Chapter Summaries

After fleeing Emerald Lake, Chu Mu retreated to a hidden cave and examined the demon’s corpse, discovering that its heart contained the Saint Spirit Gu’s aura. He extracted a bone holding a vast storage space and found a Jade Slip among the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s possessions.

• Cultivators rushed to Emerald Lake’s cavern and fought over its entrance, unaware that it had already been stripped bare.
• Chu Mu fled thousands of li toward Great Chu, then hid in a barren mountain cave to recover and treat his injuries.
• Chu Mu entered the Qiankun Space and dissected the demon’s corpse, finding a glowing heart that filled the body with strange life force.
• Chu Mu extracted a patterned bone from the demon’s knee and discovered it contained the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s stored possessions.
• Chu Mu searched the storage space and drew out a Jade Slip.

Chu Mu discovered that the Wang Family Old Ancestor had used the Nine Revolutions Demon God Method to transform, but the method did not explain the demon’s extraordinary vitality. He removed a blood pearl from the demon heart and revealed the Saint Spirit Gu inside it.

• Chu Mu read the Nine Revolutions Demon God Method and confirmed that the Wang Family Old Ancestor had slaughtered the Emerald Lake Wang Family to fuel his Demon God transformation.
• Chu Mu found no records about the demon’s terrifying life force or the Saint Spirit Gu in the Storage Space.
• Chu Mu cut into the demon heart and found a blood sphere at its center, where the life force and Saint Spirit Gu seemed to originate.
• Chu Mu drew the blood sphere out, causing the demon body’s strange vitality and blood light to vanish as the sphere became a blood-red pearl.
• Chu Mu used Divine Sense to make the Blood Pearl transparent and saw the Saint Spirit Gu suspended at its center.

Chu Mu set aside the mysterious Blood Pearl for later study and examined a bone fragment containing a former Nascent Soul Great Expert’s collection of rare treasures. The wealth gave him new opportunities, but he recognized that his advanced crafting and formation skills remained difficult to use effectively without the resources to produce higher-tier tools.

• The Blood Pearl’s nebulae revolved around the Saint Spirit Gu, releasing Life Creation aura as Chu Mu struggled to determine the object’s nature.
• Chu Mu postponed investigating the Blood Pearl until he could make proper preparations.
• Chu Mu carefully inspected the jade-like bone fragment and discovered dozens of rare spiritual materials and herbs from a Nascent Soul Great Expert’s collection.
• Chu Mu reflected that his combat strength easily overwhelmed same-realm opponents, leaving little need for his other techniques.
• Chu Mu recognized that against stronger enemies, his limited cultivation and finances prevented him from using his advanced skills to make sufficiently powerful puppets, formations, and artifacts.

After the battle at Emerald Lake, Chu Mu collected rare spiritual materials and considered having his corpse puppet devour the Demon God Body once his control over it was secure. He reported a general account of the battle to the Longevity Sect but kept the Saint Spirit Gu and Blood Pearl secret, then grew suspicious about the Wang Family Old Ancestor’s past and what the Longevity Sect’s Nascent Soul experts might be after.

• Chu Mu admired the rare spiritual objects, stored them away, and decided not to refine the Demon God Body into a corpse puppet himself.
• Chu Mu considered having his corpse puppet devour the Demon God Body after his divine soul healed and he placed another Slave Seal on it.
• Chu Mu returned from the Qiankun Space, found the Longevity Sect’s voice transmissions asking about the Emerald Lake battle, and sent back a general explanation.
• Chu Mu withheld information about the strange demon, Saint Spirit Gu, and Blood Pearl from the Longevity Sect.
• Chu Mu questioned how the Wang Family Old Ancestor had escaped the Secret Realm and wondered what the Longevity Sect’s Nascent Soul experts were after.

Chu Mu secluded himself in a remote southwestern gorge to avoid the dangers surrounding the Longevity Sect and began refining the Thread-Pulling Gu. After less than three months, he successfully created the Gu insect and prepared to control it while it was still newly born.

• Chu Mu sealed the Longevity True Inheritance Token in a specially refined iron box and left his mountain cave.
• Chu Mu chose a remote gorge inhabited by small southwestern tribes and established a concealed Cave Abode inside a cliff.
• Chu Mu began refining the Thread-Pulling Gu using the spiritual materials he had gathered and the sealed Heretical Cultivator Yun Ying.
• Chu Mu successfully refined the Thread-Pulling Gu in less than three months, and its illusory web spread throughout the cave and bound him.
• Chu Mu sensed the Gu insect's affinity and began following the jade slip's instructions to control it during its vulnerable newly born stage.

