Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu witnessed the White Jade Coiling Dragon annihilate the invading forces on Thousand Left Main Peak and realized the Thousand Left Alliance Master’s mark had vanished from Sky Soaring Tower. He took control of the now-masterless tower and escaped as the devastation of the battle began to reshape Yong Province.

• The White Jade Coiling Dragon erased every invader on Thousand Left Main Peak, killing hundreds of thousands of cultivators and more than ten Dharma Appearance Great Experts.
• Chu Mu sensed that the Thousand Left Alliance Master’s traces had disappeared from Sky Soaring Tower and suspected that he had died.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Thousand Left Alliance and its besieging forces had both been devastated, leaving the Yong Province government stronger by comparison.
• Chu Mu revealed his hidden authority over Sky Soaring Tower and took complete control of it.
• Terrified cultivators fled as Chu Mu sent Sky Soaring Tower streaking beyond the horizon without obstruction.

After escaping the destruction of the Thousand Left Alliance with the Sky Soaring Tower, Chu Mu returned to the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and reunited with Yun Qingyi. He gave her the tower and learned that her Moon Emperor Bloodline was needed to safely merge it with the other Sky Fox Tower.

• Chu Mu returned to the wasteland with the Sky Soaring Tower, believing the White Jade Coiling Dragon Pillar’s destruction of the invaders had diverted attention from him.
• Chu Mu observed that Yun Qingyi had begun restoring the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven’s disordered rules through her cultivation.
• Chu Mu entered the grotto-heaven, reunited with Yun Qingyi, and told her how the Thousand Left Alliance had been destroyed.
• Yun Qingyi explained that merging the Sky Fox Yin Yang Two Towers required control of both towers’ highest authority, which only her Moon Emperor Bloodline could provide.
• Chu Mu handed the Sky Soaring Tower to Yun Qingyi and teased her about handling the merger as the Qingqiu Demon Emperor.

Chu Mu waited for Yun Qingyi to merge the Sky Fox Towers while worrying that his plans depended on her and Qingqiu’s inheritance. With his cultivation and treasures at their limits, he began improving the Qiankun Pouch so its inner world could eventually survive the Chaotic Void.

• Chu Mu reviewed his control over Yun Qingyi and reasoned that the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and Sky Fox Towers could no longer influence her.
• Chu Mu entered the Qingqiu Treasure Trove, concluded that its treasures could not advance his cultivation, and sought knowledge for choosing his path to the Sixth Order.
• Chu Mu spent several months selecting spiritual objects to strengthen the Qiankun Pouch.
• Chu Mu examined the pouch’s inner world and recognized that its lack of rules left it an empty shell unable to maintain order in the Chaotic Void.

Chu Mu spent several years refining the Qiankun Pouch with Rule Spiritual Objects, attempting to give its Spirit Rhythm the Heaven and Earth Furnace’s trait of Refining All Things. The pouch’s inner world was transformed into a vast, high-quality small world, while the chapter left the change to its spirituality unresolved.

• Chu Mu spent years refining Rule Spiritual Objects into the Qiankun World and considered how worlds grew and whether their spirituality could possess desire.
• Chu Mu based his experiment on the Heaven and Earth Furnace, attempting to give the Qiankun Spirit Rhythm the capacity to refine all things and grow autonomously.
• Nearly three years after the spatial ripples calmed, the Qiankun Pouch appeared in physical form.
• The Qiankun Pouch’s inner world had become as vast as a Secret Realm Small World, with quality sufficient to bear rules and support Chu Mu’s cultivation.
• The transformation of the Qiankun Spirit Rhythm remained the experiment’s true unanswered result.

Chu Mu contemplated the limits and growth of the Qiankun World’s rules, realizing that Spirit Rhythm had become its rule-born core and a kind of Heavenly Dao. He embedded his Furnace Rules into Spirit Rhythm, beginning the transformation at the heart of the world.

• Chu Mu sensed that the Qiankun World had become stable enough to exist independently, though its rules limited its strongest possible cultivators to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chu Mu considered whether rules had an ultimate limit and concluded that the Spirit Realm’s nine Immortal Dao realms could not reach the end of rules.
• Chu Mu perceived that Spirit Rhythm had become the Qiankun World’s core and that its network of rules maintained the world’s order.
• Chu Mu recognized that the Qiankun World’s rules centered on vitality and that Spirit Rhythm did not need his interference to preserve their stability.
• Chu Mu manifested a heart made of his Furnace Rules and began embedding it into Spirit Rhythm.

Chu Mu embedded the Furnace Rules into the Qiankun World and found that they merged without major abnormalities. He then activated the Furnace Heart to investigate Qingmu’s connection to the Chaotic Void, but the furnace power disappeared before reaching beyond the world.

