Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu explored Great River City as Yu Bing, then used the Myriad Scripture Pavilion’s collection to study the Profound Heaven World’s cultivation methods and secret arts. He concluded that the world’s Immortal Soul Path was designed to lead toward Treasure Harmonization, leaving him with a clearer understanding of its rules.

• Chu Mu considered Yu Bing’s identity and meager possessions before crossing the river into Great River City’s commercial district.
• Chu Mu entered the Myriad Scripture Pavilion to learn about immortal cultivation in the Profound Heaven World.
• Chu Mu bypassed the pavilion’s restrictions and absorbed its cultivation methods and secret arts over nearly half a year.
• Chu Mu concluded that the Heaven and Earth Rules suppressed cultivation systems outside the Immortal Soul Path.
• Chu Mu determined that the Immortal Soul Path prepared cultivators for ultimate Treasure Harmonization from the Qi Refining Realm onward.

Chu Mu recognized that the Profound Heaven World had been deliberately shaped to enforce the Immortal Soul Path and suspected Yu Bing’s identity was tied to a predetermined fate. Living Yu Bing’s life without changing its course, he rapidly advanced through the world’s cultivation system and gained a series of extraordinary opportunities, including a mysterious enlightenment that did not fit his true path.

• Chu Mu concluded that the Profound Heaven World was controlled by a powerful being or faction and suspected Yu Bing’s life followed a fixed path of fate.
• Chu Mu resumed Yu Bing’s life and, over several years, reached Foundation Establishment Perfection before joining the forces of Great River City.
• Chu Mu entered Golden Core and followed the Immortal Soul Sword Pellet path after an attempt to cultivate Sword Intent was suppressed by an invisible force.
• Over fifty years, Chu Mu advanced to Golden Core Late Stage and became renowned throughout Great River City.
• Yu Yan’s fortunes changed as he acquired rare realm-breaking pills and a spiritual treasure that improved Immortal Soul aptitude.
• Yu Yan entered enlightenment during cultivation, and Chu Mu suspected an unexplained influence because the insight concerned neither his true Heaven and Earth Furnace path nor a system he considered real.

As Great River Real Person neared death and the Yan Mountain Li Family pressed the Great River Alliance, Yu Bing rose from a Golden Core cultivator to a Nascent Soul Real Person and inherited leadership. After Great River Real Person died, Yu Bing faced mounting threats to the Alliance, while fate continued to deliver him opportunities.

• Yu Bing gained influence in the Great River Alliance as rumors spread that Great River Real Person was nearing the end of his life.
• The Yan Mountain Li Family escalated its probing into open conflict after learning that Great River Real Person had failed to break through to Spirit Transformation and was gravely wounded.
• Despite Chu Mu's attempts to escape Great River City's turmoil, coincidences repeatedly drew him back as the war between the Alliance and the Li Family dragged on for more than a decade.
• In the sixth year of the war, Yu Bing advanced to Nascent Soul and, under Great River Real Person's arrangements, succeeded him as Great River Alliance Master.
• Great River Real Person helped Yu Bing kill one Li Family Nascent Soul ancestor and severely wound another, ending the war, then died after exhausting his vitality.
• Yu Bing faced attacks and schemes against his newly inherited Alliance, but fate continued to provide him with opportunities.

Over several centuries, Yu Bing rose from Nascent Soul to Dharma Appearance while the Great River Alliance came to dominate its region, with Chu Mu watching fate carry them through every crisis. As Yu Bing’s Immortal Soul revealed the nature of the Immortal Soul Path, Chu Mu suspected the Profound Heaven World was a world of living treasures cultivated for harvest by an unknown immortal power.

• Yu Bing advanced to God Transformation Completion as the Great River Alliance rose to regional dominance, overcoming repeated threats through seemingly miraculous opportunities.
• Yu Bing entered seclusion and naturally reached the Dharma Appearance realm, leaving Chu Mu far behind in cultivation.
• Chu Mu observed that Yu Bing’s sword Immortal Soul shaped a Rule Path in which the person and treasure became one, centered on the Immortal Soul rather than merging with Heaven and Earth.
• Chu Mu connected the Army Commander, the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard, and the Unknown Great Power to a hidden system that treated living beings as treasures.
• Chu Mu concluded that the unknown immortal power harvested peak experts as treasures and that the Profound Heaven World continually produced new ones.

Chu Mu realized Yu Bing’s destiny was driving him toward becoming a Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure, then abandoned cultivation to test how fate would intervene. Yu Bing’s cultivation advanced regardless, and Chu Mu treated each step into the Integrated Body realm as precious experience for his true body.

