Chapter Summaries

Mason survived the Great Epochal Destruction and discovered that the Mother River was held in Chen Sheng’s palm. After Chen Sheng accepted him as a disciple, Mason arrived at Tianmang Immortal Mountain and began learning about the Cultivation World.

• Mason re-formed in the chaos, recognized the Mother River on a sheet of paper, and realized he stood in Chen Sheng’s palm.
• Chen Sheng removed Mason’s mark from the Dao Seed, spared him, and accepted him as a disciple under his Daoist name Panwu.
• Chen Sheng brought Mason to Tianmang Immortal Mountain and introduced him to his Senior Sister, Qin Zhaoyu.
• Chen Sheng gave Mason three blood-path Cultivation Methods and told Qin Zhaoyu to show him around and explain the Cultivation World.
• Qin Zhaoyu explained the worlds and cultivation realms to Mason, identifying him as being at the peak of Void Refining.

Chen Sheng began a new Epoch by creating the Mysterious Female Mother River, which split into seven regions ruled by strange shadows. Thirty thousand years later, Mason condensed a blood Dharma Seed and opened the first version of his inner Dragon Realm, establishing a cycle in which the world and its bloodlines strengthened each other.

• Chen Sheng used the Innate Dao Seed and a jade scroll to create the Mysterious Female Mother River, then divided its origin into seven river regions and brought forth seven shadows.
• Thirty thousand years later, Mason condensed the blood Dharma Seed, and Qin Zhaoyu congratulated him and gave him a Chaos Origin Crystal from Master Ming Sheng.
• Mason transformed into his Eternal Dragon form and used the Chaos Origin Crystal to open a small chiliocosm within his body.
• Mason shaped the Dragon Realm with heaven, earth, mountains, and dragon qi, then used his bloodline origins to nurture its first life.
• Mason decreed that pure bloodlines would remain and gain fortune, while mixed bloodlines would return to the origin, establishing a cycle to strengthen the Dragon Realm and his cultivation.

Chen Sheng learned that Qin Zhaoyu planned to delay her breakthrough while his other disciple pursued rare bloodlines, then returned to studying the Mysterious Female Sequence System. In Panwu World, Xu Chen escaped Ling Canglan and four martial artists after his flawed teachings made him a target, but he ended the chapter gravely wounded and hiding in a mountain cave.

• Chen Sheng asked Qin Zhaoyu about her cultivation and learned she planned to spend three more yuanhui preparing to break through.
• Qin Zhaoyu told Chen Sheng that his junior disciple was searching the Desolate Dome Great World for the ancient Dream Snake's remnant bloodline, and Chen Sheng resumed deducing the Mysterious Female Sequence System in Panwu World.
• Ling Canglan and four Innate martial artists cornered Xu Chen, blaming his Blazing Sun Inner Qi and Blinking Sword Technique for corrupting disciples and blinding many of them.
• Ling Canglan struck Xu Chen down with Mountain-Suppressing Palm, but Xu Chen used Qi-Burning Escape to break through the pursuers and flee into the wasteland.
• Xu Chen reached a concealed mountain cave, collapsed from his injuries, and vowed to recover, develop stronger martial arts, and exact revenge.

Xu Chen used the Martial Dao Melting Furnace to spread powerful martial arts with hidden costs, letting the resulting bloodshed build his fame as Old Devil Xu. Centuries later, he offered Ren Tianxing the Stone Man Scripture, claiming it could grant an Immortal Stone Buddha Body without mutilation, and Ren Tianxing eagerly agreed to learn it.

• Xu Chen gave the revenge-driven Lin Chen the Heaven Burning Divine Art, whose rapid cultivation consumed his lifespan and aged him.
• Lin Chen destroyed Whistling Villa and killed Lin Xiaotian, avenging his parents, before Grandmaster Ling killed him and seized the martial art.
• At a roadside tea shed, Xu Chen listened as people spread stories about him and the Heaven Burning Divine Art, while his fame value rose.
• Xu Chen resolved to print and spread his martial arts widely so their side effects and the resulting crimes would increase his notoriety.
• Several hundred years later, Xu Chen told Ren Tianxing that his apparent lack of a price came from food nourishment, then offered him the Stone Man Scripture.
• Ren Tianxing accepted the scripture, which Xu Chen said could grant him an Immortal Stone Buddha Body without mutilation.

Ren Tianxing challenged Xu Chen at Demon Master Palace, but the battle revealed that both men had reached the Shattered Realm and that Ren Tianxing was being driven by a force urging him to ascend. Xu Chen repelled the Silkworm Lord with the Mother of Eternal Night’s power and resolved to spread the Night Sequence to preserve the balance keeping him alive.

