Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu witnessed a vision of the ancient war against the Sand Tail Scorpion Queen, who had destroyed the Heavenly Palace and Demon Court and brought the Cultivation World to ruin. The vision ended with the perfected sixth-rank Queen overpowering two great cultivators through her Spider-Body Human-Head Dharma Appearance.

• The Sand Tail Scorpion Queen infiltrated the Demon Court, devoured the Demon Race, and helped destroy both the Demon Court and Heavenly Palace.
• Upper Realm cultivators descended to oppose the Sand Tail Scorpions, and Chu Mu's Heavenly Domain showed him their ancient battle.
• A human elder and a great demon slaughtered the Scorpion swarm until the Sand Tail Scorpion Queen appeared from a rupture in space.
• Chu Mu recognized the Queen as a perfected sixth-rank being whose Dharma Appearance carried power beyond the sixth rank.
• The Queen drove the two great cultivators back as they struggled to withstand her attacks.

Chu Mu witnessed Celestial Heart’s recorded history, learning how the Upper Realm cultivators imprisoned Heavenly Evolution and abandoned the Heavenly Palace and Demon Court. As Heavenly Evolution neared escape, Chu Mu discarded the Celestial Heart Jade Pendant and moved to settle his contract by attacking the prison’s greatest terror.

• The Upper Realm cultivators suppressed Heavenly Evolution, then led human and demon cultivators in forging the Celestial Heart Prison and exhausting Heavenly Evolution’s power.
• After the Upper Realm cultivators departed, the Heavenly Palace collapsed and the Demon Court was destroyed, while Celestial Heart’s drain restricted cultivation and Great Heng maintained the prison.
• A fragment of a true spirit’s remnant body reversed Heavenly Evolution’s decline, and the Heng Emperor lost control as Celestial Heart’s rules prevented it from counterattacking.
• Chu Mu witnessed Celestial Heart’s recorded secrets and learned the realm’s history through its Turning Falsehood into Truth.
• Chu Mu tossed the Celestial Heart Jade Pendant into the void, then vanished and struck toward the terror within the prison.

Chu Mu fought the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast, whose Fifth Order body was empowered by the Star Cloud Ring through Demon worship and Celestial Heart’s usurped Turning Falsehood into Truth. He discovered that destroying Demon worship sites disrupted the power’s transmission and changed his strategy to dismantle them across the realm.

• Chu Mu shattered Tianyan’s Celestial Heart Prison and struck until its human-headed spider form burst into a vast Demon empowered by the world and Celestial Heart’s Turning Falsehood into Truth.
• Chu Mu battled the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast for three months, but mysterious intervention repeatedly diverted his lethal attacks while the struggle inspired resistance among the realm’s Humans and Demons.
• Chu Mu noticed the Unknown Existence’s power arriving sluggishly and tested the effect by destroying a Demon statue, altar, and spiritual vein at a worship site.
• Chu Mu confirmed that destroying Demon worship sites weakened the transmission of power to the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast and could leave its Fifth Order essence unable to match him.
• Chu Mu abandoned the direct battle and began destroying Demon worship sites throughout the realm, throwing Demon order into chaos.

Chu Mu pursued the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast while destroying the demon sacrificial system, weakening the power sustaining it and driving it into madness. After the beast lost its obsession and began destroying the world, Chu Mu killed it, but its released faith and lingering thoughts accelerated the world's collapse.

• Chu Mu realized that destroying the demon sacrificial sites weakened the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast's power and damaged its consciousness.
• Chu Mu spent nearly a year destroying the sacrificial system as the beast grew increasingly distorted and lost control of its mind.
• The Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast's wounds released soul pollution that transformed living beings into mindless monsters.
• The beast suddenly abandoned its pursuit of Chu Mu and began using its power to destroy the world.
• Chu Mu struck the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast with the Three Foot Blade and Furnace Rules, killing it as the world fragmented.
• The beast's death released its remaining faith and lingering thoughts, shattering the world's last balance and worsening its collapse.