• Chu Mu considered whether Yu Bing’s destiny as a Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure concealed a greater secret tied to ninth-order treasures and Tribulation Transcendence.
• Chu Mu left the Great River Alliance without the usual obstacles, then returned and stopped following Yu Bing’s customary path or cultivating.
• Yu Bing advanced through dreamlike sleep and forced enlightenments, rising from the Dharma Appearance Initial Stage to Dharma Appearance Completion despite Chu Mu’s inaction.
• Yu Bing crossed into the Integrated Body realm and reached the pinnacle of power in the Profound Heaven World while remaining in Great River City.
• Chu Mu continued watching Yu Bing’s steady progress toward Integrated Body Perfection and valued it as experience he could carry back to his true body.

After several thousand years, Yu Bing rose to Integrated Body Perfection, and Chu Mu learned that the Profound Heaven World had a true Upper Realm accessible through ascension. After surviving the ascension tribulation, Chu Mu stood before the Heavenly Gate, resisting the force that urged him to enter.

• Several thousand years passed as Yu Bing became a legendary Integrated Body Perfection cultivator and the Great River Alliance grew into a major power.
• Chu Mu learned from fellow cultivators that Integrated Body Perfection cultivators could ascend through the Heavenly Gate to an Upper Realm distinct from the Spirit Realm.
• As the Profound Heaven World increasingly rejected him, Chu Mu left Great River City alone and made no arrangements for his departure.
• Chu Mu endured the ascension tribulation, whose lightning tempered his body and purified his laws, but the world's constraints kept him from breaking through to Great Ascension.
• The Heavenly Gate appeared after the tribulation, and Chu Mu remained still as its summons and the world's rejection pressed him to ascend.

Chu Mu ascended from the Profound Heaven World into the Immortal Path World, where the Immortal Path Sect offered him the Dust Cleansing Pool in exchange for ten thousand years of service. Though ascenders could initially refuse and remain at Ascension Peak, predetermined fate trapped Yu Bing there and left him with no apparent choice but to join the sect.

• Chu Mu passed through the Heavenly Gate as the Profound Heaven World celebrated his ascension.
• Li Fang welcomed him to the Immortal Path World and explained that ascenders who used the Dust Cleansing Pool had to serve the Immortal Path Sect for ten thousand years, while those who refused faced a deadly Mortal Shedding Tribulation.
• Chu Mu accepted Li Fang's invitation to stay at the Ascension Courtyard on Ascension Peak and found more than a dozen ascenders there, most of whom feared the tribulation.
• Chu Mu learned that the Immortal Path Sect did not force ascenders to join, and that the feared drawbacks of the Immortal Soul System had not yet become apparent.
• As predetermined fate took hold, Yu Bing found that coincidental dangers kept him from leaving Ascension Peak and that he had no path but to join the Immortal Path Sect and enter the Spirit Cleansing Pool.

After Yu Bing attained Great Ascension, Chu Mu joined the Immortal Path Sect with him and watched his cultivation and fortune continue to flourish without revealing who shaped his fate. Years later, Yu Bing’s cultivation stirred in the Extremely North Icy Land, where Chu Mu sensed his path would end when he reached Great Ascension Completion.

• Yu Bing broke through to Great Ascension, but no harvest or revelation followed, so Chu Mu accepted the Immortal Path Sect’s invitation and became its Grand Elder.
• Yu Bing underwent a profound transformation in the Dust Cleansing Spirit Pool, perfecting his treasure body and beginning his formal duties in the sect.
• Chu Mu wandered the Immortal Path World as Yu Bing’s cultivation advanced through Boundless Fortune, while Yu Bing’s fate showed no visible anomaly.
• After many years, Yu Bing met one of the Immortal Path Sect’s Tribulation Transcending Ancestors, though Chu Mu learned that the sect had over a hundred such Ancestors.
• In the Extremely North Icy Land, Yu Bing’s late-stage Great Ascension cultivation stirred, and Chu Mu sensed that he would reach Great Ascension Completion there.

Chu Mu reached Great Ascension Completion through Yu Bing, only to be struck down by a mysterious giant palm and swept into endless reincarnations. He awakened in a new life as Yu Bing in the Immortal Path World, where his family were Qi Refining cultivators.

• Chu Mu concluded that the Immortal Soul System could not reach the Ninth Order and suspected the Behind-the-Scenes Existence would target Yu Bing at Great Ascension Completion.
• Chu Mu broke through to Great Ascension Completion in the Land of the Far North and sensed that Yu Bing's Profound Heaven Supreme Treasure had reached its limit.
• A gigantic palm descended and knocked Chu Mu unconscious, after which Yu Bing's true spirit endured countless reincarnations while an unseen power protected it.
• Chu Mu regained awareness as Yu Bing's true spirit entered a new life, beginning in the womb.
• Yu Bing was born safely in the Immortal Path World to a pair of Qi Refining Realm cultivators.

