Chapter Summaries

Yun Qingyi learned the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s history and the sacrifice that trapped two Mahayana Great Experts in Qingqiu Dream. She realized the green-robed intruder had also been caught in the illusion and left him lost in its reincarnation.

• Yun Qingyi gained control of the damaged Sky Fox Tower and recognized that it was only one half of the original tower.
• Yun Qingyi recalled how the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s realm shattered, leaving the clan hunted and its surviving members sheltered in the Qingqiu Illusion.
• The Thousand Left Alliance’s two Mahayana Great Experts invaded the Qingqiu Illusion, and the Qingqiu ancestor sacrificed the clan to trap them in Qingqiu Dream.
• Yun Qingyi left the tower and saw that the green-robed figure remained trapped in the illusion, his mind lost after experiencing countless lifetimes.

Chu Mu resisted Qingqiu Dream’s Myriad Lifetimes Reincarnation and realized the Sky Fox Tower Spirit had tried to make him a Qingqiu puppet. He turned the trap around, seized control of the tower, and imprisoned Yun Qingyi inside it.

• Yun Qingyi took control of the Sky Fox Tower and expected Chu Mu to become a loyal Qingqiu protector after Myriad Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Chu Mu awakened with his Original Self intact, revealing that Spiritual Radiance had protected his mind from Qingqiu Dream.
• Yun Qingyi fled into the Sky Fox Tower as Chu Mu recognized that he had seized the Sky Fox power that had been used to trap him.
• Chu Mu entered the tower, overwhelmed Yun Qingyi, imprisoned her on its ninth level, and stripped her of her authority over it.

After securing the Sky Fox Tower, Chu Mu learned that Yun Qingyi’s Moon Emperor Bloodline protected her mind with eighth-order power, making her impossible to control directly. He suppressed her and turned his attention to the tower, the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s legendary inheritance ground.

• Chu Mu checked the Sky Fox Tower for hidden dangers and reflected on how the Qingqiu Realm had grown powerful before being consumed by the Spirit Realm.
• Chu Mu recognized the crescent mark on Yun Qingyi as proof that she carried the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s Moon Emperor Bloodline and held the clan’s inherited secrets.
• Chu Mu’s Divine Sense entered Yun Qingyi’s Sea of Consciousness but was destroyed by an eighth-order crescent-moon force protecting her mind.
• Chu Mu considered using Qingqiu Dream and Myriad Lifetimes Reincarnation to overcome Yun Qingyi’s protection, then suppressed her with the power of rules.
• Chu Mu turned to the Sky Fox Tower, the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s supreme inheritance ground, said to house a legendary Immortal Realm inheritance.

Chu Mu examined the Sky Fox Tower and the damaged Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven, discovering that restoring the realm’s chaotic rules could reveal it to the Thousand Left Alliance through the linked Sky Soaring Tower. He left the tower in place and faced the dilemma of whether the Grotto-Heaven could be repaired without exposing its location.

• Chu Mu shrank the Sky Fox Tower, confirmed it matched the Sky Soaring Tower, and returned it to the mountain peak.
• Chu Mu realized that taking the Sky Fox Tower outside the Qingqiu Illusion could expose him to the Thousand Left Alliance and other enemies.
• Chu Mu recalled that the Qingqiu Fox Clan had nurtured the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven into a world and that its World Spirit had perished in the extermination war.
• Chu Mu swept the Grotto-Heaven with his Divine Sense and found that its Heaven and Earth Rules had been transformed into chaos.
• Chu Mu concluded that restoring the Grotto-Heaven’s rules could let the Thousand Left Alliance sense it through the Sky Soaring Tower.

Chu Mu explored the Sky Fox Tower and found its legendary Immortal Inheritance missing after the tower split into yin and yang. He then searched for the Qingqiu Fox Clan's Inheritance Treasury, but discovered that it shifted unpredictably throughout a Mountain Valley.

• Chu Mu concluded that he could not control the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven or take the Sky Fox Tower from the realm.
• Chu Mu searched the Sky Fox Tower's empty ninth floor but could not detect the hidden Immortal Inheritance.
• Chu Mu left the tower without killing the Fox Ghost Zombies, reasoning that they would revive while the realm's disordered rules remained.
• Chu Mu found the ruined mountain where the Qingqiu Inheritance Treasury had once been located and searched it for several days.
• Chu Mu traced the treasury to a Mountain Valley waterfall and realized its entire spatial body shifted unpredictably, making its location difficult to find.

Chu Mu spent decades deciphering the Qingqiu Valley’s Rule Blessed Land and realized its inherited Rule Imprints guarded the Qingqiu Inheritance Treasury. He concluded that Yun Qingyi, the imprisoned Qingqiu Moon Emperor, was the key to entering it, and began preparing to alter her mind and enslave her.

