Chapter Summaries

Two Blood God Sect cultivators disguised themselves as Incense Mountain Sect monks to collect blood parasite eggs from a Miao village, then returned them to their hidden stronghold. Nether Venerable absorbed the gathered blood qi, sensed Sword Alliance cultivators attacking, and charged out with his Great Asura Blood God Banner to fight them.

• Two Blood God Sect cultivators cured villagers of a parasite plague with talisman water and collected the expelled parasite eggs in black wooden gourds.
• The cultivators revealed their identities and lamented how the Sword Alliance and Many-Treasure Daoist had destroyed the Blood God Sect’s former power.
• The two cultivators brought the gourds to their Master at the sect’s Black Wind Ridge stronghold.
• Nether Venerable absorbed blood qi from the gourds and recovered some of his strength.
• Nether Venerable sensed Sword Alliance cultivators breaching the stronghold’s restrictions and flew to confront them with his Great Asura Blood God Banner.

Huang Mi summoned the Sword Venerable’s divine intent, which killed Netherworld Venerable, while Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal watched and planned to exploit Zhang Ling’s growing fortune. Chen Sheng then saw through the Celestial Immortal’s fortune and resolved to confront him.

• Huang Mi invited the Sword Venerable’s divine intent to descend, and it killed Netherworld Venerable with a five-colored sword net.
• Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal watched the battle and recognized that Zhang Ling had comprehended the Dao of the Five Elements.
• Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal planned to use Zhang Ling’s rising fortune to enter the Origin Land and seize its power.
• Chen Sheng secretly examined Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal’s fortune and identified him as a Void Refining incarnation.
• Chen Sheng decided that the time had come to settle matters and break with Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal.

Chen Sheng broke into Myriad Beasts Hall, killed the Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal, and learned the Immortal Realm’s hierarchy and powers from his memories. The destruction of Xuan Jizi’s plans reached the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Domain, where he reported Zhang Ling’s Yin-Yang Dao Domain to Celestial Pivot Hall.

• Chen Sheng passed through Hanging Mountain’s three layers of restrictions and appeared in Myriad Beasts Hall.
• The Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal attacked Chen Sheng with his immortal arts, but Chen Sheng’s Yin-Yang Dao Domain and purple qi nullified them.
• Chen Sheng killed the Myriad Beasts Celestial Immortal and absorbed his memories, learning about the Immortal Realm and resolving to attain the Dao there.
• Xuan Jizi sensed that his Myriad Beasts Immortal Cauldron, heavenly fortune, and Origin Power had been lost, and identified Zhang Ling as the one responsible.
• Xuan Jizi sent a report to Celestial Pivot Hall, saying that Zhang Ling, the lower realm’s Child of Destiny, had comprehended a Yin-Yang Dao Domain.

Chen Sheng defeated Heavenly General Lei Zhao and his three thousand Heavenly Soldiers, then broke the Heavenly Emperor’s connection to the minor world and freed it from the Fortune Dynasty. After safeguarding the Sword Alliance and giving Huang Yu his sword teachings, Chen Sheng set off to fight his way into the Immortal Realm.

• Heavenly General Lei Zhao descended with three thousand Heavenly Soldiers and announced that he would kill Zhang Ling and his accomplices, while Chen Sheng remained hidden in the Origin Land.
• Lei Zhao attacked the Sword Alliance with a sea of thunder, but Chen Sheng appeared and stopped the strike before it hit the Guardian Array.
• Chen Sheng drew on the world’s Origin to advance through the immortal realms, then erased Lei Zhao and the Heavenly Soldiers with a single world-creating finger.
• The Heavenly Emperor’s projection attacked Chen Sheng, but he destroyed its punishment chains, shattered the Fortune Qi Golden Bridge, and severed the world’s ties to the Fortune Dynasty.
• Chen Sheng scrambled the minor world’s coordinates, ordered the Sword Alliance to disperse, and gave Huang Yu his sword-path teachings.
• Chen Sheng declared that he would fight his way into the heavens and flew toward the Immortal Realm.

After his incarnation was destroyed by the Emperor of Heaven, Chen Sheng resolved to infiltrate the celestial dynasty while strengthening his true bodies. Back at Yunlu Dao Palace, he advanced the third scroll of the Five Scrolls of Termination by studying a middle thousand world.

