Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu witnessed the Thirty-Six Realms’ endless cycles of cultivators fighting monsters, which used the monsters’ extinguished power to sustain the resurrected fighters while eroding the Celestial Heart. He realized that the Heavenly Domain was deteriorating and that Great Heng’s founding and authority were tied to the Celestial Heart’s effort to preserve the balance, though that balance had ultimately failed.

• Chu Mu watched monsters destroy an ancient city before the city and its fallen defenders were restored, beginning another battle cycle.
• Chu Mu sensed that fallen cultivators were resurrected through the power released when monsters made from Heaven's Evolution were destroyed.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Heavenly Domain contained thirty-six false worlds where Sky Palace Disciples fought in endless cycles, gradually weakening both Heaven's Evolution and the Celestial Heart.
• Chu Mu recalled that Great Heng had sent cultivators into the Thirty-Six Realms for hundreds of thousands of years to maintain the balance, but the arrangement had broken down.
• Chu Mu recognized that the Celestial Heart had empowered Great Heng and concentrated authority in the hands of each Heng Emperor, yet an unexpected event had still given rise to disloyal thoughts.

The Heaven's Heart explained how a piece of True Spirit flesh freed the Heng Emperors from the Celestial Heart Imprint and turned them into a hidden weakness in its order. It concluded that the current Heng Emperor had likely struck a deal with the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast to address the True Spirit Bloodline's fatal flaw, abandoning Great Heng and allowing the world to fall into ruin.

• A True Spirit flesh fragment blocked the Heaven's Heart's surveillance and influence over an ancient Heng Emperor, who abandoned immortal cultivation and took up the bloodline path.
• The True Spirit Bloodline passed to later Heng Emperors, shielding them from the Celestial Heart Imprint while leaving them bound by the Heaven's Heart's rules.
• When the current Heng Emperor took the throne around two thousand years ago, the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast erupted, and the Heaven's Heart lost surveillance of the outside world.
• The Demon Domain World fell, opening a flaw in the cage through which Heavenly Evolution spread across the Cultivation World under the Heng Emperor's schemes.
• The Heng Emperor used his authority to influence the Heaven's Heart and the world's power, accelerating the world's transformation into ruin.
• The Heaven's Heart inferred that the current Heng Emperor had made a deal involving the True Spirit Bloodline and had sacrificed Great Heng and the world to address its defect.

Chu Mu discovered Emperor Heng cultivating with a True Spirit Blood Pearl in the simulated Chaotic Void and realized the world's loosening cultivation restrictions were benefiting him. He suspected Emperor Heng's True Spirit Bloodline was related to Wangcai's, while retaining his grudge over the True Demon’s attack.

• Chu Mu decided he cared little about Emperor Heng’s world-ending calamity but still held him responsible for the True Demon nearly killing him and devastating Wangcai.
• Chu Mu left the Thirty-Six Realms and found Emperor Heng cultivating in the simulated Chaotic Void with a Blood Pearl.
• Chu Mu sensed the world’s cultivation restrictions loosening for Emperor Heng as the world’s power returned under alienation.
• Chu Mu inferred that Emperor Heng’s progress depended on completing a True Spirit Bloodline and noticed its resemblance to Wangcai’s bloodline.

Chu Mu confronted Heng Emperor and forced him to explain his proposed route to the Upper Realm and the danger threatening the Cultivation World. Heng Emperor revealed the Star Cloud Ring’s role in containing the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast’s incarnation, leaving Chu Mu with a vast account of the world’s place in that struggle.

• Chu Mu immobilized Heng Emperor with his God Transformation pressure, but halted his attack when Heng Emperor offered a way to reach the Upper Realm and another world where survivors could migrate.
• Heng Emperor explained that reaching the Upper Realm required surviving in the Chaotic Void, drawing on chaotic energy, and enduring teleportation, then swore an Oath of the Dao Heart; Chu Mu swore one too.
• Heng Emperor revealed that the Star Cloud Ring was built by the Heavenly Palace’s Upper Realm inheritance to suppress a great enemy, and that the Cultivation World was one of its nodes.
• Heng Emperor said the Sand Tail Scorpion Cataclysm and the current Demon Calamity were indirect effects of the suppressed existence’s power, while the Heavenly Heart and Ancient Battlefield helped contain its incarnation.
• Heng Emperor explained that the Ascension Passage had been severed after an Upper Realm cultivator descended in reverse during the ancient calamity, and that Upper Realm cultivators normally traveled through the Chaotic Void and Natural Spatial Portals.

