Chapter Summaries

After a century of seclusion, Chen Sheng broke through to Spirit Transformation by reconstructing his Nascent Soul, overcoming the Mad Demon Tribulation, and enduring the Two-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. The Golden Flower and Golden Lotus Phenomenon confirmed his breakthrough, leaving him a newly ascended Heavenly Venerate Soul Transformation.

• After a hundred years in the Burial Immortal Abyss, Chen Sheng reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection and began reconstructing his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Sheng manifested his Primordial Spirit and faced the Mad Demon Tribulation, cutting away thoughts that conflicted with his Sword Cultivator Dao Heart before merging the harmonious thoughts into himself.
• Chen Sheng merged with Heaven and Earth and fought off the Two-Nine Heavenly Tribulation with the Azure Nether Sword, developing an embryonic Dao principle of destruction.
• After Chen Sheng shattered the final heavenly lightning bolt, the Golden Flower and Golden Lotus Phenomenon appeared and nourished his Primordial Spirit and fleshly body.
• Chen Sheng fully solidified his Primordial Spirit and announced that he had reached the Spirit Transformation realm.

Chen Sheng refined the Four Seas Mysterious Mansion’s core and became master of the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven. He restored the region’s spiritual energy, summoned its leaders, and began uniting the Human and Monster races under his authority.

• Chen Sheng broke through the Four Seas Bead’s restrictions and entered the Four Seas Mysterious Mansion, where he obtained its inheritance manuals.
• Chen Sheng spent three years refining the mansion’s core restriction on its third level.
• The Four Seas Archipelago suffered upheavals as Chen Sheng took control, then its spiritual energy surged and its secret realms reopened.
• Chen Sheng summoned the Golden Core cultivators and Third-grade Demon Kings, named Tianyanzi and the Flame Shark King to lead their peoples, and assigned them duties.
• Chen Sheng sent the leaders back with Nascent Soul cultivation methods and orders, prompting the Human and Monster races to organize under his rule.

Chen Sheng inherited the Four Seas Bead and learned how Four Seas Hermit had invaded the Sky Abyss Realm before being defeated by its Spirit Transformation cultivators. The bead’s riches offered Chen Sheng valuable resources, and its Spirit Realm coordinates gave him hope of helping Xihua and the others.

• Chen Sheng absorbed Four Seas Hermit's inheritance and learned that the Four Seas Bead could anchor descents into other realms and restore spiritual energy.
• Chen Sheng learned that Four Seas Hermit had tried to harvest the Sky Abyss Realm's origin, but its Spirit Transformation cultivators defeated him in a devastating battle that damaged the realm.
• Chen Sheng examined the bead's realm coordinates and realized he could not yet use its realm-traveling abilities at his current cultivation level.
• Chen Sheng discovered that the bead contained hundreds of Fifth Tier Spirit Veins, four Secret Realms, and numerous rare treasures, including Nine-Leaf Soul-Restoring Grass.
• Chen Sheng spotted the precise Spirit Realm coordinates in the Star Map and considered using them to help Xihua and the others.

Chen Xihua perfected the third realm of the Principle of Annihilation but worried that the Sky Abyss Realm’s depleted resources and his dwindling lifespan would prevent further progress. Chen Sheng arrived at Yunlan Mountain as a Soul Transformation cultivator with the Spirit Realm’s precise coordinates, and agreed to travel there with Chen Xihua.

• Chen Xihua completed his comprehension of the third realm of the Principle of Annihilation and recognized that he needed the Spirit Realm’s resources to continue his cultivation and restore his lifespan.
• Chen Fengxing and the other Chen Clan cultivators discovered that Chen Sheng had advanced from Nascent Soul Late Stage to Soul Transformation and greeted him as Heavenly Venerate Miesheng.
• Chen Xihua welcomed Chen Sheng, and the two discussed their Sword Dao insights over tea in the Cave Mansion.
• Chen Sheng showed Chen Xihua a Star Map containing the precise coordinates of the Spirit Realm, prompting Chen Xihua to propose that they travel there together.
• Chen Sheng agreed to accompany Chen Xihua, who said he would immediately notify the other Fellow Daoists.

Chen Sheng met Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate and revealed precise Spirit Realm coordinates that transformed their plan to cross into the Spirit Realm. The group prepared to share the discovery with Golden Feather Demon Lord and refine a compass for the crossing.