• Chu Mu identified the valley as a Rule Blessed Land formed by generations of Qingqiu Fox Clan cultivators, with the treasury rooted in its Rules rather than its formations.
• Chu Mu awakened the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples from the Qingqiu Demon Fox’s illusion, confined them with Crimson Fire Seeds, and returned to the valley to study its Rules.
• After several decades, Chu Mu had gained deep insight into the Qingqiu charm Rules, though he had not fully deciphered the Rule Blessed Land.
• Chu Mu saw that the Rule Imprints resisted outsiders and abandoned the idea of forcing his way into the treasury.
• Chu Mu recognized Yun Qingyi, imprisoned in the Sky Fox Tower, as the current Qingqiu Fox Clan demon emperor and the key to controlling the clan and accessing its inheritance.
• Chu Mu brought the confined Thousand Left Alliance Disciples to the tower and prepared to alter Yun Qingyi’s mind and enslave her.

Chu Mu successfully used illusions to erase the Qingqiu Demon Fox’s marks from the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples and brand them with his own, then spent years preparing a nightmare that targeted her Moon Emperor Bloodline. As the demon fox entered the illusion, Chu Mu remained wary of the bloodline’s possible backlash and hidden protections.

• Chu Mu suppressed his power and ensnared the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples in layered illusions, gradually removing the Qingqiu Demon Fox’s soul marks and replacing them with his own.
• The awakened disciples knelt before Chu Mu and called him Master, then withdrew when he ordered them to leave.
• Chu Mu spent several years studying the imprisoned Qingqiu Demon Fox and her Moon Emperor Bloodline.
• Chu Mu completed a nightmare built around the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s destruction and the demon fox’s inherited memories, causing her to begin dreaming.
• Chu Mu watched for a possible backlash from the Moon Emperor Bloodline and prepared to use the Furnace Rules and Sky Fox Tower to suppress danger.

After nearly ten days, Chu Mu awakened Yun Qingyi from the Nightmare Illusion with memories altered so she trusted him as a friend and companion. She led him through the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven to the inheritance treasury, where the demon fox phantoms revealed a majestic hall emerging from illusion into reality.

• Chu Mu waited until the Nightmare Illusion showed signs of completion, then opened a fissure in it and awakened Yun Qingyi.
• Yun Qingyi recognized Chu Mu as Chu-dage, clung to him, and calmed down as he reassured her that he had killed their enemy.
• Chu Mu relied on Yun Qingyi's trust, which came from implanted memories recasting him as her teacher and companion rather than her enemy.
• Yun Qingyi led Chu Mu through the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven, whose rules and barriers opened to her as the current Qingqiu Demon Emperor.
• At the lakeside treasury, Yun Qingyi summoned the demon fox phantoms, which dispersed into spiritual lights as a grand hall emerged from illusion into reality.

Yun Qingyi opened the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s Inheritance Treasure Trove and entered its vast inner world with Chu Mu. They discovered mountains of Rule Spiritual Objects, but stopped short of exploring deeper because Yun Qingyi’s cultivation was insufficient to safely navigate them.

• Yun Qingyi touched the manifested Ancient Hall’s doors, which recognized her as Qingqiu Demon Emperor and opened for her and Chu Mu.
• Yun Qingyi explained that the treasure trove was woven from the blessed land’s rules and could only be entered by a Demon Emperor or someone with permission.
• Chu Mu and Yun Qingyi entered the hall and found a stable Mustard Seed Space filled with endless mountains of Rule Spiritual Objects.
• Yun Qingyi celebrated the clan’s inheritance with Chu Mu, who concealed his intention to keep using her to uncover the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s secrets.
• Chu Mu and Yun Qingyi walked among the treasures but avoided venturing deeper because Yun Qingyi’s fifth-level Spirit Transformation cultivation could not withstand the rules there.

Chu Mu guided Yun Qingyi to cultivate in the Rule Blessed Land, then gathered treasures and studied the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s vast knowledge repository in the Sky Fox Tower. After decades of reading, he emerged exhausted but enriched by the wisdom of countless worlds.

• Chu Mu gave Yun Qingyi a Rule Spiritual Object and told her to cultivate in the Rule Blessed Land while he explored the treasure trove.
• Yun Qingyi began secluded cultivation beside the lake, while Chu Mu gathered Rule Spiritual Objects from the treasure mountains and left the trove.
• Chu Mu returned to the Sky Fox Tower to broaden his knowledge, using Spirit Radiance Blessing to sift through its collection.
• After several decades, Chu Mu finished reading the books on the tower’s first eight floors and reflected on the diverse wisdom gathered from countless worlds.

After learning that the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s Immortal Inheritance was real and could reveal the power of immortals, Chu Mu decided to delay choosing a Body Integration Path until he had glimpsed it. He turned instead to the rule spiritual objects he had collected, intending to use the Heaven and Earth Furnace to refine them and deepen his understanding of all things.

