Chapter Summaries

Jiemie and the cultivators chose to surrender fifty-four sets of True Saint insights in exchange for protection and other concessions. After Zhou Ming received his ten sets and departed, Jiemie handed the remaining forty-four to Ancestor Xuanhuang.

• The cultivators agreed to hand over fifty-four sets of True Saint insights if Ancestor Xuanhuang's faction would protect them from future demands.
• Jiemie led the other four out of the cultivation grounds and proposed three conditions to Ancestor Xuanhuang: an alliance, shared insights from future True Saint breakthroughs, and help eliminating Heavenly River True Lord and his Fusion Dao Realm allies.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang consulted the Unity Realm cultivators with him, then agreed to all three conditions.
• Kongxuan released the fifty-four sets of insights, and Jiemie sent ten to Zhou Ming, who confirmed their karmic debt was settled and left with Pangu and the others.
• Jiemie offered the remaining forty-four sets to Ancestor Xuanhuang.

Ancestor Xuanhuang and the Unity Realm experts received the true saint insights and drove Heavenly River True Lord and the other Fusion Dao Realm cultivators into a prolonged hunt. The Unity Realm experts eventually abandoned the pursuit to study the insights, and the Hongmeng Universe returned to surface-level peace.

• Jiemie gave forty-four true saint insights to Ancestor Xuanhuang, who distributed them among the Unity Realm experts and agreed to help eliminate Heavenly River True Lord and the others.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang demanded that Heavenly River True Lord and the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators leave, and Heavenly River True Lord ordered his followers to scatter and escape.
• Blood Butcher, True Lord Tianxing, Ancestor Xuanhuang, and the other Unity Realm experts pursued the fleeing cultivators.
• Heavenly River True Lord and his team escaped after two Unity Realm pursuers gave up, and the wider hunt continued for hundreds of thousands of years.
• The Unity Realm experts ended the hunt to study the true saint insights, and the Hongmeng Universe returned to apparent peace.

After abandoning their pursuit of Heavenly River True Lord’s group, the Unity Realm experts relocated to a hidden space in the Far Eastern Land to study the True Saint Insights. Zhou Ming’s group distributed their insights for cultivation, while Heavenly River True Lord’s survivors formed a harassment strategy to disrupt their enemies’ seclusion.

• The Unity Realm experts ended their pursuit and agreed to gather in a concealed location, then traveled with Jiemie and over a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators toward the Far Eastern Land.
• Zhou Ming’s group learned that the Unity Realm experts had disappeared, then assigned insights to Zhou Ming, Pangu, and Taichu while Wu chose to cultivate his own Martial Dao.
• Heavenly River True Lord’s group rejected seeking new Unity Realm allies and adopted a plan to repeatedly harass their enemies’ sanctuaries, calling themselves the Maggots on the Bone.
• The Unity Realm experts entered the hidden independent space, agreed to keep its location secret, and began their seclusion to study the True Saint Insights.

Shi Gu was denied access to the True Saint Insights and discovered that the other Fusion Dao Realm cultivators still blamed him for exposing information about Zhou Ming and the others. The chapter ended with the insights holder telling Shi Gu he would never lend them to him.

• Jiemie struggled to comprehend the True Saint Insights while the Unity Realm experts remained in seclusion.
• The Fusion Dao Realm cultivators who had handed over their insights argued with those who held them, who refused to follow the rotation schedule.
• Shi Gu brooded over being blamed and excluded, and resented Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Blood Butcher for forcing him to hand over his insights.
• A million years later, Shi Gu went to claim his turn, but the insights holder refused and blamed him for the situation.
• The insights holder mocked Shi Gu and vowed never to let him study the True Saint Insights.

Shi Gu joined Heavenly River True Lord and revealed where Jiemie and the other Unity Realm cultivators were hiding, hoping to gain a share of the True Saint Insights. Heavenly River True Lord’s forces launched a raid that disrupted their cultivation, but Jiemie stopped the Unity Realm cultivators from pursuing the attackers.

• Shi Gu left the independent space after being denied access to the True Saint Insights and sought out Heavenly River True Lord.
• Heavenly River True Lord learned from Shi Gu that Jiemie and more than fifty Unity Realm cultivators were secluded in an independent space in the Far Eastern Land.
• Heavenly River True Lord promised Shi Gu a set of True Saint Insights in exchange for the information.
• Heavenly River True Lord sent a dozen peak Fusion Dao Realm cultivators into the independent space to detonate dead stars and disrupt the Chaos airflow.
• Jiemie and the other Unity Realm cultivators awoke as the attackers fled, and Blood Butcher failed to catch one of them.
• Jiemie ordered Blood Butcher to stop pursuing because the intruders had come prepared and could not be caught.