• Chen Xihua introduced Chen Sheng to Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate, praising Chen Sheng for comprehending a sword Dao law before Spirit Transformation.
• Carefree and Zuo Xuan described how the incomplete world origin drained Spirit Transformation cultivators’ lifespans and made direct battles too costly.
• Chen Xihua asked Chen Sheng to reveal his promised surprise, and Chen Sheng displayed a Star Map bearing precise Spirit Realm coordinates.
• Carefree and Zuo Xuan realized the coordinates solved a major obstacle in their crossing plan and raised their estimated chance of success to at least eighty percent.
• Carefree set out to inform Golden Feather Demon Lord, while Zuo Xuan planned to refine a Void Star-Setting Compass for Chen Sheng.

Chen Xihua welcomed Chen Sheng to Yunlan Mountain and prepared to cultivate the Dao with him before their planned crossing to the Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, the Golden Feather Demon Lord received the Spirit Realm’s exact coordinates, while Chen Sheng secretly continued advancing his Yin-Yang comprehension inside the Yin Yang Treasure Bottle.

• Chen Xihua invited Chen Sheng to stay at Yunlan Mountain and discuss the Dao, and Chen Sheng accepted.
• Chen Xihua urged Chen Sheng to value communion with Heaven and Earth, and Chen Sheng affirmed that crossing to the Spirit Realm was his own choice.
• Chen Xihua led Chen Sheng toward the Sword Enlightenment Platform at the Back Mountain.
• The Carefree Heavenly Venerate showed the Golden Feather Demon Lord a complete Spirit Realm Star Map, and the demon lord ordered the Great Roc Emperor summoned.
• Chen Sheng continued cultivating inside the Yin Yang Treasure Bottle, concealing that his Yin-Yang Dao comprehension had reached the verge of forming Dao laws.
• Chen Sheng planned for his Yang Soul to cross to the Spirit Realm before his Yin Soul advanced to Spirit Transformation and remained in this world.

Before departing for the Spirit Realm, Golden Feather Demon Lord entrusted the Demon Court to Chen Sheng after learning that he had formed the embryonic Yin-Yang Dao principles. Chen Xihua, Chen Sheng, and the other venerates crossed the Great Void together and reached the Spirit Realm.

• Golden Feather Demon Lord summoned Chen Sheng, discovered his embryonic Yin-Yang Dao principles, and gave him the Demon Venerable Token and command of the Demon Court.
• At the Great Wilderness Forbidden Land’s Space Node, Chen Xihua, Xiaoyao, Zuo Xuan, Golden Feather Demon Lord, and Chen Sheng prepared their artifacts and opened a passage through the Spatial Turbulence.
• Chen Sheng followed the group through the void, using the Void Star-Setting Compass and his Star Map to guide them around spatial traps.
• After several years of danger and minor injuries, the five venerates reached the Spirit Realm’s barrier.
• Chen Xihua cut through the barrier, and the five entered the Spirit Realm as the passage behind them collapsed.

Chen Sheng and the others entered the Spirit Realm, where they discovered that its abundant origin restored their vitality, and Golden Feather Demon Venerable departed to find his clan. Back in the Sky Abyss Realm, Chen Sheng consolidated control of the Great Wilderness Demon Court, suppressed Mang Shan, and ultimately survived tribulation to become the Great Roc Demon Venerable.

• Chen Sheng, Chen Xihua, Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate, and Golden Feather Demon Venerable entered the Spirit Realm and found that its origin restored their life force, though its Dao laws were difficult to comprehend.
• Golden Feather Demon Venerable parted ways with the others to seek his clan, while Chen Xihua led the remaining four toward a human settlement to learn about the Spirit Realm.
• Three years after taking charge of the Great Wilderness Demon Court, Chen Sheng suppressed Mang Shan in front of the gathered Demon Emperors and revealed his profound Yin-Yang Dao laws.
• Chen Sheng spent the following years bringing the Demon Court under his control, then used his Golden-winged Great Peng form and Yin-Yang energy to swallow the tribulation lightning.
• Chen Sheng completed his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation, became the Great Roc Demon Venerable, and ordered the kneeling demons to rise.