After the realm collapsed, Chu Mu left with Wangcai and watched its survivors perish in the Chaotic Void. Before entering a Spatial Portal to the Upper Realm, he settled nearby to stabilize his cultivation, strengthen his treasures, and search for suitable materials.

• Chu Mu reflected on the fallen world and suspected that Heng Emperor had disappeared, but set aside his questions and prepared to ascend.
• Chu Mu and Wangcai escaped the collapsing realm, and Chu Mu gathered Rule Spiritual Objects while observing its destruction.
• Chu Mu found a Spatial Portal leading toward the Upper Realm but chose to settle near it instead of entering immediately.
• Chu Mu planned to stabilize his sixth-tier cultivation, improve his Lifebound Magic Treasures, and account for Wangcai's weaker cultivation before crossing the spatial passage.
• Chu Mu used Wangcai as an Anchor Point and searched the Chaotic Void for spiritual materials suitable for refining treasures.

A cultivator living quietly in the Spirit Realm recalled how he entered the Upper Realm and was caught in the destruction of Moon God Palace. After nearly three hundred years of recovery, his injuries and Wangcai’s wounds were close to healing.

• The man told the injured black puppy Wangcai to wait until he had recovered enough to remove its rule-inflicted wounds.
• The man recalled spending nearly three hundred years preparing for and surviving his journey from the destroyed world to the Upper Realm.
• After failing to break through the Upper Realm’s boundary, the man found a passage and entered through it.
• The man was swept into the battle that destroyed Moon God Palace and escaped with injuries caused by seventh-rank experts.
• The man settled in a frontier town under the Holy Imperial Palace and spent several hundred years recovering in seclusion.

After recovering from his rule-level injuries, Chu Mu began using the Heaven and Earth Furnace to remove the Seventh-Order Yin Moon Rules afflicting Wangcai. The process steadily healed Wangcai and gave Chu Mu clues about the Integrated Body realm, which he sealed away while continuing the treatment.

• Chu Mu reflected on the Spirit Realm’s cultivation hierarchy and concealed his presence from the town’s residents while recovering from his injuries.
• After nearly five years, Chu Mu’s rule-level wound healed, and he inspected the expanded Qiankun Space and its thriving Spirit Fields.
• Chu Mu found Wangcai still suffering from wounds marked by the Moon God Palace Master’s Yin Moon Rules.
• Chu Mu used the Heaven and Earth Furnace to refine away a wisp of Yin Moon Rules, and Wangcai’s wounds healed slightly.
• As Chu Mu continued removing the rule power, he gained insights into Seventh-Order cultivation and sealed away the memories to avoid hidden dangers.

Chu Mu used his position in the Thousand Left Alliance to study the Spirit Realm and quietly work around the Sky Soaring Tower’s restrictions. As he learned about the Human Race’s Three Heavenly Pillars, he continued planning to access the tower’s nine levels and their accumulated inheritances.

• Chu Mu reviewed the Holy Imperial Palace records in the Sky Soaring Tower and reflected on how he had joined the Thousand Left Alliance under the guise of a Golden Core cultivator.
• Chu Mu explained that he had secretly bypassed the first-floor Scripture Pavilion’s restrictions and expected to open the entire tower within another ten-odd years.
• Chu Mu read about the Spirit Realm’s Human Race and its three major powers: the Heavenly Court, the Holy Imperial Palace, and the Loose Immortal Alliance.
• Chu Mu learned that the Heavenly Court inherited the Heavenly Palace’s order, while the Loose Immortal Alliance originated with powerful Loose Immortals and remained the weakest of the Three Heavenly Pillars.
• Chu Mu read how the first Holy Emperor rose during a catastrophe, saved the Human Race, founded the Holy Imperial Palace, and established the Nine Provinces.