After Shi Gu exposed their location, Jiemie and the other Unity Realm experts faced repeated hit-and-run attacks that disrupted their secluded cultivation. They debated whether to relocate, send out fighters, or search for their harassers’ lair, but had not settled on a solution.

• The Unity Realm experts discovered Shi Gu had fled and leaked their location to the attackers.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang proposed restraining spells, and more than fifty Unity Realm experts set them up around their space.
• Heavenly River True Lord ordered recurring raids every million years, and Shi Gu watched with satisfaction.
• The raiders repeatedly broke through the restraining spells with Dead Stars and escaped, waking the Unity Realm experts from contemplation.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang urged the group to find the raiders’ lair, while True Lord Cang Lan warned that searching would disrupt their cultivation.

Jiemie sent ten Unity Realm cultivators to find the harassers while the others continued cultivating, but Heavenly River True Lord’s group evaded their search. After repeated traps failed, True Lord Tianxing suspected someone in their ranks was leaking information.

• Jiemie proposed sending a search party while the rest stayed behind to cultivate, and ten Unity Realm cultivators, including Blood Butcher and True Lord Tianxing, volunteered to go.
• Heavenly River True Lord learned that the ten had left to search for his group and ordered his followers to hide their auras, stop their activity, and use changing teams and locations for future harassment.
• Blood Butcher and the other nine searched the Hongmeng Universe for ten million years without finding Heavenly River True Lord’s group.
• Blood Butcher’s party set traps to capture the harassers, but the groups escaped before they could be caught.
• True Lord Tianxing concluded that someone might be leaking the party’s movements, and Blood Butcher agreed that something was wrong.

Blood Butcher and the other Unity Realm cultivators asked True Lord Duobao for information about Heavenly River True Lord’s group, but he demanded a set of True Saint Insights in exchange. Blood Butcher refused, and the ten experts resumed their fruitless search.

• True Lord Tianxing proposed asking information broker True Lord Duobao about Heavenly River True Lord’s group.
• Blood Butcher contacted True Lord Duobao, who offered to reveal the group’s whereabouts and intelligence network for one set of True Saint Insights.
• True Lord Duobao explained that the group’s widespread connections let them monitor the Unity Realm cultivators across the Hongmeng Universe.
• True Lord Tianxing tried to negotiate another price, but True Lord Duobao refused and Blood Butcher ended the deal.
• Blood Butcher rejected the idea of giving up True Saint Insights and led the ten Unity Realm experts back to searching aimlessly.

After failing to find Heavenly River True Lord's group for ten million years, Blood Butcher and the other Unity Realm experts faced growing unrest as repeated Dead Star explosions disrupted their cultivation. Ancestor Xuanhuang pushed the alliance to trade a True Saint Insight with True Lord Duobao, and Jiemie agreed to take one from the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators.

• Blood Butcher and nine Unity Realm experts spent millions of years searching for Heavenly River True Lord's group but repeatedly lost track of them.
• Another Dead Star explosion interrupted the experts' meditation, prompting Ancestor Xuanhuang to confront Blood Butcher, who admitted the search had failed for ten million years.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang proposed contacting True Lord Duobao, and, after Blood Butcher objected to surrendering a True Saint Insight, Jiemie agreed to the deal to preserve the alliance.
• Jiemie summoned the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and demanded another True Saint Insight, threatening to leave them to face Heavenly River True Lord's group if they refused.

Ancestor Xuanhuang traded a portion of true saint insights to True Lord Duobao for detailed intelligence on Heavenly River True Lord’s network. The Unity Realm experts studied the information and prepared to attack the secret strongholds.

• Ancestor Xuanhuang collected true saint insights from the Fusion Dao Realm cultivators and set out to trade with True Lord Duobao.
• Heavenly River True Lord and Chaotic Ancient True Lord decided to continue harassing the Unity Realm cultivators with their group of fifteen hundred.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang exchanged the insights for True Lord Duobao’s Jade Slip, which contained detailed information about Heavenly River True Lord’s organization and bases.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang returned to the Far Eastern Land and revealed the intelligence to the gathered Unity Realm experts.
• True Lord Xuanming identified the group’s principal strongholds, and the Unity Realm experts vowed to kill Heavenly River True Lord and his followers.

Ancestor Xuanhuang led fifty-two Unity Realm experts and over a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators to attack Heavenly River True Lord’s hidden base. Surrounded and unable to escape, Heavenly River ordered the perimeter fighters to self-detonate to open a gap while he prepared the Myriad Worlds Void-Escaping Formation.

