Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu took Wangcai into the Outside Realm to test whether devouring a demon body caused any hidden abnormalities, then studied how the Chaotic Void suppressed his powers. He remained near the world’s edge for weeks, recording his experiments while avoiding the dangers beyond his limited Divine Sense.

• Chu Mu tore open a crack in the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth and led Wangcai through the spatial currents into the Outside Realm.
• Chu Mu examined Wangcai as his Devouring Divine Ability refined a demon body, finding no abnormal effects after nearly an hour.
• Chu Mu sent Wangcai back through the World Halo and stayed outside alone to investigate the Chaotic Void.
• Chu Mu found that his Divine Sense covered less than one li outside the realm and that his techniques, treasures, formations, and puppetry were far less effective there.
• Chu Mu spent dozens of days testing his abilities near the World Halo and recording his findings in a Heavenly Traces Jade Slip.

Chu Mu pondered the limits of his world and the possibility of reaching the Upper Realm by finding its spatial coordinates, then returned to his Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth to prepare it for a transformation using a strand of World Origin. He left the story planning to expand his Spirit Planting Garden into a future source of high-tier Spirit Herbs.

• Chu Mu studied the Chaotic Void and concluded that finding the lost Ascension Passage or venturing into the chaos might be the only ways beyond the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chu Mu realized that locating the Upper Realm's coordinates and recovering the Sky Palace's teleportation framework might offer a route there, though attempting it could strand him in spatial turbulence.
• Chu Mu returned to his Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth with Wangcai and considered using a strand of World Origin to expand its Spirit Planting Garden.
• Chu Mu planned to supply the transformed small world with Spirit Veins, Spirit Fields, and suitable growing environments so it could eventually produce high-tier Spirit Herbs.

Chu Mu created a crystal spirit treasure to meter the wisp of World Origin into his unstable Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth. As the world transformed and expanded, he studied its changing rules, and the Spirit Planting Garden became an insignificant speck within the newly stabilized world.

• Chu Mu sealed the Jade Bottle after the released World Origin made his Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth tremble, confirming that the world could not withstand the wisp directly.
• Chu Mu reviewed his Jade Slips and developed a plan to use a container to release the World Origin gradually.
• After nearly two months, Chu Mu completed a mid-grade spirit treasure that could hold the World Origin and regulate its release.
• Chu Mu transferred the wisp into the crystal sphere and placed it in the Qiankun core, causing the world to expand and transform rapidly.
• Chu Mu protected the Spirit Planting Garden and sensed the changing world rules as the transformation continued for months.
• The Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth stabilized in a vastly expanded form, leaving the Spirit Planting Garden as a tiny part of it.

Chu Mu awakened after the Qiankun World’s transformation and found it had become a barren heaven and earth spanning just over eight hundred li. He had halted its expansion to keep it from becoming permanently attached to the Cultivation World, then used the remaining World Origin to strengthen its foundation and turn it toward cultivating spirit plants.

• Chu Mu awoke on the Auspicious Cloud Platform and surveyed the lifeless Qiankun World.
• Chu Mu recalled that the World Origin could have expanded the world to tens of thousands of li, but a Heaven and Earth Sensing had forced him to choose whether to brand it into the Cultivation World.
• Chu Mu realized that branding the world would make it an attached secret realm that he could neither carry away nor control if he left the Cultivation World.
• Chu Mu chose to stop the world’s expansion and used the remaining World Origin to transform it into a Spirit Planting Heaven and Earth.
• Chu Mu acknowledged that his limited understanding of Heaven and Earth Rules prevented him from shaping the world’s deeper laws, and left its further evolution to the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth.

Chu Mu discovered that a wisp of World Origin had greatly strengthened his Eight Hundred Li Heaven and Earth and created an intelligent Heart of Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth. He realized it could coordinate and improve spirit plant cultivation, and planned to build an intelligent spirit plant world using the Longevity Sect’s accumulated knowledge.

• Chu Mu examined the transformed Eight Hundred Li Heaven and Earth and found its quality surpassed that of the main Cultivation World.
• Chu Mu summoned a radiant core and cautiously identified it as a transformed Heart of Heaven and Earth, evolved through his influence on the world.
• Chu Mu sensed that the core had gained intelligence and flexibility while remaining bound by the world’s fixed rules.
• Chu Mu concluded that the intelligent core could coordinate the world’s conditions to cultivate spirit plants more effectively.
• Chu Mu decided he could use the Longevity Sect’s extensive spirit plant data to develop an intelligent cultivation system.