Chu Mu used the Thread-drawing Gu to heal and stabilize his damaged Sea of Consciousness and divine soul. As he began considering his cultivation now that the obstacle was gone, he noticed something unusual about the Qiankun Pouch at his waist.

• Chu Mu guided the Thread-drawing Gu into his Sea of Consciousness, where it expanded into an Ink Black Great Sun.
• The Thread-drawing Gu spread a web throughout Chu Mu’s Sea of Consciousness, restoring its ruined state and strengthening his divine soul.
• Chu Mu carefully inspected his Sea of Consciousness and confirmed that the Gu had healed his injuries without apparent side effects.
• Chu Mu considered resuming his cultivation, then noticed an abnormality in the Qiankun Pouch at his waist.

Chu Mu discovered that Wangcai’s Blood Egg was pursuing the Blood Red Transparent Round Bead and decided to let the egg take it. The Blood Egg swallowed the bead and began to tremble amid surging Life Creation power, leaving Chu Mu unable to see what was happening inside.

• Chu Mu sensed the Blood Egg and Blood Red Transparent Round Bead racing through his Qiankun Pouch and restrained them inside the Qiankun Space.
• Chu Mu confirmed that Wangcai’s aura came from within the Blood Egg and that the egg was pursuing the bead.
• Chu Mu chose to favor Wangcai’s chance at rebirth and released his restraint on the Blood Egg while keeping the bead confined.
• The Blood Egg engulfed the Blood Pearl, and golden and blood-red radiance spread across its shell.
• The Giant Egg trembled as Life Creation power surged around it, while Chu Mu could neither sense inside nor safely intervene.

Chu Mu concealed the Blood Egg’s powerful phenomena by spending three days and nights building a mountain-and-water formation around the gorge. When the phenomena suddenly ceased, the egg’s shell cracked to reveal a golden membrane and Wangcai’s still-fragile life force, before a point of bloodlight shot into Chu Mu’s chest.

• Chu Mu replaced the cave’s restrictions with a forbidden formation, then built a third-order mountain-and-water formation to hide the Blood Egg’s phenomena from outsiders.
• The Blood Egg’s life force peaked, causing plants to grow wildly around the cave, while Chu Mu suspected its increasingly tough shell might be a barrier tied to Innate Divinity.
• The Blood Egg’s phenomena abruptly converged into the egg, and the plants outside the cave withered as its radiance disappeared.
• Chu Mu called to Wangcai, and the Blood Egg trembled as its shell cracked away, revealing a golden membrane and a fragile life force that had not yet matured.
• A point of bloodlight burst through the golden membrane and shot into Chu Mu’s chest before he could react.

Chu Mu discovered that the Blood Pearl had appeared inside his heart, where his attempt to remove it caused it to crack and unleash an uncontrollable torrent of Life Creation power. As the power ravaged and healed his body in an endless cycle, he realized the pearl's vitality was preventing his body from collapsing outright.

• Chu Mu sensed a second Blood Pearl inside his heart and tried to pull it out with his Divine Sense, but it had taken root and began rioting.
• The Blood Pearl cracked and released an immense force of Life Creation that surged through Chu Mu's body and made the cave's plants grow wildly.
• Chu Mu failed to control the unending energy, which tore his body apart and left him badly wounded.
• Chu Mu noticed that his body had not completely collapsed and realized the Blood Pearl's uncontrolled Life Creation was both destroying and healing him in a continuous cycle.

Chu Mu turned the Blood Pearl’s destructive surge of Life Creation into an opportunity, using the Great Sun True Scripture and Great Sun True Fire to temper his body through repeated cycles of destruction and healing. His physique broke through to Third Order Perfection and continued advancing, while the still-raging Blood Pearl overwhelmed him and forced him back into the cycle.

• Chu Mu realized that the Blood Pearl’s Life Creation repeatedly ravaged his body and healed it, creating a cycle he recognized as body tempering.
• He gathered his consciousness at his dantian and slowly circulated the Great Sun True Scripture with the Great Sun True Fire.
• Chu Mu drew the life energy toward himself and used each cycle of destruction and healing to temper his entire body.
• The energy became fully absorbed as Chu Mu’s physique broke through from Golden Core Late Stage to Third Order Perfection, though his mana remained unchanged.
• After Chu Mu’s body reached its absorption limit, the Blood Pearl’s energy overwhelmed him again, and he resumed circulating the scripture as his physique continued to advance.

Chu Mu’s body cultivation advanced uncontrollably under the Blood Pearl’s Life Creation, pushing him toward the Nascent Soul Realm before he was ready. In the darkness of his breakthrough bottleneck, the Life Creation destroyed the gate tower barrier, leaving his breakthrough’s outcome uncertain.