• Ren Tianxing arrived to challenge Xu Chen, and the Fairy of Seven Emotions, Heavenly Fox Venerable, and Red Lotus Cult Leader blocked his way with their transformed true forms and a host of controlled puppets.
• Ren Tianxing revealed that he had entered the Shattered Realm and used the Stone Man Scripture and Man-Eating Scripture to trigger the three guardians’ cultivation backlash, but Xu Chen’s voice stopped their collapse and admitted him to the palace.
• Ren Tianxing told Xu Chen that [He] had sent him, then succumbed to a strange force demanding that he ascend; Xu Chen used the world’s fortune and a portal to drag Ren Tianxing toward it as a sacrificial substitute.
• The Silkworm Lord appeared beyond the world, and Xu Chen summoned the Mother of Eternal Night’s power to counterbalance it and heal his eyes.
• Xu Chen recalled how the Silkworm Lord had contaminated the world’s supernatural arts and targeted him, then decided to spread the Night Sequence alongside secret martial arts to maintain the balance.

Qin Zhaoyu’s attempt to break through to the Dao Lord realm failed, shattering her Dharma Seed and ending her life. Chen Sheng sent Raylin Mason to protect the Panwu lineage and Qin Clan and carry on her responsibilities.

• Chen Sheng reflected on the seven ancient gods competing for strength across the Mother River as their struggle continued.
• Qin Zhaoyu’s Illusion-Extinction Dharma Seed shattered during her breakthrough attempt, leaving her near death.
• Qin Zhaoyu thanked Chen Sheng, bid farewell to Raylin Mason, and returned to silence.
• Chen Sheng ordered Raylin Mason to visit the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion, return Qin Zhaoyu’s relics to the Qin Clan, and take charge of the Mind Aspect World.
• Raylin Mason agreed to protect the Qin Clan and station an incarnation at Panwu Hall to safeguard Qin Zhaoyu’s legacy.

Xu Yuanji defeated the Stone Man Cult Leader by combining Eternal Night Dao arts with Shatter Grade secret martial arts, then relied on Ancestor Chen to suppress his mutation. Years later, Ancestor Chen’s portrait burned and mutations consumed the Heavenly Martial Continent as the ancient gods fought; Chen Sheng absorbed the completed Mysterious Womb Sequence and resolved to deduce a new Dao.

• Xu Yuanji sensed shattered secret martial arts, traveled to the southwest, and attacked the Stone Man Cult Leader.
• The Stone Man Cult Leader trapped Xu Yuanji in the Stone Spirit Realm, but Xu Yuanji used Shatter Grade flesh-and-blood secret martial arts to break out and kill him.
• Xu Yuanji returned to the Xuanxiao Daoist Sect, mutated into a three-headed, six-armed bird-faced monster, and used Ancestor Chen’s incense to regain control.
• Years later, Xu Yuanji’s powers ran wild again, Ancestor Chen’s portrait burned, and mutations spread across the Heavenly Martial Continent.
• The Mysterious Womb Sovereign defeated and devoured the Primordial Venerable God, then awakened the Primordial Creator, who consumed and replaced it.
• Chen Sheng collapsed the Mother River, absorbed the Primordial Creator, completed the Mysterious Womb Sequence, and decided to deduce a new Dao.

Dao Lord Kong Fang died after failing to overcome the third decline, and Chen Sheng joined the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion in mourning. After the ceremony, Chen Sheng, Dao Lord Cang Yuan, and Dao Lord Wan Huan discussed the mansion’s growing ranks of Dharma Lords and the prospects of promising disciples, including Youming.

• Raylin Mason’s Fuxi battle avatar awakened at the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion after sensing the news of Dao Lord Kong Fang’s death.
• Chen Sheng learned that Dao Lord Kong Fang had failed to break through the third decline and traveled to the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion.
• Dao Lords and Dharma Lords from the three branches gathered to mourn Dao Lord Kong Fang, while nine Dharma Lords burned their souls in sacrifice.
• Chen Sheng, Dao Lord Cang Yuan, and Dao Lord Wan Huan met afterward and discussed the weak cultivation foundations of many newly risen Dharma Lords.
• Dao Lord Wan Huan praised Youming’s rapid progress toward the fourth step, and Chen Sheng said his path to becoming a Dao Lord would depend on his own efforts.

