Chapter Summaries

Heavenly Pivot True Lord persuaded more than thirty True Lords to capture the blue-clad man, claiming his strength was suppressed by the Hongmeng Universe’s rules and that he might be connected to True Saint Yuan Chu’s legacy. The group organized an ambush in the Flowing Light Domain, though True Lord Shenluo remained uneasy.

• Heavenly Pivot True Lord told the True Lords that the blue-clad man and the other Returnees had emerged from True Saint Yuan Chu’s inner world and might reveal clues to his legacy.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord explained that the Hongmeng Universe’s rules suppressed the man’s power until he removed the inner world’s imprint, and said his efforts to plunder fortune helped him do so.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord urged the True Lords to seize the chance to capture the man before he regained his full strength, and more than thirty agreed.
• True Lord Shenluo kept his doubts to himself despite the group’s enthusiasm.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord appointed Heavenly River to command the operation and assigned Nine Netherworlds to seal the void and cut off the man’s retreat.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord named the Flowing Light Domain as their target and declared that they would ensure the man could not leave.

More than thirty Da Luo True Realm cultivators surrounded Zhou Ming, demanding the supposed inheritance of True Saint Yuan Chu. Zhou Ming refused, and the cultivators prepared to attack him.

• True Lord Heavenly River and Heavenly Pivot True Lord organized a secret approach and had Nine Netherworlds seal the void around the target domain.
• Zhou Ming sensed the cultivators approaching the Heavenly Origin Dao Realm and stepped into the Chaos Void to meet them.
• Heavenly Pivot True Lord asked whether Zhou Ming had come from True Saint Yuan Chu's inner world, and Zhou Ming did not answer.
• True Lord Heavenly River demanded Yuan Chu's inheritance, but Zhou Ming denied that there was one and refused to hand anything over.
• True Lord Heavenly River ordered the gathered cultivators to strike Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming fought more than thirty Da Luo True Realm experts, forcing them to pursue him away from the Flowing Light Domain. Meanwhile, the Seven Domains attacked his scattered teams, and Liu Yuan ordered his people to flee, believing Zhou Ming was in danger.

• Zhou Ming blocked the combined attack of more than thirty True Lords with one punch, then battled them and drew the fight away from the Flowing Light Domain.
• Ancestor Xue Ku sent Liu Yuan a distress signal, reporting that Xuanji and the Seven Domains had surrounded his team.
• Liu Yuan failed to contact Qian Tian and ordered all the teams to retreat, but the Seven Domains attacked them across the Star Domain.
• Xuanji told Ancestor Xue Ku that thirty-seven True Lords were besieging Zhou Ming, then ordered his forces to kill everyone.
• Fankong reached Liu Yuan and reported what he had learned, prompting Liu Yuan to order his people to scatter and flee away from the Flowing Light Domain.

Zhou Ming fought off more than thirty Da Luo True Realm cultivators until they called for reinforcements, then feigned weakness to escape into a spatial rift. He fled into the deepest Chaos Turbulence with his pursuers on his trail, seeking a safe place to absorb his gains and break his remaining shackles.

• Heavenly River True Lord and Heavenly Pivot True Lord realized they could not defeat Zhou Ming and sent pleas for aid to other cultivators.
• Zhou Ming noticed their calls for help and decided to escape rather than prolong the battle.
• Zhou Ming feigned injury and let the Star River Diagram’s attack appear to overwhelm him, then unleashed his power to tear open a spatial rift.
• Nine Netherworlds True Lord tried to seal space and time, but Zhou Ming escaped into the rift before the seal could stop him.
• Heavenly River True Lord and the other True Lords pursued Zhou Ming through the rift.
• Zhou Ming entered the deepest Chaos Turbulence, revealed that his injuries were false, and sped away to find a safe place to assimilate his gains.

Zhou Ming fled through the Chaos Turbulence while Heavenly River True Lord and dozens of Da Luo True Realm cultivators pursued him. He escaped into a deadly chaos storm’s eye, leaving his pursuers to face their failure and fear what he might do when his strength recovered.

• Zhou Ming evaded the pursuers through the Chaos Turbulence despite his injuries and exhaustion.
• Longwood True Lord tried to block Zhou Ming with a Wood Spirit Barrier, but Zhou Ming shattered it with one punch and escaped.
• Heavenly River True Lord and the others continued pursuing Zhou Ming as he plunged into the deeper eye of a chaos storm.
• The pursuers lost Zhou Ming’s aura at the storm’s edge and waited decades without seeing him emerge.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord blamed Heavenly Pivot True Lord and Heavenly River True Lord for the failed plan, while the others feared Zhou Ming would become unstoppable once he recovered.