Chu Mu transformed the Qiankun Heart’s nascent spirituality into an intelligent presence named Spirit Rhythm and tasked her with designing a Spirit Planting cultivation system for the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth. She produced a flawless plan, but Chu Mu still had to provide the resources and puppets needed to carry it out.

• Chu Mu used his influence over the Qiankun Heart to shape its spirituality into an intelligent coordinator for the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth.
• The Qiankun Heart became a woman-shaped apparition, and Chu Mu named her Spirit Rhythm.
• Chu Mu ordered Spirit Rhythm to integrate the knowledge in several thousand Jade Slips and construct a Spirit Planting cultivation system.
• Spirit Rhythm analyzed the records and the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth, then produced a tailored cultivation plan that Chu Mu confirmed was flawless.
• Chu Mu saw that the plan required him to obtain more Spirit Veins and special spiritual items and refine numerous Spirit Planting Puppets.

Chu Mu tested Spirit Rhythm’s brief infiltration of Ji Province City and concluded that Longevity Heaven possessed its own spiritual consciousness. He then entered seclusion and used vast resources to build the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth into an eight-hundred-li spirit-plant cultivation realm.

• Spirit Rhythm briefly infiltrated Ji Province City’s machinery, but Longevity Heaven detected and blocked it before Chu Mu could maintain control beyond ten breaths.
• Chu Mu reasoned that Longevity Heaven and the legendary Heavenly Heart likely possessed spiritual consciousnesses, and considered Spirit Rhythm a special form of treasure-born spirituality.
• Chu Mu ordered Lie Yan to command Ji Province City’s Garrison Manor while he entered seclusion, then watched Lie Yan descend through the surveillance system.
• Chu Mu sent spiritual vein essences, spiritual soil, foreign energies, and other resources into the Qiankun Small Heaven and Earth, where Spirit Rhythm arranged them according to the cultivation plan.
• The Qiankun Heart’s Heaven and Earth Tentacles formed eighty spiritual veins, distributed spiritual soil, and created distinct regions of varied spiritual energies as Chu Mu supplied more materials.

Chu Mu completed the Eight Hundred Li Heaven and Earth, turning it into a thriving, intelligently managed spirit-plant realm, and ordered the Yan Yun Mountain Range to produce Spirit Planting Puppets. As the Demon Calamity spread, he worried over the Longevity Sect’s position and cultivated; less than three years later, an alliance of Star Luo Grassland tribes joined the sect and sent cultivators into Great Chu’s Northern Border.

• Chu Mu inspected the completed Eight Hundred Li Heaven and Earth and arranged for the Yan Yun Mountain Range to make Spirit Planting Puppets.
• Chu Mu reviewed intelligence showing the Southern Sky Cultivation World had nearly fallen and the Longevity Sect had retreated to the Northern Border.
• Chu Mu received a Sound Transmission from Chang Hongyi, replied, took an Azure Cloud Pill, and began arduous cultivation.
• Several major southern tribes of the Star Luo Grassland formed an alliance and swept the demons north of the Moyun Gobi.
• The Star Luo Grassland tribes allied temporarily with the Longevity Sect, and their cultivators crossed the Yan Yun Mountain Range into Great Chu’s Northern Border to fight the Demon Calamity.

Chu Mu considered using the forbidden Sky Demon Soul Devouring Infant Refining Great Art to break through his Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck, then studied it in the Chaotic Void to check for interference. As he returned to the world, he noticed a blemish in the World Halo.

• After exhausting his pills and reaching a bottleneck, Chu Mu considered the demonic art as a dangerous way to force a breakthrough.
• Chu Mu used Spirit Radiance Blessing to study the art and weighed the risks of Sky Demon Soul Power contaminating his cultivation and mind.
• Chu Mu left the World Halo’s range and spent nearly a month studying the art in the Chaotic Void, finding no apparent abnormalities.
• Chu Mu returned toward the world and noticed a blemish in the otherwise flawless white World Halo.

Chu Mu discovered that Heaven's Evolution was eroding the World Halo with demonic qi, threatening to transform the cultivation world itself. He found that the world instinctively resisted the erosion, though it could not keep pace, and he could not trace its source.

• Chu Mu bound reddish-brown threads inside the World Halo and identified their evil, chaotic presence as demonic qi tied to Heaven's Evolution.
• Chu Mu realized the World Halo was being eroded at the level of the world itself and feared there would be nowhere to hide if the transformation spread.
• The reddish-brown gas exploited Chu Mu's momentary mental disturbance and surrounded him, but he used Spirit Radiance Blessing to regain control and drive it away.
• Chu Mu examined the World Halo and found that it resisted and expelled the foreign gas, though the erosion advanced faster than the world's defenses.
• Chu Mu failed to find the source of the erosion and observed that it had affected the World Halo but not the world barrier.