• Chu Mu returned the Furnace Heart to Spirit Rhythm and guided its rules as they merged into the Qiankun World over a little more than a year.
• Chu Mu examined Qingmu, a spirit tree that drew chaotic energy from beyond the world and transformed it into spiritual energy for the barren Qiankun World.
• Chu Mu activated the Furnace Heart, causing the Qiankun World’s rules to manifest and tremble.
• The Furnace Rules spread throughout the Qiankun World, but their power vanished before it could reach into the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven.

Chu Mu discovered that the Furnace Rules had connected through Qingmu to the Chaotic Void, drawing in Chaotic energy and transforming the Qiankun World. He watched the barren world begin to grow, though its long-term stability still depended on his guidance.

• Chu Mu sensed that the Furnace’s power had returned inside Qingmu along with the Chaotic energy it had devoured.
• The Furnace power transformed the Chaotic energy into spiritual energy, Spirit Veins, earth veins, Ore Veins, and new terrain throughout the Qiankun World.
• Chu Mu realized that Qingmu connected the Qiankun World to the Chaotic Void and that the world could grow from this providence, but its fragile rules required his maintenance.
• Chu Mu wandered through the changing world as Spirit Rhythm spread spirit plants and Seeds of Life, whose growth rapidly transformed its desolation.

Chu Mu discovered that the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and its inheritance treasury had fallen into disorder, while Yun Qingyi had fused the Yin Yang Two Towers into the Sky Fox Tower. They entered its ninth floor to seek the Qingqiu Clan’s Immortal Inheritance, where Chu Mu sensed that the world’s rules had been suppressed.

• Chu Mu entered the Qingqiu Inheritance Treasury and found torrents of Rule Spiritual Objects flowing into an ancient tower that was repairing itself.
• Yun Qingyi told Chu Mu that she had successfully fused the Yin Yang Two Towers and invited him to receive her clan’s Immortal Inheritance.
• Chu Mu followed Yun Qingyi into the transformed Sky Fox Tower and noticed that its ninth floor exerted a powerful, unfamiliar oppression.
• Yun Qingyi explained that the Immortal Inheritance was divided into yin and yang and would appear only after the tower’s two halves were united.
• Chu Mu searched the ninth-floor world for its yin-yang veins but could not sense any rules, and he suspected the Immortal Inheritance had suppressed them.

Chu Mu endured the loss of his five senses in the Sky Fox Tower and gradually rebuilt them through focused meditation. With his senses restored, he perceived the Immortal Inheritance in the world’s immense rule phenomena and reached two pale golden Jade Pages.

• Chu Mu reasoned that his torment likely came from the Immortal Inheritance rather than an ambush by Yun Qingyi.
• Chu Mu used his Spirit Radiance Blessing to keep his mind clear and repeatedly simulated his missing senses until his vision began to return.
• Chu Mu patiently reconstructed all five senses, and they surged back into place.
• Chu Mu perceived shifting yin-yang and sun-and-moon phenomena and recognized the vast rule phenomena as a genuine Immortal Inheritance.
• Chu Mu followed the phenomena with measured steps until two pale golden Jade Pages appeared before him.

Chu Mu struggled to touch the two Jade Pages containing the Immortal Inheritance, learning that the Qingqiu Fox Clan had likely sacrificed powerful members to seal it within the Sky Fox Tower. After enduring the inheritance’s strange pressure and finding a trace of its reality, he closed his eyes and shattered everything in his perception.

• Chu Mu realized the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s ancestors had likely sacrificed great powers to confine the Immortal Inheritance, whose remnants became the Sky Fox Tower Spirit.
• Chu Mu reached for a Jade Page but could not touch it, and recognized that seeing the Immortal Inheritance was only the first step toward obtaining it.
• Chu Mu searched for the Jade Pages’ true forms under the Spirit Radiance Blessing, but the inheritance remained visible yet beyond reach.
• Chu Mu endured the strange sensation caused by the Jade Pages until he sensed a faint trace of substance and fixed it in his mind.
• Chu Mu followed that trace with his Divine Sense, then closed his eyes and shattered everything in his perception.

Chu Mu overcame the Sky Fox Tower’s immortal illusion and absorbed both golden Rule Jade Pages, receiving a complete Immortal Inheritance that he recognized as the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique. He realized it was a rule-level Foundation Building Method intended for powerful Rule cultivators, though its first revolution already challenged the limits of ordinary cultivation.