The defeated True Lords devised a plan to spread news of Zhou Ming’s inheritance and weakened state, hoping to turn the Hongmeng Universe against him. As hunters began searching for him, Zhou Ming quietly recovered in a remote asteroid.

• The Heavenly Pivot True Lord urged the True Lords to reveal Zhou Ming’s need for fortune and his weakened state so others would hunt him.
• True Lord Shenluo, the Nether Demon True Lord, the Heavenly Pivot True Lord, and more than thirty Da Luo True Realm experts spread embellished intelligence across the Hongmeng Universe.
• Ancient and powerful beings across the Hongmeng Universe reacted to the news, and many grew interested in finding Zhou Ming.
• A heavenly net of divine thoughts spread through Chaos in search of the man in blue robes.
• Zhou Ming recovered from his injuries inside a remote hollow asteroid and observed that his enemies thought highly of him.

After his identity was exposed, Zhou Ming abandoned his slow recovery plan and began raiding remote worlds for fortune while seeking his fellow Returnees. The chapter ended with six Da Luo True Realm cultivators cornering him in the Heavenly Wolf Star Domain and demanding the inheritance.

• Zhou Ming realized the Hongmeng Universe was hunting him and that sending Liu Yuan, Qian Tian, and the others to gather fortune would put them in danger.
• Zhou Ming decided to personally raid remote worlds, taking fortune quickly and fleeing while also searching for Pangu, Taiyi, and the other Returnees.
• Zhou Ming raided the Azure Heaven Dao World, extracted half its fortune, and escaped before two pursuing Da Luo True Realm cultivators could catch him.
• Zhou Ming continued plundering medium-sized worlds across the Hongmeng Universe, repeatedly evading patrols and losing pursuers in the vast star domains.
• Six early-stage Da Luo True Realm cultivators sealed the void around Zhou Ming in the Heavenly Wolf Star Domain, and their white-browed leader demanded he surrender the inheritance.

Zhou Ming defeated six Da Luo True Realm cultivators who tried to capture him, then escaped as a growing force pursued him across several star domains. The chase ended with Liu Sangeng revealing that he had waited seven years and set a space-locking net for Zhou Ming.

• The White-Browed Elder and five Da Luo True Realm cultivators formed an array and attacked Zhou Ming, who defeated all six with his bare fists.
• Zhou Ming sensed more powerful cultivators approaching, escaped through the void, and said he was only collecting interest.
• A red-robed woman arrived with two True Lords and led the pursuit after the White-Browed Elder explained Zhou Ming’s strength.
• Zhou Ming knocked aside two more Da Luo True Realm cultivators who tried to block his path, while the number of pursuers grew.
• Liu Sangeng waited behind a net covered in Space-Locking Runes and told Zhou Ming he had been fishing for him for seven years.

Zhou Ming escaped a widening hunt, hid to refine the fortune he had gathered, and then set out through the Chaos to find Pangu and the others. The chapter ended with Cang Xuan and Hongchu, hunted for more than a hundred thousand years, recovering in the Eastern Extremity of the Hongmeng Universe.

• Zhou Ming broke through Liu Sangeng’s net and continued fleeing as Bai Yong and the others pursued him.
• True Lord Duobao moved his treasure ship aside and let Zhou Ming pass, refusing Bai Yong’s demand to stop him.
• Zhou Ming broke through several ambushes and formations, then hid inside a dead star to refine the fortune he had gathered.
• After more than three thousand years, Zhou Ming finished refining the fortune and decided to leave the star domain and seek Pangu, Taiyi, Taichu, and the others.
• Cang Xuan and Hongchu emerged from the void in the Eastern Extremity and discussed the pursuit that had driven them from their hiding place.

Cang Xuan and Hongchu decided to seek out their fellow Daoists, while Zhou Ming found them trapped by pursuers in the Eastern Pole. The chapter ended with Crimson Skies and his allies preparing to seize the inheritance they believed Hongchu and Cang Xuan possessed.

