, moved to a new Cave Mansion, and began seclusion to stabilize his cultivation. Chen Xihua reflected on the diligence that shaped the Chen family, whose descendants had grown into a rare powerhouse.

• Chen Sheng and Chen Xihua appeared at the Inner Sect Assembly, where the Golden Core cultivators greeted Chen Sheng as a Nascent Soul True Monarch.
• Chen Sheng encouraged the cultivators by recounting his long path from Golden Core Perfection to Nascent Soul.
• Chen Xihua brought Chen Sheng to Divine Glow Peak, a Cave Mansion with a fourth-grade upper Spiritual Vein, and told him a grand True Lord ceremony would be arranged.
• Chen Sheng chose to postpone the ceremony and enter seclusion, leaving family and sect affairs to Chen Xihua.
• Chen Sheng studied the Dao Sect’s ninth-floor inheritances, then cultivated in seclusion while nourishing his Sword Nascent and studying Void Power.
• Watching Divine Glow Peak, Chen Xihua reflected that Chen Sheng’s example had fostered the Chen family’s diligence and its rise to two Nascent Souls and a hundred Golden Cores across three generations.

After half a year of secluded cultivation, Chen Sheng stabilized his Nascent Soul and mastered the Great Desolation Sky-Tearing Hand, then discussed Nascent Soul cultivation with True Lord Hanlou. Hanlou advised him to temper himself through travel and battles, but Chen Sheng learned he would first serve a century-long rotation handling sect affairs.

• Chen Sheng completed six months of secluded cultivation and demonstrated that he could create five stable void fissures with the Great Desolation Sky-Tearing Hand.
• Chen Sheng reviewed the stages of Nascent Soul cultivation and studied insights on controlling Void Power.
• True Lord Hanlou returned from the Great Wilderness and revealed that he had broken through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage during a battle thirty years earlier.
• True Lord Hanlou advised Chen Sheng that travel and life-and-death battles could help advance his cultivation, and Chen Sheng agreed to travel once his realm was stable.
• True Lord Hanlou told Chen Sheng that he would take the next hundred-year rotation handling sect affairs, and Chen Sheng accepted the delay calmly.

After returning Nascent Soul True Lords celebrated Chen Sheng’s breakthrough, and the sect’s other powers courted him as a newly risen alchemist. When Chen Xihua’s rotation ended, Chen Sheng took over as the Three Origins Dao Sect’s rotating True Lord and learned the scope and limits of his authority.

• True Lord Chongxu, True Lord Hanlou, and the other Nascent Soul True Lords returned to the sect and congratulated Chen Sheng and Chen Xihua.
• Chen Sheng attended his True Lord celebration, greeted representatives from the Yue Kingdom’s major Nascent Soul powers, and received congratulations for his advancement and alchemy skills.
• Two years later, Chen Xihua handed Chen Sheng the records of the sect’s affairs as his century-long rotation term ended.
• Chen Xihua left for the Great Wilderness to pursue a higher realm, and Chen Sheng entered the main hall to take over as rotating True Lord.
• Chen Sheng accessed the sect’s records and learned that its core restrictions and Sect Protecting Grand Formation limited the authority of even the rotating True Lord.

Chen Sheng managed the Three Origins Main Hall’s affairs and refined his first fourth-grade pill, the Great Azure Dragon Longevity Pill. He succeeded as a fourth-grade alchemist and considered advancing his Artifact Dao and Formation Dao, which had both reached the quasi Fourth-grade.

• Chen Sheng reviewed reports from the Dao Sect’s branches and approved changes to mine monitoring, pill materials, and other sect affairs.
• Chen Sheng entered the Main Hall’s alchemy chamber and began refining the Great Azure Dragon Longevity Pill with the quasi Fourth-grade Earthfire Primordial Magnetic Grand Array.
• Chen Sheng fused the spirit materials and Lifespan Condensation Dew, then formed and sealed the pill’s Azure Dragon primordial spirit.
• Chen Sheng collected the completed Great Azure Dragon Longevity Pill and recognized that he had entered the ranks of fourth-grade alchemists.
• Chen Sheng stored the pill and noted that his Artifact Dao and Formation Dao had also reached the quasi Fourth-grade.

Chen Sheng faced his third Spirit Treasure Tribulation in a century and used seventy-two Formation Flags to contain the heavenly lightning. He collected fourth-rank thunder essence before returning to the void, while Dao Sect cultivators celebrated his achievement as a grandmaster of Pills, formations, and weapons.

• Dao Sect cultivators watched the thunderclouds over Divine Glow Peak and praised Chen Sheng as a grandmaster of three paths.
• Chen Sheng summoned seventy-two Formation Flags and formed a grand array to contain the Spirit Treasure Tribulation.
• Chen Sheng reinforced the array through nine lightning bolts and trapped the final crimson bolt inside a lightning bottle.
• Chen Sheng gathered the fourth-rank thunder essence left by the tribulation and recalled that he had not harvested lightning during his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Formation Branch cultivators praised Chen Sheng’s Formation Flags, and Chen Sheng merged into the void as the Dao Sect cultivators celebrated.

