Chapter Summaries

After centuries of cultivation and crafting treasures in the Four Seas Mysterious Mansion, Chen Sheng broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage by comprehending the Void domain. He emerged with stronger cultivation, a powerful Void domain, and an upgraded Tingyu Flying Sword, declaring himself ready to rank among the Great Wilderness's top combat powers.

• Chen Sheng refined powerful formations and fourth-grade Spiritual Treasures, strengthening his Five-Colored Dust-Settling Cauldron and seventy-two Formation Flags.
• Chen Sheng tempered Tingyu with Fifth-grade Crimson Sky Copper and Void Marrow for a hundred and fifty years, raising it to fourth-grade upper and giving it greater affinity with the void.
• After drinking Four Seas Ancient Tea, Chen Sheng accepted his remaining lifespan and suddenly grasped the Void domain, shrouding the space within a hundred-li radius in his control.
• Chen Sheng cultivated for half a year as spiritual energy flooded the Xuan Mansion, advancing his Nascent Soul to nine inches and expanding his Spiritual Sense to thirty-five hundred li.
• Chen Sheng completed his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, strengthened his Void domain, and confirmed that Tingyu could create and mend spatial cracks within it.

After mastering the first floor of the Xuan Mansion, Chen Sheng discovered that the Indigo Pearl contained the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven but learned that its seal prevented him from leaving. He explored the inheritance and traveled among the grotto-heaven’s inhabitants, then recognized the names of Patriarch Qin Yuan and the Dustmind Sect on Mistveil Island.

• Chen Sheng resonated with the jade stele, learned that the Indigo Pearl held the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven, and gained control of the Xuan Mansion’s first-floor restrictions.
• Chen Sheng failed to break the grotto-heaven’s seal and realized that he needed Spirit Transformation or Fifth-grade Pills to escape, with only a hundred years of lifespan remaining.
• Chen Sheng entered the Void Transformation Hall and received the Four Seas Void Transformation Manual and the Four Seas Alchemy Book, including records of the Longevity Pill and Spirit Transformation Pill.
• Chen Sheng surveyed the core island, found its strongest native cultivators were only at the late Golden Core stage, and spent six months learning the local language and customs.
• Chen Sheng traveled among the islands, helped local cultivators, and concluded that experiencing the mortal world could help him attain Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Sheng reached Mistveil Island and heard cultivators mention Patriarch Qin Yuan of the Dustmind Sect, startling him with the names.

Chen Sheng traced Qin Yuan’s history to the Dustmind Sect on Sea Abyss Island and learned that his former disciple had died far from home after an injury ruined his cultivation. After visiting Qin Yuan’s grave on Homeward Peak, Chen Sheng granted sect master Qin Yucheng a Core Transformation inheritance and remained behind to mourn.

• Chen Sheng gathered information about Qin Yuan and the Dustmind Sect, then traveled to Sea Abyss Island and discovered Qin Yuan’s alchemy and fire-art legacy in the sect.
• Chen Sheng drew Qin Yucheng into a secluded space and asked about Qin Yuan, learning that Qin Yuan had no blood descendants and that his disciple had inherited the Qin surname.
• Qin Yucheng recounted that Qin Yuan suffered a hidden injury on Netherworld Island, remained at Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and died after founding the Dustmind Sect.
• Qin Yucheng led Chen Sheng to Qin Yuan’s tomb on Homeward Peak, where Chen Sheng mourned that his disciple had never returned to his homeland.
• Chen Sheng gave Qin Yucheng a complete Core Transformation inheritance and sent him back to his Cave Mansion, then stayed at the tomb and vowed to bring Qin Yuan home in a future life.

After a century of travel, Chen Sheng reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection but failed to achieve Spirit Transformation before his lifespan ran out. He died attempting a final breakthrough in the Xuan Mansion, and the Myriad Lives Tome recorded his fourth life and revealed three newly acquired talents.

• Chen Sheng traveled the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven, seeking insight into Spirit Transformation but finding no breakthrough despite reaching Nascent Soul Great Perfection.
• As his lifespan neared its end, Chen Sheng returned to the Xuan Mansion and used his authority to conceal the Four Seas Bead for another three hundred years.
• Chen Sheng attempted one last breakthrough with the Nascent Soul Recombination Art, but the cultivation failed and he died in the Quiet Room.
• The Myriad Lives Tome recorded Chen Sheng's fourth life and announced that three new talents could be unlocked.
• The Myriad Lives Tome granted Chen Sheng the talents Yin-Yang Divine Soul, Heaven-grade Spiritual Root, and Sword Dao Prodigy.

