Chapter Summaries

Registered disciples at Yunlu Dao Palace learned why Miesheng had been admitted directly to the inner sect and reconsidered their doubts after hearing of his achievements and background. Elder Mo Yuan defended the Palace Master's decision, leaving the disciples convinced that Miesheng was no ordinary cultivator.

• A silver-gray-robed cultivator told the Dao Discussion Palace that Master had directly admitted a new Spirit Transformation realm Inner Sect Disciple who cultivated the Way of Annihilation.
• Registered disciples questioned whether the newcomer deserved the position, while an older disciple explained that he cultivated the Yin-Yang Annihilation Great Dao and ranked 297th in the State Competition.
• Cultivators noted that Miesheng had come from a Rogue Cultivator background and achieved his ranking without sect resources or Dharma Lord-level secret arts.
• Elder Mo Yuan revealed that Miesheng was not yet a thousand years old and affirmed that his talent, perseverance, and compatible Dao laws made him worthy of the inner sect.
• The registered disciples abandoned their doubts and left believing Miesheng was no ordinary person.

Taiyuan and Han Jun discussed their cultivation while playing chess, then watched a Light Screen showing their new junior brother entering the Star Tower. They wondered how he would combine the Way of Annihilation with sword Dao.

• Taiyuan and Han Jun played chess, and Han Jun praised Taiyuan’s Spacetime Deadlock while Taiyuan praised Han Jun’s Primordial Cold Annihilation.
• Elder Mo Yuan reported that nominal disciples had been gossiping about their new junior brother, and Taiyuan ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to quietly restrain malicious talk.
• Taiyuan revealed that he had secretly stalled the cultivation of disciples who gossiped about Han Jun when Han Jun first joined the sect.
• Taiyuan summoned a Light Screen showing their green-robed junior brother entering the lowest level of the Star Tower.
• Han Jun and Taiyuan discussed how the junior brother might unite the Way of Annihilation and sword Dao, then decided to watch his trial.

Chen Sheng challenged the Star Tower, defeating its first four Star-Swallowing Magneto Beasts with his Five Elements Annihilation Sword Light. On the fifth floor, he discovered that the beast’s secret art could defend and restore its body at the cost of star power, and began wearing it down while deepening his sword techniques.

• Chen Sheng blocked the first floor’s Star-Swallowing Magneto Beast’s Stellar Annihilation Divine Light and defeated it by striking its central Magnetic Crystal.
• Chen Sheng cleared the second and third floors, then overcame the fourth floor’s stronger beast and its Magneto Ground-Spike Formation after more than thirty exchanges.
• Chen Sheng faced a fifth-floor Phantom Beast that fused its bloodline abilities into a secret art and used pervasive vibrational ripples against him.
• Chen Sheng countered the ripples with a Black Hole and attacked with intertwined black-and-white sword lights, but the beast’s star beads and magnetism barrier stopped his strike.
• Chen Sheng realized the beast’s restoration consumed star power and launched a sustained assault, gradually shrinking its body as he refined his sword techniques.

Chen Sheng cleared the Star Tower’s fifth floor with his Yin Yang Five Elements Annihilation Sword Dao, then advanced to the sixth floor and stunned the watching disciples. The chapter left the crowd recognizing his exceptional progress and awaiting the result of his challenge.

• Taiyuan told Han Jun that Chen Sheng ranked around three hundredth in the State Competition, though his refined sword art put his current combat strength just above one hundredth.
• Chen Sheng destroyed the Star-Swallowing Magneto Beast’s core on the fifth floor and received the fifth-floor Clearance Mark.
• The Star Ranking Board showed Miesheng racing through the first four floors before pausing at the fifth, where he fought for three incense sticks.
• Miesheng’s name leapt to the sixth-floor marker, revealing that he had cleared the fifth floor.
• The registered disciples learned that Miesheng was under one thousand years old and praised his progress as that of a peerless prodigy.

Chen Sheng challenged the Star Tower’s sixth floor but was overwhelmed by the Star-Swallowing Magneto Beast and sent back to the plaza after clearing the fifth floor. Master Hong Jue reviewed the trial, admired Chen Sheng’s rapid progress in Dao comprehension, and decided to personally guide his cultivation.

