Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu investigated a rule anomaly in his courtyard and discovered that it was likely caused by the Illusory Realm of Grand Void reflecting its rules into the Spirit Realm. He realized the courtyard acted as an anchor point for locating the realm, and began to suspect its power could be manifested as reality.

• Chu Mu sensed an anomaly in his courtyard and found that interfering with it through rules made the courtyard seem cut off from reality.
• Chu Mu studied the phenomenon and theorized that it had drawn a dying man into the rules, producing his memories of past lives and reincarnations.
• Chu Mu spent several months observing the courtyard before confirming that its anomaly came from the Illusory Realm of Grand Void reflecting its rules.
• Chu Mu concluded that the courtyard served as an anchor point for observing the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and deducing where it might descend.
• Chu Mu considered that the realm's reflected power might also be manifested as reality.

Chu Mu created a Grand Void Certificate from a rule anomaly and spent two years learning to conceal its fluctuations and study its link to the Illusory Realm of Grand Void. As the realm’s descent drew closer and battles between Human Race and Foreign Race cultivators spread, he became certain the certificate would let him enter the realm from outside its descent site.

• Chu Mu used the Furnace Rules to turn a rule anomaly into a certificate that let him glimpse the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• Chu Mu realized similar anomalies might appear across the Myriad Realms and allow powerful beings to enter the realm when it descended.
• Chu Mu avoided Divine Mechanism City and went into seclusion to find a way to conceal the certificate’s rule fluctuations.
• Two years later, Chu Mu watched Human Race and Foreign Race cultivators battle in Yong Province and noted that such clashes were becoming common before the realm’s descent.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Grand Void Certificate would let him enter the Illusory Realm of Grand Void from elsewhere and might transform as its connection to the realm deepened.

In the years before the Illusory Realm of Grand Void descended, Chu Mu studied his changing Grand Void Token while chaos spread across Yong Province. On the eve of the descent, he traveled with Mu Liuyun to Azure Cloud Great Marsh, where the arrival site remained unknown and order had collapsed.

• Chu Mu left the bloody conflict at Azure Cloud Great Marsh without taking part, then returned to a quiet life in True Understanding Pavilion.
• As the descent drew nearer, the Grand Void Token became a usable Anchor Point that seemed capable of guiding Chu Mu into the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• Rumors about the descent and rule tokens fueled bloodshed across Yong Province, including Divine Mechanism City.
• On the eve of the descent, Chu Mu traveled with Mu Liuyun through several teleportations to Azure Cloud Great Marsh.
• Chu Mu arrived at the vast, chaotic marsh, where cultivators and Foreign Races gathered but few knew the precise descent site.
• Chu Mu did not continue traveling with Mu Liuyun because the Holy Imperial Palace's great powers had arrived and Mu Liuyun's authority was limited there.

As the Illusory Realm of Grand Void began to descend into Azure Cloud Great Marsh, Chu Mu sensed the worlds’ rules colliding and briefly glimpsed a gathering of powerful experts. After the strange phenomena passed, the realm’s landing place had shifted, and Chu Mu used the Grand Void Token to sense its new direction.

• Chu Mu observed the Grand Void Token transform as the Illusory Realm of Grand Void approached, while bizarre celestial phenomena spread across the Spirit Realm.
• Chu Mu briefly sensed Stars All Over the Sky surrounding the meeting of the two worlds and realized each star represented at least a Body Integration Realm Rule Great Expert.
• Chu Mu stopped probing the dangerous clash of rules and meditated on a mountain peak while waiting for the descent.
• The strange phenomena vanished, and Chu Mu found that the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s landing place had shifted.
• Chu Mu followed the Grand Void Token’s Anchor Point sensation as the new descent direction began to emerge.

Chu Mu discovered that the Illusory Realm of Grand Void had descended at Two Marsh Pass, then entered the realm and found its fantastical creatures carried knowledge and information. He began investigating the strange beings, whose bodies held everything from incomplete secret arts to traces of spatial rules.

• Chu Mu used a map to locate Two Marsh Pass at the northern edge of the Azure Cloud Great Marsh and realized the Illusory Realm of Grand Void had descended on the frontier stronghold.
• Chu Mu connected more deeply with the Grand Void Token and was transported into the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• Chu Mu encountered a bizarre, seemingly mortal creature whose body existed beyond the reach of his Divine Sense but could be touched.
• Chu Mu accidentally shattered the creature and discovered that touching its body parts revealed fragments of knowledge, including an incomplete invisibility secret art and faint spatial Rule Imprints.
• Chu Mu tested other fantastical creatures and found that they, too, carried knowledge and information, though some could attack him.