Chen Sheng awakened as two embryos sharing one consciousness, one human and one carrying Demon Race bloodline, with the Yin-Yang Divine Soul granting him a way to recover if either body survived. Three years later, living as a child in the Emotion Severing Sect, he faced an imminent Spirit Root Testing Ceremony and feared his Heaven-grade Spiritual Root would draw the attention of the sect's Nascent Soul Ancestor.

• Chen Sheng discovered that he inhabited two embryos and learned that the Yin-Yang Divine Soul could let him regenerate one body if the other survived.
• He sensed that one embryo was human while the other possessed Demon Race Bloodline Power, and both absorbed nourishment from their mother.
• Three years later, Chen Sheng trained among children at the Emotion Severing Sect's affiliated training ground as its instructor enforced brutal drills.
• The training ground's Deacon announced that all children under four had to attend the Spirit Root Testing Ceremony the next morning.
• Chen Sheng recalled his parents' disappearance and the sect's ruthless nature, then worried that his Heaven-grade Spiritual Root could make him a target for the Emotion Severing Ancestor to seize his body.

Chen Sheng awakened in the womb as the unborn child of Demon Emperor Peng and the Peacock Emperor, discovering he had inherited their powerful Golden Roc and Peacock bloodlines. He took control of his innate cultivation to use the demon essence more efficiently and strengthen his foundation before birth.

• The Peacock Emperor asked Demon Emperor Peng to bring her snake soup, and he hurried off to find Crimson Flame Snakes for her.
• The Peacock Emperor stroked her belly and hoped her heavenly-grade child would grow strong enough to command respect in the Demon Court.
• Chen Sheng awakened in the womb and realized he had inherited his father's Yin Yang Power and Golden Roc traits, along with his mother's Five Elements Power.
• Chen Sheng found that his bloodline instinctively circulated demon essence but wasted energy and neglected his body and wings.
• Chen Sheng redirected the demon essence through his meridians, strengthening his demon core, wings, limbs, and bloodline purity.

At the Emotion Severing Sect’s Spirit Testing Ceremony, four-year-old Chen Sheng reveals a Heaven-grade Spiritual Root, instantly drawing Elder Wuchen’s attention and stopping the testing. The deacons crowd around Chen Sheng as the sect celebrates the rare discovery.

• Elder Wuchen arrives at the plaza in a jade carriage and oversees the Spirit Testing Ceremony.
• The formations sort children by their Spirit Roots, sending those without roots aside and selecting stronger candidates for the inner sect.
• Chen Sheng enters the formation, and its crystal shines gold as the scale marks him as Heaven-grade.
• Elder Wuchen reacts with delight and greed, while the plaza’s children and deacons turn their attention to Chen Sheng.
• Elder Wuchen halts the ceremony and announces that Chen Sheng’s discovery is a major occasion deserving rewards.

Daoist Wuchen abducted Chen Sheng from the Emotion Severing Sect, hoping to trade his Heaven-grade Spiritual Root for a chance to reach Nascent Soul. Emotion Severing True Lord intercepted them, reclaimed Chen Sheng, and named him Miesheng as they returned to the sect.

• Daoist Wuchen incapacitated the deacons and maids, seized Chen Sheng, and fled the sect using talismans to conceal their trail.
• Chen Sheng woke aboard Wuchen's hidden spirit boat, where Wuchen claimed he was rescuing him and planned to take him west.
• Two days later, Emotion Severing True Lord seized the spirit boat with a Void Giant Hand and placed a restriction on Daoist Wuchen.
• Emotion Severing True Lord asked Chen Sheng to become his personal disciple, and Chen Sheng pretended to be a frightened, nameless child.
• Emotion Severing True Lord named Chen Sheng Miesheng, accepted him as a disciple, and flew back toward the Emotion Severing Sect with him and Daoist Wuchen.