Yu Bing was reborn into a second life with extraordinary fortune and rose through the Immortal Path Sect until he uncovered its secrets and gained control of the Profound Heaven Spirit Sword from his previous life. Chu Mu realized the Behind-the-Scenes Existence had arranged both lives to bring them together and break through their limits.

• Yu Bing began his second life with a top-tier Metal Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root and retained the Boundless Fortune of his previous life.
• Yu Bing advanced rapidly through the cultivation realms, and a streak of Sword Shadow emerged when he reached the level of rules, fusing his two lives.
• Yu Bing joined the Immortal Path Sect, rose to become a Holy Son, and learned that its thirty-six Army Commanders oversaw the Immortal Soul System's affairs.
• Yu Bing entered the Integration Realm and gained control of the Profound Heaven Spirit Sword forged in his previous life.
• Chu Mu realized that the Behind-the-Scenes Existence had arranged Yu Bing's two lives so they could merge and overcome their limits.

Chu Mu watched Yu Bing’s present life reach Great Ascension as his own influence faded, then realized Yu Bing’s previous-life memories had awakened. Yu Bing began secretly resisting the force that had shaped his fate, with his former self’s Profound Heaven Supreme Treasure as his main weapon.

• As Yu Bing advanced toward Great Ascension, Chu Mu’s control over his life weakened until he became an observer.
• Yu Bing reached Great Ascension again, gained greater authority in the Immortal Path Sect, and encountered Tribulation Transcending Ancestors absent from his previous life.
• Chu Mu noticed Yu Bing’s complex emotions and realized his previous-life memories had awakened.
• Chu Mu suspected that Yu Bing’s resistance might provide the opportunity to merge their two Great Ascension lives.
• Yu Bing secretly planned to resist his fate as a chess piece and relied on the sword blade formed from his previous self as his main trump card.

Yu Bing abandoned his former cultivation and started over, but after reaching Great Ascension he found that the powers of his past and present lives blocked his progress. While overseeing the Spiritual Treasure World, he witnessed the fate of its countless Chess Pieces, and the barrier to uniting his powers silently disappeared.

• Yu Bing sealed away his power and recultivated from scratch, while the Behind-the-Scenes Existence watched without interfering.
• In several thousand years, Yu Bing returned to Dao Integration and then reached Great Ascension, where his progress stalled because his three vast sources of rule power were not seamlessly united.
• After decades of hesitation and centuries of fruitless effort, Yu Bing received a decree from a Tribulation Transcending Ancestor ordering him to oversee the Spiritual Treasure World.
• As Yu Bing managed the world, he witnessed countless living beings treated as Chess Pieces and felt their varied emotions and fates.
• The barrier blocking Yu Bing's progress vanished, and his powers began to fuse as his cultivation transformed beyond the initial stage of Great Ascension.

Yu Bing searched for a way past the severed road to the Ninth Order, following a mysterious guidance into the Chaotic Void. When he entered a sphere of radiance, Chu Mu and Yu Bing recovered memories of Yu Bing’s previous life, including how he was harvested and transformed into a powerful treasure.

• Chu Mu observed that Yu Bing’s fused powers still could not open the road to the Ninth Order and suspected the transformation sought something beyond an ordinary Ninth Order.
• Yu Bing searched the Myriad Realms for a way forward while serving as a Holy Son stationed in the Spiritual Treasure World.
• Following a sudden guidance, Yu Bing traveled from a Lower Realm Interface into an unknown expanse of the Chaotic Void.
• Yu Bing found a sphere of radiance and stepped inside it, drawing Chu Mu into a shared memory awakening.
• Yu Bing and Chu Mu remembered Yu Bing’s previous life, in which Yu Bing failed to cross the severed road, was harvested by a giant hand, and became an extraordinarily powerful treasure.

Yu Bing’s repeated past-life memories awakened, and the powers of nine reincarnations fused, opening a path to the Ninth Tier of the Immortal Soul System. As Yu Bing reached maturity, the invisible power behind the cycles of reincarnation descended to harvest him, leaving him unable to resist.

• Yu Bing merged the spirit sword from his first awakened past life with his own and followed the guidance to another memory.
• Further past-life memories awakened, and each lifetime’s Profound Heaven Spirit Sword merged with Yu Bing, increasing his power beyond that of an ordinary Profound Heaven Supreme Treasure.
• Chu Mu observed Yu Bing’s transformations under Spirit Radiance Blessing and absorbed what he could into his own understanding.
• After nine lifetimes and eighteen lives’ worth of Great Ascension power fused, Yu Bing’s power broke through the barrier and opened a path toward the Ninth Tier of the Immortal Soul System.
• An invisible power descended, took Yu Bing’s vast power out of his control, and began the final harvest as Chu Mu recognized the aura behind the reincarnation cycles.