• Chen Sheng faced the sixth-floor Star-Swallowing Magneto Beast, whose spatial attacks, speed, and magnetic defense surpassed his abilities.
• Chen Sheng used his Yin Yang Five Elements annihilation sword strike, but the Beast dissolved it before the Star Tower’s Clearance Mark pulled him out.
• Chen Sheng saw that his token’s fifth star had brightened and reflected on how far he still had to go in cultivation.
• The disciples on the plaza recognized that Chen Sheng had reached the sixth floor, a feat near the threshold of Void Refining.
• Master Hong Jue watched a recording of Chen Sheng’s trial, praised his grasp of Law principles, and resolved to properly guide him.

Chen Sheng received Master Hong Jue’s guidance on the Yin Yang Five Elements Annihilation Calamity Solution and crossed its threshold. Master Hong Jue offered him two thousand years to cultivate in his personal minor Thousand World and reach the Star Tower’s tenth floor to become his fourth personal disciple.

• Master Hong Jue summoned Chen Sheng to demonstrate the sword skill he had comprehended in the Star Tower trial.
• After watching Chen Sheng’s sword forms, Master Hong Jue explained how Yin Yang and the Five Elements returned to stillness, helping Chen Sheng grasp the secret art’s threshold.
• Chen Sheng performed the sword skill again with new insight, and Master Hong Jue praised his understanding and offered further guidance.
• Master Hong Jue announced that Chen Sheng could cultivate in his personal minor Thousand World for two thousand years.
• Master Hong Jue set the condition that Chen Sheng reach the Star Tower’s tenth floor to become his fourth personal disciple, and Chen Sheng vowed to achieve it.

Master Hong Jue brought Chen Sheng into his starry small world and showed him Azure Firmament Palace, where Chen Sheng would cultivate. Chen Sheng met the palace’s artifact spirit, Yuan Qing, and learned that a replicated Star Tower stood behind a sealed door.

• Master Hong Jue marked Chen Sheng with a Sky Opening mark and guided him through the dangerous river of stars toward the Black Hole at its center.
• Chen Sheng entered the Black Hole and saw seven palaces arranged like the Big Dipper, which Master Hong Jue identified as the Palace of the Big Dipper.
• Master Hong Jue opened Azure Firmament Palace and explained that its spiritual energy and manifested Dao laws would aid Chen Sheng’s cultivation.
• Master Hong Jue summoned Yuan Qing, the palace’s artifact spirit, and instructed him to help Chen Sheng with his needs.
• Master Hong Jue showed Chen Sheng a replicated Sub-Tower for trial challenges and said he would return every ten years to answer cultivation questions.

Chen Sheng cultivated in Azure Firmament Palace and later advanced his Demon Race Yin Soul to the Soul Transformation late-stage while perfecting the third-stage Yin-Yang Dao principles. The Demon Emperor then reported unusual overlapping world boundaries near the Great Wilderness, suggesting a descended realm had appeared.

• Yuan Qing explained the Star Child Tower, introduced Azure Firmament Celestial Lord’s unfinished sword manual, and arranged the palace’s Dao principles for Chen Sheng to cultivate.
• Chen Sheng studied Dao principles, practiced Sword Skill, and fought through the Sub-Tower floors to improve his strength.
• In the Yin Yang Treasure Bottle, Chen Sheng absorbed heavenly treasures as a Golden-winged Great Peng and perfected his Yin-Yang Dao principles.
• Chen Sheng returned to human form and reached the Soul Transformation late-stage, while Elder Ping congratulated him on his progress.
• The Demon Emperor told Chen Sheng that unusual void fluctuations near the Great Wilderness resembled overlapping world boundaries and might signal a descended realm.

Chen Sheng investigated a rapidly forming world descent in the Ten Directions Mirage Sea and concluded that cultivators from the other world had deliberately accelerated it. He prepared to face their invasion and the struggle over Heaven and Earth Origin.

• The Sea Mirage Emperor, Shen Yun, and dozens of Demon Kings gathered at the Mirage Sea as black passages opened in warped space.
• Chen Sheng arrived unseen, identified the anomaly as a natural world descent, and explained the struggle for Heaven and Earth Origin it would bring.
• Two Demon Kings reported that the passages had formed just three days after patrol demons first noticed spatial fluctuations.
• Chen Sheng observed that the passages were expanding far faster than normal and ruled out a medium world's descent because the Heavenly Dao had shown no resistance.
• Chen Sheng concluded that cultivators on the other side had deliberately accelerated the descent and resolved to see who would harvest whom.

