Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu concluded that the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast would likely escape its formation eventually, then used a spatial passage to return to the Transformation to Mortality World. There, he discovered that the Great Void Imprint had awakened traces of Spirit Realm rules, potentially giving him a way to leave the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.

• Chu Mu examined the concealed formation and concluded that the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast's escape was nearly inevitable, though he chose not to investigate further.
• Chu Mu returned to the Chaotic Void where the former Cultivation World had been and entered the spatial passage he had once used to reach the Spirit Realm.
• Chu Mu emerged at the lakeside pier in the Transformation to Mortality World and recognized the young man there as an Immortal Soul System cultivator who had become an Anchor Point.
• Chu Mu found no trace of Metal Giant Chu and suspected he remained trapped in the Deep Illusory Realm or had fallen in the Spiritual Treasure Graveyard.
• Chu Mu examined the Great Void Imprint and sensed conflicting rules from the Spirit Realm and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, which could let him anchor the real Spirit Realm and escape.

Chu Mu discovered that the Great Void Imprint let him travel between the Spirit Realm and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, then returned to find the Barbarian Race occupying Two Marsh Pass. Suspecting a hidden game behind the Human Race powers’ inaction, he avoided getting involved and went back to the illusory realm.

• Chu Mu separated the colliding rules of reality and illusion, clarifying the Great Void Imprint’s two Anchor Points and enabling travel between the realms.
• Chu Mu returned to the Azure Cloud Great Marsh and realized eighty-two years had passed in the Spirit Realm, with eighteen years remaining before the Illusory Realm of Grand Void disappeared.
• Chu Mu sensed Two Marsh Pass and saw that the Barbarian Race had taken the pass and was hunting the scattered Human Race cultivators there.
• Chu Mu suspected the Human Race’s ruling powers had allowed the invasion for a hidden reason, so he withdrew without intervening.
• Chu Mu used the Great Void Imprint to return to the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, where he understood that finding an illusory domain’s core illusion could reveal an opportunity.

Chu Mu used his control over reality and illusion to bring Wangcai into the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, where it grew stronger by devouring Monster Beast true spirits. As Wangcai’s form changed, Chu Mu concluded that its Dark Shadow Devouring Bloodline was likely a True Spirit Bloodline, though its nature and rank remained unknown.

• Chu Mu realized that the Illusory Realm of Grand Void was becoming increasingly illusory as its hundred-year appearance neared its end, threatening to assimilate anyone who remained.
• Chu Mu used his understanding of the Great Void Imprint’s Anchor Point to bring Wangcai into the Deep Illusory Realm despite the conflict between the Qiankun World and the realm.
• Chu Mu suppressed the realm’s rules so Wangcai could hunt and devour Monster Beast true spirits, reaching the level of a sixth-rank great demon after a few hundred years.
• Chu Mu reviewed the Demon Race’s bloodline classifications and concluded that Wangcai’s Dark Shadow Devouring Bloodline was connected to the legendary True Spirits.
• Chu Mu observed that Wangcai had shed its former dog- and wolf-like shape and was transforming into an entirely new species.

Chu Mu examined Wangcai’s evolving bloodline and concluded that its appearance resembled a Kirin, possibly a variant True Spirit whose shadow-devouring path remained uncertain. As the Illusory Realm of Grand Void neared collapse, Chu Mu and Wangcai left through the Great Void Imprint.

• Chu Mu called Wangcai over and examined its bloodline, finding that its inheritance remained incomplete and difficult to identify.
• Chu Mu reflected that his deductions had guided Wangcai’s cultivation successfully into the Dharma Form realm, though Wangcai’s shadow-devouring path still lacked a clear reference.
• Chu Mu recognized that Wangcai’s horns, claws, tail, and noble appearance resembled a Kirin and considered that its bloodline might be a rare variant.
• Chu Mu judged that the Illusory Realm was close to collapsing and decided to leave.
• Chu Mu used the Great Void Imprint to find an Anchor Point and departed the Deep Illusory Realm with Wangcai.

Chu Mu was swept into a star-filled void when the Great Void Imprint’s crossing between illusion and reality went awry. He realized that the gathered cultivators were being used as chess pieces in a scheme to seize the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s origin, and he remained trapped in the growing resonance.

• Chu Mu and Wangcai were diverted from the real Spirit Realm into a star-filled void where each appeared as a point of light reflecting their cultivation.
• Chu Mu sensed that the Great Void Imprint resonated with the void, and a Spirit Radiance Blessing helped him perceive that the resonance was spreading.
• The resonance grew through Chu Mu’s Rule Corruption and linked him to the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s origin, bringing him under a restricted form of its Heaven and Earth Authority.
• Chu Mu inferred that a powerful hidden force had gathered cultivators bearing Great Void Imprints to share the origin’s backlash and accumulate its authority.
• Chu Mu suspected that the scheme might explain why the Human Race’s major forces had not responded to the Barbarian invasion, while he remained unable to move within the halo.

