Chapter Summaries

At the Peach Banquet, Chen Sheng arrived as the Jie Sect’s Great Heavenly Venerable and presided over a celebration of the immortals. As the festivities continued, he reflected that the Great Epochal Destruction was only twelve thousand years away and would erase the prosperity around him.

• Immortals gathered at the Jade Pool for the Peach Banquet, where Li Xuan, Son of the Sea, Qingxuan, and other Jie Sect figures received respectful greetings.
• Yan Wenqiu arrived and announced Chen Sheng’s approach, recalling how Chen Sheng’s teachings and patronage had advanced his career.
• Chen Sheng arrived in the Nine-Dragon Agarwood Carriage, and the assembled immortals bowed before he invited them to rise and celebrate.
• Yan Wenqiu declared the banquet open, and immortal maidens danced while music immortals played as the guests feasted and toasted one another.
• Li Xuan and several Immortal Lords reported on their domains to Chen Sheng, who thought of the Great Epochal Destruction approaching in twelve thousand years.

Chen Sheng discovered the Heart Realm Gate and entered the Heart Realm, where he learned that Taihao had failed in his attempt to transcend the world and suffered dao demise. After examining the inheritances of past cultivators, Chen Sheng rejected their perilous path as one he did not need to take.

• Chen Sheng sensed a fluctuation in the Origin Land and found Taihao's Heart Realm Gate.
• Chen Sheng refined the gate, learned that Taihao had died after failing to reach a higher realm, and entered the Heart Realm.
• Chen Sheng found the Heart Realm ravaged by dao demise and reconstructed Taihao's failed attempt to sever his Imperial Dynasty karma and transcend the world.
• Chen Sheng examined the failed inheritances of past cultivators and recognized the Illusory Heart Nine Scrolls as the Dao Venerable's incomplete fundamental method.
• Chen Sheng concluded that the short Epoch cycle and incomplete cultivation path might be tests for selecting disciples, then decided the Final Leap was not his path.

As the Great Epochal Destruction consumed the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, Chen Sheng watched his disciples and Taihao perish before being destroyed along with the world. He then awakened in the Nine Yang Realm as a Golden-winged Great Peng, completing the fifth volume of Annihilation.

• Chen Sheng's incarnations perished across the lower realms, deepening his understanding of the Way of Annihilation.
• At the final Peach Banquet, Li Xuan and Chen Sheng's eight other disciples bowed to him before the destructive force erased them.
• Taihao emerged from the Heart Realm Gate and explained how he had hidden inside it to evade the calamity.
• Taihao asked why Chen Sheng would not Coincide Dao, then perished after Chen Sheng refused and learned of Taihao's scheme.
• Chen Sheng perished as the origin of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands collapsed.
• In the Nine Yang Realm, Chen Sheng awakened as a Golden-winged Great Peng and completed the fifth volume of Annihilation.

Yellow Springs Sacred Lord entered an Origin hidden heaven and threatened its occupant, only to discover that the cultivator was Ming Gan, the Fifth Prince of Miesheng Hall. He surrendered his prized Lesser Yin Orb and fled, while Ming Gan resumed cultivating under the protection of his master's fearsome reputation.

• Yellow Springs Sacred Lord broke the hidden heaven's restrictions and found Ming Gan cultivating inside.
• Yellow Springs Sacred Lord recognized Ming Gan as the Fifth Prince of Miesheng Hall and apologized, offering him the Lesser Yin Orb.
• Ming Gan accepted the apology and let Yellow Springs Sacred Lord leave unharmed.
• Yellow Springs Sacred Lord fled and reflected on Miesheng Daoist's reputation and his own lost treasure.
• Ming Gan noted that his master's reputation protected him, then resumed absorbing the hidden heaven's Origin Power.

Chen Sheng reflected on Ming Gan’s decision to remove Taiyuan’s Dao marks and watched Chen Qingyun leave to seek the Dao in the Taiyi Realm. He had created the Shoreless Heart Sutra and matched Sky Abyss Dharma Lord’s former power, but still could not understand how to condense a Dharma Seed and reach Body Integration.