After years of secretly studying Sky Soaring Tower, Chu Mu entered its ninth-floor world and found the Thousand Left Alliance’s Twelve Heavenly Tablets. Their inheritances offered him new guidance for advancing along his own Furnace Path, and he began examining them.

• Chu Mu weighed the Thousand Left Alliance’s precarious position and decided to crack Sky Soaring Tower to obtain its inheritance before leaving its fate behind.
• After more than ten years of studying Sky Soaring Tower and keeping his post, Chu Mu secretly entered the ninth-floor world.
• Chu Mu examined the Unyielding Kindling Sutra, learned it depended on conviction to preserve the Human Race, and found its path unsuited to him but useful as guidance.
• Chu Mu approached another Heavenly Tablet and absorbed the Green Wood Longevity Sutra into his Sea of Consciousness.

Chu Mu left his post at the Sky Soaring Tower after studying its twelve Great Ascension inheritances and noticing that powerful outsiders were secretly investigating the tower. At his lakeside abode, he began recording the inheritances’ essence and learned that sixth-order cultivation determined whether seventh-order cultivators abandoned their mortal essence to embody rules or forged their bodies into rule-bearing vessels.

• Chu Mu stole twelve core inheritances from the Sky Soaring Tower’s ninth floor, then returned unnoticed to his duties on the first floor.
• While studying the inheritances, Chu Mu detected Mu Yunshan, a disguised Nascent Soul cultivator, and realized other powerful outsiders were also hiding in the tower.
• After several years, Chu Mu left his post, concluding that the Sky Soaring Tower had become a dangerous gathering place for outsiders with unknown motives.
• At his Lakeside Courtyard, Chu Mu forged a Rule Jade Slip and began recording the essence of the twelve inheritances to shape his Sixth-Order path.
• Chu Mu learned that seventh-order Body Harmonization with Dao could either make rules primary at the cost of flesh and spirit or preserve them by forging the body into a vessel for rules.

Chu Mu studied the three Body Integration Paths and weighed their costs, benefits, and ties to the Spirit Realm’s racial struggles. He leaned toward I Am The Rule, though the chapter left his choice unresolved.

• Chu Mu read that Body Harmonization with Dao followed the Spirit Realm’s rules but risked binding cultivators to that world.
• Chu Mu learned that I Am The Rule preserved the self but invited Heavenly Punishment every thousand years, while harmonizing Dao through a Lifebound Treasure risked transforming one’s human essence.
• Chu Mu reviewed how the Heavenly Court, Holy Imperial Palace, and Loose Immortal Alliance favored different Body Integration Paths.
• Chu Mu suspected the paths and the Unyielding Kindling Sutra concealed secrets connected to the Spirit Realm’s racial struggles.
• Chu Mu considered how each path would shape his cultivation from the sixth tier onward and began leaning toward I Am The Rule in pursuit of freedom and longevity.

Chu Mu chose the I Am The Rule path and continued developing a Furnace Path of his own. Months into seclusion, Li Ziwei returned with several Thousand Left Alliance cultivators, and Chu Mu left the Lakeside Courtyard with them, noticing a female cultivator he recognized from the Sky Soaring Tower.

• Chu Mu decided that I Am The Rule was the only Three Body Integration Path that suited him.
• Li Ziwei visited Chu Mu and offered a Starfall Crystal Stone in exchange for help deciphering an ancient fourth-order array.
• Chu Mu identified the damaged array inscriptions as parts of one grand array and explained how Li Ziwei could use them to break it.
• After Li Ziwei left, Chu Mu returned to his Rule Jade Slip and began planning a sixth-order and seventh-order Furnace Path of his own.
• Months later, Chu Mu left the Lakeside Courtyard with Li Ziwei and several Thousand Left Alliance cultivators, recognizing a female cultivator who had often appeared at the Sky Soaring Tower.

Chu Mu and Li Ziwei’s group traveled to the Cangshen Wasteland to investigate an undeveloped ruin from another world. Li Ziwei identified a seemingly ordinary pile of rocks as the site, while Chu Mu sensed the truth behind it and watched a God Transformation Realm cultivator pretend not to notice.