Chu Mu realized that the solidifying stars were forming an array powered by the Grand Void’s source and an unknown force, leaving him and countless powerful cultivators trapped as chess pieces. A Light Shadow Giant launched an Arrow Blade at the array’s central chaotic halo, which vanished after the Arrow Blade pierced it.

• Chu Mu sensed that the stars were forming an array to resist the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s backlash and heavenly pressure.
• Chu Mu concluded that the array’s forces were beyond his control and that he could only hope powerful cultivators would resist.
• A Light Shadow Giant appeared at the center of the Star Sea, drew its bow, and fired an Arrow Blade through the array’s law phenomena.
• The Arrow Blade struck the central chaotic halo, which flickered and abruptly vanished without being destroyed.

The Zhou Tian star formation annihilated the Light Shadow Giant, a Great Ascension cultivator, with a descending heavenly net. Chu Mu then connected the formation to the Heavenly Court and the Human Race, and concluded that the Human Race might be behind the scheme controlling him.

• The Zhou Tian star formation destroyed the Light Shadow Giant’s Arrow Blades and suppressed the giant until it shattered.
• Chu Mu was shaken by the effortless death of a Great Ascension cultivator, then used Spirit Radiance Blessing to steady himself and analyze the formation.
• Chu Mu recognized similarities between the star formation, the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation, and the world formation that suppressed the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast.
• Chu Mu verified that the formations shared an underlying structure and concluded that the Human Race might be behind the scheme.

Chu Mu analyzed the evolving star formation and realized its weakness was the fragile balance between it and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, not its shifting Array Eye. He concluded that disrupting this balance could collapse the formation and give the trapped experts a chance to escape.

• Chu Mu used the Spirit Radiance Blessing and his knowledge of the grand array to study the formation's shifting Array Eye and evolving rules.
• A Foreign Race Great Expert attacked with more than a dozen other Great Experts, and two Great Ascension existences joined the assault.
• The group's combined attack briefly cracked the formation's framework, but the formation restored itself and its attackers were reduced to ash.
• Chu Mu recognized that the formation's weakness lay in its balance with the Illusory Realm of Grand Void.
• Chu Mu inferred that the Behind-the-Scenes Existence had used Great Void Imprints and the collision of Spirit Realm and Illusory Realm rules to draw and trap the experts in the Origin Land.

Chu Mu studied the Stars All Over the Sky Formation, hoping to understand its laws well enough to escape before it stabilized. As his understanding deepened, he uncovered inexplicable ties between the formation, the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, and the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast.

• Chu Mu concluded that the Human Race's Heavenly Court might be behind the scheme and realized he would gain nothing from it as an independent cultivator.
• Chu Mu estimated the formation would stabilize in about nine years and resolved to find a way out before then.
• Chu Mu sensed a concealed contest between the formation's controller and the trapped pinnacle experts, which slowed the formation's evolution.
• Chu Mu discerned sixty to seventy percent of the formation's laws but found growing contradictions, including that the Illusory Realm of Grand Void both opposed and empowered it.
• Chu Mu detected within the formation the familiar aura of the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast, which he had also sensed in the white-robed existence who manipulated Yu Bing's reincarnations.

Chu Mu investigated the Heavenly Evolution aura in the Stars All Over the Sky Formation and suspected the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast was trapped within it. He used a Sacred Soul to force a connection with it, suffering severe injuries but clearly sensing its presence.

• Chu Mu reconsidered his belief that an unknown being had merely hidden the formation’s imminent collapse and suspected its decay was part of a scheme involving Heavenly Evolution.
• Chu Mu entered the Heaven and Earth Furnace and found that hundreds of Sacred Souls, including Heavenly Evolution fragment souls, remained sealed within it.
• Chu Mu released a Fourth Order Sacred Soul from the furnace’s suppression and sensed it connect to a distant power before the formation suppressed the connection and withered the soul.
• Chu Mu concluded that Heavenly Evolution’s true body might be within the Illusory Realm of Grand Void or the Stars All Over the Sky Formation, and resolved to communicate with it.
• Chu Mu unleashed his Furnace Rules against the formation while using the Sacred Soul as a link; the formation severely wounded him, but he clearly sensed its power and Heavenly Evolution’s aura.

Chu Mu connected with the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast through a Heavenly Evolution Sacred Soul and learned that the beast was an Innate Sacred of the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, whose status had been exploited to power the Stars All Over the Sky Formation. Their conversation was cut off just as the beast began to reveal what the formation’s creators wanted, but Chu Mu re-established a weaker connection and received only a fragmentary message.

