Chapter Summaries

Chen Sheng revealed that he had inherited Miesheng Daoist’s legacy, reunited with Master Hong Jue, and joined the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion as Master of the Scripture Hall. After settling into his new post and bringing four followers into the hall, he sent his thought incarnation toward the Sky Abyss Realm.

• Chen Sheng presented the Great Epochal Destruction jade slip and told Master Hong Jue that he had inherited Miesheng Celestial Venerable’s legacy.
• Master Hong Jue learned that his disciple had Coincided Dao with a Middle Thousand World and invited Chen Sheng to join the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion.
• Chen Sheng accepted the invitation and became the Immortal Mansion’s new Dharma Lord and head of its Scripture Hall.
• Master Xuanguang showed Chen Sheng the Scripture Hall’s facilities and explained his duties.
• Chen Sheng summoned Golden Saint, Yuanji, Yuanba, and Li Changkong, then ordered Tian Ku to register them under the Scripture Hall.
• Chen Sheng sent his thought incarnation across the Great Void toward the Sky Abyss Realm.

Chen Sheng returned to the declining Sky Abyss Realm and discovered that his bloodline had spread through every living race, then decided to bring its inhabitants to his Panwu Realm. As he traveled unnoticed, the Mountain Lord defeated and devoured Li Guanlong, while Chen Sheng vanished from the boat after leaving the boatman silver.

• Chen Sheng entered the Sky Abyss Realm in disguise and traveled downstream by boat through Jinzhou Prefecture.
• Chen Sheng learned that the realm had entered an End of Dharma and that his bloodline had endured across its living beings for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Chen Sheng decided to bring the realm’s living beings into his Panwu Realm.
• The Red-Robed Divine Lord broke Li Guanlong’s curse, defeated him, and devoured his Yin Spirit.
• Chen Sheng disappeared from the boat, leaving silver behind, and the boatman and his daughter bowed to him as an immortal.

Mang Mountain Lord fortified Mang Mountain and began refining Li Guanlong into a Changeling to extract the Xishan Dao legacy, but Chen Sheng appeared inside the Golden Seal’s space and seized the seal. The chapter left Mang Mountain Lord helpless before Chen Sheng, who judged its treasure of origin to be only fifth-rank and of little use to him.

• Mang Mountain Lord deployed Changelings as spiritual sentries and ordered the Shanyue Remnants to guard Mang Mountain’s checkpoints.
• General You inspected a checkpoint and warned its guards to remain vigilant.
• Mang Mountain Lord bound Li Guanlong’s yin god and began refining him into a Changeling after Li Guanlong refused to cooperate.
• The Golden Seal helped Mang Mountain Lord complete the initial refinement, and the controlled Li Guanlong began revealing the Xishan Dao legacy.
• Chen Sheng appeared inside the Golden Seal’s space, immobilized Mang Mountain Lord, and took the seal.
• Chen Sheng identified the Golden Seal as a shallow-foundation fifth-rank treasure of origin and said it was of little use to him.

Chen Sheng used the Golden Seal to trace the Sky Abyss Realm’s past, witnessing its decline, the Wilds Imperial Court’s escape, and his son Chen Xixing’s final years. After the visions ended, he brought Qi Mang to Panwu Realm and offered him a chance to become his named disciple if he gained entry to Yuanji’s scripture within three months.

• Chen Sheng traced the realm’s history, seeing Spiritual Energy cultivation collapse and the Wilds Imperial Court flee through the Myriad Heavens Mirror to the Nine Yang Realm.
• Chen Sheng witnessed Chen Xixing’s death in the past, then appeared to him in an illusory reunion and restored his youth and cultivation for a hundred years before the vision faded.
• Chen Sheng stopped tracing when the Golden Seal’s origin was damaged, borrowed it for several days, and offered Qi Mang a chance to make a request in return.
• Qi Mang asked to serve Chen Sheng, who transported him to Panwu Realm and brought him before Yuanji, a White Tiger immortal god.
• Yuanji gave Qi Mang three months to gain entry to a scripture and become Chen Sheng’s named disciple in the Panwu Sect, warning him to calm his heart as he began studying.

Qi Mang completed his scripture comprehension, entered the Manifestation Realm, and became Chen Sheng’s nominal disciple, choosing a cultivation method derived for him. After Chen Sheng sent him back to Mang Mountain with a reforged Golden Seal, Qi Mang killed the Celestial Master of Xishan Dao and declared his master’s path the true orthodox cultivation system.