• Chen Sheng recalled the Emperor of Heaven destroying his incarnation and concluded that the celestial dynasty's momentum fueled the Emperor's power.
• Chen Sheng split his Yang God thought into dozens of incarnations, sending them to infiltrate the celestial dynasty and obstruct its expansion.
• Chen Sheng's Yang God true body remained at Yunlu Dao Palace while his Yin Soul explored unknown worlds.
• Chen Sheng used insights from a Calamity Crossing Dao Lord's creation of Heaven and Earth to begin the third scroll of the Five Scrolls of Termination.

After entering the third scroll of the Five Scrolls of Termination, Chen Sheng was tasked with establishing his own Dao lineage and held a banquet to select disciples. He accepted four young cultivators into his sect, including two whose talent was obvious and two whose selection reflected hidden connections and judgment.

• Master Hong Jue praised Chen Sheng for entering the third scroll and told him to establish his own Dao lineage by taking disciples.
• Daoist Tai Yuan arranged a disciple-selection banquet, explaining that Chen Sheng's fame had drawn thousands of applicants.
• Chen Sheng attended the banquet, where old acquaintances reflected on how far he had surpassed them.
• Young cultivators displayed their abilities, and Chen Sheng privately directed some promising candidates toward other attending experts.
• Chen Sheng accepted Qi Yuan and Gu Ye into the Annihilation Inner Sect and chose Chen Qingyun and Zhang Hongdao as registered disciples.
• Chen Sheng bound the four disciples' auras to the Dao Palace and told Qi Yuan and Gu Ye to report to Calm Heart Hall for Dao teachings in three days.

Chen Sheng taught his four disciples the Dao, easing Zhang Hongdao’s doubts and giving each disciple a transmission jade tablet. Fifty years later, he celebrated the Imperial Sacrifice in the Nine Yang Realm by sending the Fire Spirits to distribute Heavenly Fire Essence, while the realm’s people worshiped him.

• Chen Sheng taught Qi Yuan, Gu Ye, Chen Qingyun, and Zhang Hongdao about the Myriad Daos, and Qi Yuan and Gu Ye gained insights into their cultivation.
• Chen Sheng reassured Zhang Hongdao that he had earned his place through his temperament, then gave all four disciples transmission jade tablets and dismissed them.
• Fifty years later, Chen Sheng observed the Imperial Sacrifice and ordered the four Fire Spirits to distribute Heavenly Fire Essence across the Nine Yang Realm.
• The Fire Spirits scattered Fire Pearls over the realm, benefiting cultivators and mortals as hundreds of millions of living beings knelt and thanked Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng continued strengthening his Golden-winged Great Peng bloodline in the Nine Yang Realm and resolved to seek a fortune that could advance it beyond the true demon level. In the Bright Light Realm, his avatar Shi Jian rejected an invitation to a Golden Core celebration after recognizing that Fellow Daoist Wood was caught in a dangerous fate.

• Chen Sheng absorbed the Nine Yang Origin and reflected on how his clan's Mahayana Supreme ancestor had left a clear path for bloodline advancement.
• Chen Sheng judged that the Nine Yang Realm's aid was nearing its limit, but resolved to find a treasure that would advance his bloodline and help him break through to Body Integration.
• Chen Sheng considered how to keep harvesting Small Thousand Worlds while focusing more effort on locating rare Middle Thousand Worlds.
• Li Xuan told Shi Jian that Fellow Daoist Wood had formed a High-grade Golden Core and invited him to a celebration at Wooden Cloud Valley.
• Shi Jian refused to attend, claiming he would soon form a High-grade Golden Core himself, then returned to seclusion.
• Shi Jian recalled seeing death-tribulation signs over Fellow Daoist Wood and decided to avoid the coming turmoil so he could cultivate safely.

Chen Sheng reflected on the Bright Light Realm’s Fortune Dynasty system and decided to follow its cycle rather than oppose it, aiming to ascend to the upper realm. After Li Xuan described Wood Daoist’s Golden Core celebration, Chen Sheng claimed he had reached the threshold of a High-grade Golden Core and sent him away.

