Chapter Summaries

Tang Wuya and Tang Wuji feared the Zhou Clan would seize Jade Spring Mountain with the backing of Peach Blossom True Person. Chen Sheng appeared, learned the truth, and promised to handle the matter, leaving the Tang Clan elders to wonder if he was a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Tang Wuji told Tang Wuya that Zhou Wenlong had demanded the Tang Clan leave Jade Spring Mountain within a month or face being purged.
• Tang Wuya planned to ask Elder Wu of Qinghua Sect to mediate, but Chen Sheng appeared in the council hall and overwhelmed the two elders with his aura.
• Chen Sheng used seven-colored divine radiance to compel Tang Wuya and Tang Wuji to explain how the Tang Clan acquired Jade Spring Mountain and how Zhou Chonghu gained Peach Blossom True Person's support.
• Chen Sheng said he would handle the conflict after hearing about the Imperial Mausoleum of the Tang Kingdom, and Tang Wuya recognized him as the senior who had taught the clan alchemy.
• Chen Sheng vanished, and Tang Wuya and Tang Wuji speculated that his immense power and long life meant he could be a Nascent Soul True Lord.

Chen Sheng avenged the Tang Clan by wiping out the Zhou Clan and Peach Blossom Immortal City, then left the Chu Kingdom’s cultivators to discover the devastation. His actions transformed the Tang Clan’s standing, as the Qinghua and Lixiao sect leaders sought its favor and Tang Wuya resolved to repair the Tang Kingdom’s Imperial Mausoleum.

• Chen Sheng marked every Zhou Clan cultivator in Yunlong Market and killed them all, including Zhou Chonghu, with his Spiritual Sense.
• After Zhou Wenlong learned of his father’s death and blamed the Tang Clan, Chen Sheng killed him and crushed Peach Blossom True Person with a Void Giant Hand as she fled.
• Chen Sheng unleashed the Seven Emotions Divine Light across Peach Blossom Immortal City, then destroyed the city and overturned its earth veins with a Five-Colored Palm Seal.
• Half a month later, Hua Yufu and Yuan Xiaochen inspected the wasteland and concluded that a Nascent Soul True Lord had destroyed the city and likely exterminated the Zhou Clan.
• Hua Yufu and Yuan Xiaochen visited Tang Wuya, learned that Chen Sheng had protected the Tang Clan, and offered their sects’ support.
• After seeing the sect leaders off, Tang Wuya looked toward Jade Spring Mountain and resolved to repair the Tang Kingdom’s Imperial Mausoleum.

News that a Nascent Soul Cultivator had destroyed Peach Blossom Immortal City spread throughout the Chu Kingdom, inspiring awe among ordinary cultivators and terror among demonic cultivators. After seeing the flattened ruins, demonic Rogue Cultivators hid or changed their ways, and the kingdom grew safer.

• At Greenwind Market Town, Li Laosan told gathered cultivators that a Nascent Soul True Lord had flattened Peach Blossom Immortal City, and they wondered whether he might protect the Chu Kingdom from demonic cultivators.
• Rogue Cultivator True Persons and Foundation Establishment cultivators from Qinghua and Lixiao arrived at the ruins and were horrified by the immense, perfectly flat expanse.
• A False Core True Person secretly supporting White Bone Demonic Sect realized that the Holy Sect Secret Hall might also have been destroyed by the Nascent Soul Cultivator and fled, severing his soul connections to his subordinates.
• Black Robe contacted his wicked underlings and prepared to sacrifice them, while another demonic cultivator disguised himself as a mortal and went into hiding.
• Demonic Rogue Cultivators across the Chu Kingdom concealed themselves or restrained their abuses, reducing oppression and trouble in market towns.

Qinghua Sect learned that Wu Xiaoyu had received a Core Transformation method from a Nascent Soul senior and hoped the senior was connected to Pill Cauldron Peak. Meanwhile, Chen Sheng searched the place where Tang Xichen vanished and found a mysterious Stone Bead that resisted his Spiritual Sense, leaving him wary of its hidden dangers.