After Kong Fang’s death, Chen Sheng took over the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion’s forty-Yuan-Era rotation and assigned Raylin Mason to help manage its affairs. Chen Sheng then assessed his progress toward the Dao Lord declines and continued refining his Blood Path cultivation system.

• Chen Sheng confirmed with Dao Lord Cang Yuan and Dao Lord Wan Huan that he would oversee the Immortal Mansion’s mundane affairs for the next forty Yuan Eras.
• Chen Sheng summoned Raylin Mason and entrusted him with helping manage the rotation’s affairs and opportunities.
• Raylin Mason gathered the Dharma Lords of Panwu’s lineage and announced that their faction would now oversee the Immortal Mansion’s affairs.
• Chen Sheng created a Blood Path incarnation to command the Immortal Mansion’s central hub while Mason handled the detailed work.
• Chen Sheng examined his completed Mysterious Womb Sequence, judged his chances of crossing the Law Splendor Decline improved, and ordered the continued deduction of his cultivation system.

After the Heavenly Dao forbade cultivating multiple methods, Long-Browed Daoist hunted rival cultivators while a Black Flood Dragon created his own method and rose through the new cultivation order. At the Epoch’s end, the dragon died and Chen Sheng recovered Raylin Mason’s golden scale, reflecting that his many systems still could not help him advance beyond the Three Declines.

• The Heavenly Dao declared that cultivators could not combine methods and should widely spread the Dao, and Long-Browed Daoist set out to kill the other cultivators of his sect’s method.
• A Black Flood Dragon used his golden scale to create the Deep Pool Observation Book and gained a Dao-comprehension enhancement as its creator.
• Cultivators began creating and spreading their own methods and systems, while powerful figures developed new cultivation paths to conform to Heaven’s law.
• At the Epoch’s end, a World-Chaos Flood Dragon resisted the Heavenly Dao’s calamity but perished, and Chen Sheng retrieved the golden scale left by Raylin Mason.
• Chen Sheng reviewed one hundred Yuan Eras of cultivation and concluded that, since his systems lacked the depth to break through, he would pursue quantity and rely on quantitative change to aid his Dao.

After waiting through countless epochs, Chen Sheng formed an Innate Dao Seed and advanced to become a Third Tribulation Dao Lord. He shattered the deadly trial on Tianmang Immortal Mountain and reached its forty-seventh level, prompting celebration in the Southern Pole Immortal Mansion.

• Chen Sheng reflected on the Mother River’s endless cycles and the loneliness of seeking the Great Dao as his disciples failed to form Dao seeds.
• An Innate Dao Seed appeared at the source of the Mother River, completing seventy-two cultivation systems for the Innate Blood Path and bringing Chen Sheng genuine joy.
• Several dozen Yuan Eras later, Chen Sheng entered the forty-fifth level of Tianmang Immortal Mountain and shattered its will-corrupting illusion with a single word.
• Chen Sheng climbed to the forty-seventh level, and the Tianmang Immortal Ranking announced his breakthrough to the Third Tribulation Dao Lord realm.
• The Southern Pole Immortal Mansion rejoiced at Chen Sheng’s breakthrough, while the Panwu Lineage and its clans celebrated the news.

Qin Jihai paid respects to Chen Sheng, received a post in the Discipline Hall, and discovered the Dongyin Precious Record while refining the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror. Hundreds of thousands of years later, he uncovered a secret pointing to a possible new wisp of Primordial Yin-Yang Ancestral Qi.

• Qin Jihai visited Chen Sheng after advancing to Dharma Lord, and Chen Sheng assigned him a post in the Discipline Hall.
• Qin Jihai took out the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror and began refining its restrictions, uncovering the Dao Lord inheritance called the Dongyin Precious Record.
• Qin Jihai studied the inheritance for hundreds of thousands of years, reached the second step of Integrated Body, and fully refined the mirror.
• Qin Jihai found a hidden message in the mirror describing a Yin-Yang Great Formation that guarded a place where Primordial Yin-Yang Ancestral Qi might form again.

Chen Sheng reached the end of his sixth life after the Wisdom Decline tricked him into believing he had mastered eighth-rank Formation Dao, then awakened in the Myriad Lives Tome. His life ended with two new talents unlocked: Dimensional Demon God and Taiyin Dao Seed.

• Chen Sheng spent nearly a hundred Yuan Eras studying Formation Dao and believed he had achieved eighth-rank formations, but the Wisdom Decline shattered his illusion and killed him.
• Qin Jihai sensed the fall of the patriarch and rang nine bells to announce a farewell ceremony, while the Asura kings mourned their Father God and swept worlds into the Blood Sea.
• Chen Sheng awakened before the Myriad Lives Tome and realized that the supposed breakthrough had been a Wisdom Decline trial that confused reality with illusion.
• The Myriad Lives Tome recorded the end of Chen Sheng's sixth life and unlocked the talents Dimensional Demon God and Taiyin Dao Seed.