Chen Sheng handed over his century-long rotation duty to True Lord Yunfu, who shared accounts of his travels through the Great Wilderness and neighboring kingdoms. Inspired by the stories and seeking a breakthrough, Chen Sheng decided to leave the Dao Sect and explore the Great Wilderness.

• Chen Sheng met True Lord Yunfu at Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain and congratulated him on advancing his comprehension of Void Power.
• Chen Sheng handed True Lord Yunfu the Dao Sect's records and explained the regulations and resource changes he had made during his rotation.
• True Lord Yunfu recounted his travels, including a narrow escape from a Void Demon Lion and sights in the Great Wilderness, Wu Kingdom, and Yuan Kingdom.
• True Lord Yunfu described the ancient ascension passage ruins at Heaven-Piercing Cliff and the Demon Court ruled by Golden Feather Demon Lord.
• True Lord Yunfu mentioned the upcoming birthday celebration of Limitless Heavenly Venerate, prompting Chen Sheng to reflect on the rare Soul Transformation cultivators.
• Chen Sheng told True Lord Yunfu he planned to travel through the Great Wilderness to seek a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and inspiration for his three crafts.

Chen Sheng prepared the Chen Clan for his long absence, crossed the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, and returned to Chu Kingdom to seek a place for a teleportation formation. At Qinghua Sect, he revisited the graves of old friends and descendants, then secretly gave his descendant Wu Xiaoyu a Core Transformation Method before departing unseen.

• Chen Sheng entrusted Chen Xixing with the Chen Clan’s affairs and protective treasures before leaving Yunlan Mountain.
• Chen Sheng crossed the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range in a month and reached Linglong Immortal City in Chu Kingdom.
• Chen Sheng searched the Qinghua Mountain Range for a suitable site for a teleportation formation and silently explored Qinghua Sect.
• Chen Sheng found the graves of old friends, his own cenotaph, and the tombstone of his son, Chen Yuquan.
• Chen Sheng entered Danxin Cave and used Wu Xiaoyu’s memories to learn that Wu Ruoxu had built the family graveyard and protected it.
• Chen Sheng bestowed a complete Core Transformation Method on Wu Xiaoyu, who thanked the unseen senior as Chen Sheng vanished.

Chen Sheng discovered and destroyed a White Bone Demonic Sect lair that was preparing a powerful Flying Corpse from the White Bone Dharma King's remains. After killing every cultivator inside and purifying the corpse, he buried the lair beneath the wilderness and departed.

• Chen Sheng found the hidden valley lair and discovered the blood-robed cultivator refining a White Bone Flying Corpse in a Bronze Coffin.
• Chen Sheng learned that the Demon Sect remnants had used the Four Symbols Secret Method to prepare the White Bone Dharma King's corpse for the Flying Corpse.
• Chen Sheng purified and stored the Bronze Coffin, killed the blood-robed cultivator, and used the Four Symbols God-Suppressing Seal to kill every Demonic Cultivator in the valley.
• Chen Sheng used Earth Vein Power to collapse the lair and reshape the terrain until the valley was buried beneath flat, barren land.
• Chen Sheng surveyed the erased lair, then merged into the void and disappeared.

Chen Sheng returned to the Tang Dynasty capital, visited the Imperial Mausoleum, and found a nearby spatial node suited for creating a Lesser Realm. After several days of work, he stabilized a realm fifty li in radius and planned to use it to establish a long-distance passage between the Yue Kingdom and the Chu Kingdom.

• Chen Sheng used his Spiritual Sense to discover that the Tang Clan descendants had founded a dynasty to guard their ancestral cemetery as the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Chen Sheng visited Huang Wangyou’s cenotaph and mourned his old friends in the innermost burial chamber.
• Chen Sheng detected a volatile Space Node two hundred li away and decided to stabilize it before the Spatial Tide made it disappear.
• Chen Sheng used his Void Seal, seventy-two Tier 4 Formation Flags, and the Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron to stabilize Spatial Bubbles and shape them into a Lesser Realm.
• Chen Sheng completed the Lesser Realm, measuring fifty li in radius, and planned to build a Teleportation Formation there to connect the Yue Kingdom and the Chu Kingdom.

Chen Sheng completed a long-distance teleportation formation bound to the stabilized Lesser Realm, connecting Chu Kingdom to the Three Origins Dao Sect in Yue Kingdom. He left the Lesser Realm concealed behind seals in a valley, with the formation ready to use and the entrance difficult to detect.

• Chen Sheng retrieved the seventy-two Tier 4 Formation Flags and disconnected the Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron from the Lesser Realm before storing both away.
• Chen Sheng arranged Void Formation Patterns around a quasi Fourth-grade Formation Disk and bound it to the Yue Kingdom coordinates sealed in a Spatial Crystal.
• Chen Sheng activated the teleportation formation, confirmed it could reach the Three Origins Dao Sect, and supplied it with High-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Chen Sheng exited the Lesser Realm through its gateway, which vanished beneath gathering clouds and mist.
• Chen Sheng concealed the Lesser Realm’s Space Node with several Hand Seals, confirmed the valley showed no trace of it, and then disappeared into the void.