• Li Xuan told Chen Sheng about the grand Golden Core celebration for Wood Daoist, attended by elders from Bamboo Mountain Sect and Converging Sand Dao.
• Chen Sheng recalled how he had taken over Shi Jian’s body and investigated the Bright Light Realm’s powerful sects and hidden forces.
• Chen Sheng used a secret art to see how the Fortune Dynasty’s golden net had replaced the realm’s Origin and periodically produced a Son of Destiny.
• Chen Sheng concluded that the Son of Destiny would likely use Wood Daoist as a stepping stone, and decided to follow the system’s current so he could ascend and join it.
• Li Xuan kept praising Wood Daoist’s High-grade Golden Core and hinting at the opportunity needed to form one, so Chen Sheng ordered him out and announced he would enter seclusion.

After years of seclusion and enduring Li Xuan’s worries, Shi Jian passed the Heart-Seeking Tribulation and formed a High-grade Golden Core. His success left the Heavenly Eye Sect celebrating, though he still threatened to settle accounts with Li Xuan for trying to interrupt his seclusion.

• Li Xuan repeatedly worried about Shi Jian’s prolonged seclusion while Ling Wenxuan’s fame and power grew across the Cultivation World.
• After stabilizing his Heart Movement completion, Li Xuan went to the Back Mountain intending to persuade Shi Jian by force, but the Golden Core Formation phenomena appeared above the bamboo house.
• Bai Shou True Person and the Heavenly Eye Sect’s seven other Heart Movement Elders arrived to witness Shi Jian undergo the tribulation.
• Shi Jian endured the violet lightning and completed the formation of his High-grade Golden Core, then recited a verse about his years of perseverance.
• Bai Shou True Person and the Elders congratulated Shi Jian, who teased Li Xuan for bringing the Purple Radiance Treasure Wheel to his place of seclusion and promised to settle accounts later.

After forming a High-grade Golden Core, Chen Sheng refused a celebratory banquet and prepared to leave Heavenly Eye Sect to avoid drawing hostile attention. Before departing, he arranged a powerful Guardian Array and gave Li Xuan a secret method for forming a High-grade Golden Core.

• Chen Sheng rejected True Person Bai Shou's proposal for a Pill Condensation banquet, citing the danger of attracting covetous cultivators, and requested resources to refine a Natal Magic Treasure.
• Chen Sheng announced that he would travel to temper his Dao Heart and gave True Person Bai Shou a third-tier Jiazi Heaven-Burning Formation diagram and detailed setup instructions.
• Chen Sheng told the Elders to leave and asked Li Xuan to stay behind.
• Chen Sheng gave Li Xuan a communication Jade slip and the Heaven-Earth Intercourse Yin-Yang Pill-Embracing Method, instructing him to contact Chen Sheng when his chance to form a Golden Core arrived.

Chen Sheng discovered that the Bamboo Mountain Sect had plotted against Wood Daoist and prepared another scheme, then traveled to a remote South Sea island to cultivate. He subdued three Ink Jade Mystic Serpents to guard the island and entered seclusion at its hidden fourth-rank Spiritual Eye.

• Two Bamboo Mountain Sect cultivators searched the Heavenly Eye Sect for Shi Jian, failed to penetrate its formation, and discussed a hidden plan in Western Liang involving the Six Yin Burial Clan Method and Origin-Embracing Return Elixir Secret.
• Chen Sheng observed the two cultivators through his Five Directions Heaven-Observing Illusion Mirror and concluded that the Bamboo Mountain Sect had plotted against Wood Daoist.
• Chen Sheng found a concealed fourth-rank Spiritual Eye beneath a barren South Sea island and discovered three Ink Jade Mystic Serpents guarding it.
• Chen Sheng subdued the three serpents with a golden lightning rope, imposed Soul-Control Restrictions, and ordered them to guard the island.
• Chen Sheng gave the serpents the Mystic Water Pill Condensation Art, then entered seclusion in the cold pool.