• Qi Mang broke through the scripture’s Mysterious Pass, and Yuanji accepted him into the ranks and brought him to meet Chen Sheng.
• Chen Sheng’s Dao aura transformed Qi Mang’s cultivation, advancing him to Manifestation Realm perfection through the Panwu Realm’s innate Qi of Creation.
• Chen Sheng made Qi Mang his nominal disciple and offered him a choice between the Illusory Heart Nine Scrolls and the Heavenly Emperor’s Myriad Tribulations Yin Spirit Sacred Transformation Golden Chapter.
• Qi Mang chose the Heavenly Emperor’s Myriad Tribulations Yin Spirit Sacred Transformation Golden Chapter, received its teachings, and was sent back to Mang Mountain to cultivate.
• Chen Sheng reforged Qi Mang’s Golden Seal to the peak of the fifth tier, then left when the Celestial Master of Xishan Dao arrived seeking revenge.
• Qi Mang killed the Celestial Master of Xishan Dao and proclaimed his master’s cultivation path the true orthodox way.

Chen Sheng held his first public sermon as Hall Master Panwu, drawing the Immortal Mansion’s top Longevity Ranking prodigies with his reputation and the depth of his Dao. After teaching the Dao of Panwu Sky Opening, he ended the sermon without accepting disciples, leaving Daoist Tianku to wonder when Chen Sheng would establish his lineage.

• Huangfu Zhuo, Netherworld Yuanjun, and Qingxuan Mountain Master arrived at the Scripture Hall, and more Longevity Ranking prodigies followed after hearing they were there.
• Chen Sheng appeared before the assembled disciples, who bowed and took their seats for his sermon.
• Chen Sheng explained the myriad Dao laws and the Dao of Panwu Sky Opening, answering Netherworld Yuanjun’s question about merging cultivation systems and withstanding the impact of laws.
• The disciples thanked Chen Sheng for the sermon and waited to see whether he would accept disciples, but he told them to return and reflect.
• Daoist Tianku asked Chen Sheng why he would not choose disciples, and Chen Sheng said there was no hurry and that he would wait a while.

Chen Sheng chose the Two Forms Dao Scripture as a Tribulation Crossing inheritance to complement his Panwu Dao and received it from Dao Lord Kong Fang. He began incorporating its yin-yang principles into the Panwu Realm, leaving its evolution underway.

• Chen Sheng reviewed the Scripture Hall’s inheritances and selected the Two Forms Dao Scripture to harmonize with his Sky Opening Dao.
• Chen Sheng traveled to Thunder World, where Dao Lord Kong Fang granted him the Two Forms Dao Scripture and told him the Taihuang Realm would open in two hundred years.
• Hong Sheng studied the inheritance within the Panwu Realm and began integrating yin-yang principles into its heavenly laws, refining the world’s balance and stability.
• Hong Sheng concluded that the Two Forms Great Dao would need further tempering through the Panwu Realm’s evolution and merged back into its Heavenly Dao.

Hong Sheng used the Two Forms Dao Scripture to deepen his Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique while evolving the Panwu Realm, then began forming a Blood Path incarnation and two swords from the realm’s Blood Sea and Innate Metal Qi. Chen Sheng chose the Purple Mansion Heavenly Array Record and began comprehending Formation Dao, aiming to reach the Seventh Tier.

• Hong Sheng comprehended the Two Forms Dao Scripture and integrated its principles into his Panwu Sky-Opening Profound Technique as the Panwu Realm evolved around him.
• Chen Sheng reviewed his four great talents and sent a seed of will into the Panwu World to create a new incarnation.
• Hong Sheng placed the seed in the Blood Sea, where it devoured Blood Sea Origin and formed a blood cocoon.
• Hong Sheng drew Innate Metal Qi from the far west into the Blood Sea, where it fused with Killing Intent and formed two embryonic swords.
• Chen Sheng resolved to focus on Formation Dao and selected the Purple Mansion Heavenly Array Record from four Seventh Tier inheritances.
• Chen Sheng opened the record and began comprehending its Formation Dao insights.

Chen Sheng reflected on his six lives and resolved to preserve his humanity as he cultivated, then bought an old Herbal Hall to continue its medical practice. With Hong Sheng’s help, he forged Dreamlike Order and used it to reconstruct Huang Wangyou, who emerged from the scroll and called him “Brother Yun.”