• After leaving Thousand Left Mountain, Chu Mu and the others boarded Li Ziwei’s concealed Flying Boat and traveled south for months toward an unknown ruin.
• Chu Mu reflected on how the Spirit Realm’s constant expansion swallowed other worlds, creating unstable terrain, ruins, and hidden opportunities.
• The Flying Boat stopped over the seemingly empty Cangshen Wasteland, and the group questioned Li Ziwei about where the ruin was.
• Li Ziwei led the group to a pile of ordinary rocks and declared that they had reached the site.
• Chu Mu sensed that the ruin space was formed by spatial laws and noticed that the God Transformation Realm woman feigned confusion.

Chu Mu entered a hidden world fragment with Li Ziwei’s group and discovered that a Mental Charm Rule had separated him from the others and marked him. Alone amid the fragment’s distorted rules, he recognized the opportunity to deepen his understanding and decided to capture whoever was targeting him.

• Li Ziwei led the group into a ruins space hidden inside an ordinary stalactite, while Chu Mu considered how the site might become a natural Grotto-Heaven Treasure.
• Chu Mu detected a Mental Charm Rule woven into the spatial teleportation and allowed it to transport him into the ruins.
• Chu Mu found himself alone and discovered a Rule Imprint attached to his robe, concluding that someone had arranged to isolate and target the group members.
• Chu Mu decided to capture the God Transformation Realm cultivator behind the scheme and search their soul, confident the ruins would hide his location.
• Chu Mu examined the ruins’ withered yet living plants and realized its distorted rules offered an opportunity to strengthen his Heaven and Earth Furnace.

After spending months studying the fragmentary world, Chu Mu was found by controlled Thousand Left Alliance Disciples and allowed them to plant a Divine Soul Imprint while he feigned being subdued. He remained mentally free aboard their Flying Boat and began suspecting that a fox-clan Monster Beast had targeted him because of his connection to the Sky Soaring Tower as they arrived at a mist-covered Mountain Valley.

• Chu Mu spent more than a month on the mountain peak comprehending the Spirit Realm’s Heaven and Earth Rules, then waited another half month.
• Li Ziwei and the other Thousand Left Alliance Disciples found Chu Mu and claimed that the relic’s teleportation had separated them from Yun Shijie.
• The disciples surrounded Chu Mu and used Soul Startle Incense to make him appear incapacitated.
• Li Ziwei planted a Divine Soul Imprint in Chu Mu’s Sea of Consciousness, but Chu Mu only pretended to be controlled.
• Chu Mu examined the imprint and suspected that a fox-clan Monster Beast had targeted him because he had guarded the Sky Soaring Tower.
• Li Ziwei’s group took Chu Mu aboard a Flying Boat and arrived above a mist-covered Mountain Valley.

Chu Mu and the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples entered a mist-shrouded valley that resisted the relic world's distorted rules and encountered a woman connected to the Qingqiu Fox Clan. Under her command, they climbed an enchanted staircase toward a grand hall, where a massive cauldron stood.

• Li Ziwei used the Auspicious Cloud Beast Token to open a misty path into the valley, and Chu Mu followed while hiding his suspicions.
• The mist revealed a white jade plaza and a Nine-tailed Demon Fox sculpture, prompting Chu Mu to recognize the valley's connection to the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
• A woman whose body radiated rule power awakened the entranced group and summoned Li Ziwei, who knelt before her as his master.
• The woman ordered everyone to follow her up a staircase that seemed endless until her gauze moved, and the group reached a grand hall with a massive cauldron before it.

Chu Mu and the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples spent months breaking a formation in the Qingqiu Fox Clan Secret Realm for a God Transformation cultivator, who then entered the hall alone. Once she left, Chu Mu recovered from her illusion and realized the formation had been designed to target the Qingqiu Fox Clan bloodline.