Chu Mu discovered that gaining knowledge in the Illusory Realm of Grand Void caused an unknown force to erode his Furnace Rules, while the realm’s fragmented space made ordinary movement and perception impossible. He suspected he had entered a Seventh Layer of Illusory Realm corresponding to the Body Integration Realm and began searching for its underlying order.

• Chu Mu sensed that an unseen force had attached itself to and begun eroding his Furnace Rules whenever he obtained knowledge from the strange creatures.
• Chu Mu tried to remove the force but found it deeply rooted, then continued toward the distant Continental Plate.
• Chu Mu realized the space was folded and distorted, and that the strange creatures and their knowledge might be projections from other dimensions.
• Chu Mu spread his Divine Sense with strands of Furnace Rules and detected a faint discord caused by fragmented space.
• Chu Mu reasoned that the Illusory Realm evolved according to each entrant’s cultivation and that he had entered the Seventh Layer corresponding to the Body Integration Realm.
• Chu Mu concluded that the chaotic space must have a stable underlying order and resolved to find its rules.

Chu Mu crossed through the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s layered spaces, then was badly injured when he sensed rule-level knowledge beyond his capacity. His body returned to normal after the resulting disorder subsided, but he remained unconscious with foreign rules and damage to his Furnace Rules still to resolve.

• Chu Mu used his limited grasp of the realm’s spatial rules to cross into another space, though he had no destination or guidance.
• Chu Mu found a space filled with phenomena such as fire, falling water, and lightning, and extended his Divine Sense to examine them.
• Chu Mu was overwhelmed by fragments of rule-level information, so he severed his connection to them and sealed the fragments in his Sea of Consciousness with his Furnace Rules.
• The foreign Fire Attribute rules clashed with Chu Mu’s Furnace Rules, throwing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit into disorder and distorting his body.
• Chu Mu’s body returned to human form after the disorder subsided, but he remained unconscious with lingering foreign rules and damaged Furnace Rules.

After nearly being destroyed by an overwhelming rule imprint, Chu Mu used the Qiankun World to safely study the bizarre phenomena in the Illusory Realm of Grand Void. His understanding and the Qiankun World's growth surged as he explored layer after layer, leaving Dharma Appearance Completion within reach.

• Chu Mu realized that a rule imprint had nearly destroyed him and questioned why the Illusory Realm of Grand Void contained rules apparently beyond the Dao Integration Realm.
• Chu Mu cautiously sent the Qiankun World to investigate the bizarre phenomena, using it to shield himself from rule backlash.
• Chu Mu thoroughly explored the phenomena and strengthened his grasp of the rules of all things, greatly increasing his combat power without advancing his cultivation.
• Chu Mu continued through successive spaces, bringing his Dharma Appearance Completion breakthrough within reach while repairing gaps in his foundation.
• The Qiankun World absorbed the phenomena as nourishment and underwent a transformation that rivaled Chu Mu's own growth.

After years of exploring the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, Chu Mu reached Dharma Appearance Completion and restored the deficiencies in his Qiankun World, though he accumulated strange pollution along the way. He crossed a tangible World Barrier into an orderly, high-quality world, unsure whether it was truly real or another part of the illusion.

• Chu Mu reached Dharma Appearance Completion after an unknowable span of exploration, and his Qiankun World was transformed and fully nourished by the rules he had gathered.
• Chu Mu recognized that contact with the realm’s strange knowledge had polluted his Furnace Rules, though he believed the pollution could eventually be dispersed.
• Chu Mu approached the Continental Plate and discovered a tangible World Barrier separating it from the surrounding bizarre spaces.
• Chu Mu created a small crack in the barrier, sent his Divine Sense through it, and found only blankness and nothingness.
• Chu Mu crossed the World Barrier and arrived in a Mountain Valley within an orderly world whose quality matched Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven.

Chu Mu observed a peaceful mountain village trapped in a repeating day and reasoned that it was a projection within the Illusory Realm of Grand Void. After his Spiritual Radiance vanished, he entered the cycle, taking on a different identity with each replay.

• Chu Mu watched the villagers repeat the same days for years while they remained unable to see or hear him.
• Chu Mu concluded that the world was likely a projection of a single stretch of time captured by the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• Chu Mu considered how the Illusory Realm drew on the knowledge and wisdom of countless races across the Myriad Realms.
• Chu Mu's Spiritual Radiance quietly disappeared, and he became part of the repeating world.
• Chu Mu began acquiring a different identity with each replay of the cycle.