After Yu Bing vanished and became a terrifying spirit sword, Chu Mu gradually sensed its power before a white-robed figure appeared, claimed the sword, and left Chu Mu with an inexplicable feeling of familiarity. As his presence in the illusion realm collapsed, the Great Void Imprint pulled his remaining consciousness away, leaving the mystery of the figure’s connection to him unresolved.

• Yu Bing vanished, leaving behind a transformed spirit sword whose power surpassed Chu Mu’s understanding.
• Chu Mu gradually touched the sword’s immense power and sensed he could subtly influence it, while his existence in the illusion realm weakened.
• The Great Void Imprint emerged in Chu Mu’s perception as his time in the illusion realm ran short.
• A white-robed figure arrived on a bridge of Purple Qi, examined the spirit sword, and took it away.
• Chu Mu recognized an inexplicable familiarity in the figure’s aura that came from his own self in the Real World.
• The Great Void Imprint drew Chu Mu’s final wisp of consciousness out of the silent void.

After emerging from the Light Sea, Chu Mu realized that the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard’s accumulated hatred was attacking him because he had failed to reverse Yu Bing’s fate. He fled toward the graveyard’s exit as countless damaged Spiritual Treasures pursued him.

• Chu Mu recognized a connection between the Light Sea illusion and the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast, and worried that a mysterious expert had noticed him.
• Chu Mu emerged into the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard and found signs of a battle, including the lingering aura of a Metal Giant.
• A broken sword attacked Chu Mu, and he discovered that the wave of hatred came from Yu Bing and the Spiritual Treasures tied to Yu Bing’s fate.
• Chu Mu understood that failing to reverse the predetermined fate had triggered Fate Backlash, as it had for the Metal Giants.
• Chu Mu fled toward the exit while a vast torrent of damaged Spiritual Treasures chased him and bombarded him with chaotic rule power.

After escaping the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard, Chu Mu woke in a lifeless Illusory Realm and discovered the same Great Terror and Star Cloud Ring he had seen in the destroyed Cultivation World. Following a World Coordinate through the Chaotic Void, he reached the world where he had first begun the Immortal Path.

• Chu Mu recovered from his near-fatal injuries in a crater on a barren continent.
• Chu Mu found the continent devoid of life, spiritual energy, and rules, and broke through its ruined spatial barrier.
• Chu Mu saw the Great Terror imprisoned within a Star Cloud Ring formed by countless worlds.
• Chu Mu sensed that the destroyed Cultivation World still existed in this Illusory Realm and followed its World Coordinate.
• Chu Mu arrived at the world where he had first stepped onto the Immortal Path.

Chu Mu entered the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s recreation of his long-lost Cultivation World and found South Mountain Town preserved as it had been before its destruction. He watched his childhood self grow up and saw the young man reach the day his father died, just as Chu Mu remembered.

• Chu Mu entered the fully living Cultivation World and followed a mysterious connection to South Mountain Town.
• He visited his childhood home and encountered his eight- or nine-year-old self, who had not yet been replaced by him.
• Chu Mu vanished, then remained in town for years, observing his younger self and finding the world’s details consistent with his memories.
• The young Chu Mu’s father escorted Forced Laborers on a doomed journey and died.
• After hearing the news, the young Chu Mu was overwhelmed with grief and fainted in his room.

Chu Mu watched an illusory version of himself revive in the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and realized the realm could not manifest his Spiritual Radiance or true fate. He left the replayed Cultivation World and, from the Chaotic Void, clearly saw the Star Cloud Rings and the terrifying figure at their center.

• Chu Mu observed the youth who had been the real Chu Mu die, then watched an illusory Chu Mu revive and cautiously explore the old room.
• Chu Mu determined that the illusory Chu Mu was only an empty shell whose fate and life experiences were simulated, without Spiritual Radiance.
• Chu Mu concluded that Spiritual Radiance exceeded the Illusory Realm of Grand Void's power to manifest and that the existence behind it was far beyond the Ninth Order.
• Chu Mu left the Cultivation World and entered the Chaotic Void, where his rules revealed the vast Star Cloud Rings and the figure at their center.

Chu Mu examined the Forbidden Grand Formation imprisoning the Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast and discovered it had secretly been decaying for millions of years. An unknown power had concealed the damage with a flawless false appearance, leaving the formation near collapse while deceiving the Heavenly Court of the Spirit Realm.

• Chu Mu judged the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast to be at Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence and sensed that its aura was closely connected to the existence behind Yu Bing.
• Chu Mu studied the formation’s world-based structure and concluded it had been on the verge of collapse since the time reflected in the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• Chu Mu found that the formation showed no sign of external intervention for at least several million years, despite evidence that the Heavenly Court of the Spirit Realm had not forgotten it.
• An inexplicable ripple made the formation appear fully restored, and Chu Mu realized an unknown power had concealed its true decayed state.
• Chu Mu could not discern any flaw in the false appearance and concluded it had misled the Heavenly Court while the real formation continued to crumble.