Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan defeated an assassin sent by the He Dong Wei Clan, then reported his campaign victories to Chen Sheng. Chen Sheng elevated Wang Xuan and the other army commanders into Jinyu Strongmen, while ordering Wang Xuan to select a hundred loyal soldiers for promotion.

• An elderly martial arts grandmaster ambushed Wang Xuan in Jinyu Prefecture and wounded several Personal Guards, but Wang Xuan’s Bodyguard Profound Light blocked the assassin’s penetrating force and he subdued him.
• Under torture, the captured assassin confessed that the He Dong Wei Clan had hired him to kill Wang Xuan.
• Wang Xuan reported to Chen Sheng that his forces had taken one prefecture and thirteen counties, distributed seized land, and gained 170,000 believers.
• Chen Sheng ordered Wang Xuan to choose one hundred meritorious, loyal soldiers to be sent to Ning City for a Promotion Ceremony, then elevated Wang Xuan directly to a Jinyu Strongman.
• Chen Sheng’s will elevated Li Shi and the other commanders-in-chief into Jinyu Strongmen as golden marks appeared on their brows.

Li Shi led Supreme Dao's assault on Linjiang City when three blood-feeding foreign beings attacked his army. He defeated them, captured one, killed another, and watched the last flee, while Chen Sheng decided to keep his true body hidden as he investigated the unknown enemies.

• Li Shi commanded Supreme Dao's soldiers as they stormed Linjiang City, while three foreign beings watched the battle from the sky.
• The three foreign beings descended, slaughtered Guardian Warriors, and drained their blood.
• Li Shi transformed into a Golden-armored God and broke through the trio's Blood Domain.
• Li Shi pinned the lean foreign being to the city wall, burned a second into ash, and let the third escape north.
• Li Shi declared Linjiang conquered as the city's soldiers and civilians cheered for the Heavenly King and Supreme Dao.
• In Ning City, Chen Sheng witnessed the battle through Li Shi and decided to keep his true body hidden while investigating the unknown enemies.

Chen Sheng watched the blood clan’s failed ambushes and prepared for their next move while its leaders assessed his growing power. Emperor Taizong Gu Dingjiang ordered Chen Sheng’s family seized as the clan planned a decisive strike against him and his followers.

• Three blood clan ambushes against the armies failed, and the commanders captured several outsiders.
• Chen Sheng concealed himself in an underground cavern and monitored events through the Guardian Warriors while nearing Level 7.
• Blood clan leaders discussed Chen Sheng’s rise, his generals’ strength, and their failed first attack.
• Gu Dingjiang warned that Chen Sheng had to be eliminated before he grew stronger and announced that a major operation had been approved.
• Gu Dingjiang ordered the clan to secretly take control of Chen Sheng’s family and keep them alive as potential leverage.

Wang Xuan’s torture of the captured foreign beings yielded intelligence that helped Chen Sheng identify them as the Blood Clan and uncover their Ancestor, Gu Youming, as the hunter of anomalies. Chen Sheng realized Gu Youming might be targeting transmigrators and was left shaken but relieved that his own caution and rapid growth had helped him avoid detection.

• Wang Xuan tortured the captured foreign beings until one broke and revealed useful information, while interrogation teams at the other camps also gathered intelligence.
• Chen Sheng pieced together that the foreign beings were Blood Clan members, with ranks ranging from Bronze Blood to Source Blood Ancestor and powers resembling a fusion of zombies and vampires.
• Chen Sheng learned that Gu Youming, the Blood Clan Ancestor and founder of the qi-and-blood True Force martial path, had secretly hunted anomalies and erased their traces from history.
• Chen Sheng suspected that the anomalies Gu Youming hunted were transmigrators and that Great Li had been arranged as a trap to expose them.
• Chen Sheng recalled that he had considered entering the imperial court as an Imperial Preceptor, then felt relieved that his cautious approach and Golden Finger had helped him gain strength before drawing attention.

Gu Dingjiang, Gu Yunze, and Gu Lengxuan attacked Ning City and battled the five Jinyu Strongmen, while Chen Sheng supported them with talismans from a hidden cavern. After Chen Sheng drove the blood clan Dukes into retreat with the Dutian Divine Fire Talisman, Gu Youming found him and revealed that he had once been called Wan Chonglou.