Chen Sheng organized the Demon Court’s preparations after a passage to another realm began forming in the Ten Directions Mirage Sea. Meanwhile, three Primal Sacred Sect cultivators assessed the Sky Abyss Realm and prepared to investigate its forces before invading.

• Chen Sheng told the Demon Emperors that the passage would soon admit Nascent Soul cultivators and ordered them to locate descent nodes, warn the Human forces, strengthen defenses, and gather troops at the Demon Court in ten days.
• Chen Sheng offered to protect young members of small and medium-sized clans in the Demon Court’s Core Area so their bloodlines and inheritances could survive the coming battle.
• True Lord Li and True Lord Wang discovered that the Sky Abyss Realm had a weak, Ding-grade origin, while True Lord Zhao argued that this would make the takeover easy.
• True Lord Wang warned that the weak-origin Blood Moon Realm had produced Blood Moon Heavenly Venerate, who had defeated three Primal Sacred Sect Heavenly Venerates.
• True Lord Li stopped their argument and ordered them to use a Water Mirror to locate major spiritual-energy centers before splitting up to gather intelligence.

Three True Lords from another world discovered that the Yue Kingdom had abundant resources but little reliable information about Spirit Transformation cultivators. They met the Seven Kill Demon Lord, who ruled the Demon Path of the Eastern Region, and offered to help him reach Spirit Transformation and extend his lifespan.

• True Lord Wang and True Lord Zhao described the Yue Kingdom’s immense resources and the secrecy surrounding its Spirit Transformation Heavenly Venerates.
• True Lord Li revealed that he had found a potential partner among the Demon Path forces.
• The Seven Kill Demon Lord was shown to have unified the Demon Path Nations and to be nearing the end of his lifespan without reaching Spirit Transformation.
• The three True Lords visited the Seven Kill Demon Lord and displayed ancient demon phantoms formed by their exceptionally pure Demonic Arts.
• True Lord Li told the Seven Kill Demon Lord that they had come from another world to help him break through to Spirit Transformation and extend his lifespan.

Chen Sheng investigated a rapidly forming realm-descending node in White Elephant Clan territory and ordered it guarded after his scout Puppets were destroyed. In the Eastern Region, the Seven Kill Demon Lord agreed to cooperate with the Primal Sacred Sect only if it supplied a fifth-grade lifespan-extending treasure, and kept two of its envoys as hostages while the third went to retrieve it.

• Chen Sheng learned that the White Elephant Clan's node was expanding quickly and traveled there to investigate.
• Chen Sheng sent five Pathfinder Puppets into the passage, but a burst of red radiance destroyed them before they could transmit what lay beyond.
• Chen Sheng ordered the White Elephant Emperor to reinforce the formation, establish warning nets, and capture any arriving cultivators alive.
• The Seven Kill Demon Lord rejected the envoys' promises as insufficient and demanded a fifth-grade lifespan-extending treasure.
• True Lord Li agreed to return with the treasure in three days, while the Seven Kill Demon Lord kept True Lord Wang and True Lord Zhao in his palace as hostages.

The Primal Sacred Sect’s Heavenly Venerates decided to invade the Sky Abyss Realm despite its low Origin grade, hoping to seize its abundant resources and hidden inheritance. The Primal Sacred Lord agreed to lead the campaign and used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to stabilize the passage, which would take years to support Nascent Soul travelers and about thirty years to admit Deity Transformation cultivators.

• Nine Azure Heavenly Venerate reported that the Sky Abyss Realm had abundant resources, many Nascent Soul cultivators, and Deity Transformation cultivators despite its low Origin grade.
• Sky Rending Heavenly Venerate and Profound Mechanism Heavenly Venerate agreed to invade the realm and planned to recruit Seven Kill Demon Lord with a fifth-grade Longevity Pill.
• Nine Azure Heavenly Venerate told the others that the Primal Sacred Lord might personally join the campaign, and they agreed that he could investigate and harvest the realm before advancing to Void Refining.
• Nine Azure Heavenly Venerate reported the Sky Abyss Realm’s condition to the Primal Sacred Lord, who judged that it might conceal ancient inheritances or treasures.
• The Primal Sacred Lord used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to stabilize the passage, which would admit Nascent Soul cultivators in a few years and Deity Transformation cultivators in about thirty years.