• Chu Mu’s body cultivation reached Third Order Perfection as the Blood Pearl’s Life Creation continued surging, and he feared being forced into an unprepared Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• After days of relentless transformation, Chu Mu entered an endless darkness and followed an unseen guidance to a towering gate tower.
• A voice told Chu Mu that he had to break through the gate tower by force, and he realized his foundation made forming a Nascent Soul seem nearly impossible.
• A tsunami of Life Creation swept through the darkness and battered the gate tower, spreading cracks across its surface.
• The Life Creation’s waves collapsed the gate tower and then vanished, leaving Chu Mu in a dark and silent space.

Chu Mu found himself in a village from his previous life after the Heart Demon Tribulation shattered the darkness and sealed his cultivation. Watching the villagers, he recognized his pregnant mother and struggled to face the memory as the tribulation continued.

• Chu Mu used a wisp of Spirit Radiance as the darkness shattered, then awoke on a green hill and realized his mana, Divine Sense, and spiritual artifacts were sealed.
• Chu Mu tested his remaining blood-and-qi strength, identified the place as a village from his previous life, and watched it from a tree.
• Chu Mu waited as village life unfolded, then saw a tractor bring people back to the village near evening.
• Chu Mu recognized his pregnant mother among the returning villagers, tried to call her, and reminded himself that she was only an illusion in the Heart Demon Tribulation.

Chu Mu relived the night he was born in Double Stone Village and discovered that his Heart Demon Tribulation had made him one of a pair of twins. He watched the brothers grow up, endure the mudslide that destroyed their village, and leave with their father before the illusion collapsed.

• Chu Mu remembered his parents, the mudslide that buried Double Stone Village, and the night he had been born.
• At his mother’s labor, an irresistible force pulled Chu Mu’s illusory spirit into the birth, and he emerged as one of twin brothers.
• The brothers spent their early years with their parents until their father took them to the county town for New Year goods.
• A mudslide buried Double Stone Village, leaving their father dazed as he carried the two boys south.
• The brothers grew up with their father until Chu Mu’s life ended, and the illusory world shattered after he departed.

Chu Mu emerged from a strange tribulation with physical cultivation at a peculiar Pseudo Fourth Order, then destroyed the array concealing his cave and departed. After discovering that the Saint Spirit Gu’s soul had vanished from the ruined Blood Pearl, he realized something was wrong.

• Lieshan Real Person withdrew his cultivators from the array formation and waited nearby, suspecting a powerful cultivator had settled there.
• Chu Mu awoke from the illusion, found his mana cultivation unchanged and his physical strength beyond Third Order Perfection, and judged himself to be at Pseudo Fourth Order.
• Chu Mu shattered the landscape array formation with a punch, met Lie Shan Shi, gave him a Gu Dao Secret Art, and ordered him to keep the events secret.
• After Chu Mu left, Lie Shan Shi used golden beetles to devour the cultivators and nearby tribes, then erased the traces and departed.
• Chu Mu revealed that he had stayed behind to observe Lie Shan Shi, assessed his cultivation and lifespan, and examined the nearly destroyed Blood Pearl.
• Chu Mu discovered that the Saint Spirit Gu’s remains had no soul and grew grave because no outsider had been involved.

Chu Mu realized the Saint Spirit Gu's soul had fused with the Thread-drawing Gu, but he suspected the events surrounding the fusion and the Blood Pearl were too coincidental. After returning to the Longevity Sect, he learned Yan Qiuling had news about his former junior brother Chang Hongyi.

• Chu Mu sensed the Saint Spirit Gu's soul fused with the Thread-drawing Gu and wondered how it had crossed the Divine Soul Blade's defenses.
• Chu Mu returned to Colorful Cloud City and traveled for several months before arriving back at the Longevity Sect.
• Yan Qiuling gave Chu Mu a Jade Slip of sect affairs and told him Yan Shixiong had entered seclusion to form his Nascent Soul.
• Chu Mu planned to enter seclusion, but Yan Qiuling told him the Yanbei Trading Company was connected to a problem involving the Yan Family.
• Yan Qiuling asked whether Chu Mu remembered the junior brother he had admitted during the previous mountain-opening ceremony, and Chu Mu found sound transmission imprints from Chang Hongyi.

Chu Mu learned that Lie Yan had killed an elder of the Yan Family, leaving the Longevity Sect unable to resolve the dispute because Yan Qiuling was connected to Chu Mu, a True Disciple. Chu Mu told Yan Qiuling to keep the Yan Family settled while he made other arrangements, then reviewed the opportunities that had shaped Lie Yan’s rise.