• At Qinghua Sect, Hua Yufu and the False Core Elders worried that their disciples might provoke the Nascent Soul True Lord and bring disaster upon the sect.
• Wu Xiaoyu revealed that a Nascent Soul senior had transmitted a profound Core Transformation method to him, prompting the Elders to hope the technique could help them advance.
• Hua Yufu and the Elders speculated that the senior might be connected to Pill Cauldron Peak, while agreeing to restrain the sect's disciples and study the method.
• Chen Sheng returned to the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range to investigate the place where Tang Xichen had vanished, but his broad Spiritual Sense search found nothing unusual.
• Chen Sheng discovered a gray Stone Bead in a ruined Secret Abode that his Spiritual Sense could not detect or penetrate, so he protected himself and stopped trying to refine it.

Chen Sheng spent ten years trying to uncover the secret of the gray Stone Bead, then began a blood sacrifice when his other methods failed. After traveling through several kingdoms, he arrived in Tianfeng City and prepared to continue toward the Great Wilderness.

• Chen Sheng used the Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron and the Seven Emotions God-Destroying Formation to investigate the Stone Bead in his Lesser Realm.
• Over ten years, Chen Sheng failed to break the bead’s restriction but ruled out the possibility of a hidden primordial spirit.
• Chen Sheng began sacrificing his Essence Blood to the Stone Bead and decided to persist until he established a connection with it.
• Chen Sheng left a secluded residence and resources in the Lesser Realm, then traveled through Yue Kingdom, Yuan Kingdom, and Wu Kingdom toward the Great Wilderness.
• Chen Sheng arrived at Tianfeng City and told the Formation Pavilion cultivators that he was passing through on his way to the Great Wilderness.

Chen Sheng explored Tianfeng City and visited Zhi Tianji to obtain intelligence about the Great Wilderness, including the Demon Court, spatial rifts, and ancient ruins. He left with the information, while Zhi Tianji’s Tianfeng City manager reported that True Monarch Wei Xiang had visited.

• Chen Sheng arrived in Tianfeng City and observed its diverse human and half-demon population, formidable cultivators, and proximity to the dangerous Great Wilderness.
• Chen Sheng visited Zhi Tianji and requested intelligence about the Great Wilderness, the Demon Court’s recent activities, spatial rifts, and ancient ruins.
• Zhi Tianji’s manager gave Chen Sheng a Jade slip of recently gathered intelligence and offered it free to a Nascent Soul Senior.
• Chen Sheng identified himself as Weixiang of Yue Kingdom and left after declining further formalities.
• The manager recorded Chen Sheng’s identity as True Monarch Wei Xiang of the Three Origins Dao Sect and sent a report to Zhi Tianji’s headquarters.

Chen Sheng entered the Great Wilderness’s inner region and spent thirty years traveling through it, cultivating and refining his mastery of Void Power. He remained unable to find resources or make progress unlocking the Stone Bead’s restrictions.

• Chen Sheng reached an ancient waymarker marking the Great Wilderness’s inner region, used the Three Origins Dao Sect map and celestial patterns to locate himself, then continued deeper.
• Chen Sheng found that the spatial fissures and exposed void made it much easier to comprehend Void Power as he traveled.
• Thirty years later, Chen Sheng cultivated on a meteorite within a vast cluster of void meteorites, having encountered only two Nascent Soul Cultivators and found no Spiritual Object resources.
• Chen Sheng continued refining fourth-grade Pills and practicing Void Power, but his blood sacrifice refinement had not loosened the Stone Bead’s restrictions or revealed its secrets.

Chen Sheng encountered True Monarch Taiyi while crossing the Great Wilderness and learned that Xihua had killed a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Wuji Immortal Mansion and escaped a late-stage Nascent Soul Great Cultivator. After Taiyi departed, Chen Sheng concealed his identity and continued toward Xuanxing Palace.