Chen Sheng was formally appointed Young Sovereign of Emotion Severing Sect, and Emotion Severing True Lord began teaching him the sect’s core cultivation method while secretly inspecting his mind. Chen Sheng recognized that the method was designed to plant a demonic seed and prepare him as a vessel, but concluded that this plan kept him safe for now.

• Emotion Severing True Lord announced Chen Sheng’s appointment as Young Sovereign before the sect and said Chen Sheng’s parents would return to serve him.
• Emotion Severing True Lord took Chen Sheng to the Back Mountain Quiet Room and passed down the Heaven-Demon Emotion-Severing Strategy.
• Chen Sheng used fabricated memories to fool Emotion Severing True Lord’s inspection of his Sea of Consciousness, then feigned confusion and asked questions about the method.
• Emotion Severing True Lord explained the method and ordered Chen Sheng to cultivate its first level of Qi Refining, watching his rapid absorption of spiritual energy with greed.
• Chen Sheng’s embryonic self, connected through the Yin-Yang Divine Soul, identified the method as a flawed dead end and realized Emotion Severing True Lord intended to plant an Emotion-Severing Demonic Seed in him.
• Chen Sheng concluded that Emotion Severing True Lord needed him to mature as a demonic embryo and would not kill him yet.

Chen Sheng’s parents and master surrounded him with warmth and cultivation guidance, but he saw through Emotion Severing True Lord’s plan to turn him into a demon fetus. He secretly used his void cultivation to build strength and conceal his true progress while remaining inside the Emotion Severing Sect.

• Wang Yue and Du Juan joined Chen Sheng in his Cave Mansion, offering strict cultivation supervision and affectionate care.
• Wang Yue told Chen Sheng that Emotion Severing True Lord would inspect his cultivation and teach him the second volume of the Heaven-Demon Emotion-Severing Strategy.
• Emotion Severing True Lord examined Chen Sheng, praised his progress, and gave him a jade slip containing a hidden demon-seeding restriction.
• After his master left, Chen Sheng recognized the parents as puppets and realized Emotion Severing True Lord was using emotional bonds to nurture a demon seed within him.
• Chen Sheng secretly cultivated the Four Seas Void Transformation Manual, concealed his Void Runes, and suppressed his apparent progress while looking for a way to escape.

Chen Sheng received Golden Feather Demon Venerable’s Bloodline Origin Pearl while still in the Peacock Emperor’s womb, raising his bloodline to Half-Saint and his cultivation to peak third grade. He hatched as Peng Huan, the celebrated Golden Roc Crown Prince, and the chapter ended with news of his birth spreading across the Four Regions of the Great Wilderness.

• Golden Feather Demon Venerable bestowed his saint-grade Bloodline Origin Pearl on the Peacock Emperor’s unborn child, and Chen Sheng absorbed its power.
• Chen Sheng broke through the heaven-grade bloodline limit to reach Half-Saint and advanced to late third grade before his birth.
• After two and a half more years, the Peacock Emperor gave birth to a golden egg, and Golden Feather Demon Venerable strengthened it with Spiritual Light.
• Peng Huan hatched as a peak third-grade Golden Roc, greeted his family, and transformed into a human youth under the Peacock Emperor’s guidance.
• The Great Wilderness Demon Court celebrated Peng Huan, and news of the Golden Roc Crown Prince spread through the Four Regions of the Great Wilderness.

Chen Sheng escaped the Emotion Severing Sect after discovering that Emotion Severing Daoist had used his parents’ deaths to hasten a demonic seed planting and body-seizure ritual. He arrived a million li away and vowed to return for revenge.

• Chen Sheng assessed his Foundation Establishment cultivation and prepared to flee using the Great Void Translocation Talisman hidden near his heart.
• Emotion Severing Daoist watched Chen Sheng in the secret chamber and wondered why the embryonic demonic fetus had not formed after Chen Sheng killed his puppet parents.
• Chen Sheng activated the Void Rune, and Emotion Severing Daoist’s Void Grand Seizure grasped only an afterimage.
• Chen Sheng escaped a million li away, while Emotion Severing Daoist searched in vain for his aura and demanded to know who had helped him.
• Chen Sheng emerged in a barren mountain forest, recovered from the strain of translocation, and vowed to take revenge on Emotion Severing Daoist.

