Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu endured a lightning tribulation in the Chaotic Void as the Heaven and Earth Furnace transformed, allowing him to break through to the fifth tier and stabilize his early Spirit Transformation cultivation. Afterward, he replenished the Furnace True Essence and learned that fifth-tier cultivators could command heaven and earth and shape blessed lands according to their Dao.

• A deep-purple Thunder bolt struck Chu Mu and hurled him through the Chaotic Void, but his Furnace True Essence quickly healed his charred body.
• Thunder struck Chu Mu from every direction as the Heaven and Earth Furnace underwent its final transformation and expanded to nearly a thousand li.
• Chu Mu broke through to the fifth tier, stabilized his early Spirit Transformation cultivation, and watched the lightning tribulation subside.
• Chu Mu confirmed his breakthrough, then used the power of Devouring to absorb chaos and replenish the Furnace True Essence within the enlarged Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Chu Mu gained insight that fifth-tier cultivators could command their surroundings, shaping heaven and earth into a blessed land suited to their Dao.

Chu Mu explored his newly awakened Furnace rules in the Chaotic Void and used the Bronze Mirror to seek a World Coordinate. He discovered two indistinguishable coordinates tied to Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beasts and could not tell which one led to the Cultivation World.

• Chu Mu tested his control over the Chaotic Void and used his Furnace rules to swallow a vast amount of Chaotic Qi.
• Chu Mu noticed unusual spatial fluctuations that might have been a natural space channel, but chose not to investigate.
• Chu Mu used the Bronze Mirror and Sacred Soul to sense a World Coordinate, then detected a second coordinate beside it.
• Chu Mu confirmed both coordinates were genuine and carried identical Heavenly Evolution auras.
• Chu Mu suspected Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast avatars existed in multiple worlds and realized he could not identify the Cultivation World among the coordinates.

After being swept into a deeply corrupted world, Chu Mu discovered that the Heavenly Evolution had likely annihilated its native civilization. He found that its blackened World Halo sealed the realm and retaliated against attempts to escape, leaving him trapped without a safe way back to the Cultivation World.

• Chu Mu fell through a spatial rupture into a barren world filled with corrupting energy that eroded his cultivation and vitality.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Heavenly Evolution had invaded this world more thoroughly than the Cultivation World and likely annihilated its native civilization.
• Chu Mu tried to tear open space and escape into the Chaotic Void, but an unseen force struck him and threw him back into the realm.
• Chu Mu examined the foreign energy that had wounded him and recognized it as Heavenly Evolution, refined by his Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Chu Mu tested the space beyond the realm and saw that its black World Halo assimilated his Divine Sense and struck back at him.
• Chu Mu dismissed using his Heavenly Evolution Sacred Soul to hide his Fifth Order cultivation, since his Fourth Order Sacred Soul anchored his return to the Cultivation World.

Chu Mu spent nearly a year trapped in a world whose distorted rules had turned its inhabitants into mindless ghostly evils and threatened to corrupt his vitality and mind. After concluding that the world had been alienated directly by Heavenly Evolution, he wondered whether its ruined state could reveal why It sought to corrupt worlds and destroy their inhabitants.

• Chu Mu crushed a third-tier Grievance Soul with his bare hand and reflected on his nearly year-long stay in the unfamiliar world.
• He recalled that every city, village, fortress, and sect he had found lay abandoned, while the world teemed with mindless ghostly evils.
• Chu Mu concluded that the world's distorted rules suppressed spirituality and had turned even powerful ghosts into creatures without intelligence or emotion.
• He recalled how a tide of ghostly evils had attacked him, and how more than a hundred low-tier Sacred Souls had become nourishment for his current disguise.
• Chu Mu reasoned that Heavenly Evolution had alienated the world directly, draining vitality and eroding the minds of any beings who remained within it.
• Chu Mu wondered whether studying this fully alienated world could reveal why It corrupted worlds and destroyed their living beings.

Chu Mu explored the ruined Dream Mountain City and found records describing how Heaven's Evolution twisted the world's rules and destroyed its civilization. He continued north toward the former human settlements, still searching for the truth about Heaven's Evolution and a way to escape the world.

• Chu Mu considered whether Heaven's Evolution's true body had once been sealed in this world and concluded that the Natural Space Channel might explain how he entered it.
• Chu Mu traveled north through Cloud Dream, a former marsh now transformed into wilderness filled with ghostly monsters.
• Chu Mu reached the ruined Dream Mountain City and found that a fallen floating palace had devastated its center.
• Chu Mu searched the palace's Scripture Pavilion and recovered several damaged scrolls describing the catastrophe.
• Chu Mu learned that a Yan Luo Sect Nascent Soul Supreme Elder had become a Fourth-Order Corpse Demon, destroyed the palace, and triggered Dream Mountain City's collapse.