• Chen Sheng spotted True Monarch Taiyi enduring a Void Thunderstorm and cautiously greeted him.
• Taiyi recognized Chen Sheng as Weixiang and offered to travel with him to Xuanxing Palace, but Chen Sheng declined.
• Taiyi warned Chen Sheng to conceal his identity because Xihua’s recent deeds might draw trouble toward him.
• Taiyi revealed that Xihua had slain True Monarch Crimson Flame of the Wuji Immortal Mansion and escaped True Lord Purple Heavens.
• Taiyi departed in a bolt of lightning, and Chen Sheng changed his direction, concealed his aura, and obscured his appearance.

Chen Sheng learned from Chen Xihua about Remnant Sword Valley, a hidden site that could help him comprehend Sword Intent Manifestation. After entering the valley and spending fifty years studying its ancient sword resonance, Chen Sheng successfully manifested his own sword momentum, blending the Sword Dao with Formation Dao.

• Chen Sheng received Chen Xihua's account of his revenge against True Monarch Crimson Flame and learned that Remnant Sword Valley could aid his sword cultivation.
• Chen Sheng calculated that the valley would open in five years and later traveled across the Great Wilderness to find its hidden restriction.
• Chen Sheng spent two months locating a weak point in the restriction, opened a narrow crack, and entered Remnant Sword Valley using the Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron.
• Chen Sheng studied the valley's sword resonance and practiced with the Tingyu Sword for fifty years.
• Chen Sheng manifested Sword Intent by combining the Sword Dao with the rhythms of formations, creating a sword momentum of his own.

After more than a century of cultivation, Chen Sheng traveled to the Twin Star Phenomenon to improve his understanding of Void Power. He reached a safe position near the crater’s edge and began studying the twin stars’ influence on the void.

• Chen Sheng assessed his Nascent Soul’s growth and decided to seek insight into Void Power at the Twin Star Phenomenon.
• He formed a Void Skiff from seventy-two formation flags and traveled for half a year to the Great Wilderness crater.
• Chen Sheng entered the crater and used the Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron, formation flags, and Tingyu Flying Sword to withstand its dangers.
• He reached six hundred and eighty thousand li before his defenses and body began to fail, then retreated to seven hundred and twenty thousand li.
• Chen Sheng sat down and used his Spiritual Sense to study the void’s fluctuations under the twin stars’ influence.

After thirty years of studying the void in the Meteorite Crater, Chen Sheng used his Sword Momentum to overcome a bottleneck and advanced to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage. He dismantled his cultivation ground and decided to explore elsewhere in search of further insight.

• Chen Sheng displayed how Tingyu had grown stronger, combining Sword Momentum with Void Power to create the practical technique Sword Momentum Derives Void.
• Chen Sheng inspected his Nascent Soul and confirmed that his Mana had reached saturation, bringing him to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.
• Chen Sheng recalled how an insight from the Seven Emotions Sword Scripture had led him to use Sword Momentum to comprehend the void’s core transformations.
• Chen Sheng decided to leave his cultivation ground and explore elsewhere for new opportunities to understand the remaining void transformations.
• Chen Sheng dispersed the Five Elements Palace and recalled the seventy-two Formation Flags and the Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron into his sleeve.

Chen Sheng traveled through several wondrous sights of the Great Wilderness, tempering his body and refining his understanding of Void Power. After twenty years, his Nascent Soul initial stage cultivation had reached its peak, and he needed only one final insight to break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Chen Sheng reached Meteor Sea and spent seven years refining residual meteor power and star rays, breaking through to the seventh layer of the Great Wilderness Dragon Transformation Chapter.
• Chen Sheng discovered that his stronger dharma body let him control and briefly shield himself with Void Power more easily.
• Chen Sheng spent five years in Misty Stone Forest studying ancient Talismans, deepening his understanding of formations and their connection to void fluctuations.
• Chen Sheng cultivated for two years inside Scarlet Flame Volcano, using earthfire to refine his Sword Momentum and the method of Sword Momentum Derives Void.
• Chen Sheng explored the Great Wilderness's wondrous sights over twenty years and advanced his understanding of Void Power until his Nascent Soul initial stage cultivation reached its peak.