Chen Sheng captured three Primal Sacred Sect Nascent Soul True Lords and gave Seven Kill Demon Lord the promised Longevity Pill. After learning why Seven Kill had exposed the outsiders, Chen Sheng agreed to protect and guide him during the World Descent war and transform his body into a demon body if he failed to reach Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Sheng appeared at Seven Kill Hall, immobilized True Lord Li, and drew him into his palm beside the king and Zhao.
• Chen Sheng took the three captives and the fifth-tier Greater Teleportation Golden Talisman, then gave the fifth-tier Longevity Pill to Seven Kill Demon Lord.
• Seven Kill Demon Lord explained that he distrusted the Primal Sacred Sect's promises and feared its plan to use cultivators of the Sky Abyss Realm as consumables.
• Seven Kill Demon Lord asked Chen Sheng for protection and guidance during the World Descent war, and for a demon body if he failed to break through to Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Sheng agreed to both requests, and Seven Kill Demon Lord pledged the Seven Kill Kingdom's service.

After searching the three Holy Sect True Lords, Chen Sheng learned about the Primal Sacred Sect and its Myriad Heavens Mirror, then resolved to grow strong enough to seize the treasure before the worlds connected. Three years later, Master Hong Jue’s instruction helped Chen Sheng bring his secret art to minor accomplishment and begin forming a Yin-Yang Dao Body, leaving him ready to test his progress at the Star Tower.

• Chen Sheng overcame the Myriad Talisman Soul-Locking Formations and searched True Lords Li, Wang, and Zhao for their memories.
• Chen Sheng learned that the Primal Sacred Sect ruled the Profound Yellow Realm and used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to guide and exploit minor chiliocosms.
• Chen Sheng recognized the Primordial Sacred Lord as a formidable, destiny-favored enemy and vowed to claim the Myriad Heavens Mirror after strengthening himself.
• Three years later, Chen Sheng listened as Master Hong Jue taught him about Dao Domains in the Star-Gazing Hall.
• Chen Sheng comprehended the Yin-Yang Five Elements Annihilation Dao Domain, and Master Hong Jue helped him stabilize his minor-accomplishment secret art and forming Dao Body.
• Master Hong Jue ended the lecture and suggested Chen Sheng challenge the Star Tower, which Chen Sheng agreed to do.

After three years of cultivation, Chen Sheng defeated the sixth-floor Star-Swallowing Magneto Beast and gained insight into its Star Tracks. His name appeared on the seventh-floor Star Ranking Board, astonishing disciples across the Dao Palace, before he stopped his trial there.

• Chen Sheng entered the Star Tower and easily cleared the first five floors, then resisted the sixth-floor beast’s Magneto Space-Shattering Claw with his Yin-Yang defenses.
• Chen Sheng saw through the Star-Swallowing Magneto Beast’s Star Tracks ambush and damaged its Magnetic Crystal with his sword.
• Chen Sheng used Star Fall to pin the beast’s defenses, then shattered its core Magnetic Crystal and defeated it.
• Chen Sheng discerned how the beast’s Star Tracks combined spatial movement, defense, and power amplification, then received the sixth-floor clearance mark and paused before the stairs to the seventh floor.
• The Star Ranking Board showed Miesheng on the seventh floor, prompting registered disciples and core inner sect cultivators to marvel at Chen Sheng’s progress.
• The seventh-floor ranking faded as Chen Sheng stopped his trial, and the inner sect cultivators discussed his potential to challenge the eighth floor.

After being defeated by the Star Spirit Phantom Beast, Chen Sheng studied its Star Dao Domain and continued cultivating his Yin-Yang secret art. He returned to the Demon Court, learned that its defenses were stable, and discovered that Elder Ping had sheltered descendants of his old acquaintances.