The White Chu Sect detected five Spirit Transformation cultivators who had entered the Spirit Realm from an unconnected minor world and mobilized to find them. Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong saw the discovery as a chance to harvest the world's origin and escape their looming Longevity Dao Tribulations.

• Elder Bai Mu examined the Heavenly Cycle Monitoring Map and confirmed that five lower-realm cultivators had appeared near the Yellow Mound Plains.
• Elder Bai Mu ordered the Law Enforcement Hall and the garrison envoys to seal off the area and investigate foreign cultivators.
• Bai Mu reported the discovery to the two Supreme Elders, Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong.
• Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong discussed how their approaching Dao Tribulations threatened their survival and the White Chu Sect's future.
• Bai Changqing realized the five cultivators might lead them to an undiscovered minor world whose origin they could harvest.
• Chu Renxiong urged Bai Mu to capture the five men at any cost.

Chen Sheng entered White Cloud City in disguise to investigate the Spirit Realm’s human territory and learned that the White Chu Sect operated a Star Observation Platform like the one used to detect lower-realm smugglers. He realized the group might already be exposed, though the platform could only identify their general area.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Chen Xihua, Zuo Xuan, and Chen Sheng reached human territory and worried about Golden Feather Demon Lord’s journey, while Chen Sheng warned that their lower-realm origins could bring trouble.
• Chen Sheng used the Sea-Hiding Concealment Art to disguise himself as an elderly Golden Core Rogue Cultivator and entered White Cloud City alone to gather intelligence.
• Chen Sheng learned about the region’s martial cultivation, kingdoms, and powerful factions, then used his control over the Knowledge Fragrance Pavilion shopkeeper to read its Jade slips.
• Chen Sheng discovered that the White Chu Sect had a Star Observation Platform matching Four Seas Hermit’s smuggler-detection system and concluded that the group was probably exposed, though its location was not precise.
• Chen Sheng left the shopkeeper with false memories of an unsuccessful inquiry.

Chen Sheng and the other Heavenly Venerates learned that White Chu Sect had detected the smugglers’ passage and debated how to escape its search. After the group split up, Chen Sheng hid Chen Xihua inside the Four Seas Bead and disguised himself as a Golden Core Rogue Cultivator heading for Sunset Glow Town.

• Chen Sheng warned Chen Xihua, Carefree Heavenly Venerate, and Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate that White Chu Sect’s Star Observation Platform had detected their passage and could locate their general area.
• The four discussed whether to hide or flee, then agreed to split up; Chen Sheng gave the others Jade slips containing intelligence about Void Refining cultivators.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate vanished into the void, and Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate escaped underground inside the Geomagnetic Origin Cauldron.
• Chen Sheng revealed the Four Seas Bead to Chen Xihua and invited him to hide inside its pocket heaven.
• Chen Xihua entered the bead, and Chen Sheng disguised himself as a sallow-faced Golden Core Rogue Cultivator and set off toward Sunset Glow Town.

Bai Changqing sent Chu Renxiong after two fleeing lower-realm cultivators, then personally captured Golden Feather Demon Lord after breaking his resistance. He kept Golden Feather Demon Lord comfortably sealed at the White Chu Sect while hoping to obtain the minor world's coordinates from the two human cultivators instead.

• Bai Changqing berated the White Chu Sect's Enforcement Elders for letting Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Zuo Xuan Heavenly Venerate slip through their blockade, then asked Chu Renxiong to pursue them.
• Bai Changqing learned Golden Feather Demon Lord was still fighting within the Yellow Mound Plains and opened a void passage to reach him.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord used Heaven Swallowing Earth Devouring to absorb the God-Locking Formation's attacks and recover, but Bai Changqing shattered his vortex with his Dao domain.
• Golden Feather Demon Lord surrendered after Bai Changqing sealed his meridians and took him back to the White Chu Sect.
• After half a month in Serenity Pavilion, Golden Feather Demon Lord remained sealed but was treated well as Bai Changqing considered avoiding conflict with his clan.

Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong discovered that Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerate had no precise coordinates for the Sky Abyss Realm, then faced Elder Jin Lie and Xuanqing Daoist when they came to free Golden Feather Demon Lord. After Elder Jin Lie punished them but spared the White Chu Sect, Bai Changqing ordered a desperate search for Miesheng Daoist and Chen Xihua.