• Hongchu urged Cang Xuan to find Pangu, Taiyi, Taichu, and the other Eternal Dao Realm cultivators, and Cang Xuan agreed to wait until his injuries stabilized.
• Zhou Ming continued through the chaos in concealment, recovering his strength and searching for traces of Pangu and the others.
• Zhou Ming sensed the auras of Hongchu and Cang Xuan in the Eastern Pole and cautiously approached their location.
• Zhou Ming discovered that sixteen cultivators had trapped Hongchu and Cang Xuan in a confinement formation among shattered stellar remains.
• Crimson Skies demanded that Hongchu and Cang Xuan hand over True Saint Yuan Chu's inheritance, and they refused.
• Crimson Skies told his allies to stop talking and prepare to take the inheritance by force.

Zhou Ming arrived inside the Trapping Formation just as Hongchu and Cang Xuan prepared to fight to the death. The sixteen True Lords recognized him as their target and moved to seize True Saint Yuan Chu’s inheritance, unaware of the danger they faced.

• The sixteen Da Luo True Realm cultivators tightened their formation around Hongchu and Cang Xuan, who prepared to fight to the death.
• Zhou Ming appeared inside the formation, startling the enemies and bringing Hongchu and Cang Xuan relief.
• Red Skies True Lord recognized Zhou Ming’s aura as the Dao of Strength and identified him as the blue-robed man they sought.
• Red Skies True Lord urged the other fifteen True Lords to capture Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan for True Saint Yuan Chu’s inheritance.
• Hongchu and Cang Xuan suspected the overconfident True Lords were about to suffer serious misfortune.

Zhou Ming defeated Red Skies True Lord and the fifteen other Da Luo True Realm cultivators with overwhelming force, then told Hongchu and Cang Xuan that he knew a shortcut to undoing their shackles. Hongchu and Cang Xuan eagerly asked what it was.

• Zhou Ming faced Red Skies True Lord and fifteen other Da Luo True Realm cultivators as they attacked with their formation.
• Zhou Ming shattered the formation with one punch and sent all sixteen cultivators reeling.
• Red Skies True Lord tried to escape, but Zhou Ming stopped him and struck him gravely in the chest.
• Zhou Ming punched the remaining cultivators away, then let them flee in different directions.
• Zhou Ming told Hongchu and Cang Xuan that less than twenty percent of his shackles remained and that their method was clumsy.
• Zhou Ming said there was a shortcut to undoing the shackles, and Hongchu and Cang Xuan asked what it was.

Zhou Ming explained that using world fortune could rapidly wash away the law imprints suppressing their strength, and he proposed carefully taking half the fortune from selected worlds. The three recovered in hiding while suspecting Jiemie and his group had revealed their identities.

• Zhou Ming led Hongchu and Cang Xuan into a hollow star core and concealed it with formations.
• Zhou Ming explained how merging their Great Dao Origins with a world's fortune could speed their adaptation hundreds or thousands of times faster.
• Hongchu urged them to rob worlds, but Zhou Ming insisted they take only half the fortune to avoid provoking the universe's will and worsening their enemies' hatred.
• Cang Xuan asked why their identities had become widely known, and Zhou Ming suggested Jiemie and his group might have exposed them.
• Zhou Ming told Hongchu and Cang Xuan to focus on recovering their strength, and the three rested inside the star core.

After recovering in a Star Core, Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan drained fortune from worlds in the Biluot Star Domain to restore their strength. Zhou Ming revealed that he had deliberately left a trace behind to lure their enemies into a trap.

• Hongchu and Cang Xuan recovered from their injuries in the Star Core, and Zhou Ming led them into the Chaos Void.
• Zhou Ming and his companions forcibly drained half the fortune from more than a dozen worlds in the Biluot Star Domain.
• Zhou Ming gave Hongchu and Cang Xuan most of the stolen fortune, and they refined it to strengthen themselves.
• Hongchu recovered nearly sixty percent of his strength, while Cang Xuan warned that Red Skies True Lord and his allies would come after them.
• Zhou Ming explained that he had left a trace of their whereabouts to lure their enemies together and catch them in one net.

Red Skies True Lord and Black Armor True Lord led forty-three Da Luo True Lords into an ambush for Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan near the Yuheng Realm. Zhou Ming turned their trap against them, and after he defeated Black Armor True Lord with one punch, the surviving enemies fled.