Chen Sheng’s century-long blood sacrifice awakened a blue jewel, but its immense restriction kept him from uncovering its secrets. News of True Lord Hanlou’s death and Xuan Jian’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul prompted Chen Sheng to turn back toward the Three Origins Dao Sect.

• Chen Sheng’s blood sacrifice caused the Stone Bead’s shell to fall away and reveal a powerful azure jewel that resonated with the Five-Colored Rune Boat.
• Chen Sheng tried to probe the jewel, but its formidable restriction repelled his Spiritual Sense and left its true power inaccessible.
• Over the following months, Chen Sheng continued studying the jewel’s restriction while cultivating aboard the boat.
• Chen Sheng received messages that True Lord Hanlou had died in meditation and Xuan Jian had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm.
• Chen Sheng decided to return to the Dao Sect to pay his respects, congratulate Xuan Jian, and see the sect and his family again.
• Chen Sheng turned the Five-Colored Rune Boat east toward the Great Wilderness.

Chen Sheng detected a Void Crystal forming in the Great Wilderness and found Seven Star Daoist using a formation to conceal it. After disguising himself as Heartless, Chen Sheng joined the contest for the treasure by reinforcing the formation and sealing the area.

• Chen Sheng sensed a faint spatial fluctuation and turned the Five-Colored Talisman Boat west toward its source.
• Seven Star Daoist used the Seven Stars Covering the Heavens Formation to conceal a forming Void Crystal and limit the number of cultivators it attracted.
• Chen Sheng arrived, disguised himself as Heartless, and recognized Seven Star Daoist and his formation artifacts.
• Seven Star Daoist proposed waiting until the Void Crystal finished forming before they competed for it.
• Chen Sheng transformed the Five-Colored Talisman Boat into seventy-two Formation Flags and joined the formations, suppressing the resonance and sealing the void.
• Seven Star Daoist realized Heartless was also a fourth-tier Formation Master and cautiously asked about his specialties.

Chen Sheng defeated Seven Star Daoist in a fight over the newly formed Void Crystal and drove him away without killing him. With the crystal secured, Chen Sheng had removed the final obstacle to breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• After two months of waiting, Chen Sheng and Seven Star Daoist fought to seize the Void Crystal as it formed.
• Chen Sheng used his formations and Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron to capture the Void Crystal, then broke Seven Star Daoist’s Azure Dragon Heaven-Binding attack with his Divine Light of Breaking Restrictions.
• Seven Star Daoist attacked with his Seven Star Needles and Meteor Reversing Divine Wind, but Chen Sheng’s Tingyu Flying Sword repelled the needles and surrounded him with a sword formation.
• Chen Sheng used Seven Emotions Divine Light to daze Seven Star Daoist, but held back rather than risk the man’s Nascent Soul escaping and making an enemy of him.
• Seven Star Daoist conceded defeat and left, and Chen Sheng inspected the Void Crystal in his cauldron with satisfaction.

After refining the Void Crystal for two months, Chen Sheng advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and gained much greater control over Void Power. When he examined the Indigo Pearl’s restrictions, it suddenly trapped and swallowed him along with the Five-Colored Talisman Boat.

• Chen Sheng departed in the Five-Colored Talisman Boat and began refining the Void Crystal as he traveled through the void.
• After two months, the Void Crystal dissipated into Chen Sheng, and he broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Chen Sheng discovered that he could merge with the inner void, sense its flows, and draw upon its Void Power.
• Chen Sheng summoned the Indigo Pearl and used his Spiritual Sense to study its restrictions.
• The Indigo Pearl erupted in blue light, sealed Chen Sheng’s movements, and swallowed him and the Five-Colored Talisman Boat.

Chen Xihua returned to the Three Origins Dao Sect and reunited with his aging eldest brother, Chen Xixing, while learning that his father, Chen Sheng, had not returned from the Great Wilderness. Years passed without any word from Chen Sheng, so Chen Xihua set out for Wuji Immortal Palace to ask the Limitless Heavenly Venerate to locate him.