Ling Wenxuan’s allies slaughtered the Seven Monsters of Wu Mountain after accusing them of conspiring with the Ghost King. After witnessing the massacre, Chen Sheng decided to arrange a Great Calamity for the heterodox sects so he could gather destiny while Ling Wenxuan ascended.

• Yellow-Robed True Lord insisted that the Seven Monsters had come to help Ling Wenxuan, but Bitter Ascetic and Ling Suxin turned Ling Wenxuan against them.
• Ling Wenxuan and his companions attacked the Seven Monsters, killing all seven and annihilating their divine souls.
• Chen Sheng watched the battle through the Water-Moon Illusion and realized that the five great sects were protecting Ling Wenxuan and dividing his destiny among themselves.
• Chen Sheng resolved to follow the Bamboo Mountain and Converging Sand sects’ strategy for gathering destiny while avoiding the Son of Destiny’s rise.
• Chen Sheng planned to bring about a Great Calamity for the heterodox sects so Ling Wenxuan would ascend quickly and leave him time to gather destiny.

Heaven's Jealousy refined two cultivators’ blood qi to strengthen his Eight Sufferings Cycle Technique, determined to break through and become immortal before his lifespan ran out. Chen Sheng secretly guided him to transform the technique, leaving Heaven's Jealousy convinced he had gained the power to challenge destiny while Chen Sheng prepared moves involving five other side-path Venerables.

• Heaven's Jealousy ordered the red-robed and gray-robed cultivators to double their workload, then refined two bodies and fed their blood qi to the Spirits of the Eight Sufferings.
• Heaven's Jealousy resolved to seize the chance presented by the Son of Destiny's ascension and become immortal, despite having only fifty years left to live.
• Chen Sheng watched Heaven's Jealousy through a Water-Moon Treasure Mirror and revealed that the Eight Sufferings Cycle Technique had been designed by a Heaven Mending Dao patriarch to make him a sacrifice.
• Chen Sheng selected six side-path Venerables, including Heaven's Jealousy, and sent a nearly imperceptible strand of golden spiritual qi toward Heaven's Jealousy's chamber.
• After the golden light inspired him to discover flaws in his technique, Heaven's Jealousy revised it into the Purple Residence Eight Sufferings Reincarnation Technique, which he believed could help him defy destiny.
• Chen Sheng approved of Heaven's Jealousy's transformation and continued secretly influencing the other five Venerables.

Fifty years after the previous events, Heaven’s Jealousy led the unorthodox paths against the five great sects at the Ruins Immortal Palace. His forces overwhelmed the sects, and he trapped Ling Wenxuan as he prepared to claim his destiny.

• The Ruins Immortal Palace emerged above the East Sea, where Ling Wenxuan’s five great sects faced Heaven’s Jealousy and the unorthodox cultivators.
• Heaven’s Jealousy taunted Ling Wenxuan about their previous battle and declared his intent to overthrow the five sects’ control of the path to immortality.
• Heaven’s Jealousy attacked, and the five sects formed a defense with their Immortal artifacts, but he overpowered their combined formation.
• Blood Venerable, Sand Elder, and Gu Venerable helped kill and disable Venerables of the five great sects while the unorthodox forces drove their opponents back.
• Ling Wenxuan charged Heaven’s Jealousy, who trapped him in purple-gold Qi and proclaimed that all the world’s destiny would be his.

Celestial Immortal Mu Ye descended to the Ruins Immortal Palace, killed Heaven’s Jealousy and the heterodox Venerables, and forced Ling Wenxuan to ascend. Watching from the East Sea, Chen Sheng judged that his plans were working and decided to arrange for a surviving heterodox cultivator to ascend before him.

• Venerable Yi Xuan and the other sect Venerables sacrificed their treasures to summon Heaven Mending Dao’s Celestial Immortal Mu Ye.
• Heaven’s Jealousy challenged Mu Ye, but Mu Ye used the Seven Seals of Heaven Mending to destroy him and his Eight Sufferings Reincarnation Banner.
• Mu Ye suppressed Blood Venerable, Sand Elder, and the remaining heterodox cultivators, turning the Venerables into fortune that flowed into Ling Wenxuan.
• Mu Ye stabilized Ling Wenxuan’s cultivation, helping him become a Primordial Spirit True Immortal and ascend.
• Chen Sheng watched the battle through the Water-Moon Illusory Mirror and resolved to secretly guide a surviving heterodox cultivator to ascend before he did.