• The hall's formation wounded the God Transformation cultivator, who escaped its range and ordered the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples to break it.
• Chu Mu suspected the Mountain Valley concealed secrets about the Qingqiu Fox Clan and studied the array disc while the disciples learned the method to break the formation.
• The Thousand Left Alliance Disciples spent more than half a year wearing down the formation, aided by the God Transformation cultivator's formation-breaking treasures.
• After the formation became harmless, Li Ziwei reported their success to his master, and she told everyone to wait before trapping them in an illusion and entering the hall.
• Chu Mu recovered from the illusion and recognized that the formation used a bloodline sacrifice to threaten Qingqiu Fox Clan cultivators.

Chu Mu followed a God Transformation female cultivator through the ruined Qingqiu Fox Clan Secret Realm, where he found fox ghosts and zombies despite the hundreds of thousands of years since the clan’s rebellion. He reached a mountain summit and discovered a tower identical to the Thousand Left Alliance’s Sky Soaring Tower, but named Heavenly Fox.

• Chu Mu entered the hall and found decayed fox corpses, then fought off and devoured a six-tailed fox demon ghost with his Furnace Rules.
• Chu Mu followed the imprint he had placed on the God Transformation female cultivator through the Secret Realm’s mountains, passing the remains of the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
• Chu Mu concealed every trace of his presence and crossed the mountains, while the female cultivator remained obstructed and her cultivation aura grew unstable.
• Chu Mu reached the summit and discovered an ancient tower identical to the Sky Soaring Tower, named Heavenly Fox, and stopped when he sensed approaching it would bring danger.

Chu Mu watched Yun Qingyi reach the Sky Fox Tower and request its inheritance, then confronted the tower when its power awakened and attacked him. He resisted the Sky Fox Formation and began wearing down the tower’s power, but remained wary of why its Tower Spirit had chosen to fight him.

• Chu Mu hid near the Sky Fox Tower and observed Yun Qingyi use an Auspicious Cloud Beast Token to cross the dangerous mountain and reach the tower.
• Yun Qingyi discarded her broken token, bowed and knelt before the tower, and asked the Tower Spirit to grant her the inheritance.
• The Sky Fox Tower awakened, transformed Yun Qingyi into a five-tailed demon fox, and made her vanish amid the Heavenly Fox phantoms.
• A Heavenly Fox phantom struck at Chu Mu, who escaped its attack and realized the tower’s power might be damaged or incomplete.
• The Sky Fox Tower trapped Chu Mu in a rule domain, but he shattered its suppression with the Heaven and Earth Furnace and fought back with the Three Foot Blade.
• Chu Mu endured the Sky Fox Formation and steadily devoured its phantoms’ power, while questioning why the Tower Spirit had not changed its attack.

Inside the Sky Fox Tower, Yun Qingyi and the Tower Spirit watched Chu Mu battle the Sky Fox Formation, and the Tower Spirit revealed that he had trapped Chu Mu in his secret art, Qingqiu Dream. Before his remnant thought disappeared, he planned to leave Yun Qingyi control of the tower and make Chu Mu her guardian.

• Yun Qingyi regretted leading Chu Mu to the Sky Fox Tower, but the Tower Spirit assured her he could deal with the sixth-tier cultivator.
• The Tower Spirit explained that the Qingqiu Fox Clan had declined and that controlling Chu Mu could help protect Yun Qingyi’s path.
• Chu Mu held his ground against the Sky Fox Formation, while the Tower Spirit waited for him to consume enough Sky Fox power.
• After Chu Mu devoured the last Sky Fox phantom, he stood motionless with vacant eyes, caught in the Tower Spirit’s Qingqiu Dream.
• The Tower Spirit told Yun Qingyi that the dream would erase Chu Mu’s Original Self and consciousness, then said she would inherit control of the tower and command him after the Tower Spirit’s remnant thought dissipated.