Chu Mu discovered that the world was decaying and concluded that Heavenly Evolution might be mutating worlds in order to destroy them. He decided to remain and study the great world's impending collapse, hoping to advance his cultivation while preparing for its dangers.

• Chu Mu read the Scripture Pavilion scrolls and learned that the world's rules had twisted abruptly, wiping out its living beings within a few years.
• Chu Mu used his Divine Sense to draw in the surrounding monsters, then froze them within his God Transformation Domain.
• Chu Mu sensed that the world itself was decaying and suspected Heavenly Evolution's true purpose was to destroy worlds.
• Chu Mu considered staying to comprehend the rules as the great immortal Dao world collapsed, but worried about the void currents its destruction would unleash.

Chu Mu used the world’s strange, rule-bending phenomena to deepen his comprehension and advance his God Transformation cultivation. After the devouring vortex at Tongda Lake vanished, he had made rapid progress strengthening the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

• Chu Mu studied a sea of water suspended atop clouds and used Spirit Radiance to comprehend the runaway rules behind the phenomenon.
• He recalled that years of studying strange phenomena had expanded the Heaven and Earth Furnace by nearly a thousand li and advanced his cultivation.
• Chu Mu traveled to Tongda Lake, where a vortex swallowed lake water amid intertwined flames, water, and steam.
• He comprehended the Devouring Rule within the vortex, rapidly expanding the Heaven and Earth Furnace and increasing his cultivation.
• After nearly an hour, the vortex vanished and the lake’s strange phenomena faded.

Chu Mu comprehended the Devouring Rule, devoured the ghostly fiends around him, and broke through to the God Transformation Middle Stage. As the world’s rules grew increasingly chaotic and its collapse drew nearer, he traveled from one rule manifestation to another, rapidly strengthening his cultivation over more than ten years.

• Chu Mu devoured every ghostly fiend within several hundred li, demonstrating the Devouring Rule he had just comprehended.
• Chu Mu’s cultivation broke through from the God Transformation Initial Stage to the God Transformation Middle Stage.
• Chu Mu estimated that the declining world could collapse within a century, though he remained uncertain how the Heavenly Evolution power might affect its decline.
• Chu Mu followed his sense of guidance to sites where rules manifested, seeking opportunities to improve his comprehension.
• As the world’s rules became increasingly chaotic and ghostly fiends perished across vast regions, Chu Mu continued cultivating and advanced rapidly for more than ten years.

As the realm approached its collapse, Chu Mu reflected on how its rule manifestations had nearly perfected his Heaven and Earth Furnace cultivation path. The blood rain let him perceive the world’s core rules, and he witnessed its history in reverse until the vision reached beyond the realm.

• Chu Mu reviewed his progress and realized that the realm’s opportunities had nearly completed his fifth-tier Heaven and Earth Furnace cultivation system.
• He withdrew his rule control, allowing the mountain to be consumed by the world’s rampant manifestations as heaven and earth mourned and blood rain began to fall.
• Chu Mu followed the blood rain into the realm’s core rules and briefly perceived the entire world and the power eroding it.
• His perception began reversing through time, showing the realm’s decline, the spread of corruption, and the extinction of its intelligent races.
• The reversed scenes reached the period before the cataclysm, and the vision shifted beyond the realm.

Chu Mu glimpsed a vast Star Cloud Belt threatened by a Great Terror, then endured the collapse of his world and seized its chaotic rule fragments to advance his cultivation. Swept through the Chaotic Void, he reached the God Transformation Late Stage while continuing to absorb the rules around him.

• Chu Mu's perception reached beyond the World Halo and revealed a Star Cloud Belt whose worlds fed rule threads toward a Great Terror, while his own world appeared dim and doomed.
• The vision shattered, and Chu Mu faced his world's collapse, using the Heaven and Earth Furnace to devour energy and survive the spreading destruction.
• Chu Mu entered a Fire Domain Lotus Sea and absorbed its chaotic Fire Attribute rules, rapidly deepening his comprehension and strengthening the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• After Chu Mu's plundering broke the Fire Domain Lotus Sea, he was swept away and seized rule-formed spiritual objects from a Metal Stone Land.
• Chu Mu endured the Metal Stone Land's sharpness and bodily transformations until its balance collapsed, then reached the God Transformation Late Stage while drifting through the Chaotic Void.

After the world's collapse, Chu Mu realized that countless worlds formed a prison suppressing a terrifying existence in the Chaotic Void, and that the Cultivation World might face a higher-dimensional strike if Heavenly Evolution was defeated. He reached the peak of God Transformation Great Perfection while digesting the world's rule fragments, then used the Bronze Mirror and Sacred Soul to search for Heavenly Evolution and sensed only faint, unstable traces.