• Gu Dingjiang, Gu Yunze, and Gu Lengxuan arrived over Ning City, accused Chen Sheng of being a wicked Daoist, and attacked the five Jinyu Strongmen when Bai Gongming and the protectors rejected their claims.
• The five Jinyu Strongmen formed the Jinyu Army Formation, and Chen Sheng secretly strengthened them with Wind Control, Heavenly Lightning, and Supreme Body Protection Talismans while the battle devastated Ning City and its surroundings.
• Gu Dingjiang used the Blood Sun Sword, but Chen Sheng's Supreme Body Protection Talisman blocked it, and Chen Sheng recognized the sword's power as dynastic fortune.
• Chen Sheng unleashed the Dutian Divine Fire Talisman, forcing Gu Dingjiang, Gu Yunze, and Gu Lengxuan to flee; Gu Lengxuan was burned to ashes, while the other two escaped badly injured.
• Gu Youming appeared in Chen Sheng's underground cavern, called him Daoist Xuanyang, and revealed that he had been named Wan Chonglou before transmigrating.

Gu Youming revealed that he had become a Corpse Severance Immortal and used his knowledge of Chen Sheng’s talismans to overwhelm him. Chen Sheng escaped with help from his Strongmen Altars, but Gu Youming tracked him and sent the Ancestor Zombie Corpse after him.

• Gu Youming revealed that he had advanced beyond the Blood Clan’s source-blood realm by creating a new path, and he summoned a Blood Moon that froze the surrounding world.
• Chen Sheng attacked Gu Youming with the Dutian Divine Fire Talisman and Supreme Protective Talisman, but Gu Youming revealed his Corpse Severance Immortal form and countered both methods.
• Gu Youming explained that he had forged a new race and path by combining powers and opportunities taken from other transmigrators.
• The Ancestor Zombie Corpse used death-light and talisman Dao intent to break down Chen Sheng’s protective Golden Mist, forcing him to seek escape.
• Chen Sheng summoned the Guardian Warrior Altar and Jinyu Strongmen Altar, whose phantoms carried him through the void.
• Gu Youming conjured an ancient compass to track Chen Sheng and sent the Ancestor Zombie Corpse pursuing him.

Chen Sheng broke through to Level 7 and trapped Gu Youming in the Two Forms Micro Dust Formation. After Gu Youming failed to transform again and accepted defeat, he warned Chen Sheng to master the essence of his power before dying.

• The Supreme Dao suspended public trials, distributed land and sent disciples to aid disaster victims so the Sect Master could gain fortune.
• Chen Sheng evaded Gu Youming in the Great Void while waiting for enough points to reach Level 7.
• Chen Sheng broke through to Level 7, formed a Nascent Soul, and trapped Gu Youming in the Two Forms Micro Dust Formation.
• After nine days of failing to escape, Gu Youming attempted another Corpse Severance through his Withering-and-Glory Transformation, but it failed.
• Gu Youming admitted defeat, urged Chen Sheng to excavate and truly control the essence of his power, and died.

Chen Sheng revived Gu Youming’s final remnant of true spirit by sending it into the Primordial River of Life with creation aura. Gu Youming awakened in Raylin Mason’s body on the Aiseland Continent, discovered his Bio-Chip, and resolved to combine wizardry with his former cultivation to surpass his past limits.

• Chen Sheng infused Gu Youming’s last remnant of true spirit with creation aura and sent it into the Primordial River of Life.
• Raylin Mason awakened in his bedroom as memories of Raylin Mason, Gu Youming, and Wan Chonglou flooded his mind.
• A gentle aura calmed Gu Youming’s consciousness, and he understood that he had been reborn in Raylin Mason’s body.
• Gu Youming recalled Raylin Mason’s poor wizard aptitude and his place as an apprentice-level Black Wizard in the Mason Knight Family.
• Gu Youming examined the Bio-Chip panel and found that it could deduce several basic wizard skills but could not deduce his former cultivation techniques.
• Gu Youming resolved to establish himself in the Wizard World, cultivate his Corpse Severance Immortal Technique again, and combine it with wizardry to surpass his former self and the Nascent Soul Great Dao.