• Chu Renxiong brought the captured Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerate to Bai Changqing and reported that the other captive had self-destructed.
• Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong searched Xiaoyao Heavenly Venerate's Sea of Consciousness but found no usable coordinates for the Sky Abyss Realm.
• Elder Jin Lie and Xuanqing Daoist arrived at the White Chu Sect, and Elder Jin Lie attacked Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong to free Golden Feather Demon Lord.
• Xuanqing Daoist mediated after Golden Feather Demon Lord confirmed he had been treated courteously, and Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong offered compensation and apologized.
• Elder Jin Lie spared the two men and left with Golden Feather Demon Lord, while Bai Changqing ordered his forces to search the Yellow Mound Plains for Miesheng Daoist and Chen Xihua.

Zhang Xiaocheng worried that the Zhang Clan lacked heirs with strong Spiritual Roots and ordered his grandson Zhang Bailong to reward Chen Yu for fathering children with Zhang Clan women. Chen Yu accepted a Foundation Establishment Pill while secretly preparing to leave Sunset Glow Town and continue expanding his reincarnation plans.

• Zhang Xiaocheng criticized Zhang Bailong for relying on martial arts and lamented the Zhang Clan's dwindling number of High-grade Spiritual Roots.
• Zhang Bailong told Zhang Xiaocheng that Chen Yu had fathered five children in one year, prompting Zhang Xiaocheng to send him a Foundation Establishment Pill as a reward.
• Chen Sheng, living under the name Chen Yu, fished beside Azure Sky Lake while several Zhang Clan women cared for his children.
• Zhang Bailong publicly gave Chen Yu the pill, encouraging other Immortal Seedlings with different surnames to cultivate descendants for the Zhang Clan.
• After the crowd dispersed, Chen Sheng decided to leave because he had planted his Spirit Realm seeds and completed cultivation of the small world within the Four Seas Bead.

Chen Sheng bestowed inheritances on Zhang Xiaocheng to advance the Zhang Clan, then discussed cultivation and future plans with Chen Xihua in the Four Seas Secret Realm. He inspected his pregnant descendants and infants in the Sea-Eye Secret Realm and began planning to spread his bloodline across more minor worlds.

• Chen Sheng summoned Zhang Xiaocheng to the Four Seas Mysterious Mansion, bestowed three inheritances, and bound him with restrictions against revealing them.
• Zhang Xiaocheng awoke in his clan’s inner hall, confirmed the inheritances in his Sea of Consciousness, and resolved to help Chen Sheng’s descendants in the Zhang Clan.
• Chen Xihua praised the Four Seas Secret Realm’s cultivation resources and regretted that he had urged Chen Sheng to enter the Spirit Realm, but Chen Sheng urged him to cultivate toward settling their grudge with the White Chu Sect.
• Chen Sheng visited his descendants in the Sea-Eye Secret Realm, checked on the pregnant women and infants, and ordered Foundation Consolidating Pills and careful care for the pregnancies.
• Chen Sheng surveyed the Secret Realm from the Star Observation Platform and displayed minor-world coordinates where he planned to spread his bloodline.

After two hundred years of cultivation in Four Seas Grotto-Heaven, Chen Sheng reached Soul Transformation mid-stage and perfected his second-realm Yin Yang Annihilation Sword Dao. Chen Xihua prepared to leave the grotto-heaven to scout the outside world, binding a Soul-Shattering Restriction to his soul to protect Chen Sheng and the Four Seas Bead.

• Elder Jin Lie reassured Golden Feather Demon Lord that outsiders were unlikely to locate the Sky Abyss Realm and gave him the Peng clan art Yin-Yang Domain Evolution.
• Chen Sheng and Chen Xihua sparred on the Enlightenment Platform, and Chen Sheng conceded after Chen Xihua’s Void Sword Shadow forced him back.
• Chen Xihua praised Chen Sheng’s progress, while Chen Sheng explained that his Yin-Yang Divine Soul and the grotto-heaven’s resources had aided his cultivation.
• Chen Xihua revealed that he had reached Soul Transformation late-stage and planned to leave Four Seas Grotto-Heaven after reaching perfection to scout beyond it.
• Chen Xihua showed Chen Sheng the Soul-Shattering Restriction bound to his divine soul and vowed not to reveal Chen Sheng’s whereabouts or the Four Seas Bead.