After the Great Calamity, Five Poisons Venerable gathered Southern Border’s fortune and ascended to immortality. Chen Sheng attained Yin God Venerablehood in the East Sea and established the Jie Sect, leaving Li Xuan to take control of the Heavenly Eye Sect as its branch.

• Five Poisons Venerable swept across Southern Border, took part of its fortune, and overcame Long River Venerable’s challenge at the border.
• Five Poisons Venerable passed the lightning tribulation and ascended into the immortal realm.
• Long River Venerable’s Treasure Mirror revealed an unorthodox Yin God in the East Sea, and he said the five great sects would not oppose the post-calamity ascensions.
• Chen Sheng deciphered the wind tribulation and attained Yin God Venerablehood atop the Mysterious Sea Giant Whale.
• Chen Sheng ordered Li Xuan to make the Heavenly Eye Sect a branch of his new sect and consolidate control of it.
• Chen Sheng named his sect the Jie Sect and declared that he would be known as Jie Tian Venerable.

Seventy years after the Great Calamity, Luo Ancestor Sect Venerables Xuanhua and Huomo challenged Jie Tian for control of the East Sea’s fortune, but his disciples defeated them with a powerful formation. Jie Tian then appeared and bound both Venerables with the Immortal-Binding Rope, prompting them to recognize him as Li Xuan.

• Several unorthodox Venerables ascended, leaving the remaining nodes of fortune open to fierce contests among their peers.
• Xuanhua and Huomo arrived at Giant Whale Island and demanded that Jie Tian surrender half of the East Sea’s fortune.
• Qingxuan led the Eight Sons of the Jie Sect in activating the Eight-Direction Yuanmagnetic Immortal-Falling Array against Xuanhua and Huomo.
• Xuanhua and Huomo were driven to detonate the Purple Star Chart and Sky Burning Mirror to escape the formation.
• Jie Tian appeared above Giant Whale Island and used the Immortal-Binding Rope to capture both Venerables.
• Xuanhua and Huomo recognized the rope as Venerable Heavenly Eye’s famed Immortal artifact and identified Jie Tian as Li Xuan.

Li Xuan and the Eight Sons captured Xuanhua and Huomo after they attacked the Jie Sect, and Chen Sheng turned the two Venerables into sect-protecting Puppets. After expanding the Jie Sect for nine years, Chen Sheng passed leadership to Li Xuan and ascended to Immortality.

• Li Xuan captured Xuanhua and Huomo with the Immortal-Binding Rope, and the Eight Sons revealed that he was the Jie Sect's deputy sect master.
• Chen Sheng refined Xuanhua and Huomo into Puppets who retained their Venerable cultivation, then announced that he planned to ascend.
• Over nine years, the Jie Sect expanded across the land as Chen Sheng defeated peak Venerables and the Eight Sons grew stronger.
• Chen Sheng passed the Heaven-Severing Seal and the position of Sect Master to Li Xuan.
• An Immortal light enveloped Chen Sheng, and he ascended as Li Xuan and the Eight Sons bowed farewell.

Chen Sheng ascended to Chonglou Heaven, joined the Heavenly Court, and became a Ninth-Rank Feathered Forest Heavenly Soldier. After settling into his cultivation palace and studying the Heavenly Court’s cultivation art, he received a message from Five Poisons Daoist, who also hailed from Bright Light.

• Chen Sheng arrived at the eastern Ascension Platform, where Li Hu invited him to join the Heavenly Soldiers, and Chen Sheng readily accepted.
• Chen Sheng registered with the Heavenly Court and, half a month later, took up residence at Sky Severing Hall as a Ninth-Rank Feathered Forest Heavenly Soldier.
• Chen Sheng received his stipend, standard weapons and armor, and the Chonglou Profound Guidance Immortal Art.
• Chen Sheng quickly grasped the cultivation art’s principles and considered its benefits for ordinary cultivators.
• Chen Sheng received a communication from Five Poisons Daoist, who asked to meet him because they both came from Bright Light.