• Chu Mu awakened in the peaceful Chaotic Void and realized that the destroyed world had been one of countless prisons restraining a Great Terror.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Cultivation World’s calamity was unavoidable and that defeating Heavenly Evolution might invite a higher-dimensional strike that could trap him inside the world.
• Chu Mu examined the collapsed world's boulder belt and recognized it as the location where the world had once existed in the Star Cloud Ring.
• Chu Mu absorbed the lingering rule echoes and reached the peak of God Transformation Great Perfection, then began digesting the fragments to stabilize his foundation.
• After decades of secluded cultivation, Chu Mu used the Bronze Mirror and Sacred Soul to seek Heavenly Evolution, but sensed only several vague traces and no clear anchor.

Chu Mu tested a Natural Spatial Portal with two Demon Suppression Puppets and suspected it led to an unknown place, possibly through a man-made passage. He used his Bronze Mirror to reach the corrupted Cultivation World, where he found its World Halo heavily contaminated and the world increasingly hostile to outsiders.

• Chu Mu sent Third Order and Fourth Order Demon Suppression Puppets into the Natural Spatial Portal and noted that the Fourth Order puppet disappeared with a slight delay.
• Chu Mu wondered whether the portal had been made to connect to somewhere within the Star Cloud Ring and considered using the Upper Realm coordinates to investigate.
• Chu Mu anchored his Bronze Mirror to his Sacred Soul and crossed over to the Cultivation World.
• Chu Mu saw that blood-colored corruption had overtaken the World Halo and that the world’s resistance had grown weak.
• Chu Mu felt the corrupted world reject him but judged that his God Transformation Completion cultivation gave him enough strength to protect himself.

Chu Mu secretly used his God Transformation Completion cultivation to devour the Silent Death Ocean while continuing to appear as a Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator. He planned to let Great Heng lead the effort to investigate the Heavenly Heart, which he hoped would reveal the Upper Realm and the dangers of the Chaotic Void.

• Great Heng's purification plan transformed most of the Desert Sea, while the Sky Palace Domain suppressed demons and left the central Silent Death Ocean untouched.
• Chu Mu walked through the Silent Death Ocean and swallowed its Silent Death Power, causing the ocean to shrink.
• Chu Mu concealed his God Transformation Completion cultivation and maintained the appearance of Nascent Soul Perfection despite facing no pressure from the Sky Palace Domain.
• Chu Mu judged that the Heavenly Heart's authority had weakened as the world mutated, while the unknown terror at the center of the star ring remained a danger.
• Chu Mu decided to let Great Heng probe the Heavenly Heart while he stayed behind the scenes and sought information about the Upper Realm and the Chaotic Void.

Chu Mu watched Great Heng drain the Silent Death Ocean and restore the Sky Palace Relic, but suspected that the effort was weakening the Cultivation World rather than protecting it. He concluded that Great Heng was helping Heaven’s Evolution bring about the world’s fall.

• Chu Mu concealed his strength while devouring the Silent Death Ocean over thirteen years, allowing Great Heng to finish its campaign.
• Great Heng’s Nine Great Military Departments purified the Desert Sea, after which the Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood decayed into ashes and the Ancient Battlefield was revealed.
• Great Heng’s elite forces gathered before the two intertwined worlds as the Heng Emperor began restoring the Sky Palace Relic.
• Chu Mu sensed the world’s remaining power flowing into the derivative world, slowing its alienation while leaving the main world increasingly vulnerable.
• Chu Mu reasoned that the restoration would ultimately make the Cultivation World fall, and realized Great Heng was aiding Heaven’s Evolution.

Chu Mu speculated that Great Heng had colluded with Heavenly Evolution and contemplated how rule phenomena might lead beyond the fifth tier of Immortal Dao cultivation. As Great Heng faced a coalition of Cultivation World factions at the Desert Sea, Chu Mu remained hidden and watched.

• Chu Mu considered whether the Heng Emperor or Great Heng's imperial family had used the country's officials to break free of Heavenly Heart's control.
• Chu Mu reasoned that the world's mutation and the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast's escape were inevitable, then studied how God Transformation cultivators controlled rules.
• Chu Mu examined a golden Rule Spiritual Object and speculated that sixth-tier cultivation involved turning intangible rules into tangible phenomena.
• Chu Mu noticed Great Heng's Nine Great Military Departments and dozens of legions confronting Nascent Soul experts and great demons from other factions.
• The Longevity Sect Master arrived to join the opposition, while Chu Mu realized his immersion in the world had concealed him from those below God Transformation and stayed hidden.

Chu Mu observed the Heng Emperor’s arrival and realized that Heavenly Heart was empowering him even after he had broken free of its restraints. After assessing the Derived World’s danger, Chu Mu concluded that the world’s remaining power was already being irreversibly drained and the factions’ confrontation could not stop it.