• Chen Sheng sensed that Ming Gan was safe and approved of his decision to sever the Termination Dao marks inherited from Taiyuan.
• Chen Qingyun told Chen Sheng he would leave for the Taiyi Realm rather than wait for death, and Chen Sheng let him go.
• As Chen Qingyun departed, Chen Sheng recalled the deaths and departures of his senior brothers and disciples, including Taiyuan, Han Jun, Chen Xihua, Yun Xing, Qi Yuan, and Gu Ye.
• Chen Sheng reflected on how he had created the Shoreless Heart Sutra by combining the Mind-Aspect Dao with the Annihilation Dao, raising his power to match Sky Abyss Dharma Lord’s former level.
• Chen Sheng considered the limits of his Yin-Yang Divine Soul and recognized that it would not reliably protect him from Body Integration Cultivators.
• Chen Sheng remained unable to condense a Dharma Seed, knowing that he had to realize the final step of Body Integration for himself.

Chen Sheng witnessed the Golden Feather Demon Lord die during his eleventh Dao Tribulation, then left the Golden Winged Great Roc Clan and later bade farewell to Zhang Hongdao and Master Hong Jue. With only five thousand years remaining before his own tribulation, Chen Sheng departed to face what came next.

• The Golden Feather Demon Lord failed to withstand his eleventh Dao Tribulation and died as Chen Sheng watched from outside Golden Feather Hall.
• Chen Sheng recalled how he had ascended to the Spirit Realm fifty thousand years earlier and received the Roc Clan’s support, then left the clan after Dharma Lord Gan Tian gave him permission.
• Ten thousand years later, Zhang Hongdao left Miesheng Hall to seek the Taiyi Realm, and Chen Sheng gave him a Termination Dao Talisman for protection.
• Chen Sheng reflected that only Ming Gan remained among his disciples and saw the mark of his twelfth Longevity Dao Tribulation on his palm, with five thousand years left.
• Chen Sheng visited Master Hong Jue at Star Pivot Hall and bid farewell before leaving.

Chen Sheng, incarnated as the Illusory Heart Realm’s Heavenly Dao, expounded the Dao at Jade Scenery Palace and revealed what it meant to become a Saint. He accepted five innate sacred beings as Disciples and gave each Primordial Violet Qi, while the other beings watched with envy.

• The newly awakened Purple Firmament Daoist opened his Mind Aspect, then heard Jie Tian announce that he had become a Saint and would expound the Dao a thousand years later.
• At Jade Scenery Palace, the Purple Firmament Daoist joined Wood Daoist, Xuanming Ancestor, Gengjin, Huode, and other sacred beings to hear Jie Tian’s first Dao exposition.
• Jie Tian’s first two expositions helped the sacred beings advance, while the Purple Firmament Daoist learned the stages of cultivation and the Illusory Heart Realm entered an age of rising factions and conflict.
• After the third exposition, Chen Sheng named Qing Mu, Xuanming, Purple Firmament, Gengjin, and Huode as his five personal Disciples.
• Chen Sheng explained that Sainthood meant Coinciding Dao with Heaven and Earth Origin, then gave each of the five Disciples Primordial Violet Qi as the foundation for becoming a Saint.

Five of Chen Sheng’s disciples became Saints, while the Great Epochal Destruction arrived and the Saints began erasing Heaven and Earth. As Chen Sheng realized he had nearly lost himself to Dao assimilation, his preparations helped him break free of some of its restraints.

• Wood Daoist absorbed Primordial Violet Qi and became the first Saint, declaring himself Qing Mu.
• Fire Virtue Daoist and Chen Sheng’s three other disciples attained sainthood over the following thousands of years.
• As one hundred thousand years passed and the end of the Epoch arrived, the Five Great Saints destroyed Heaven and Earth and their own Dao lineages.
• A green-robed old man challenged a Saint, then perished while declaring that his Great Dao lay in his true heart.
• In the Heart Realm, Chen Sheng recognized the danger of losing himself through Dao assimilation and saw that his preparations had helped him escape some of its restraints.