After killing Gu Youming, Chen Sheng absorbed the Golden Fingers hidden in his remains and discovered how Gu had fused their powers to forge his own path to immortality. Chen Sheng integrated the abilities into his panel, recognized their value as knowledge rather than raw strength, and resolved to deepen his own cultivation and advance his Taoist level.

• Chen Sheng gathered the Two Forms Micro Dust Formation into a rune and merged it into his Talisman Infant.
• Chen Sheng drew more than a hundred Golden Fingers from Gu Youming's corpse and received visions of Gu's life plundering, fusing, and transcending their powers.
• Chen Sheng examined his panel and found that Gu Youming's Golden Fingers had been converted into max-level skills, alongside an increase of more than five million Fortune.
• Chen Sheng tested Martial Arts Myth, King of Mount and Blade, and Maoshan Celestial Master, finding their power weaker than his own Dutian Divine Fire Talisman.
• Chen Sheng valued the skills' knowledge and insights, accepted Gu Youming's advice to refine external power into his own path, and focused on raising his Taoist level.

After the battle, Chen Sheng restored Ning City and healed its survivors, strengthening their devotion to the Supreme Dao. He then descended upon Great Li’s capital, where the Gu Clan emperor surrendered the nation and begged him to spare the clan’s bloodline.

• Chen Sheng appeared in ruined Ning City, where Bai Gongming and Supreme Dao disciples were rescuing survivors.
• Chen Sheng announced that the demons had been defeated, then used the Two Forms Micro Dust technique to rebuild Ning City and heal the wounded with sweet rain.
• Chen Sheng traveled to Great Li’s capital and discovered that Gu Youming had established a formation beneath the Imperial City to transform the Gu Clan into a blood clan.
• The emperor waited with five thousand soldiers, recalling the Gu Clan’s defeat and Emperor Taizong’s command to surrender if Chen Sheng arrived.
• Chen Sheng appeared in the Imperial Palace square, and the emperor surrendered Great Li and begged him to preserve the Gu Clan’s bloodline.
• Chen Sheng permitted the surrender for Fellow Gu’s sake, and the emperor thanked him in tears.

Li Shi secured Hulao Pass and helped the Supreme Dao bring Great Li and neighboring lands under its rule, while Wang Xuan destroyed an invading grassland cavalry force. Four months later, Chen Sheng reviewed the expanded territory and planned to strengthen his fortune by integrating its population more fully.

• Li Shi demanded Hulao Pass surrender, and Grand Tutor ordered the gates opened before taking his own life rather than abandon his duty to Great Li.
• The one hundred thousand defenders surrendered, and Li Shi continued onward as Great Li’s cities submitted to the Supreme Dao.
• Man Gu Du led tens of thousands of cavalry south to raid Great Li, but Wang Xuan transformed into a fire giant and annihilated the invading force.
• Wang Xuan captured Man Gu Du and flew away with him after the battle.
• Four months later, Chen Sheng learned that the Supreme Dao controlled Great Li and neighboring territories, and considered dividing the land and bringing its population into the ranks of peripheral believers to increase his fortune.

Bai Gongming crushed the Jinshui clans’ resistance to the New Policy, bringing land to the villagers and spreading Supreme Dao’s influence. As unrest was suppressed across the provinces, Chen Sheng reached Daoist Level 10 and gained the Mysterious Female Gate skill.

• The Wang Clan Leader and other rural gentry plotted to obstruct land redistribution and used masked thugs to attack villagers who supported it.
• Bai Gongming led Dao soldiers and militia to defeat the fake bandits, then tried the clan leaders, executed the ringleaders, and distributed confiscated land to villagers.
• Strengthmen in Qingzhou and Xuzhou used heavenly lightning and a Daoist gale to break rebellions, while Bai Gongming’s work spread Supreme Dao temples throughout Jinshui Prefecture.
• Chen Sheng watched the uprisings being suppressed and anticipated that rising Providence would bring a new skill.
• After several months, Chen Sheng spent his accumulated experience to advance to Daoist Level 10 and unlocked Mysterious Female Gate.

Chen Sheng comprehended the Mysterious Female Gate as the source of all power and resolved to excavate his own path. Five hundred years later, Zhang Jie’s sincere devotion to Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King raised his faith to Level Three, drawing praise from the community.