• Chen Sheng recalled how the Star Spirit Phantom Beast defeated him in thirteen exchanges and deduced that he needed to form a Yin-Yang Dao Domain to counter its Star Dao Domain.
• Chen Sheng spent three months refining his Yin-Yang Particles in the Yin Yang Treasure Bottle and emerged from seclusion with greater strength.
• Elder Ping told Chen Sheng that the Demon Court was stable, while Peng Xuan and Peng Xiao reported on the World Descent Passages and the chaos across the Four Domains.
• Chen Sheng said the Demon Court would shelter the Yunlan Chen Clan and that he intended to unify the Sky Abyss Realm after defeating the Primal Sacred Sect.
• Chen Sheng discovered that Yuquan had taken in human descendants of his old friends and relatives, including Wu Xuejiao and members of the Li Clan and Hua Clan.

The Primal Sacred Lord opened a passage into the Sky Abyss Realm and challenged Chen Sheng, expecting the Demon Venerable to submit. Chen Sheng revealed his Yin-Yang Dao Domain, killed the Primal Sacred Lord, and claimed the Myriad Heavens Mirror as the passage began to close.

• The Primal Sacred Lord learned of the Great Wilderness Demon Court’s resistance and opened a passage to the Sky Abyss Realm, declaring that he would personally kill the Golden-winged Great Peng Demon Venerable.
• The Primal Sacred Lord emerged near the Demon Venerable Palace and spread his Time Dao Domain, which began breaking down the Myriad Demon Array.
• Chen Sheng ignored Elder Ping’s warning and stepped outside the array to face the Primal Sacred Lord.
• Chen Sheng’s Sword Qi tore through the Primal Sacred Lord’s river of time, and Chen Sheng revealed his Yin-Yang Dao Domain.
• Chen Sheng suppressed the Myriad Heavens Mirror and destroyed the Primal Sacred Lord and his Primordial Spirit with annihilating Sword Qi.
• Chen Sheng took the masterless Myriad Heavens Mirror as the golden passage slowly closed, while Elder Ping watched in shock.

Chen Sheng refined the Myriad Heavens Mirror and discovered that it linked the Profound Yellow Realm to the Nine Yang Realm, where the Primordial Sacred Lord had built a hidden stronghold. As Chen Sheng uncovered the mirror’s origins, the Primal Sacred Sect’s Heavenly Venerates celebrated the Sacred Lord’s supposed victory, unaware that he had been slain.

• Chen Sheng refined the Myriad Heavens Mirror, learned it could connect the Profound Yellow Realm and the Nine Yang Realm, and gained the ability to travel between them.
• Chen Sheng discovered that the mirror could draw on the Nine Yang Realm’s Origin Power, enhance fire spells, and provide refuge there.
• Chen Sheng learned that Integration Master Kongming had created the mirror using his body, the principles of the void, and the Nine Yang Realm’s Origin Power.
• At the Primal Grotto-Heaven, Profound Mechanism Heavenly Venerate, Yin Sha Heavenly Venerate, and Chiyang Heavenly Venerate joked about the Sacred Lord taming the Golden-winged Great Peng.
• Nine Azure Heavenly Venerate told the gathered Heavenly Venerates that a stable passage to the Sky Abyss Realm would take three years to nurture, and they toasted the Sacred Lord’s supposed success.

Chen Sheng entered the Gathering Immortals Pavilion and was mistaken for a subdued Demon Venerable, then revealed his true form and attacked the Primal Sacred Sect's Heavenly Venerates. He defeated and swallowed them with his Yin-Yang Dao Domain and the Myriad Heavens Mirror, leaving him with the mirror and its newly revealed powers.

• The Heavenly Venerates welcomed Chen Sheng, believing he was the Golden-winged Great Peng Demon Venerable subdued by the Primordial Sacred Lord.
• Chen Sheng transformed into his Golden-winged Great Peng form and swallowed five Heavenly Venerates with his Yin-Yang Black Hole.
• The remaining Heavenly Venerates attacked with Dao artifacts, but Chen Sheng's Five Elements divine light disabled their treasures.
• Chen Sheng deployed his perfected Yin-Yang Dao Domain, suppressed the Heavenly Venerates, and swallowed three more.
• Nine Azure Heavenly Venerate and the others tried to flee, but Chen Sheng used the Myriad Heavens Mirror to seal the void and capture them.
• Chen Sheng swallowed the trapped Heavenly Venerates and examined the Myriad Heavens Mirror, recognizing its powers of attack, defense, suppression, and world-breaking.