Chen Sheng scattered billions of bloodline thoughts across the Great Void before a force of primal annihilation erased his consciousness. The Myriad Lives Tome recorded the end of his fifth life and granted him five new talents.

• Chen Sheng fused his Yang God, flesh, and laws into billions of thoughts and scattered them across the Great Void.
• When the Epoch shattered, consciousness reflection annihilated Chen Sheng's consciousness and destroyed the scattered thoughts, though his bloodline remained.
• The Myriad Lives Tome recorded Chen Sheng's fifth life, including his cultivation and achievements.
• The Myriad Lives Tome ended the fifth life and granted Chen Sheng Sword Dao Prodigy, Martial Path Prodigy, Formation Path Prodigy, Blood Dao Prodigy, and Indestructible True Spirit.

Chen Sheng was reborn as a White Tiger in the Qingshi Mountain Range and began developing new cultivation methods in a world without spiritual energy. After a month of growth, he could sense and manipulate the world's laws, but his former techniques had lost most of their power.

• A martial arts instructor warned his disciples that Demons and Monsters had appeared since the Blood Rain and urged them to master their skills.
• Four Blood Change Realm Martial Artists agreed to hunt a snow-white Mountain Lord in the Qingshi Mountain Range for its valuable hide.
• Chen Sheng, reborn as a White Tiger cub, created the Dragon Devouring Elephant Swallowing Art and the Circulate Heavens Star God Contemplation Method.
• After a month of practicing the methods, Chen Sheng grew nearly as large as a Young White Tiger and learned to pry at the world's laws.
• Chen Sheng found that his former Dao techniques had lost more than ninety percent of their power and concluded that he needed to discover the land's proper cultivation path.

Chen Sheng watched as Tiger Mom killed four Blood Change Realm Martial Artists who had tried to capture her cubs, then absorbed one of the dead men’s Changelings and learned about the blood rain and the martial arts realms. He realized the blood rain was the Seventh Tier Bloodline Power he had released in a previous life, which had strengthened beasts like Tiger Mom.

• Four Martial Artists tracked the White Tiger’s cubs to a creek and planned to capture them and lure out their mother.
• Chen Sheng sensed the intruders and recognized that Tiger Mom was returning before he could intervene.
• Tiger Mom killed all four men as they tried to flee, protecting her cubs.
• Four Changelings rose from the corpses, and Tiger Mom destroyed three with her roar.
• Chen Sheng drew the remaining Changeling into himself and received memories about the blood rain and the martial arts realms.
• Chen Sheng realized that his Bloodline Power had caused the blood rain and had strengthened Tiger Mom and other beasts.

Chen Sheng used a fragment of a Divine Intent Diagram to improve his cultivation and studied how qi, blood, and souls interacted in this world. He then created a conscious, obedient living changeling from Wang Laoqi and sent him to find a complete Divine Intent Diagram.

• Chen Sheng matched the incomplete Divine Intent Diagram in a changeling’s memories with his Dragon Devouring Elephant Swallowing Art, increasing his cultivation efficiency.
• Chen Sheng considered how Tiger Mom’s Fierce and Malevolent Qi bound the souls of the dead and explored how he might adapt those principles.
• Wang Laoqi found a young boar in one of his traps, but its enraged mother boar charged and knocked him unconscious.
• Chen Sheng drove the mother boar away, drew Wang Laoqi’s soul from his body, and refined it with a binding mark before returning it to his body.
• Wang Laoqi awoke as Chen Sheng’s obedient living changeling, and Chen Sheng ordered him to find complete information on the Divine Intent Diagram.

Chen Sheng helped Wang Laoqi master the Long River Fist so he could gain access to the Training Hall’s Divine Intent Diagram, which Chen Sheng studied to refine his cultivation method. After Wang Laoqi received the Great Demon Subduing Strength, he completed his first blood replacement and proved his new strength in his village.