• Chen Sheng recalled the joys and pains of his past lives and decided that even as an immortal, he would remain half human.
• Chen Sheng found an old Herbal Hall for sale and agreed to keep it as a clinic under its original signboard.
• The old owner sold Chen Sheng the shop, relieved that his eldest brother’s final wish would be fulfilled.
• Hong Sheng refined the Panwu Realm’s Origin Power into Dreamlike Order and gave it to Chen Sheng.
• Chen Sheng gathered memories of Wangyou into Dreamlike Order, and Huang Wangyou stepped out of the painting and greeted him as “Brother Yun.”

Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou built a peaceful family life around Herbal Hall, where Tang Xichen and Qin Yuan adopted and raised Qin Ping'an. Years later, two Celestial Master Sect disciples came seeking Huang Yueyang’s Pill Formula and urged Chen Sheng to kill Qi Mang, but Chen Sheng killed them instead; Martial Dynasty cultivators then discovered children with Innate Dao Bodies near Herbal Hall and decided to investigate cautiously.

• Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou reopened Herbal Hall, spent twenty years treating patients, and reunited with Tang Xichen and Qin Yuan, who had left to travel together.
• After the Wu dynasty unified the realm, Tang Xichen and Qin Yuan asked to adopt a child, and Chen Sheng agreed; they named the infant Qin Ping'an.
• Qin Ping'an grew up playing with the reflected Tang Clan children, while Chen Sheng let them live peacefully with memories of their past lives.
• Two Celestial Master Sect disciples came to Herbal Hall to demand Huang Yueyang’s Pill Formula and recruit Chen Sheng to oppose Qi Mang, but Chen Sheng revealed Qi Mang was his disciple and reduced them to ash.
• Martial Dynasty cultivators tracked the vanished disciples to Herbal Hall and spotted children with Innate Dao Bodies, so their leader ordered them to observe the place secretly and report back to the emperor.

Zhou Yunsheng investigated Chen Sheng at Herbal Hall, but a Panwu jade token revealed Chen Sheng’s extraordinary connection to Emperor Qi Mang. Qi Mang reunited with his master, received the Myriad Tribulation Pearl to aid his cultivation, and ordered South State’s authorities to protect Herbal Hall; the chapter ended with Liu Chu promoted to governor and charged with keeping it safe.

• Zhou Yunsheng met Chen Sheng privately at the yamen, and Chen Sheng gave him a Panwu jade token to pass to Qi Mang.
• Qi Mang visited Herbal Hall, greeted Chen Sheng as his master, and received the Myriad Tribulation Pearl to help him advance beyond Tribulation Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Chen Sheng told Qi Mang to transfer South State’s governor and keep Herbal Hall undisturbed, while Qi Mang presented gifts for the household’s juniors.
• Qi Mang ordered Wang Huai'an transferred and five Imperial Observatory consecrated officials stationed in South State to protect Herbal Hall.
• The imperial decree removed Wang Huai'an and promoted Liu Chu to governor, with Zhou Yunsheng instructing him to make Herbal Hall’s safety his foremost duty.

Qin Ping'an set out to travel and study, met Li Bai Feng while she was fleeing the Crimson Blood Sect, and learned about cultivation as they fought their pursuers. After they returned to Herbal Hall, Zhou Yunsheng destroyed the sect with the Imperial Observatory, and Qin Ping'an discovered that his family had hidden his true status from him.

• Qin Ping'an left Herbal Hall to travel, then sheltered from a storm in a ruined temple and helped Li Bai Feng fight off the Crimson Blood Sect's assassins.
• Qin Ping'an and Li Bai Feng fought off further pursuers, and Li Bai Feng revealed the Jade Radiance Divine Art and offered to teach him cultivation.
• Tang Xichen ordered Zhou Yunsheng to watch Li Bai Feng but not interfere with Qin Ping'an's journey, while Qin Ping'an and Li Bai Feng hurried back to South State City.
• Qin Ping'an introduced Li Bai Feng to his parents and asked them to use their influence against the Crimson Blood Sect.
• Zhou Yunsheng led Imperial Observatory cultivators to destroy the Crimson Blood Sect's headquarters and capture its Sect Master.
• Qin Yuan brought Qin Ping'an and Li Bai Feng to meet Zhou Yunsheng, who addressed Qin Ping'an as 'Your Highness,' and Qin Yuan said it was time to explain the truth.

Li Bai Feng avenged her family by killing the Sect Master of the Crimson Blood Sect, while Qin Ping'an learned the truth about his family and received Chen Sheng’s Ten Scrolls of Illusory Heart. The chapter left Qin Ping'an reeling from the inheritance and beginning his path of cultivation.