• Chu Mu left the Sky Fox Tower and returned to the mountain peak in the Rule Blessed Land.
• He brought out a vast hoard of rule spiritual objects from his Qiankun Pouch.
• Chu Mu recalled Yun Qingyi’s account that the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s Immortal Inheritance was real, concealed within the Sky Fox Tower, and originated from an opportunity in the void of Outside Realm Chaos.
• Because the Immortal Inheritance could help him glimpse the power of immortals, Chu Mu decided to postpone choosing a Body Integration Path until he had seen it.
• Chu Mu entered the Heaven and Earth Furnace and resolved to refine the spiritual objects as nourishment for understanding all things and strengthening the furnace’s mysteries.

Chu Mu spent decades devouring the Qingqiu Treasure Trove’s Rule Spiritual Objects to strengthen his Heaven and Earth Furnace and comprehend the rules of all things. He reached the limit imposed by his current cultivation, reforged his two Lifebound Treasures into Low-Grade Heavenly Spirit Treasures, and ended his secluded cultivation.

• Chu Mu devoured a Rule Spiritual Object, adding its Lightning Imprint to the Heaven and Earth Furnace and nourishing his path of Refining All Things.
• Over several decades, Chu Mu consumed the Rule Spiritual Objects in Treasure Mountain, greatly advancing his comprehension of the rules of all things.
• Chu Mu emerged from seclusion after his comprehension reached the limit the Heaven and Earth Furnace could bear at his current cultivation.
• Chu Mu used the trove’s Rule Spiritual Objects to transform his two Lifebound Treasures into Heavenly Spirit Treasures, but their level remained capped at Low-Grade Heavenly Spirit Treasures by his early sixth-tier cultivation.

Chu Mu returned to the Thousand Left Alliance and learned that it was being slowly crushed by hostile forces as the Yong Province prefectural government turned a blind eye. He settled on Thousand Left Mountain and began preparing to seize the Sky Soaring Tower, waiting for a chance to act.

• Chu Mu found Li Ziwei being pursued, rescued him, and learned that the Thousand Left Alliance had been under attack for decades and was nearing collapse.
• Chu Mu returned to the Thousand Left Alliance with Li Ziwei and the stolen supplies, then passed a formal investigation and was assigned to oversee a formation on Thousand Left Mountain.
• Chu Mu considered the Alliance’s strength and defenses too formidable to challenge immediately, so he decided to wait for the conflict to weaken it further.
• Chu Mu studied the Sky Soaring Tower and repeatedly rehearsed ways to seize it within an illusion of Thousand Left Mountain.

As the Thousand Left Alliance faced imminent destruction, Chu Mu waited in the Sky Soaring Tower for the conflict to erupt, hoping to seize the opportunity he had sought for over a century. He expected the forces surrounding Thousand Left Mountain to soon settle how they would divide the Alliance, but knew intervening would be extremely dangerous.

• The Thousand Left Alliance lost most of its territory over a century of conflict and retreated to Thousand Left Mountain, where its forces remained under lockdown and ready to defend themselves.
• Chu Mu continued exploring the Sky Soaring Tower, where his standing as a direct disciple gave him access to its higher floors despite his displayed Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.
• Chu Mu observed that the tower had grown quiet as the Alliance's losses depleted its middle- and lower-ranking disciples.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Alliance's weakness had invited the surrounding powers to attack, while their disagreement over dividing its holdings had delayed a full assault.
• Chu Mu waited for the rival forces to reach an agreement, expecting a powerful strike against the Alliance and weighing the risks of exploiting the chaos.

Chu Mu waited cautiously for the Thousand Left Alliance to collapse, but the Alliance Master’s breakthrough to the seventh order briefly restored the faction’s confidence and ended the siege. At the Integration ceremony, the Town North Marquis defeated the Alliance Master with one blow, crushing the Alliance’s hopes of recovery.

• Chu Mu continued his inspection duties on Thousand Left Mountain while refining his plans to seize the Sky Soaring Tower and escape the consequences.
• Several years passed, and news arrived that the Thousand Left Alliance Master had reached the seventh-order Integration realm, calming the Alliance’s panic.
• The factions surrounding Thousand Left Mountain stopped their attacks, and the Alliance Master destroyed the coalition camp’s City Protection Array with one strike.
• The Thousand Left Alliance held an Integration ceremony and invited the factions that had attacked it.
• The Town North Marquis appeared at the ceremony and defeated the Alliance Master with a single blow, extinguishing the Alliance’s hopes of rising again.

After a Holy Imperial Palace expert crippled the Thousand Left Alliance Master and struck down a Grand Elder, Chu Mu realized the Alliance was doomed and the opportunity he had awaited was near. Hours later, rival forces besieged Thousand Left Mountain and began battering its Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.