Chu Mu learned how Emperor Heng had uncovered the secrets of ascension and obtained the coordinates of a Natural Space Channel to the Upper Realm. After marking Emperor Heng and leaving, Chu Mu recognized the threats surrounding the Cultivation World and offered the Celestial Heart a transaction: greater authority in exchange for dealing with the imprisoned Heavenly Evolution Clone.

• Emperor Heng explained that he had learned the Celestial Heart's secrets after his cousin stole their clan's True Spirit blood essence and caused the Demon Domain Heaven and Earth to fall, creating a flaw in the prison.
• Emperor Heng said the True Demon had become a subordinate of the Unknown Existence and was likely reincarnated into the Demon Clan, while he himself planned to help It remove the Celestial Heart's final restraints.
• Emperor Heng gave Chu Mu a Jade Slip containing the Natural Space Channel's coordinates and asked to accompany him to the Upper Realm, offering his Void-Breaking Flying Shuttle for the journey.
• Chu Mu branded a Furnace Mark in Emperor Heng's Sea of Consciousness and left, while the Heavenly Evolution Clone sensed him and briefly opened its eyes.
• Chu Mu assessed the Heavenly Evolution Clone, Emperor Heng, and the Celestial Heart as threats, then offered the Celestial Heart a deal: greater authority in exchange for dealing with the clone.

Chu Mu used the Celestial Heart’s Creator Authority to study the mysteries of the sixth order while the Cultivation World fell to the Demon Clan. Years later, he entered the Demon Clan’s ancestral holy land and confronted the True Demon, who fled but was captured by Chu Mu.

• Chu Mu accepted a Rule Contract to slay the Heavenly Evolution Clone and received Celestial Heart Creator Authority.
• Chu Mu perceived the Celestial Heart’s sixth-order mysteries as the Heng Emperor was confined and battled within the pseudo Chaotic Void.
• The Demon Clan conquered the Cultivation World, and its ancestral court grew into a grand sacrificial site devoted to Heavenly Evolution.
• Chu Mu entered the Demon Clan’s holy land disguised as a Fourth Order Demon and identified the True Demon among the High Priests.
• The True Demon fled when Chu Mu revealed himself, but Chu Mu seized him effortlessly.

Chu Mu crushed the Demon Ancestral Court after its Sacred Lord failed to answer the demon priests’ summons, taking vengeance on True Demon and devouring the city. He then subdued the fifth-tier Heavenly Evolution Divine Soul and began refining its origin in the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

• The Demon Statue’s radiance faded, and Chu Mu concluded that the being inside the Celestial Heart Prison could not answer the priests’ Blood Sacrifice under the Celestial Heart’s suppression.
• Chu Mu subdued True Demon, extracted his Divine Soul, and tortured it with true fire until his hatred was spent.
• Chu Mu devoured the imprisoned demons and erased the Demon Ancestral Court with his Furnace True Essence.
• Chu Mu captured the Holy Land’s fifth-tier Heavenly Evolution Divine Soul, overpowered its rules, and cleansed it into pure Divine Soul Origin.
• Chu Mu sent the origin into the Heaven and Earth Furnace, where Furnace Rules, Blade Intent, and true fire began refining it.

Chu Mu discovered that the Heavenly Evolution Divine Soul Origin contained a rule crystal that had left hidden flaws in his Furnace Rules, making him question whether the guidance for his sixth-order breakthrough was safe. He left the isolated world and entered the Chaotic Void to investigate the New World and its natural space portal using Heng Emperor’s coordinates.