Chen Sheng’s parents sent him to Golden Feather Peak to receive personal cultivation guidance from his grandfather, the Golden Feather Demon Lord. After the Demon Lord sent the Demon Emperor Peng away, Chen Sheng began comprehending the Yin Yang Dao principles, which suited his talents exceptionally well.

• Chen Sheng flew across Pengmo Cliff as a Golden-winged Great Peng, displaying his peak third-grade cultivation and Half-Saint bloodline before answering his parents’ call.
• The Demon Emperor Peng and Peacock Emperor told Chen Sheng that the Golden Feather Demon Lord wanted him to cultivate at Golden Feather Peak, and Chen Sheng agreed.
• The next morning, the Demon Emperor Peng brought Chen Sheng to the Demon Lord’s palace, where Chen Sheng became absorbed in the Dao charm and forgot to bow.
• The Golden Feather Demon Lord sent the Demon Emperor Peng tens of thousands of miles away and decided to teach Chen Sheng after recognizing his rare composure and comprehension.
• The Golden Feather Demon Lord unfolded his Yin Yang Dao principles, and Chen Sheng sat down to study them, finding that his Yin-Yang Divine Soul and talent made the Dao charm feel natural to comprehend.

After three months of enlightenment, Chen Sheng demonstrated his growing mastery of the Yin-Yang Great Dao and won Golden Feather Demon Lord’s approval. Golden Feather Demon Lord gave him a treasured jade pendant and the Dao Enlightenment Hall, setting him on a path of privileged cultivation as news of his favor spread through the Demon Court.

• Chen Sheng emerged from three months of enlightenment and demonstrated a Yin-Yang Great Millstone infused with the Dao charms of growth and silent extinction.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord praised Chen Sheng’s perception and gave him the Yin-Yang Jade to aid his future enlightenment.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord ordered an attendant to prepare the eastern Dao Enlightenment Hall for Chen Sheng and allow him to seek guidance at any time.
• News of Chen Sheng’s favor spread through the Great Wilderness Demon Court, prompting Demon Emperors to consider forming ties with him while jealous Elders held back.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord told Chen Sheng to cultivate in the Dao Enlightenment Hall and promised to explain the Yin-Yang Dao laws to him every three months.

Demon Emperor Peng and the Peacock Emperor celebrated Peng Huan’s progress under the Demon Venerable, while the Eldest Princess punished servants spreading rumors about him. At Golden Feather Peak, Chen Sheng advanced his Yin-Yang comprehension and settled on cultivating separate Great Daos through his demon and human bodies.

• An attendant reported that Peng Huan had comprehended the Dao, received the Yin-Yang Jade, and gained the Demon Venerable’s daily guidance, prompting Demon Emperor Peng and the Peacock Emperor to prepare gifts for him.
• The Eldest Princess heard rumors about Peng Huan, summoned two servants who spread them, and killed them before ordering their bodies displayed as a warning.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord praised the Eldest Princess’s decisiveness and sent her a handwritten Daoist scripture to show his support.
• Chen Sheng cultivated with the Yin-Yang Jade and planned for his demon body to pursue the Yin-Yang Dao while his human body followed the Sword Dao toward Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Sheng tested his improved control of yin and yang, then resolved to seize the resources his human body needed.

Chen Sheng formed his Golden Core in White Bone Mountain Market Town, then killed its three Golden Core rulers and slaughtered the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had gathered. He left with their resources to forge a Life-Bound Flying Sword.

• A vast Golden Core Formation phenomenon drew cultivators and the White Bone Three Baleful Ones to Chen Sheng’s rented stone house.
• The White Bone Three Baleful Ones decided Chen Sheng’s apparent lack of backing made him a tempting target, and White Bone Elder demanded that he reveal himself.
• Chen Sheng’s three Sword Threads killed the Red-Robed Rogue Cultivator, Black Serpent True Person, and White Bone Elder as soon as they confronted him.
• Chen Sheng emerged from the stone house after forming his Golden Core and unleashed a rain of sword light that killed the gathered Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Chen Sheng collected the cultivators’ Storage Rings, judged the spoils sufficient to forge a Life-Bound Flying Sword, and flew away from the Market Town.