• The Heng Emperor arrived at the standoff, and Chu Mu saw that a net of rules was channeling world power into him.
• Chu Mu examined the colliding worlds and judged that the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast alone could not quickly seize control of the world.
• Chu Mu inferred that the Heng Emperor’s God Transformation-like power was unstable and carried unknown limitations.
• Chu Mu concluded that Great Heng had diverted the world’s remaining power into the Derived World Prison, leaving the factions’ confrontation too late to change the outcome.

As the world sank and the Celestial Heart Imprint lost its hold, Great Heng's forces fell into confusion and were overwhelmed by the demon army. Chu Mu followed Heng Emperor into the precarious world-cage and realized the Celestial Heart's accumulated power might still be essential to keeping the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast sealed.

• The world's power drained away, the Sky Palace Domain collapsed, and the Celestial Heart Imprint's restraint over Great Heng's people vanished.
• Great Heng's soldiers became confused as their true hearts returned, and the prepared demon army swept into the Desert Sea, routing them.
• Chu Mu watched the rout and suspected Heng Emperor had helped mutate the world for reasons tied to the being sealed within the Star Cloud Ring.
• As the world-cage's suppression weakened, Heng Emperor entered it, followed by Chu Mu and other fourth-order mighty figures who hesitated at its entrance.
• Chu Mu examined the cage's real and half-illusory halves and realized the Celestial Heart's accumulated power might keep the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast imprisoned even after the world sank.

Chu Mu discovered that the shattered Demon Domain remained intact because a Magma Fire Sea transformed Chaotic Qi into True Demonic Qi, disrupting Heavenly Heart’s suppression. He suspected Heavenly Evolution was behind the process as he considered what would happen if its sustaining source were destroyed.

• Chu Mu left the evolved cage and examined the fractured Demon Domain, concluding that it obstructed Heavenly Heart’s power and had caused the Demon Calamity.
• Chu Mu sensed that the Demon Domain’s authority was ownerless and inferred that its former ruler, the True Demon, had most likely perished.
• Chu Mu found that a True Demon Spring at the Magma Fire Sea maintained the broken world by releasing endless True Demonic Qi.
• Chu Mu descended to the sea’s source and discovered that Chaotic Qi from the Chaotic Void was being transformed into True Demonic Qi.
• Chu Mu compared the transformation to his Heaven and Earth Furnace and realized the Demon Domain might collapse if the source were destroyed.

Chu Mu discovered that the flaw in the Celestial Heart Prison led to a half-real, half-illusory world where he could pursue Rule Manifestation and a path beyond the fifth tier. His Sky Palace Guest Elder Token then gained immense authority within Celestial Heart's system, leaving him poised to enter that world.

• Chu Mu examined the demonic qi wellspring and concluded that Heaven's Evolution's conversion power came from its main body, but chose not to destroy it because the Demon Domain had already become unlivable for other beings.
• Chu Mu recognized that the flaw between the Demon Domain and Celestial Heart Prison opened onto a place where falsehood could become truth, offering guidance toward sixth-tier power.
• A repulsive force blocked Chu Mu from entering, so he activated his Sky Palace Guest Elder Token and received missions to destroy demonic qi wellsprings, exterminate demons, and purify Spirit Veins.
• Chu Mu inferred that Celestial Heart was nearing its limits and that Heng Emperor likely sought something other than Celestial Heart.
• The barrier's repulsive force vanished, and a streak of Fleeting Light entered Chu Mu's token, rapidly raising its authority to a level comparable to the Celestial Heart authority he had once controlled in Great Heng.

Chu Mu’s Sky Palace Guest Elder Token gained Heaven-Rank Top Grade authority, letting him perceive the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast and its prison, but contact with it triggered a dangerous disturbance in his Heaven and Earth Furnace. Suspecting the being within the Star Cloud Ring had noticed him and might seek to use him, Chu Mu severed the connection and examined the Heavenly Domain, where he discovered something astonishing.

• Chu Mu used the Guest Elder Token’s increased authority to perceive the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast, whose strength was being drained by rule-chains in the prison.
• The Sacred Beast opened its eyes and met Chu Mu’s gaze, and a vanished chant was followed by his Heaven and Earth Furnace erupting into turmoil and exposing his God Transformation Completion cultivation.
• The aura shocked the powerful figures outside the prison; the Longevity Sect Master recognized Chu Mu and rejoiced, while Heng Emperor asked the Sacred Lord about him and received a Blood Pearl.
• Chu Mu suppressed the Furnace True Essence, withdrew from the flaw, and concluded that his Furnace Path’s connection to Heaven’s Evolution had caused the loss of control.
• Chu Mu suspected the being within the Star Cloud Ring had focused its attention on him and considered whether it might try to seize, use, or assimilate him.
• Chu Mu used the Guest Elder Token to inspect the Heavenly Domain where falsehood became truth and was astonished by its orderly, peculiar state.