In his seventh life as Zhang Xingdao, Chen Sheng used the Taiyin Dao Seed talent to advance rapidly, evolving a Taiyin Dao Domain within a century. His breakthrough gave the declining Zhang Clan renewed hope as Clan Leader Zhang Danqing resolved to devote the clan’s resources to Xingdao ahead of the Three Extremes Dao Convention.

• Chen Sheng cultivated as Zhang Xingdao at Dragon Tiger Cliff while two Ninth Tribulation Void Refining elders praised his talent and worried about the Zhang Clan’s future without a Dharma Lord.
• Chen Sheng reflected on his previous lives and his Taiyin Dao Seed and Dimensional Demon God talents, finding his Taiyin comprehension accelerating while he could not yet sense other selves in different dimensions.
• A hundred years later, Zhang Xingdao had reached Soul Transformation mid-stage, perfected the third step of Taiyin laws, and evolved his Taiyin Dao Domain, astounding the Zhang Clan disciples around him.
• Clan Leader Zhang Danqing discussed the Zhang Clan’s losses and considered seeking the Yuan Clan’s protection when a jade talisman reported Xingdao’s breakthrough.
• Zhang Danqing ordered an elder to manage clan affairs and said he would visit the Heavenly Heart Realm, committing the clan’s resources to Xingdao before the Three Extremes Dao Convention.

At the Three Extremes Dao Convention, Chen Sheng defeated Liu Chengyu with overwhelming ease and took first place, earning the qualification to cultivate in the Taihuang Realm. The chapter ended with Zhang Danqing discovering that the Zhang Clan’s troubles had disappeared.

• The Three Extremes Dao Convention opened, and Dharma Lord Yan Xuan praised Liu Chengyu as the Northern Pole Immortal Mansion’s leading prodigy.
• The final battle was announced between Zhang Xingdao and Liu Chengyu, and Chen Sheng entered the platform wielding Lunar Dao Rhyme.
• Chen Sheng countered Liu Chengyu’s Solar Dao Domain, extinguished his flames, and sealed him in ice with a single strike.
• Liu Chengyu conceded defeat, while the Dao Lords and Dharma Lords praised Chen Sheng’s talent.
• Chen Sheng took first place in the Dao Convention and earned the qualification to cultivate in the Taihuang Realm.
• Zhang Danqing discovered that the Zhang Clan’s troubles had vanished and attributed the change to the clan’s prodigious talent.

After forty thousand years of cultivation and trials, Liu Chengyu reached Void Refining fourteen tribulations, only to learn that Zhang Xingdao had reached the ninth step of the immortal path and become a Dharma Lord. The news widened the gap between them, but Liu Chengyu renewed his resolve to catch up.

• Liu Chengyu reached the eighth step of the immortal path in the Taihuang Realm, while Zhang Xingdao's Lunar immortal path remained standing.
• Dharma Lord Yanxuan praised Liu Chengyu's progress, then sent him to Tianmang Immortal Mountain to temper his abilities and comprehend the laws.
• Liu Chengyu spent four thousand years challenging the Immortal Mountain's peaks, improving his Dao attainment and nearing Void Refining fourteen tribulations.
• After another thousand years of secluded cultivation, Liu Chengyu broke through to Void Refining fourteen tribulations.
• Liu Chengyu received word that Zhang Xingdao had reached the ninth step and ascended to Dharma Lord, then vowed to catch up.

After becoming a Dharma Lord in a single stride, Chen Sheng returned to Tianmang Immortal Mountain to claim its opportunities. He defeated the trials through the thirteenth peak and obtained the Lunar Heavy Brilliance Record inheritance.

• News of Chen Sheng's breakthrough spread across the Three Extremes Domain, and the Heavenly Heart Zhang Clan celebrated the rise of a new Dharma Lord.
• Chen Sheng received Qin Jihai's insights into the Taiyin Great Dao and decided to cultivate at Tianmang Immortal Mountain.
• Chen Sheng reached Tianmang Immortal Mountain and broke through its trial barriers, defeating the ancient Prodigy Imprint at the tenth peak.
• Chen Sheng defeated the thirteenth peak's white-robed trial phantom with his lunar laws.
• Chen Sheng exchanged his contribution points for the Lunar Heavy Brilliance Record inheritance and absorbed its teachings.