After completing mortal transformation, Chu Mu understood that the strange world was a realm designed to let powerful cultivators experience mortal lives and grow closer to the rules. He kept his farmer identity and wandered beyond its village, where he approached a fish stall whose young owner could not perceive him as the daily cycle neared its turn.

• Chu Mu emerged from countless mortal lives and realized the world was a specially altered realm for mortal transformation.
• Chu Mu found that his cultivation was unchanged, but his soul had grown more aligned with the rules and his understanding had deepened.
• Chu Mu returned to the mountain village, retained his farmer identity, and chose to keep living as a mortal.
• Chu Mu traveled across the world without using extraordinary power, eventually reaching a lakeside fishing village.
• Chu Mu approached a thin young man’s fish stall, but the stall owner could neither see nor notice him as dusk approached.

Chu Mu discovered that a destitute fisherman was the source of an ancient, unusual aura tied to the Illusory Realm of Grand Void. The fisherman remained trapped in the world's repeated resets, growing more closely assimilated with it, while Chu Mu could neither reach nor communicate with him.

• Chu Mu watched the fisherman return to his boat and eat, recognizing him as the source of an aura he had sensed in the world.
• Chu Mu considered whether the man had failed at becoming mortal and been assimilated, but rejected that explanation as insufficient.
• When midnight brought a world reset, the aura stayed with the fisherman instead of changing identities.
• Chu Mu tried to contact the fisherman but found they could not perceive or touch each other.
• As another day began, the fisherman repeated his usual routine while Chu Mu watched.

Chu Mu realized the fisherman was likely a fragment of a Dao Integration cultivator’s rule origin, intercepted by the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, and traced the realm’s source with his Grand Void Token. He met Chu, a Lightwing Gold Spirit Clan Protector who was searching for the fisherman as a “Traces of Loss,” and began asking what that meant.

• Chu Mu reasoned that the fisherman was a fragment of a cultivator’s rule origin, drawn into the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and bound to its world.
• Chu Mu focused on a cloud and called for the hidden observer to show himself.
• A metal giant emerged, introduced himself as Chu of the Lightwing Gold Spirit Clan, and identified Chu Mu as Human Race.
• Chu offered one hundred Rule Crystals to share the fisherman, whom he called a Traces of Loss.
• Chu Mu asked what the Traces of Loss were, then explained how he had found the fisherman’s anomaly after sensing cultivators undergoing mortal transformation.

Chu Mu learned that Traces of Loss could serve as anchors to the Deep Illusory Realms and activated his Grand Void Token using a Metal Giant’s secret art. As spacetime reset approached, he and the Metal Giant prepared to follow a Trace of Loss into the deeper realm.

• The Metal Giant explained that Traces of Loss were beings fused with the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and could reveal paths to its Deep Illusory Realms.
• The Metal Giant gave Chu Mu his race’s secret art for activating a Grand Void Token, and Chu Mu studied the rules annotated in its strange script.
• Chu Mu used ordinary Five Elements rules to awaken his Grand Void Token and saw the Trace of Loss as a flaw in the realm’s otherwise unified order.
• The Metal Giant said they could use the Trace of Loss to enter the Deep Illusory Realm when spacetime reset, and Chu Mu waited with him on the dock.
• As twilight neared, Chu Mu sensed overlapping layers of worlds growing clearer around the approaching spacetime reset.

Chu Mu entered the Deep Illusory Realm by following the Traces of Loss, which he realized could anchor him while traversing illusion and reality. He arrived in a strange, starry void and encountered a Rule Anomaly whose attack left him wary of the dangers ahead.

• Chu Mu realized that the Traces of Loss and the Grand Void Token could anchor a traveler between the material world, the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, and the Deep Illusory Realm.
• Chu Mu used the Traces of Loss to enter the Deep Illusory Realm as his body began turning insubstantial.
• Chu Mu was struck by a sudden attack and crashed into an enormous boulder suspended in a dark, starry void.
• Chu Mu approached a strange halo and discovered that it attacked living beings who entered its range.
• Chu Mu recognized the halo as a Rule Anomaly and wondered how it had formed in a realm whose rules seemed stable.

Chu Mu followed the Grand Void Token’s connection to a barren planet and learned that it was the remains of an ancestor of the Metal Giant’s clan, who had died in the Deep Illusory Realm. The fallen giant’s dormant Lone Eye emerged, while the source of the planet’s lingering vitality remained unexplained.