• Chen Sheng took control of Wang Laoqi’s body to demonstrate the Long River Fist, then ordered him to investigate the Training Hall’s Divine Intent Diagram.
• A month later, Zhou Kui gave Wang Laoqi the Great Demon Subduing Strength after being impressed by his progress.
• Chen Sheng studied the Divine Intent Diagram, discerned its runes, and used it to refine his cultivation method.
• Wang Dahu and his hooligans came to Wang Laoqi’s home to pressure him over his debt and his family’s fields.
• Wang Laoqi impressed Wang Dahu by denting a copper coin, then cracked a marble stone with his palm to show the villagers his strength.
• Wang Laoqi recognized that he had completed his first blood replacement and become a Martial Artist.

Mi Youdao learned that a tiger demon in the Qingshi Mountain Range had killed four Blood Change experts and decided to hunt it. The demon was Chen Sheng, who had reached thirty-three Blood Changes and far surpassed Tiger Mom, though he did not know how his strength compared with the world's experts.

• A brocade-robed subordinate told Mi Youdao that Zhang Yu and three Blood Change experts had vanished after heading into the mountains to hunt a White Tiger.
• Mi Youdao concluded a tiger demon had killed the four and ordered preparations to enter the mountains with his subordinate in three days.
• Chen Sheng demonstrated his growing power by blasting cracks into a boulder with his breath.
• Chen Sheng explained that he had devised a new Cultivation Method from the Dragon Devouring Elephant Swallowing Art and the Divine Intent Diagram, then used it to hunt and undergo repeated Blood Changes.
• Chen Sheng reflected on reaching thirty-three Blood Changes and noted that his aura had surpassed Tiger Mom's after his thirteenth transformation.

Mi Youdao led his disciples and gang members into the Qingshi Mountain Range to hunt the supposed tiger demon, only to find Tiger Mom and her cubs. After Mi Youdao defeated Tiger Mom, the true tiger demon, Chen Sheng, appeared and overwhelmed him, then drew out his soul to craft a Changeling.

• Mi Youdao followed a hunter’s tracks to a cave and found Tiger Mom guarding her two cubs.
• Tiger Mom defeated the first attacker and fought the eight disciples, while Mi Youdao stopped gang members from trying to seize her cubs.
• Mi Youdao entered the battle, used his Martial Path will to defeat Tiger Mom, and buried her beneath a collapsed mountainside.
• A blood-and-vitality shockwave knocked Mi Youdao and the others aside, revealing Chen Sheng as the true tiger demon.
• Mi Youdao launched his strongest punch at Chen Sheng, but Chen Sheng crushed it, knocked him unconscious, and drew out his soul to craft a Changeling.

Mi Youdao explained the martial realms to Chen Sheng, who studied his cultivation manuals and began devising methods suited to himself. A year later, a masked Dragon Head searched for the Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram and chose Wang Yue as his next target, while hinting at a connection between Daoist Tianyuan and the Martial Realm Token.

• Mi Youdao described the martial realms from Aperture Opening through Martial Saint, and Chen Sheng compared them with the Immortal Path.
• Chen Sheng healed Tiger Mom, then studied Mi Youdao’s Limitless Origin Refining Technique and Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram, deciphering their rule talismans.
• Chen Sheng ordered Mi Youdao to collect every cultivation method he could find, then began combining the talismans with his own techniques to devise new cultivation methods.
• A year later, a black-clad subordinate reported to the masked Dragon Head that Mad Saber had not possessed the Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram.
• The Dragon Head learned that Mo Wenchou, Wang Yue, and Mi Youdao remained as targets, and chose Wang Yue of Pingjiang Prefecture as the next one.
• Alone in Chifeng Valley, the Dragon Head muttered about Daoist Tianyuan and the Martial Realm Token.

Mi Youdao trained Wang Qi and received a delivery of martial cultivation methods before four masked Outer Scenery fighters attacked him, demanding the Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram. Mi Youdao defeated three of them and pursued their wounded leader out of Qingshi County, with the chase still underway.