• Red Skies True Lord and Black Armor True Lord concealed a powerful Death Array near the Yuheng Realm and waited for Zhou Ming and his companions.
• Zhou Ming secretly formed a stronger net around the enemy array, preparing to trap the ambushers.
• When Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan arrived, Black Armor True Lord ordered an attack, but Zhou Ming's net suppressed the Death Array and its cultivators.
• Hongchu charged at Red Skies True Lord as battle broke out among the trapped Da Luo True Lords.
• Black Armor True Lord attacked Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming shattered his Xuantian Divine Armor with one punch and badly wounded him.
• Black Armor True Lord escaped, and the remaining Da Luo True Lords scattered and fled.

Zhou Ming and his companions left their defeated pursuers alive, then sought information about the other “Returnees.” True Lord Duobao told Zhou Ming that one was trapped in the Taichu Qi Sea, leaving the group with a new destination.

• Zhou Ming explained that sparing their fleeing enemies would spread their reputation, and he left with Hongchu and Cang Xuan.
• After traveling through several star domains and refining their spoils, Zhou Ming and his companions searched a ruined Chaos Market for information.
• Hongchu recognized True Lord Duobao and angrily accused him of selling their whereabouts to their pursuers.
• True Lord Duobao admitted he had sold information about both sides, while Zhou Ming asked him about the other “Returnees.”
• Zhou Ming traded a Great Luo True Artifact for information, and True Lord Duobao revealed that a Returnee possessing “Taichu Qi” was trapped in the Taichu Qi Sea by Cold River True Lord and nearly twenty Da Luo True Realm cultivators.

Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan traveled to the Western Wasteland to rescue Taichu, whom True Lord Hanchuan had imprisoned in the Taichu Qi Sea. They found Taichu trapped in an array and weakening, while Hanchuan demanded the inheritance of True Saint Yuan Chu.

• Zhou Ming explained that True Lord Duobao would spread news of their battle record, then led Hongchu and Cang Xuan toward the Western Wasteland.
• True Lord Duobao misdirected True Lord Xuanjia, sending him and his surviving followers toward the Southern Domain instead of after Zhou Ming's group.
• After decades of travel, Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan reached the Taichu Qi Sea and discovered Taichu trapped at its center.
• True Lord Hanchuan revealed that his Cold River Dao-Locking Array had been draining Taichu's primordial qi for ten thousand years.
• True Lord Hanchuan demanded that Taichu surrender True Saint Yuan Chu's inheritance.

Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan attacked the Cold River Dao-Locking Array and freed Taichu. Cold River True Lord fled into Chaos, leaving Taichu safe with his rescuers.

• Zhou Ming identified Cold River True Lord as the formation's conduit and proposed striking the seventeen cultivators sustaining the array.
• Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan sneaked behind the formation, and Zhou Ming's punch severed six nodes at once.
• Taichu unleashed his primordial qi and broke through the weakened array as Hongchu and Cang Xuan attacked the formation's cultivators.
• Cold River True Lord recognized Zhou Ming and fled, while the remaining Da Luo True Realm cultivators scattered.
• Taichu was freed and thanked Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cang Xuan.

After Zhou Ming saved Taichu, the group raided the Cold River Domain for its fortune, helping Taichu recover and weakening their shackles. Taichu then revealed that Houtu had also gathered fortune and had been missing for hundreds of thousands of years.

• Zhou Ming led Hongchu, Cang Xuan, and the injured Taichu to the Cold River Domain to take fortune from more than thirty worlds as compensation.
• Zhou Ming gave Taichu the largest share of the stolen fortune, and Taichu used it to break nearly twenty percent of his Rule Shackles and recover almost half his strength.
• Zhou Ming refined his share until less than ten percent of his final shackles remained, while the four discussed their cultivation.
• Taichu revealed that Houtu had gathered fortune to remove her shackles, exposed her whereabouts, and disappeared hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Zhou Ming and the others realized the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had betrayed them by revealing their identities and weaknesses to Hongmeng Universe forces. They chose to survive, find the other Returnees, and grow stronger, leaving to make themselves a beacon that could draw Pangu and the others to them.

• Zhou Ming questioned how the Hongmeng Universe experts had learned so much about the Returnees and their weakened state.
• Cang Xuan identified the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub as the only group that could have supplied the information.
• Taichu and Hongchu erupted in fury at Jiemie and the others for betraying them, while Zhou Ming urged them to set revenge aside until they were stronger.
• Zhou Ming made finding Pangu, Taiyi, Taisu, Taiji, and the other Returnees their priority.
• Zhou Ming decided they would keep gathering fortune, recovering their strength, and making a greater stir so the other Returnees could find them.