• Chu Mu saw through the illusion on the ninth floor of the Sky Fox Tower and confirmed that the golden Jade Pages were real.
• The first Rule Jade Page shattered into golden runes that flooded Chu Mu’s Sea of Consciousness, leaving him with an incomplete Immortal Inheritance.
• Chu Mu touched the second Jade Page, whose runes surged into his elixir field and branded his body before the golden radiance faded.
• Chu Mu concluded that the two inheritances combined into a complete technique, which he named the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• Chu Mu understood that the technique transcended race and cultivation path and was likely meant to help high-level Rule Great Experts complete their Foundation Building Method.

Chu Mu studied the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and concluded that its Foundation Building Method could help him overcome the barriers of the “I am the Rule” Integration Path, whose ninth realm was called Transcendence. After receiving Qingqiu cultivation notes from Yun Qingyi, he persuaded her to remain in the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven rather than risk searching for scattered clansmen.

• Chu Mu realized the Immortal Inheritance’s nine cultivation realms paralleled the immortal path and that its final realm, Transcendence, might involve transcending Heaven and Earth.
• Chu Mu connected the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique to the “I am the Rule” Integration Path and saw that its Rule Spirit Refining and Rule Body Refining methods could address that path’s demanding entry requirements.
• Chu Mu emerged from the Sky Fox Tower and told Yun Qingyi about the inheritance; she gave him a Jade Slip containing her clan’s cultivation experiences.
• Yun Qingyi explained that the Qingqiu Fox Clan cultivated only Rule Spirit Refining because its bloodline emphasized the spirit and its Demon Emperors had never passed the eighth rank.
• Yun Qingyi wanted to search for scattered clansmen, but Chu Mu warned that leaving the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven was dangerous and that its disordered rules could harm low-rank cultivators.
• Yun Qingyi agreed to follow Chu Mu’s advice and stay in the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven.

After comprehending the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions, Chu Mu spent years searching for a way to combine it with his Furnace Path. He realized that cultivating its path of transcendence required him to leave the ordered world for the Chaotic Void, but he lacked a safe way to get there.

• Chu Mu spent several hundred years parsing every Rune in the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions while preserving the Furnace Path as the foundation of his cultivation.
• After resting, Chu Mu wandered the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven for years, unable to find a way to begin cultivating the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions.
• Chu Mu entered his Qiankun World and sensed that the Profound Art demanded transcendence beyond the order of Heaven and Earth.
• Chu Mu concluded that Heaven and Earth were a prison cage for those seeking transcendence and that he needed to reach the Chaotic Void.
• Chu Mu considered the available Spatial Portals and recognized that, without the Thousand Left Alliance or another background, he would be an undocumented outsider in the Spirit Realm.

Chu Mu studied the rules and growth of Qingmu to uncover how it communicated with the Chaotic Void, hoping to learn how to leave the Spirit Realm. After years of analysis, he began assembling Qingmu’s mysteries as the first step toward tracing their source to the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.

• Chu Mu decided to delay going into hiding until he had crossed the threshold of the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions, and considered Qingmu his best lead for breaking beyond the realm.
• Chu Mu examined a Qingmu seed from the Qingqiu Treasure Trove and concluded that its inherited rules governed growth, while its ability to communicate with chaos likely came from the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.
• Chu Mu spent several years analyzing the seed until it lost its vitality, then studied a second Qingmu that had grown into a sapling.
• After contemplating the sapling for ten years, Chu Mu returned to the towering Qingmu and used Spirit Radiance Blessing to analyze its mysteries in greater depth.
• Chu Mu began piecing together Qingmu’s rules, intending to use them to trace how the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu communicated with chaos.

Chu Mu uncovered that Qingmu’s connection to the Chaotic Void came from an unknown ancient tree’s imprint of laws, which served as an anchor point rather than a secret art. After testing his theory through reincarnation, he connected to that imprint and vanished from the Qiankun World.

• Chu Mu meditated beneath the ancient Qingmu tree for decades and used Qingqiu Dream to experience becoming a Qingmu in an illusory reincarnation.
• Chu Mu discovered that Qingmu’s connection to the Chaotic Void originated from an unknown existence rooted in chaos and functioned as an anchor point of laws.
• Chu Mu learned that Qingmu trees did not all inherit this mystery, and his nine reincarnations had revealed different ancient-tree mysteries.
• Chu Mu entered reincarnation again and transformed the illusory experience into reality, causing a Qingmu’s growth and a Chaotic Void fluctuation to manifest around him.
• Chu Mu absorbed a vast surge of chaotic energy, touched the imprint of laws with his Divine Sense, and vanished from the Qiankun World.