• Chang Hongyi told Chu Mu that Lie Yan had killed a Yan Family elder after a dispute over profit, leaving the matter deadlocked.
• Chu Mu learned that the Enforcement Hall had recalled Lie Yan and sentenced him to guard Heavenly Cold Cave for ten years.
• Chu Mu asked Yan Qiuling how she thought the dispute should be resolved, then told her to settle the Yan Family while he made other arrangements.
• Chu Mu gave Yan Qiuling two Jade Boxes containing precious pills and Returning Yang Water before leaving the Floating Bridge.
• Chu Mu reviewed a projected light screen showing the opportunities that had guided Lie Yan’s growth during his absence.

Chu Mu reconsidered how to cultivate Lie Yan, his Flower of Similarity, and monitored the Giant Egg holding Wangcai while weighing the limits of his Spirit Planting Garden. He then devised a plan to create a fourth-order puppet that could draw the attention of Nascent Soul experts while he attacked from hiding.

• Chu Mu decided he might alter his plan so Lie Yan could mature further and become a better cultivation resource before Nirvana Rebirth.
• Chu Mu examined the transformed Giant Egg and recorded signs that Wangcai’s life embryo had begun another round of nurturing.
• Chu Mu stored the Giant Egg in a prepared altar formation and noted that its slow absorption of vegetation vitality limited its growth.
• Chu Mu considered expanding his Spirit Planting Garden but postponed it because he lacked the time and resources to expand the Qiankun Space.
• Chu Mu abandoned plans to improve the Blade War Puppet and began designing a fourth-order puppet to lure Nascent Soul experts into attacking him.

Chu Mu completed the design and refinement of an unconventional Fourth Order lightning puppet built to unleash overwhelming attacks for only a short time. After revealing its formidable capabilities, he confirmed that its energy system could convert spirit stones of other attributes into the lightning energy it needed.

• After half a year of planning, Chu Mu finalized a design that sacrificed the puppet’s defense and endurance for explosive offensive power.
• Chu Mu refined the puppet in less than half a month, producing a ten-foot-tall silver-white humanoid marked with purple lightning.
• Chu Mu explained that the puppet’s three discharge ports could unleash thirty Nascent Soul Middle Stage-level attacks in a single breath, but its combat time would last only around ten breaths.
• Chu Mu used a middle-grade Fourth Order Purple Thunder Crystal as the puppet’s main material, giving it a lightning attribute.
• Chu Mu’s Spirit Energy system incorporated the True Inheritance Palace’s attribute conversion method, allowing spirit stones of other attributes to power the puppet.

Chu Mu awakened the Thunder God Puppet and considered using it to capture a True Demon Divided Spirit for its connection to the Demon Domain’s spatial origin. He also grew wary of the Longevity Sect’s hidden mysteries and contemplated forming his Nascent Soul far from Great Chu while concealing his identity.

• Chu Mu activated the Thunder God Puppet with High-Grade Spirit Stones, and its lightning aura reminded him of the True Demon.
• Chu Mu considered capturing the True Demon Divided Spirit to obtain access to the Demon Domain’s spatial origin, but recognized the danger posed by the Great Heng powerhouse and the True Demon’s true form.
• Chu Mu reflected on the strange good fortune of his southwest journey and grew suspicious of the two Nascent Soul Supreme Elders of the Heaven's Secrets Lineage in the Longevity Sect.
• Chu Mu reasoned that he might form his Nascent Soul outside Great Chu and hide his identity, but he would need lengthy cultivation and worried about the Flower of Similarity’s growing status during his absence.

Chu Mu decided to arrange for Lie Yan to join the Peeking Truth Vein, reasoning that Chu Yan’s protection would help keep him safe while he pursued the Flower of Similarity. After setting aside the unresolved Demon Souls and Dark Serpent Clan matter to focus on sect affairs, Chu Mu received the elders who had protected Lie Yan and then the hidden figure behind them, whose visit promised further arrangements.

• Chu Mu recalled Chu Yan’s interest in Lie Yan and decided that Lie Yan should become the Peeking Truth Vein’s junior brother.
• Chu Mu considered the unresolved Demon Souls, the Dark Serpent Clan, and the Sky Palace Relic, then chose not to involve himself further while his secluded cultivation approached.
• Chu Mu handled the Peeking Truth Vein’s accumulated affairs and waited for those interested in Lie Yan to approach him.
• Two elders from the Internal Affairs Hall and Enforcement Hall arrived with gifts and brought the Yan Family matter to a close.
• After the elders left, the hidden person who had instructed them to protect Lie Yan came to see Chu Mu.