Chen Sheng gave Chen Xihua Four Seas Hermit's Concealment Secret Art, helping him hide his aura and evade detection. Two centuries after losing their trail, Bai Changqing and Chu Renxiong resolved to stake their realms and the White Chu Sect's foundation to bid for minor-world coordinates at the Sky Capital Auction.

• Chen Sheng passed the Concealment Secret Art to Chen Xihua, who tested it and concealed his aura beside an ancient pine.
• Bai Changqing exhausted himself trying to deduce the whereabouts of Miesheng Daoist and Chen Xihua, while Chu Renxiong entered Serenity Pavilion and urged him to rest.
• Chu Renxiong told Bai Changqing that the Sky Capital Auction would offer precise coordinates to an undeveloped minor world in fifty years.
• Chu Renxiong offered to stake his void realm and sell the White Chu Sect's accumulated foundation to obtain the coordinates.
• Bai Changqing regained his resolve and agreed that they would risk their realms and the sect's foundation at the auction.

After a century in seclusion, Chen Sheng learned that the White Chu Sect had left the Yellow Mound Plains and discovered that the Zhang Clan had risen to prominence. He decided to send his more than a hundred Secret Realm descendants into the Spirit Realm to establish separate branches while hiding their connections.

• Chen Sheng received Chen Xihua's message that the White Chu Sect had sold its foundations and left the Yellow Mound Plains to pursue a Lesser Thousand World, while Chen Xihua traveled in search of a breakthrough to Void Refining.
• Chen Sheng secretly surveyed Sunset Glow Town and learned that the Five Zhang Geniuses had all reached the Nascent Soul realm and built the Zhang Clan's influence through sect ties and marriage alliances.
• Chen Sheng decided not to meet the Zhang Clan and instead considered how to strengthen its shallow foundations.
• Chen Sheng summoned more than a hundred descendants he had raised in the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven and announced that they would lead separate clan branches into the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Sheng warned his descendants that the Spirit Realm was dangerous and that they must conceal their connections because he had a great enemy there.

Over several decades, Chen Sheng established safe foundations for the Madam Chen branches across the Spirit Realm and crushed powerful local cultivators who threatened them. After defeating Black Wind Old Freak and securing Black Wind Ridge, Chen Sheng reflected on the gap between frontier cultivators and the great sects, whose Disciples might wield far higher Dao Principles.

• Chen Sheng surveyed regions across the Spirit Realm, chose stable Spiritual Veins for the Madam Chen branches, and reinforced their defenses with Formations.
• Black Wind Old Freak attacked the Madam Chen branch at Black Wind Ridge over its black crystal Ore Vein, but Chen Sheng arrived to defend it.
• Chen Sheng destroyed Black Wind Old Freak's wind wolf and Black Wind Soul-Eroding Banner with his Yin Yang Dao Principle and Yin-Yang Annihilation Sword Dao.
• Chen Sheng suppressed Black Wind Old Freak, sealed his consciousness, and took him to be refined into a corpse puppet for a branch's protection.
• Chen Sheng advised the branch descendants to reinforce their restrictions and settle at Black Wind Ridge, then considered how great sect Disciples possessed stronger Dao Principle foundations than frontier cultivators.

After securing the Chen family’s branches, Chen Sheng advanced his Yin Yang Annihilation Sword Dao to the third stage and learned about the upcoming Three Extremes Dao Convention. He traveled toward the event, where an elderly cultivator offered to sell him information about its contenders.

• Chen Sheng established the Dānxia Vein-Protection Formation for the Chen family’s last branch and felt reassured as his descendants established footholds across the Spirit Realm.
• After three years of contemplation in the Four Seas Grotto-Heaven, Chen Sheng broke through to the third stage of the Yin Yang Annihilation Sword Dao, though his cultivation remained at Deity Transformation.
• Chen Xihua’s Message Talisman informed Chen Sheng that the Three Extremes Dao Convention would take place in seven years and offered major rewards to young Deity Transformation cultivators.
• At Heavenly Capital Immortal City, Chen Sheng learned from an elderly cultivator that the convention would offer a hundred places in the Fortune Treasure Realm and had a long history involving three rival immortal mansions.
• As the teleportation formation prepared to activate, the elderly cultivator offered Chen Sheng detailed intelligence on the convention’s contenders for ten Dao Crystals.