• Tang Xichen brought the restrained Sect Master of the Crimson Blood Sect before Li Bai Feng, who killed him and mourned her family as Tang Xichen comforted her.
• Qin Yuan told Qin Ping'an that his grandfather was a Great Divine Ability User, Qi Mang was Emperor Wu Qi, and Herbal Hall’s members held royal titles and fiefdoms.
• Qi Mang reported his breakthrough to Chen Sheng, who reforged the Myriad Tribulation Pearl to better suit Qi Mang’s cultivation before Qi Mang returned to secluded cultivation.
• Qi Mang reassured Qin Ping'an that he was still his Uncle Qi and told him his royal palace and three thousand soldiers awaited him at his fiefdom.
• Qin Ping'an joined Chen Sheng and Huang Wangyou at the chessboard and accepted that they were still his grandparents despite their power and status.
• Chen Sheng passed on the Ten Scrolls of Illusory Heart by showing Qin Ping'an the creation of a world in the Mind Aspect Realm, leaving the inheritance imprinted in his mind.

Chen Sheng advanced his Formation Dao, received Zhang Che and advised him on his time-space and annihilation Dao domain, then attended to farewells connected to his past lives. He used Dreamlike Order to absorb the Sky Abyss Realm, erasing every trace of his previous lives from the Great Void.

• Chen Sheng tested the Four Symbols Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and resolved to break through to Seventh Tier Formation Dao with the aid of his Formation Path Prodigy talent.
• Zhang Che visited on Master Hong Jue's behalf, delivered an invitation to a gathering of Integration Masters, and showed Chen Sheng his Dao domain; Chen Sheng identified its flaws and advised him how to improve it.
• Chen Sheng learned that Zhang Che descended from his former disciple Zhang Hongdao and had inherited knowledge of Ming Gan's Space-Time Treasure Record.
• Thirty years later, Chen Sheng brought Qin Ping'an to see Qin Yuan and Tang Xichen one last time, then shared a final farewell with Huang Wangyou in the bamboo grove.
• Chen Sheng invoked Dreamlike Order to draw the Sky Abyss Realm into the treasure and leave its former location empty, declaring that no one could trace his past lives.

Hong Sheng fused the Sky Abyss Realm into the Panwu Realm, transforming its people and disrupting the Wu Kingdom, while Qi Mang and Zhou Yunsheng organized a response. Hong Sheng comforted Qin Ping'an after his illusory family vanished, and Chen Sheng attended a Dao Discussion Gathering in Chaos, where he exchanged insights with several Integrated Body Dharma Lords.

• Hong Sheng used the Dreamlike Order to merge the Sky Abyss Realm into the Panwu Realm, awakening bloodline powers among mortals and flooding the world with spiritual energy.
• Zhou Yunsheng gave the Imperial Observatory Celestial Masters the Scripture of Crossing Tribulation and Refining Spirit, then ordered them to suppress unrest across the Wu Kingdom.
• Qi Mang sensed the transformation, recognized his master's work, and continued cultivating with the Myriad Tribulation Pearl.
• Hong Sheng appeared before Qin Ping'an after his illusory family disappeared, telling him that sufficiently profound cultivation might let him restore them and urging him to turn his grief into a Dao Heart.
• Chen Sheng traveled from the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion to a gathering in Chaos, where he discussed the Open Heaven Principle with the Withered Glory Master of Law, the Thunder Prison Master of Law, Master Hong Jue, and the Star Evolution Master of Law.

At the Dharma Lords’ trading session, Chen Sheng watched rare treasures change hands and learned that the Lantuo Golden Fruit was sought in exchange for a supreme-yang treasure. After the gathering, Master Hong Jue visited Chen Sheng and invited him to explore the Origin Sea, then explained its dangers and opportunities.

• Star Evolution Master of Law traded the Yuanpin Thunder Pearl to Thunder Prison Master of Law, who needed it to break through a law bottleneck.
• Withered Glory Master of Law offered a Heavenly Origin Strange Stone, which two Dharma Lords acquired in exchange for ordinary treasures.
• Nine Refinements Master offered a Lantuo Golden Fruit but refused the offers, seeking a rare treasure containing supreme-yang origin instead.
• After the trading session, Chen Sheng invited Master Hong Jue to visit his Dao field, where they discussed Zhang Che over tea.
• Master Hong Jue invited Chen Sheng to explore the Origin Sea after the next Dao gathering, then showed him a map and explained its dangers and opportunities.