• Mi Youdao corrected Wang Qi’s fist technique and secretly used him to test his master’s cultivation methods.
• Li Xiaocheng delivered two chests of Western Regions cultivation methods, and Mi Youdao read a letter reporting the mysterious deaths of powerful Jianghu experts.
• Four masked men ambushed Mi Youdao and demanded the Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram, then attacked him with a combined sword technique and Chaos force field.
• Mi Youdao revealed his Great Accomplishment Outer Scenery strength, battered the four attackers, and used Spirit-Smiting Tribulation to incapacitate three.
• The surviving leader fled using a phantom-body Lightness Skill, and Mi Youdao chased him beyond Qingshi County toward the mountain forest.

Mi Youdao fled from the Dragon Head of the Azure Dragon Society, but the Dragon Head captured him and tried to learn where he had hidden the Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram. Chen Sheng’s overwhelming spiritual power defeated the Dragon Head and revealed that the world was the True Martial Realm, a middle world with three hundred million domains.

• The wounded black-clad man reported to the Dragon Head that Mi Youdao had the Heavenly Origin Divine Mountain Diagram, and the Dragon Head ordered him to face the wall in the Azure Dragon Grotto for half a month.
• Mi Youdao fled when he sensed the Dragon Head, but the Dragon Head caught him and imprisoned his body and mind to demand the diagram’s location.
• A golden White Tiger apparition burst from Mi Youdao and entered the Dragon Head’s spiritual world, initially making the Dragon Head mistake it for a Martial Saint’s Dharma Manifestation.
• The Dragon Head’s Inner Scenery could not withstand the vast golden spiritual power, and he collapsed unconscious.
• Chen Sheng revealed his extraordinary cultivation levels and used his spiritual power to search the Dragon Head’s memories.
• Chen Sheng learned of the Tiannan Domain, the Wuji Domain, the Azure Dragon Society, the Heavenly Origin Treasure Vault, and the True Martial Realm, which contained three hundred million domains but was not large enough to be a Great Thousand World.

Chen Sheng enthralled Li Changkong, learned of the Martial Realm Token, and continued developing his cultivation methods while training his White Tiger kin. After studying Li Changkong’s memories and the laws behind various techniques, he formed the prototype of the Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique.

• Chen Sheng turned Li Changkong into his thrall, healed his injuries, and ordered him to gather Cultivation Methods.
• Chen Sheng learned that Li Changkong had come from the Wuji Domain seeking a Martial Realm Token that could help an inner-landscape cultivator enter the True Martial Realm.
• Chen Sheng visited Tiger Mom, Yuanji, and Yuanba, who cultivated the White Tiger Hell-Suppressing Technique, and guided their progress.
• Chen Sheng cultivated with the Mahā Lāṅka Yuan Dian and used Li Changkong’s memories to deduce a new inner-landscape Cultivation Method.
• Chen Sheng completed the prototype of the Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique.

Li Changkong plundered the Four Great Sacred Lands for their martial arts manuals and delivered them to his master, Chen Sheng, who rewarded him with a completed cultivation art. After two years, Chen Sheng formed a Chaos White Tiger Dharma Avatar, sensed the True Martial Portal, and chose to remain in Tiannan while preparing his followers for future advancement.

• Li Changkong defeated Daoist Shi Qiu, took the Qianyuan Daoist Scripture, and memorized every manual in the Qianyuan Dao Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.
• Zhang Tiezui recounted Li Changkong’s attacks on the sacred lands at the Ten-Thousand Fragrance Teahouse, prompting Li Changkong to suspect that someone was spreading news about him; Li Changkong then destroyed Sword Palace and killed Grandmaster Jian Chen.
• Li Changkong reported to Chen Sheng and surrendered the collected manuals, and Chen Sheng bestowed the complete Yin-Yang Intercourse Heavenly Demon Strategy upon him while assigning Mi Youdao to clear the area around the Qingshi Mountain Range.
• After two years of cultivation, Chen Sheng reached Level Thirty-Six in the Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique and formed a Chaos White Tiger Dharma Avatar with Myriad Dao wings, terrifying martial artists across Tiannan.
• Chen Sheng sensed the True Martial Portal but decided not to leave yet, then gave Tiger Mom, Yuanji, and Yuanba cultivation guidance and ordered Li Changkong and Mi Youdao to gather manuals, resources, and forces.