• Chu Mu refined the Heavenly Evolution Divine Soul Origin and found a rule crystal containing the Heavenly Evolution mysteries.
• Using Spirit Radiance Blessing, Chu Mu sensed hidden traces of disharmony in his Furnace Rules that connected to the rule crystal.
• Chu Mu realized that the Heavenly Evolution mysteries he had used to forge his fifth order could contain concealed flaws, and he worried Celestial Heart’s guidance for his sixth order might also be dangerous.
• Chu Mu tested the world’s boundary, found that it restrained powers below the fifth order, and broke through into the Chaotic Void.
• Chu Mu consulted Heng Emperor’s Jade Slip about the New World and the Chaotic Natural Space Portal, confirming that Celestial Heart’s records supported the information.

Chu Mu investigated a Natural Spatial Portal and discovered a nearby world that was nearing the end of its decline. After learning that the world restricted outsiders to Golden Core Completion and had only tens of thousands of years left, he left and headed back toward the Cultivation World.

• Chu Mu examined a Natural Spatial Portal and realized its chaotic teleportation fluctuations could destroy cultivators below God Transformation, while even stronger cultivators might not survive the journey to the Upper Realm.
• Chu Mu found a pristine New World and entered it, where the world's laws restricted his God Transformation Completion cultivation to Golden Core Completion.
• Chu Mu sensed that breaking the world's cultivation limit would trigger Heavenly Punishment or expel him, and deduced that the world would collapse within roughly twenty to thirty thousand years.
• Chu Mu concluded that the world's long decline explained why Heavenly Evolution had not invaded it and decided its remaining lifespan could sustain generations of cultivators.
• Chu Mu left the aging world and crossed the Chaotic Void toward the Cultivation World.

Chu Mu tested Wangcai’s transformed Divine Abilities and found that its quasi-True Spirit bloodline had made it capable of entering the Chaotic Void for a breakthrough. He left Wangcai to stabilize its cultivation and appeared at the ruined Big Dipper Seven Cities and Longevity Mountain Gate.

• Chu Mu visited Wangcai in its cavern beneath the Moyun Gobi and assessed its cultivation as a Desolate Ancient Great Demon at Fourth Order completion.
• Chu Mu asked whether Wangcai could withstand chaotic energy and gave it a strand of Furnace True Essence to refine.
• Wangcai’s Devouring Divine Ability refined the strand without difficulty, revealing that its bloodline Divine Abilities had transformed.
• Chu Mu concluded that Wangcai could now enter the Chaotic Void, but told it to stabilize its cultivation while he handled matters in this world.
• Wangcai returned to secluded cultivation, and Chu Mu appeared among the demon-ruined Big Dipper Seven Cities and Longevity Mountain Gate.

Chu Mu returned to the ruined Longevity Mountain Gate, destroyed the demons occupying it, and reunited with the Longevity Sect in the Immortal Spirit Abode. He explained that the Cultivation World could not be saved, leaving the Sect Master and Grand Elders facing the loss of the hope his arrival had raised.

• Chu Mu reflected on the Longevity Sect’s history and resolved to preserve its legacy by moving it to another world.
• Chu Mu crushed the demons occupying Longevity Mountain Gate, collapsing the mountain and shattering its statues.
• The Longevity Sect Master and surviving cultivators saw Chu Mu’s power through the Immortal Spirit Abode’s projection and went to welcome him as their Grand Elder.
• Chu Mu arrived at the Immortal Spirit Abode, greeted the Longevity Sect cultivators, and met with the Sect Master and several Grand Elders.
• Chu Mu told them the Cultivation World’s situation and that it had no hope of being saved, leaving the group silent.

Chu Mu told the Longevity Sect that their world could not be saved and offered to lead them to a declining New World with serious limits. After the sect agreed to migrate, Chu Mu took control of its Immortal Spirit Abode and studied its ancient spatial laws, gaining new insights into advancing his own treasures.

• Chu Mu said that only a great cultivator from the Upper Realm could save their world and that even a sixth-order cultivator could not oppose It.
• Chu Mu offered the Longevity Sect refuge in a New World, warning that its declining power would limit cultivation, shorten lifespans, and eventually lead to its collapse.
• The Longevity Sect Master decided that the sect would migrate, and Chu Mu required control of the Immortal Spirit Abode so it could remain usable in chaos.
• The Longevity Sect Master gave Chu Mu the abode’s highest authority token, and Chu Mu refined it to gain control of the Fifth-Order High-Grade treasure.
• Chu Mu examined the Immortal Spirit Abode’s spatial laws and used his insights to refine the structures of his two natal treasures.