Chen Sheng learned more about the Origin Sea’s dangers and decided to prepare expendable main battle incarnations before exploring it. He began forging a Two Forms Micro Dust Treasure Body with Hong Sheng’s help, and the embryo was expected to be complete in a thousand years.

• Master Hong Jue explained how dangerous the Origin Sea was and why he had previously sent incarnations there instead of his true body.
• Chen Sheng declined to travel with Master Hong Jue because he still had to enter the Mahayana Treasure Realm for enlightenment.
• Chen Sheng reviewed the Immortal Mansion’s records and decided to cultivate several inexpensive main battle incarnations to explore the Origin Sea.
• Chen Sheng chose the Two Forms Micro Dust Treasure Body because it was cheap to cultivate and easy to replace.
• Chen Sheng and Hong Sheng formed a Two Forms formation and used Chen Sheng’s Origin Essence Blood to create a Treasure Body embryo, which Hong Sheng said would be complete in a thousand years.

Qi Mang completed the first layer of his Ten Directions Purgatory Fortune-Destroying Sword Body and followed a familiar Illusory Heart Dao rhythm to the southeastern waters, where he saved Zhang Mingyu by killing Sun Refining Venerable. He left Zhang Mingyu owing him a life.

• Qi Mang condensed his Dao domain after a hundred years of cultivation in the Purgatory Sea.
• Qi Mang sensed an immature Illusory Heart Dao rhythm and traveled toward its source, where he found Sun Refining Venerable attacking Zhang Mingyu over the Mysterious Purgatory Treasure Bead.
• Qi Mang intervened as Sun Refining Venerable prepared to kill Zhang Mingyu, knocking him away with a single kick.
• Qi Mang rejected Sun Refining Venerable's appeal and killed him with a Calamity Fortune Dao Domain strike and a volley of Sword Qi.
• Zhang Mingyu thanked Qi Mang for saving her, and he told her that she owed him a life.

After killing Sun Refining Venerable, Qi Mang faced Falling Flame Heavenly Lord, who tried to avenge his disciple but was defeated by Yuanba and spared at Chen Sheng’s order. Back at Panwu Hall, Chen Sheng praised Qi Mang’s progress and sent him into seclusion to prepare for the Three Extremes Domain Competition and the chance to enter the Mahayana Treasure Realm.

• Falling Flame Heavenly Lord tracked down Zhang Mingyu and Qi Mang, bound them, and demanded that Zhang Mingyu’s clan elders come to negotiate.
• Zhang Yuan arrived and offered Origin Pearls to settle the matter, but Falling Flame Heavenly Lord refused to spare Qi Mang and demanded that he become his disciple.
• Yuanba arrived from Panwu Hall, defeated Falling Flame Heavenly Lord with four immortal swords, and spared his final Yang God thought after receiving Chen Sheng’s order.
• Zhang Yuan thanked Qi Mang for saving Zhang Mingyu and gave him one hundred Origin Pearls before returning to Cloud Province with her.
• Chen Sheng examined Qi Mang’s progress, gave him a Dao Domain Nurturing Talisman, and ordered him to cultivate in seclusion for the upcoming competition.

Qi Mang and Qin Ping'an competed in the State Competition, where Qi Mang cleared the ninth floor and Qin Ping'an reached the eighth. Chen Sheng joined the other Masters of Law at the Domain Competition venue, where three Calamity Crossing Dao Lords announced the competition's start.

• Chen Sheng gave Qi Mang and Qin Ping'an Dao-protecting talismans and sent them to compete in the State Competition.
• Qi Mang defeated the ninth-floor Trial Tower guardian and temporarily took first place, drawing attention from spectators and Masters of Law.
• Zhang Mingyu noticed Qin Ping'an's Illusion Dao inheritance resembled but surpassed the Illusory Heart Nine Scrolls, then sent her suspicions to Zhang Yuan and Zhang Che.
• Qin Ping'an reached the eighth floor but failed to defeat its guardian, placing one hundred and third; Li Bai Feng and Qi Mang encouraged him afterward.
• Chen Sheng arrived at the Domain Competition venue and learned from Master Hong Jue about the Mahayana Treasure Realm and its precautions.
• Dao Lord Xuanming, Dao Lord Nine Dragons, and Dao Lord Kong Fang arrived and announced the official start of the Three Extremes Domain Competition.