• Chen Sheng contemplated the Mysterious Female Gate, recognized it as the true gate of the Great Dao, and vowed to uncover its source and eventually open it.
• Five hundred years later, Zhang Jie ate with his parents in Qinghe City, where new protections for oceanic races threatened his father’s salvage work.
• Zhang Jie reflected on his vivid dream of living through a century on Blue Star and struggled to understand a society shaped by faith in Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King.
• At his mother’s urging, Zhang Jie visited the community temple, honored its Guixuan Yinshanshi shrine, and prayed in the Main Hall.
• Zhang Jie’s sincere prayer manifested golden cloud qi marked Level Three, and the surrounding believers praised his faith and prospects.

Zhang Jie entered the Dao Nation system and began closed training at Jinshan Prefecture Dao School, where he learned to sense True Qi and studied how cultivation and advancement worked. After asking whether his mortal parents could live longer, he learned that Longevity Pills existed but had to be exchanged for Dao merit.

• Zhang Jie resolved to enter the Dao Nation system, and several years later he passed the Dao Examination and graduated from a university connected to the system.
• Zhang Jie reported to Jinshan Prefecture Dao School, signed a Confidentiality Agreement, and swore an oath before the Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King Statue.
• Zhang Jie joined Class Three, sensed a thread of True Qi in his Dantian, and learned that True Qi came from his Dao Record status and the Dao Nation's fortune.
• During two months of training, Zhang Jie learned that cultivators advanced through the Mysterious Gate Sequence by strengthening True Qi and accumulating Dao merit through their duties.
• Zhang Jie asked Daoist Chen whether his mortal parents could extend their lifespans, and Daoist Chen told him Longevity Pills could do so in exchange for Dao merit.

After years of earning the villagers’ trust and rising to govern White River Township, Zhang Jie was attacked by the foreign cultivator Shen Daoren, who tried to seize the pearl hidden within him. Bai Gongming intervened and overwhelmed Shen Daoren, whose attempt to escape through the Bronze Portal failed when the Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King descended and destroyed him.

• Zhang Jie completed his training among the top disciples and chose a remote village posting so he could earn Dao merit and obtain life-extending treasures for his parents.
• Zhang Jie improved life in Yellow Ox Village, earned repeated Excellent ratings, and was promoted to [Guixuan Yinshanshi] over White River Township, where he gained access to the Supreme Dharma Net.
• Wei Xin arrived with Shen Daoren, who used an illusion technique and tried to pull the pearl from Zhang Jie's brow; Zhang Jie resisted and summoned the temple’s Demon Subjugation seal, but Shen Daoren destroyed it and nearly forced Zhang Jie to kill himself.
• Bai Gongming arrived, freed Zhang Jie and Wei Xin from Shen Daoren’s control, and shattered Shen Daoren’s Demon God Dharma Body and Demonic Fire Outer Infant with a single sword strike.
• Shen Daoren tried to flee through the Bronze Portal, but it could not open; the Supreme Chen Saint Heavenly King descended, and heavenly fire and moonlight destroyed Shen Daoren and carried away the frozen remains of his Nascent Soul and the portal.

Chen Sheng spared Zhang Jie after discovering the Wither and Flourish Pearl, then refined Shen Daoren and used the knowledge he gained to advance his own secret teachings sequence. He created the Two Realms Gate, which could locate other worlds and enable travel between them.

• Chen Sheng inspected the Wither and Flourish Pearl, returned it to Zhang Jie, and rewarded him for his service with a promotion.
• Bai Gongming told Zhang Jie that many transmigrators held important posts in the divine kingdom and that Chen Sheng valued them as talents.
• Chen Sheng refined Shen Daoren and absorbed his memories, learning about the vast Earth Immortal Realm and its cultivation system.
• Chen Sheng rejected the Earth Immortal Realm's path and transformed his Profession Panel into his Mysterious Womb Secret Teachings sequence system.
• Chen Sheng restored the Bronze Door as the Two Realms Gate, which could consume fate to locate worlds and enable cross-realm teleportation.