• A Thousand Left Alliance Grand Elder tried to rescue the Master but was blasted from the cliff and left near death.
• Chu Mu watched the Alliance disciples lose hope and anticipated the coming destruction of Thousand Left Mountain.
• Chu Mu descended the mountain with the silent crowd as visiting forces fled the celebration grounds.
• Several hours later, rival forces surrounded Thousand Left Mountain and attacked its gate while the Town North Marquis did not intervene.
• Sixth-Order Dharma Image experts used a formation-breaking treasure to shake the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, which no one remained to oversee or repair.

Chu Mu watched the siege of Thousand Left Mountain deepen, reasoning that the Town North Marquis likely had no designs on the Qingqiu Fox Clan and resolving to abandon his plans if the Marquis targeted it. After nearly half a year, a breach appeared in the mountain’s formation, beginning the bloody assault that left the Thousand Left Alliance’s fate seemingly sealed.

• Chu Mu considered why the Town North Marquis had not attacked again and concluded that the Marquis probably did not covet the Qingqiu Fox Clan or the Thousand Left Alliance’s inheritance.
• Chu Mu decided he would abandon his centuries-long plans and the Sky Soaring Tower if the Town North Marquis returned to target the Qingqiu Fox Clan.
• Chu Mu watched the siege continue for nearly half a year as the armies below Thousand Left Mountain battered its Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• In deep winter, bombardment by more than a dozen Sixth Order Dharma Appearance Great Experts opened a tiny flaw in the formation.
• The attackers and Thousand Left Alliance Disciples charged into a brutal battle around the breach, and the fighting spread across the Thousand Left Mountain Range.

Chu Mu feigned defeat while recovering inside the Thousand Left Alliance’s besieged mountain formation, secretly tracking its deterioration and preparing to seize the Sky Soaring Tower. The formation’s defenses suddenly shattered as a Sixth Order Dharma Appearance Great Expert attacked the rear plaza, plunging it into darkness and chaos.

• Chu Mu fought two Fallen Cloud Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators for nearly an hour before pretending to retreat, then rested among the wounded Thousand Left Alliance Disciples.
• While healing, Chu Mu observed the weakening Mountain Protecting Grand Formation and sensed that the Thousand Left Alliance Master’s control of the Sky Soaring Tower had become hollow.
• Chu Mu realized he could take control of the Sky Soaring Tower whenever he wished.
• Thunderous blasts erupted across the rear plaza, and ink-black power spread through the rules, darkening the sky and blocking the cultivators’ senses.
• As the Thousand Left Alliance Disciples fled in confusion, Chu Mu saw a Sixth Order Dharma Appearance Great Expert taint and shatter the plaza’s Array Restriction rules.

As the Thousand Left Alliance’s defenses collapsed under a siege, Chu Mu disguised himself among fleeing disciples and moved toward Sky Soaring Tower, waiting for the Alliance’s retreat plan to create an opening. He reached the tower and remained hidden inside as enemy forces occupied its surroundings, while the fate of the Thousand Left Alliance’s leaders and their retreat remained uncertain.

• A Sixth Order Dharma Appearance Great Expert destroyed a plaza’s array restrictions, killing the Thousand Left Alliance disciples there, as the Alliance’s defenses across the mountain range collapsed into slaughter.
• Chu Mu feigned a desperate escape and approached Sky Soaring Tower, waiting for the Thousand Left Alliance’s escape route to emerge before making his move.
• Chu Mu found Sky Soaring Tower still in place and learned that the Alliance had emptied it of its books and core inheritances.
• Cultivators from Fallen Cloud Sect, Divine Puppet Gate, other forces, and Rogue Cultivators occupied the area outside Sky Soaring Tower, while Chu Mu remained hidden on its ninth floor.
• Chu Mu watched Thousand Left Main Peak, where the only remaining section of the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation stood, and considered how the Alliance’s retreat plans might have been disrupted.

As the invading factions closed in on destroying the Thousand Left Alliance, Chu Mu sensed that the Thousand Left Alliance Master's dormant authority over the Sky Soaring Tower had revived. The Thousand Left Alliance Master then appeared to unleash a terrifying white jade pillar that froze the battlefield and began erasing cultivators.

• The invaders shattered the Thousand Left Mountain's protective formation and stormed the main peak, leaving the surviving Thousand Left Alliance cultivators facing annihilation.
• Chu Mu decided to act through the Sky Soaring Tower's Secret Door Authority, but sensed the Thousand Left Alliance Master's control authority revive.
• Chu Mu realized the Thousand Left Alliance Master had likely awakened and feared the power he might still possess.
• The battlefield abruptly froze, and a towering white jade pillar appeared above Thousand Left Main Peak.
• The pillar's white light melted Dharma Appearance Great Experts and swept away vast numbers of lower- and mid-tier cultivators.