Chu Mu discovered that the rule imprint let him travel both ways between the Chaotic Void and the Qiankun World, then settled on a broken landmass to study the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions. In the Chaotic Void, he understood the choice between accepting a world's protection and rejecting its rules, reaffirmed his path, and began fusing the art with his Furnace Rules.

• Chu Mu emerged into the Chaotic Void and realized his anchored connection to the Qiankun World worked as a two-way passage.
• Chu Mu searched the void, found a broken landmass, and sat down to resume comprehending the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions.
• Chu Mu understood that following a world's rules brought its protection, while defying them brought freedom at the cost of rejection and calamities.
• Chu Mu reaffirmed his commitment to his Dao and focused on merging the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions with his Furnace Rules.

After completing the first stage of the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions, Chu Mu returned from the Chaotic Void and discovered that the Spirit Realm’s Rules rejected and suppressed him as an anomaly. He began considering how to sever his ties to the world before a tribulation descended in a thousand years.

• Chu Mu stabilized the weak Furnace Rules around his Qi Refining First Layer cultivation after beginning the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions, but realized his cultivation could not advance until he reached the sixth revolution.
• Chu Mu used his anchored Rule imprint to open a passage from the Chaotic Void and returned to the Qiankun World.
• Chu Mu felt the Spirit Realm’s heavenly might suppress his Furnace Rules and understood that even his own complete Grotto-Heaven could not block the Spirit Realm’s influence.
• Chu Mu concluded that avoiding the suppression and a tribulation expected in a thousand years might require isolating himself from all worlds, though he questioned how he could cultivate that way.
• Chu Mu left the Qiankun World, traveled through the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven into the Spirit Realm, and perceived the world’s connections as chains binding him in place.

Chu Mu realized that the Spirit Realm had marked him for a Thousand-Year Tribulation because the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions brought him onto the path of I am the Rule ahead of his cultivation realm. He began a long seclusion in Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven to advance the art, while planning to use Yun Qingyi’s restoration of the grotto-heaven to gain control of it and nourish his own world.

• Chu Mu sensed that the Spirit Realm would send a Thousand-Year Tribulation after a thousand years, and that evading it would cause accumulated tribulations to descend together.
• Chu Mu returned to Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and considered how Yun Qingyi’s work restoring its disordered rules could eventually give him influence over the world.
• Chu Mu concluded that Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and the Rule Spiritual Objects in its treasure trove could nourish his Qiankun Cave Heaven and help it develop as an extension of his Furnace Rules.
• Chu Mu chose a quiet mountain valley in Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and began a long seclusion to advance the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions from the Qi Refining Realm toward the Dharma Appearance Realm.
• Chu Mu abandoned his plan to infiltrate a faction and cleanse his identity because he had only a thousand years to prepare for the tribulation.

After returning to Divine Mechanism City, Chu Mu saw that it had become a stable territory governed by the Holy Imperial Palace and considered whether he could enter its ranks. At the City Lord’s Mansion, he checked the wanted notices and found that many still targeted remnants of the Thousand Left Alliance, including people he recognized.

• The Holy Imperial Palace consolidated control over Divine Mechanism City and restored its stability after years of war.
• Chu Mu considered infiltrating the Divine Mechanism Battalion but decided the risk was too high because the city could become a military staging ground.
• Chu Mu entered Divine Mechanism City without trouble and observed how little its streets had changed.
• Chu Mu visited the City Lord’s Mansion’s Affairs Hall and used his token talisman to access its task commissions.
• Chu Mu opened the wanted notices and recognized several names among the listed remnants of the Thousand Left Alliance.

Chu Mu discovered that he was still wanted for his connection to the Thousand Left Alliance, but set aside the possibility of pursuing its surviving resources as the thousand-year deadline approached. Because the laws of Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven were disrupting his cultivation, he returned to Divine Mechanism City, rented a shop, and reopened the True Understanding Pavilion under a new cover.

• Chu Mu found his name, disguised Divine Soul Aura, and face on a wanted notice that twenty-eight cultivators had accepted commissions to pursue.
• Chu Mu concluded that Yong Province Prefecture had orchestrated the destruction of the Thousand Left Alliance and absorbed its spoils, then dismissed the matter to focus on his cultivation.
• Chu Mu learned that changing Heaven and Earth Rules in Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven were disrupting his cultivation of the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions, forcing him to abandon his plan to remain there until the calamity.
• Chu Mu rented a remote, run-down shop in Divine Mechanism City's southeastern shantytown, presenting himself as a Golden Core Realm itinerant cultivator.
• Chu Mu cleaned the shop, carved the name True Understanding Pavilion onto a signboard, and hung it beneath the eaves.