After returning to the Cultivation World, Chu Mu led the Longevity Sect to seize Kunwu Mountain, then withdrew into the Chaotic Void to guard Wangcai’s breakthrough and cultivate his treasures. Nearly a century later, Wangcai had reached the Fifth Order and Chu Mu’s two Lifebound treasures had become powerful Fifth-Order ancient treasures, leaving his next goal the Sixth Order.

• Chu Mu returned to the Cultivation World with the Longevity Sect, whose Nascent Soul elders were suppressed to the Golden Core Realm and whose Immortal Spirit Abode was sealed.
• The Longevity Sect destroyed the Kunwu Immortal Sect and took control of Kunwu Immortal Mountain, while Chu Mu left the sect to establish itself.
• Chu Mu found a deserted continent in the Chaotic Void and guarded Wangcai as he absorbed chaotic currents and cultivated toward the Fifth Order.
• After eight years, Wangcai underwent tribulations, reached the Fifth Order, and formed a Bloodline Rule Body through his True Spirit Bloodline.
• Chu Mu spent decades nurturing his two Lifebound treasures, advancing the Blade Intent Treasure to Fifth-Order High-Grade and the Nine Dragons Suppressing Prison Tower to Fifth-Order Supreme-Grade.

Chu Mu studied his nearly perfected treasures and pondered the path to the sixth order, uncertain whether ordinary rule manifestation was truly his own path. A Void Storm carrying a powerful True Spirit aura then approached, leaving him torn between staying anchored and retreating into the Chaotic Void.

• Chu Mu examined his Fifth-Order High-Grade Blade Intent Treasure and Fifth-Order Supreme Grade Nine Dragons Suppressing Prison Tower, which he relied on for offense and protection.
• Chu Mu reflected on sixth-order rule manifestation and worried that his unusual cultivation path required something beyond Turning Falsehood into Truth.
• Chu Mu meditated for an unknown time until a Void Storm swept toward him, and he sensed an unusual aura within it.
• Wangcai warned Chu Mu that the storm carried a True Spirit Bloodline purer and stronger than its own, which caused it intense fear.
• Chu Mu considered retreating but realized that leaving the tower's anchored coordinates could strand him in the Void Storm; he remained unsure what the approaching True Spirit aura would bring.

Chu Mu and Wangcai were swept into a World Remnant that had complete Heaven and Earth Rules and seemed connected to a True Spirit. Chu Mu explored its cultivation-rich landscape and found that all cultivators appeared to have vanished.

• Chu Mu used a dragon soul to sense an incoming World Remnant, then protected the Mountain Valley with the Nine Dragons Suppression as the fragment swallowed the continent.
• Chu Mu arrived inside the World Remnant and discovered that it had complete Heaven and Earth Rules and an intact natural environment.
• Wangcai sensed a True Spirit somewhere within the fragment world, though something blocked him from locating it precisely.
• Chu Mu stayed to investigate the world, told Wangcai to hide, and left the Mountain Valley to explore.
• Chu Mu found a vast plain with ordinary people, abundant spiritual energy, and countless deserted Immortal Path sites, but no cultivators.

Chu Mu investigated a ruined Immortal Path world where extraordinary power had been erased and become taboo, then traced the anomaly to Dongyun Lake, where a True Spirit’s aura was hidden behind a defensive domain of rules. He stood before the lake’s concealment without sensing the overwhelming suppression he had expected.

• Chu Mu explored a deserted Immortal Path sect and found that its arrays, Runes, and Jade Slips had been reduced to empty forms without Immortal Path power.
• Chu Mu examined mortals’ memories and learned that the world had collapsed about a century earlier, killing many Immortal Path Great Powers and turning the Immortal Path into a taboo.
• Chu Mu infused a mortal with Furnace Dharma power, but the world’s rules destroyed the newly extraordinary man, confirming that extraordinary beings were not permitted.
• Chu Mu searched the small world and found that the aura of an unknown True Spirit was strongest around the vast central Dongyun Lake.
• Chu Mu approached Dongyun Lake as clouds and a domain of rules concealed it from his scrutiny, but the passive concealment eased his unease.