Min Rou, despairing over her lack of a Spirit Root and her parents’ deaths, awakened the Mysterious Womb sequence and gained powers that could let her pursue revenge. In the divine kingdom, Chen Sheng received her prayer and extended his authority into the Earth Immortal Realm while keeping his true form safely hidden.

• Li Yan told Min Rou that without a Spirit Root she could not cultivate, left her supplies, and departed Yellow Dragon Island.
• Min Rou recalled her father’s death at the hands of an evil cultivator and collapsed beneath the moon, believing she could never avenge her family.
• A mysterious Dao voice awakened the Mysterious Female Gate within Min Rou, granting her the Mysterious Womb sequence and three abilities.
• Min Rou sensed Spiritual Energy, formed a moonlight blade, and created a protective mystic light before pledging herself to spread the Mysterious Womb.
• Chen Sheng received Min Rou’s prayer through the Two Realms Gate, recognized her as the Earth Immortal Realm’s first believer, and extended his authority there while keeping his true form in the divine kingdom.

After returning to Yellow Dragon Island with his cultivation ruined and only a few years to live, Li Yan hoped to find the descendants of Arou and pass on his inheritance. His sect junior brother Jin Taiyin ambushed him for his sword arts and Flying Sword, and Li Yan struggled to withstand Jin Taiyin’s Red Sand.

• Li Yan returned to Yellow Dragon Island after a century away, frail and dying from his Golden Core’s corruption and the backlash of a Forbidden Technique.
• Li Yan remembered Arou and decided to seek her descendants so he could leave them his Youquan Swordplay and Dharma Artifacts.
• Li Yan headed toward a temple to ask about Arou’s descendants, but Jin Taiyin arrived in the Black clouds and demanded Li Yan’s inheritance and Youquan Flying Sword.
• Li Yan projected the aura of a Golden Core cultivator, but Jin Taiyin saw through his weakness and unleashed his Red Sand.
• Li Yan used Youquan and the Flowing Cloud Style to cut through the Red Sand, but Jin Taiyin steadily wore down his dwindling Mana.

Li Yan shattered his Golden Core to fight Jin Taiyin, but temple magic saved the townsfolk and killed Jin Taiyin before Li Yan’s life force collapsed. Mei Sanniang secretly watched, while Min Rou saw the record of the battle and recognized Eldest Brother Li after more than a hundred years apart.

• Li Yan used Core Shattering to restore his strength and attacked Jin Taiyin, who threatened the townsfolk and summoned a giant jade seal to crush them.
• Li Yan ignored Jin Taiyin’s hostage threat and kept pressing his attack, while two golden lights from a nearby temple restrained the jade seal and crushed Jin Taiyin.
• Li Yan realized his Golden Core was destroyed and he had only three to five days to live, then thanked the unseen expert in the temple before departing.
• Mei Sanniang reviewed the battle through the magic net, disapproved of Li Yan’s ruthlessness, and returned to her divine statue.
• Min Rou saw the battle record in the Endless Sea and recognized Eldest Brother Li, having advanced to Sequence 5 Mysterious Altar Seal over the past hundred years.

Li Yan learned that Min Rou had left Byue Mountain Villa years ago and, believing he was near death, prepared to leave his cultivation inheritance at Yaoshan. Min Rou reappeared and summoned the God Official of Wither-and-Flourish Fate, who restored Li Yan to the peak of his cultivation; Li Yan wondered whether the god was a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

• Li Yan visited Byue Mountain Villa and learned that Min Rou had returned years earlier, passed on the Moon Worship Heart Sutra, and then left without coming back.
• Li Yan went to Yaoshan, where he had first found a cultivator's inheritance, and prepared a cave abode with his own cultivation technique and flying sword for a future inheritor.
• As Li Yan lay in the coffin he had prepared, Min Rou appeared, and he learned that she was still alive.
• Min Rou told Li Yan that joining her Supreme Dao would let her use the Mysterious Altar Seal to seek a god's help, and Li Yan agreed to become her disciple.
• Min Rou summoned the God Official of Wither-and-Flourish Fate, Zhang Jie, who used the power of withering and flourishing to restore Li Yan's health, golden core, and cultivation to their former peak.
• Li Yan felt his renewed strength and wondered whether Zhang Jie was a legendary Spirit Transformation cultivator.