• Chu Mu used Spirit Radiance Blessing to sense a faint connection between his Heavenly Evolution Sacred Soul and the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast at the formation’s core.
• The Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast told Chu Mu that the Stars All Over the Sky Formation had been made to take and seize power by trickery and force.
• Chu Mu realized that the formation used the beast’s status as an Innate Sacred of the Illusory Realm of Grand Void to wield that realm’s power against itself.
• Chu Mu asked what the formation’s creators wanted, but an external force severed the connection before the beast could answer.
• Chu Mu brought out another Heavenly Evolution Sacred Soul and re-established the connection, but resistance reduced the beast’s words to a fragmented message.

Chu Mu received the incomplete secret art Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun from the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast and realized its connection to the Illusory Realm of Grand Void could let him use falsehood to escape the formation. As he began comprehending it, he experienced the Innate Sacred’s extraordinary favor and sensed that its deeper power governed the realm’s evolution of Phantom Domains.

• Chu Mu received fragmented information about the Celestial Boundary and the secret art Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun from the distant formation.
• Chu Mu reasoned that the secret art’s power over truth and falsehood might let a false self replace his trapped true self.
• Chu Mu concluded that the art’s connection to Heavenly Evolution and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void made its mystery usable despite its incomplete state.
• Chu Mu began comprehending the secret art through the Innate Sacred imprint while the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation continued nearing completion.
• Chu Mu experienced the Illusory Realm of Grand Void opening its rules and order to him, and sensed that an Innate Sacred’s deeper nature involved governing the evolution of Phantom Domains.

Chu Mu used the Innate Sacred’s Heaven and Earth Throne to understand the Stars All Over the Sky Formation and create a flawless false body using the Qiankun World. With the sacred favor fading, he remained trapped and needed another mark of an Innate Sacred to escape when the formation locked onto him.

• Chu Mu realized that the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Beast wielded the Heaven's Evolution of the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, which explained the formation’s power over Rule Great Experts.
• Chu Mu saw through the Stars All Over the Sky Formation’s structure and used Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun to create a copy of himself.
• Chu Mu embedded the Qiankun Pouch into the false body, using its shared Furnace Rules to make the copy indistinguishable from the true body.
• The Innate Sacred mark faded, and Chu Mu understood that he had to wait for the completed formation to lock onto the false body so his true body could escape.
• Chu Mu concluded that he still needed another Innate Sacred mark and Heaven’s favor from the Illusory Realm of Grand Void to carry out his plan.

Chu Mu waited for the Stars All Over the Sky Formation to near completion and received the faint imprint of the Innate Sacred of the Illusory Realm of Grand Void. As trapped Rule Great Experts rebelled and weakened the formation, Chu Mu remained bound and became the focus of their scrutiny and killing intent.

• Chu Mu sensed the Innate Sacred imprint of the Illusory Realm of Grand Void connect to him as the formation approached completion.
• Chu Mu judged that the formation’s intensifying hidden rule fluctuations signaled a final upheaval for the prisoners trapped inside.
• Thirty-six Tribulation Transcendence rule phenomena appeared as the central starlight halo shattered, and more Rule Great Experts began to emerge.
• The rebels’ uprising weakened and disrupted the formation’s restraints, but Chu Mu remained trapped because his true cultivation was only at Dharma Appearance Completion.
• More than three hundred sixty Great Ascension rule phenomena appeared, and the prisoners’ gazes converged on Chu Mu as the only surviving Great Ascension star that had not rebelled.

Chu Mu used the Innate Sacred imprint and Heaven’s Evolution to disguise his cultivation while the Rule Great Experts rebelled against the Stars All Over the Sky Formation. He realized the formation’s hidden purpose was to sacrifice them as array spirits, and the experts began attacking the formation to overturn it.

• Chu Mu drew on the Innate Sacred imprint and used Heaven’s Evolution to make his Dharma Appearance Completion cultivation appear to reach Great Ascension Completion.
• Chu Mu saw the true forms of the Rule Great Experts and noticed many Human Race cultivators among them.
• As the rebels rose together, the Stars All Over the Sky Formation reassembled and illusory array flags appeared within their rule phenomena.
• Chu Mu realized the Behind-the-Scenes Existences meant to sacrifice the cultivators as array spirits and complete the formation’s flags.
• Furious Rule Great Experts attacked the formation, and the others joined them in destroying its veins.

Chu Mu discovered that the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation drew on both the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and the Spirit Realm, and suspected it was meant to create a higher-ranked Celestial Boundary within the Spirit Realm. He contemplated the Human Race’s promised supremacy, then returned to calm as he recognized that Human Race cultivators trapped in the scheme were sacrificial pieces like everyone else.