• Chen Xihua returned to the Three Origins Dao Sect, where fellow Nascent Soul cultivators praised his achievements and told him that True Monarch Wei Xiang had not come back.
• Chen Xihua reunited with Chen Xixing at Yunlan Mountain and learned that his brother's attempt to reach Nascent Soul had failed and left him near the end of his lifespan.
• Chen Xihua and Chen Xixing discussed their father, with Chen Xixing hoping to see him again before he died.
• Several years passed, and Chen Sheng remained missing even as the sect held True Lord Hanlou's funeral and celebrated True Lord Xuan Jian's advancement.
• Chen Xihua obtained his father's intact Soul Jade and decided to seek the Limitless Heavenly Venerate at Wuji Immortal Palace for help finding him.
• Chen Xihua said farewell to Chen Xixing and departed, leaving his brother waiting beneath an ancient pine.

Chen Xihua and the Wuji Saintess traced Chen Sheng’s path to a desert, where they discovered he had been swept away by Spatial Turbulence. Decades later, Chen Xixing neared the end of his life without seeing his father again, but took comfort in knowing Chen Sheng’s Soul Jade remained intact.

• Chen Xihua and the Wuji Saintess used the Heaven-Gazing Mirror and Chen Sheng’s Soul Jade to retrace his movements to a barren desert.
• The Wuji Saintess found signs that Chen Sheng had been caught in Spatial Turbulence and forcibly transported elsewhere, though his Soul Jade showed he was still alive.
• The Wuji Saintess promised to tell Chen Xihua if the Soul Jade resonated again, and they left the desert together.
• Decades later, the dying Chen Xixing mourned that his father had not returned in the 254 years since leaving the sect.
• Chen Xixing’s son reminded him that Chen Sheng’s Soul Jade remained intact, and Chen Xixing found comfort in the hope that his father was safe.

Chen Sheng entered the Four Seas Mysterious Mansion and received the Sixth-grade inheritance of Four Seas Hermit, including the Four Seas Void Transformation Manual and Four Seas Alchemy Book. Trapped there until he advanced his cultivation or alchemy, he discovered the mansion’s resources and began planning how to master its inheritance and restrictions.

• Chen Sheng explored the ancient palace, recognized its powerful restrictions and spatial arts, and approached the central jade stele.
• The stele sent a golden ray into Chen Sheng’s Sea of Consciousness, granting him the Four Seas Void Transformation Manual and Four Seas Alchemy Book.
• Chen Sheng learned that the mansion belonged to the Void Refining cultivator Four Seas Hermit and that he needed to reach Nascent Soul Late Stage or become an upper-grade fourth-tier alchemist to enter its second level and leave.
• Chen Sheng discovered the mansion’s treasury, merit system, and plentiful spiritual objects, which could support his cultivation and alchemy.
• Chen Sheng entered the Meditation Chamber and began organizing the inheritance, intending to refine pills, earn merit, and eventually take control of the mansion.

During five hundred years of seclusion in the Xuan Mansion, Chen Sheng advanced his cultivation and became skilled at refining mid-grade fourth-tier pills, but he hit bottlenecks in both pill refinement and forming a Void domain. Unable to leave the mansion to seek insight elsewhere, he began pursuing sword practice, formations, artifact refinement, and tea to rest his mind and explore other paths.

• One hundred years after entering the Xuan Mansion, Chen Sheng successfully refined his first batch of mid-grade fourth-tier Spirit-Concentrating Pills.
• Over the next three hundred years, Chen Sheng improved his pill-refining skill, achieved an success rate above eighty percent, and reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Chen Sheng repeatedly failed to refine the upper-grade fourth-tier Calamity-Breaking Pill and could not form the Void domain needed to advance further.
• After two hundred years with little progress, Chen Sheng decided to ease his mind rather than force a breakthrough, though the Xuan Mansion kept him from traveling to seek insight into the void.
• Chen Sheng began practicing swordsmanship, laying formations, refining small Dharma Artifacts, and brewing Spiritual Tea alongside his cultivation and pill refinement.