After forming his Golden Core, Chen Sheng returned to White Bone Mountain Market Town and killed five Golden Core cultivators who tried to claim its resources. His repeated raids earned him the name Sword Demon and drew the attention of Wind Demon True Lord, who chose not to interfere, while Chen Sheng prepared to cultivate in seclusion and refine his Life-Bound Flying Sword.

• Five Golden Core cultivators arrived at White Bone Mountain Market Town and learned from a survivor that Chen Sheng had killed the White Bone Three Baleful Ones before leaving.
• The five Golden Core cultivators fought over the Market Town, and the gray-robed cultivator emerged as the sole victor.
• Chen Sheng revealed himself and killed the five injured Golden Core cultivators, then flew to plunder their lairs and the White Bone Three Baleful Ones' caves.
• Chen Sheng spent months ambushing demonic Golden Core cultivators at third-grade Spiritual Vein strongholds, earning the nickname Sword Demon and frightening the region's demonic cultivators.
• Wind Demon True Lord recognized Chen Sheng as a likely veteran True Lord cultivating in a new body, but decided not to challenge him.
• Chen Sheng counted his plunder in a treasure cave and prepared to enter seclusion to cultivate and refine his Life-Bound Flying Sword.

Chen Sheng crossed from Li Kingdom into Han Kingdom and arrived in Black Wind City to gather supplies and information. After four Golden Core cultivators planned to ambush him outside the city, he secretly killed and plundered them, gaining resources to refine his Life-Bound Flying Sword.

• Chen Sheng flew into Han Kingdom and assessed the demonic cultivation nations as a suitable hunting ground for him.
• Chen Sheng entered Black Wind City, ignored the gatekeepers, and gathered information before lodging at an inn.
• Blood Shadow Old Monster, Poison Sand Rogue, the Shadow Assassin, and Black-Faced Yama agreed to target Chen Sheng after he severed their probing Spiritual Senses.
• Chen Sheng secretly sent Red Dust Sword Intent into the four cultivators' rooms and killed them by destroying their souls.
• Chen Sheng plundered the four cultivators' Storage Rings and concluded that his gains would let him refine his Life-Bound Flying Sword to quasi Fourth-grade.

Fifteen years after vanishing from Black Wind City, Chen Sheng had become the Hehuan Sect’s Venerable Lord, advanced to the mid-Golden Core stage, and forged a quasi Fourth-grade Life-Bound Flying Sword. When White Crane Adept provoked the sect by killing one of its False Core cultivators, Chen Sheng ordered the suspected conspirators summoned.

• Blood Claw discovered that Blood Shadow Old Monster and three other Golden Core cultivators had vanished from Black Wind City without leaving any trace.
• Blackstone True Person searched the four empty Cave Mansions and failed to uncover evidence, then suppressed discussion of the disappearances.
• Chen Sheng spent fifteen years cultivating in the Hehuan Sect, reaching the mid-Golden Core stage and tempering his Life-Bound Flying Sword to the quasi Fourth-grade.
• Hehuan Daoist reported that White Crane Adept had killed a Hehuan Sect False Core cultivator and displayed the corpse outside the mountain gate to demand an explanation.
• Hehuan Daoist suspected Red-haired Old Monster of secretly contacting White Crane Adept’s disciple, and Chen Sheng ordered Red-haired Old Monster, Black Blade Old Ghost, and four False Core cultivators to appear before him.

Chen Sheng executed Hehuan Sect subordinates implicated in the deaths of its outer sect cultivators, then departed to confront White Crane Adept. Hehuan Daoist warned that White Crane Adept had ties to Black Wind Valley, but Chen Sheng dismissed the threat of its Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.

• Chen Sheng questioned six subordinates about the deaths of the outer sect cultivators and killed the Red-haired Old Monster and two False Core cultivators when they stayed silent.
• Chen Sheng spared Hehuan Daoist for reporting the matter and forced the three remaining subordinates to fight over two golden beads.
• Black Blade Old Ghost and Poison Talisman Old Monster killed Profound Bone True Person, then Chen Sheng killed both of them despite their winning the beads.
• Hehuan Daoist begged for forgiveness, and Chen Sheng warned him to keep the sect's outer forces under control.
• Chen Sheng announced he would deal with White Crane Adept, brushed aside Hehuan Daoist's warning about Hundred-Eyed True Lord, and vanished from the cave mansion.