• The cultivators’ combined assault made the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation appear close to collapse, but an unseen force kept it standing.
• Chu Mu used the Innate Divine Demon’s Heaven’s Favor state to detect and isolate the formation’s new source of power, identifying it as the Spirit Realm’s origin power.
• Chu Mu inferred that the formation aimed to combine the origins of the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and the Spirit Realm to create a Celestial Boundary, perhaps an Immortal Realm under the Spirit Realm’s scope.
• Chu Mu speculated that the plan would elevate the Human Race to supremacy in exchange for risking its annihilation if the scheme failed.
• Chu Mu dismissed his inner turmoil and recognized that the Human Race cultivators trapped in the formation, like him, were expendable sacrificial offerings.

Chu Mu used Heaven’s Favor to perceive flaws in the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation and prepared to exploit them by advancing his false body. As the Spirit Realm’s origin power strengthened the formation and resistance faltered, one great expert sacrificed himself in a desperate attack.

• Chu Mu’s understanding of Stealing the Heavens and Switching the Sun matured as Heaven’s Favor revealed cracks and turbulence in the formation.
• Chu Mu drew on the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s origin power to push his false body toward Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence, then held it just short of breakthrough.
• Chu Mu judged that the formation was unlikely to fall as Spirit Realm beings and its origin power reinforced it, while the thirty-six peak experts might still be damaged.
• The Spirit Realm’s power continued to grow, making the joint assault increasingly desperate as the formation endured at the brink of collapse.
• A great expert raised the Sky Pillar Tower and shattered it, unleashing a devastating wave of rule energy against the formation.
• The great expert’s power faded, and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void’s rule power dismembered and devoured his transparent, godlike figure.

Chu Mu let the Zhou Tian formation draw his false body toward a vacant Greater Zhou Tian star and entered the dark-red Gouchen Star. As he began to fuse with it, the star’s former identity and memories resisted him.

• Rule Great Experts burned themselves in the formation’s chaos, leaving vacancies among the Greater and Lesser Zhou Tian stars.
• Chu Mu used Heaven’s Evolution to disguise his false body as a Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence Great Expert.
• Chu Mu followed the formation’s pull toward a vacant Greater Zhou Tian star, identifying the dim North Pole, Taiyi, and Gouchen stars.
• Chu Mu entered the dark-red Gouchen Star, but its former occupant’s memories and identities flooded his Sea of Consciousness and resisted the fusion.
• Chu Mu witnessed the rise of the Crimson Flame Immortal Lord, who led the Crimson Flame Clan from enslavement to prominence among the Spirit Realm’s clans.

After merging with the Gouchen Star, Chu Mu learned that the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation was creating the Celestial Boundary and that the trapped cultivators were destined to be sacrificed to form its Star Thrones. His plan had succeeded: his false body would claim the Greater Celestial Gouchen Star Throne, giving him a way to influence the Celestial Boundary through its connection to his true body.

• Chu Mu absorbed the Crimson Flame Immortal Lord's power and fused completely with the Gouchen Star.
• Chu Mu perceived that the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation was forming the Celestial Boundary, with its stars serving as Heaven and Earth Thrones.
• Chu Mu realized that the cultivators trapped in the formation would be sacrificed to create the Star Thrones, regardless of whether they chose to fight or submit.
• Chu Mu understood that his false body had taken advantage of the temporary vacancy in the Gouchen Star Throne and become the Greater Celestial Gouchen Star.
• Chu Mu concluded that his false body's shared origin with his true body would let him influence the Gouchen Star Throne after the Celestial Boundary formed.

Chu Mu’s fusion with the Gouchen Star caused it to evolve beyond the formation’s established course, potentially creating a rank higher than the thirty-six Great Zhou Tian honored seats. As the Celestial Boundary emerged and the battle turned against the trapped Rule Great Experts, Chu Mu sensed faint threads connected to the stars, but their position and purpose remained unclear.

• Chu Mu’s false body fused with the Gouchen Star as Crimson Flame Immortal Lord’s residual power returned, giving the star the combined power of two Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence experts.
• The Gouchen Star began evolving alongside the Celestial Boundary, and Chu Mu realized it might become an honored seat of higher rank than the thirty-six Great Zhou Tian seats.
• Chu Mu briefly perceived the formation’s evolution and the Celestial Boundary’s birth, but an unseen restraint blocked him from observing them in detail.
• Chu Mu became detached from the battlefield as the formation’s Spirit Realm origin power prevented its collapse and the Behind-the-Scenes Existence’s counterattack overwhelmed the trapped Rule Great Experts.
• As the Gouchen Star continued transforming, Chu Mu sensed faint threads unlike the stars themselves, and the chapter ended before revealing where they led.