Chu Mu informed the Longevity Sect Master about an anomaly he had sensed Outside the World, then observed Chang Hongyi and Wangcai through the formations around his Cave Abode. After confirming Wangcai’s successful transformation into a fourth-order Ancient Demon Beast, he returned to studying a demonic secret art, and demonic qi began to appear in his Cave Abode.

• Chu Mu used the Grand Elder Token to tell the Longevity Sect Master everything he had discovered Outside the World.
• Chu Mu saw Chang Hongyi monitoring Lie Yan’s movements from the Thatched Cottage.
• Chu Mu sensed Wangcai, now a fourth-order Ancient Demon Beast, and examined the strength and transformed abilities it had gained.
• Chu Mu withdrew his divine sense, settled his mind with a Spirit Radiance Blessing, and resumed studying the demonic secret art.
• Threads of demonic qi appeared amid the spiritual qi in Chu Mu’s Cave Abode.

The Longevity Sect had built a fortified defensive line at the edge of Great Chu, with Town North City as its center, to hold back the Demon Calamity. The Longevity Sect Master brought Chu Mu beyond the line, where he found Great Chu transformed into a lifeless, demon-filled realm far sooner than expected.

• The Longevity Sect retreated through successive defenses and gathered surviving cultivators and support from the Star Luo Grassland to establish a fortified line centered on Town North City.
• The Longevity Sect Master commanded the defense from Town North City as demons and cultivators died in the ongoing battles.
• The Longevity Sect Master took Chu Mu and two others to the edge of the defensive line, where they saw the blood-darkened, lifeless land beyond it.
• Chu Mu wondered how the corruption had spread so quickly after returning from seclusion as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

Chu Mu examined the Longevity Sect Master's records of the rapidly mutating world, where demons had occupied former spiritual veins and cities and the Nine Cities Frontline faced overwhelming forces. After learning that the strange world could erase records by interfering with Heaven and Earth Rules, Chu Mu followed the Longevity Sect Master across the boundary to investigate.

• The Longevity Sect Master gave Chu Mu a jade slip showing the corrupted world, its demons, and the demon command hub at Azure Cang City.
• The Longevity Sect Master explained that the Nine Cities Frontline had only thirty Nascent Soul Great Experts, including three Nascent Soul Grand Cultivators, and asked Chu Mu to help investigate the spiritual veins.
• Chu Mu learned that the Longevity Sect Master could not enter a spiritual vein land without triggering a mutation and its detonation.
• The Longevity Sect Master showed Chu Mu a Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone jade slip whose recorded information had been erased by an unknown force.
• Chu Mu realized the force was interfering with Heaven and Earth Rules, and followed the Longevity Sect Master into the corrupted world.

Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master entered the mutated world and traveled to demon-occupied Cangshui City to investigate its corrupted spiritual vein. After observing the city from across the river, Chu Mu slipped inside to examine it more closely.

• Chu Mu sensed that the mutated world rejected him and weakened his ability to wield Heaven and Earth Power.
• Chu Mu concluded that their immediate threats were the Demon Clan, the world's mutation, and other eerie beings—not the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast itself.
• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master concealed their auras and crossed the blood-colored land on foot toward Cangshui City.
• The two reached Cangshui City and saw that demons occupied the ruined city while brownish-red evil spiritual qi spread from its corrupted spiritual vein.
• Chu Mu asked the Longevity Sect Master to stand guard, observed Cangshui City from across the river, and then entered through a break in its wall.

Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master explored Cangshui City and learned how demons reproduced, evolved, and grew stronger through war. In the Inner City, they discovered countless demons worshipping a massive Demon Statue with striking devotion.

• Chu Mu watched the orderly demon society in Cangshui City's Outer City and asked the Longevity Sect Master whether demons could reproduce.
• The Longevity Sect Master explained that intelligent demons could reproduce, while mindless demons could recover their memories and evolve by devouring living beings.
• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master discussed how the Demon Clan could replenish its numbers and grow stronger through conflict.
• The two entered the Inner City and found that its buildings had been replaced by a vast plaza and a towering altar covered in mysterious patterns.
• Chu Mu saw countless demons, including a Fourth Order Demon, prostrating themselves before a colossal Demon Statue in a display of unwavering piety.

Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master watched demons perform a Blood Sacrifice at a Spirit Vein hub, which appeared to accelerate Heaven and Earth’s alienation. The sacrifice empowered the demons and strengthened the land’s rejection of outsiders, leaving them to consider how to investigate the hub without worsening the danger.

• Chu Mu learned from the Longevity Sect Master that the demons were worshipping an entity through a statue and that its attention could be drawn by changes at the altar.
• Chu Mu realized that the Spirit Vein sites might be hubs accelerating Heaven and Earth’s alienation, and that destroying them could be dangerous without understanding their connections.
• Chu Mu identified the altar as a site of Blood Sacrifice and watched the Demon Statue tremble as brown-red aura descended from the storm clouds.
• The descending aura boosted the demons’ cultivation, allowing several thousand to break through and the leading Fourth Order Demon to advance to the middle Fourth Order.
• The demons chanted a ritual that sent blood light into the statue, intensifying Heaven and Earth’s suppression and rejection of outsiders.

Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master investigated the truth behind the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast and prepared a grand array to block Heaven and Earth Sensing in Cangshui City. They returned to the city to activate their plan and kill the Fourth Order Demon, but the demon briefly sensed something before settling down again.

• Chu Mu questioned whether the ancient records about the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast could be trusted, and the Longevity Sect Master admitted that the truth was impossible to discern.
• Chu Mu devised a grand array to block Heaven and Earth Sensing while the blood-red night empowered demons across the region.
• The demons marched north from Cangshui City, leaving only the Fourth Order Demon beneath the altar as Chu Mu spent eight days preparing the array.
• Chu Mu warned the Longevity Sect Master to kill the Fourth Order Demon immediately after the array activated, and the Longevity Sect Master readied his spiritual treasure sword.
• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master returned to the square, where the Fourth Order Demon briefly scanned its surroundings before resuming its cultivation.

Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master activated a grand array to conceal Cangshui City from Heaven and Earth while they investigated the square. With the array able to hold for only a quarter of an hour, the Longevity Sect Master began recording everything around the altar and its Demonic statues.

• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master waited through the night for the Eerie World’s hostile influence to weaken at dawn.
• Chu Mu activated the Array Disc, sealing Cangshui City inside a grand array that simulated an ordinary Demon city.
• The awakened Fourth Order Demon attacked the array and Chu Mu, but the Longevity Sect Master killed it with a sword strike.
• The grand array bound the remaining Demons and drained their power to sustain its concealment from Heaven and Earth.
• Chu Mu warned that the array could last at most a quarter of an hour, and the Longevity Sect Master sent out Heavenly Mark Crystal Stone jade slips to record the square and its surroundings.

Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master fled Cangshui City with records of the altar array, but Heaven and Earth Sensing detected them and unleashed a demonic pursuit. As they fought through waves of demons, Chu Mu realized the alienated world's quality was weakening his attacks, while more Nascent Soul Demons closed in.

• The Longevity Sect Master collected several dozen Heavenly Traces Jade Slips, while Chu Mu stabilized the grand array, imprisoned the Demon Statue, and stored the copied records.
• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master left Cangshui City and raced through the wilderness, avoiding Spirit Vein hubs as they tried to reach Town North City before their quarter-hour escape window ended.
• The dim heavens erupted with thunder and dark clouds, and countless demons received a command to pursue and surround the two fleeing cultivators.
• Chu Mu noticed that his attacks shattered space less effectively than they would outside the eerie world, and suspected that the world's quality was different.
• Nascent Soul Demons joined the pursuit, but Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master continued flying through the demon hordes instead of stopping to fight.

After forcing their way through demon-infested territory, Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master reached the Longevity Immortal Hall and entered the sect’s hidden Immortal Spirit Abode. Chu Mu explored the ancient treasure’s vast inner world, learning that it housed the sect’s important matters and could serve as a refuge if the Longevity Sect faced extinction.

• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master escaped a demon siege and arrived at the Longevity Immortal Hall above Town North City.
• The Longevity Sect Master explained that the Immortal Spirit Abode was a Fifth-Order Ancient Treasure that stabilized the void and contained the sect’s secrets and important affairs.
• Chu Mu learned that Longevity Heaven had been built around the Immortal Abode Artifact Spirit, but its illusory world had been deactivated because the changed heaven and earth made it vulnerable.
• Chu Mu and the Longevity Sect Master entered the Immortal Spirit Abode through a formation gateway and arrived in its calm, void-stabilizing realm.
• Chu Mu explored the Abode’s vast, self-sustaining inner world and considered how it could provide the Longevity Sect with a refuge.