Chu Mu crossed a lake transformed by rules and fire, discovering that its flames came from a mass of Blood Pearls with immense Fire Attribute rule power. He reached the center of the lake and was left wondering how the Blood Pearls could have caused such a profound change in the world.

• Chu Mu sensed that the lake's spiritual energy had become threatening under the rules, but he entered it to investigate the presence of a True Spirit.
• As he advanced, the lake's restraints strengthened and Fire Attribute rules began to corrode him.
• Chu Mu endured a sea of golden flames, confirmed their dense True Spirit aura, and continued toward their source.
• At the lake's center, the flames vanished, revealing a golden Fireball that Chu Mu's Divine Sense perceived as a mass of Blood Pearls containing profound Fire Attribute rules.
• Chu Mu questioned whether the Blood Pearls alone could have altered the world's rules and preserved a world fragment in the Chaotic Void.

Chu Mu discovered that Vermilion Bird True Blood’s Fire Rules had suppressed the world’s other Rules and studied how its fused Rules could point toward a sixth-rank path. When he tried to seize the Blood Pearl, its power manifested as a gigantic Vermilion Bird before him.

• Chu Mu realized that the drop of true spirit blood had suppressed the world’s Rules through its Fire Attribute Rule, likely after an unknown true spirit destroyed the world.
• As Chu Mu approached the Blood Pearl, the sea of fire produced countless fourth-rank energy beasts, which he blocked and captured for examination.
• Chu Mu found that the beasts’ Fire Rules fused Nirvana, Spirit Transformation, and Blazing Sun Rules, suggesting a sixth-rank path of Rule fusion and manifestation suited to his Furnace Path.
• Chu Mu identified the Blood Pearl as Vermilion Bird True Blood and suppressed the attacking energy beasts before approaching it.
• When Chu Mu tried to restrain the Blood Pearl with Furnace Rules, an unseen cry stopped him and the golden radiance revealed an enormous Vermilion Bird form.

Chu Mu overcame the Vermilion Bird phantom, examined the True Spirit blood, and gained insight into how fused rules could form a Dharma Appearance. After he took the blood, the fragmentary world began to collapse, and he left as the Void Storm destroyed it.

• Chu Mu used Spirit Radiance Blessing to resist the Vermilion Bird phantom and discovered that his blade could dispel it.
• Chu Mu inspected the unobstructed Vermilion Bird Blood and sensed the fused rules within it.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Vermilion Bird's sixth tier manifested fused rules as a Dharma Appearance, clarifying his own path toward the sixth tier.
• Chu Mu realized that exhausting the blood's power had removed the force sustaining the fragmentary world.
• Chu Mu stored the True Spirit blood and escaped as the Void Storm overwhelmed the collapsing world.

Chu Mu entered the collapsing Celestial Heart Prison, found the Celestial Heart’s main body, and learned that the Celestial Heart had chosen to destroy its own spirit rather than become Heavenly Evolution’s puppet. With the Celestial Heart’s power spent and its suppression failing, Chu Mu was left to confront the approaching calamity.

• Wangcai urged Chu Mu to leave the world, then vanished from the realm as Chu Mu entered the failing Celestial Heart Prison.
• Chu Mu shattered an illusory void and found the Celestial Heart’s main body, a diamond-shaped jade pendant.
• Chu Mu explained how the Vermilion Bird Blood had helped him establish his Furnace Rules and enter the sixth tier, which he called a Dharma Aspect.
• The Celestial Heart appeared before Chu Mu and said it could no longer suppress Heavenly Evolution, then asked him to honor their contract and kill it.
• The Celestial Heart spirit dispersed, and its jade pendant dimmed as Chu Mu’s Creator Authority increased.
• Chu Mu examined the pendant and learned that the Celestial Heart was a knowledge-recording treasure whose spirit had chosen self-annihilation rather than become Heavenly Evolution’s puppet.