• Chu Mu used the Grand Void Token to trace its intermittent connection toward a barren planet in the Deep Illusory Realm.
• Chu Mu crossed the planet’s meteorite belt and sensed that the apparently lifeless planet held signs of life.
• The Metal Giant told Chu Mu that the planet was the remains of a clan ancestor who had vanished in the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• The Metal Giant released his bloodline aura, awakening the planet and revealing fragments showing that the ancestor had fled an Unknown Existence before dying in the void.
• The Metal Giant drew a dormant Lone Eye from the planet’s core, leaving Chu Mu to wonder why the dead ancestor’s bloodline and vitality still remained.

Chu Mu and the Metal Giant Chu followed the Lightwing Gold Spirit Clan forebear’s escape route through a transformed starfield and discovered a fused illusory realm. The Metal Giant’s inherited Lone Eye reacted to the Light Sea, and he began using a clan secret art to search it for more information while Chu Mu stood guard.

• The Metal Giant Chu stored the Lone Eye, and its disappearance caused the strange auras on the dead planet to vanish.
• Chu Mu and the Metal Giant Chu set off along the route shown in the forebear’s memories, navigating altered Rule Anomalies together.
• They reached the edge of the starry sky and found a vast Light Sea filled with vivid fragments of information.
• The Metal Giant Chu recognized that the Light Sea and starfield formed a fused illusory realm, while Chu Mu sensed the Light Sea seemed to alternate between reality and illusion.
• The Metal Giant Chu said the Lone Eye’s reaction confirmed that his clan’s forebear had entered the Light Sea and asked Chu Mu to stand guard as he activated the inherited eye.
• The Metal Giant Chu’s Lone Eye and the inherited Lone Eye merged and vanished as he began searching for more information.

Chu Mu investigated the Light Sea and learned that entering it required voluntarily losing his Original Self, then reclaiming it to avoid being trapped. After the Metal Giant entered, Chu Mu began the same risky process, anchoring his mind with Spirit Radiance as illusions assailed him.

• Chu Mu sensed a faint summons from the Light Sea but suppressed his urge to enter while the Metal Giant remained dormant.
• The Metal Giant awakened and shared fragmented information showing that one had to lose the Original Self to enter the Light Sea and reclaim it to escape being submerged.
• The Metal Giant used its clan’s bloodline secret art, wrapped itself in its light wings, and vanished into the Light Sea.
• Chu Mu entered the Light Sea, anchored his mind’s Original Self with concealed Spirit Radiance, and released its defenses.
• Illusions surged into Chu Mu’s mind, threatening to make his Original Self disappear.

After waking from a vivid dream, Chu Mu encountered a broken Heavenly Spirit Treasure whose spirituality stirred an inexplicable sense of shared suffering in him. He followed a growing pull through a void filled with damaged treasures, searching for those connected to him as the connection began to merge with his rules and Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

• Chu Mu awoke with tears on his face, restrained a broken sword that attacked him, and sensed a familiar grief in its remnant spirituality.
• Chu Mu shattered the sword, but its spirituality entered his Sea of Consciousness and an unseen pull began guiding him deeper into the void.
• Chu Mu realized the dim void was a graveyard of damaged Spiritual Treasures, many of them Heavenly Spirit Treasures hostile to outsiders.
• Chu Mu searched for treasures whose spirituality connected with him, suppressing them and absorbing their remnants while avoiding mass attacks.
• As Chu Mu continued, the guidance grew stronger, affecting his rules and Essence, Qi, and Spirit, while fleeting memory fragments vanished without a trace.

Chu Mu emerged from the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard with memories of a past life in the Deep Illusory Realm, where he had lived as Yu Bing, a Foundation Establishment cultivator. In the Profound Heaven World, he began to understand the Immortal Soul Path and its Sword Soul foundation, while realizing that the world’s rules seemed to permit no other path of cultivation.

• Chu Mu followed an unseen guidance through the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard and absorbed shattered spiritual treasures, recognizing that it contained captured remnant souls and obsessions.
• The Deep Illusory Realm collapsed, and the accumulated obsessions overwhelmed Chu Mu before he lost consciousness.
• Chu Mu awoke in an unfamiliar Cave Abode with memories of Yu Bing, a rogue cultivator from the Da Ming Domain, and steadied himself by accepting both identities.
• Chu Mu examined Yu Bing’s Sword Soul and learned that cultivators in the Profound Heaven World awakened Immortal Souls and built their cultivation around them.
• Chu Mu compared the Immortal Soul Path to Treasure Harmonization and sensed that the world’s Heaven and Earth Rules appeared to forbid every other immortal Dao.