• Ancestor Xuanhuang and the others used True Lord Duobao’s intelligence and concealed route to find Heavenly River True Lord’s base.
• Heavenly River True Lord and his companions realized they had been discovered when the void shook and fifty-two Unity Realm experts appeared.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang and Blood Butcher attacked, sealing the area and trapping Heavenly River True Lord’s group.
• Heavenly River ordered the perimeter cultivators to reverse their laws and self-detonate so the core members could break through the blockade.
• More than a hundred cultivators volunteered, and Heavenly River activated the Myriad Worlds Void-Escaping Formation as they prepared to detonate.

Heavenly River True Lord and his allies escaped the Unity Realm experts by detonating over a hundred cultivators’ Law Origins and using a network of one-way teleportation formations. After a thirty-million-year pursuit, their enemies gave up, while both sides regrouped and prepared for what might come next.

• Over a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators detonated their Law Origins, breaking the blockade and allowing Heavenly River True Lord and the others to escape through the Myriad Worlds Void-Escaping Formation.
• Jiemie led the Unity Realm experts in a thirty-million-year pursuit, but the fugitives’ interconnected teleportation formations repeatedly sent them far away.
• True Lord Tianxing convinced the pursuers to stop, and Blood Butcher and the others admitted defeat and returned.
• Heavenly River True Lord’s group reached the border of the Southern Wilderness, where they mourned their losses and worried that nowhere was safe from Ancestor Xuanhuang’s forces.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang and Jiemie decided to relocate and required every cultivator to swear a Dao Oath not to reveal their new location.

Ancestor Xuanhuang led the cultivators to hide and cultivate in the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, where a rotating guard was assigned to watch for Heavenly River and his allies. Meanwhile, Heavenly River True Lord and his wounded companions planned to recover before continuing their attacks.

• True Lord Cang Lan proposed the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss as a secluded refuge, and Ancestor Xuanhuang decided the group would go there and rotate guards every fifty million years.
• Blood Butcher, True Lord Tianxing, and other cultivators volunteered for the first guard shift before Ancestor Xuanhuang led everyone into the abyss.
• Ancestor Xuanhuang set protective restrictions and ordered everyone to remain in seclusion, while Fusion Dao Realm cultivators worried that the turbid qi would damage their Dao foundations.
• Blood Butcher and True Lord Tianxing stood guard and expected Heavenly River and his allies to attack again.
• Heavenly River True Lord and his injured companions discussed their recovery, then Heavenly River insisted they would resume harassing the others to avenge their fallen allies.

Heavenly River True Lord rallied his wounded allies to honor their oath to restore fallen companions and keep harassing Jiemie’s Unity Realm group. After locating the group near the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, he led more than seven hundred cultivators there in secret.

• Heavenly River True Lord persuaded the others to gather resources and restore their fallen companions to the Da Luo True Realm, despite their losses.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord reported that Jiemie and the others had abandoned their Far Eastern base, and Heavenly River True Lord ordered the group to find their new hiding place.
• Heavenly River True Lord told nearly a thousand cultivators to resume the fight once their injuries healed and ordered Chaotic Ancient True Lord to watch True Lord Duobao.
• After tens of thousands of years of searching, an informant found signs of Jiemie’s group near the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss.
• Heavenly River True Lord led more than seven hundred cultivators toward the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, concealing their auras to avoid alerting Jiemie’s group.

Heavenly River True Lord planned to draw the three Unity Realm guards away from Nether Spring Ancient Abyss so his main force could attack. Chaotic Ancient True Lord and the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas lured Blood Butcher and True Lord Tianxing into pursuit, while the third team had yet to act.

• Heavenly River True Lord explained that three teams would lure away the Unity Realm guards using prepared escape routes, then the main force would strike the exposed defenses.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the Nine Netherworlds Manor Lord agreed to lead the three teams.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord taunted Blood Butcher, who attacked and chased him and his team into the void.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas used a giant golden Buddha formed by his subordinates to provoke True Lord Tianxing, then fled with his team.
• True Lord Tianxing pursued the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas and his team, leaving the entrance to Nether Spring Ancient Abyss.

Heavenly River True Lord failed to lure True Lord Guji away, so he disrupted the chaos airflow around the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, interrupting the cultivators’ seclusion and forcing them to retreat. Jiemie and Ancestor Xuanhuang established a defensive line, leaving both sides in a stalemate.

• The Nine Netherworlds Manor Lord reported that True Lord Guji would not leave his post, so Heavenly River True Lord proposed disrupting the chaos airflow at twenty-four convergence nodes.
• More than seven hundred cultivators activated Turbulence-Disrupting Formations, unleashing a region-wide upheaval that True Lord Guji and ten Fusion Dao Realm cultivators could not contain.
• The chaos disrupted the secluded cultivators’ meditation, causing backlash among Unity Realm experts, and Jiemie and Ancestor Xuanhuang recognized Heavenly River True Lord’s plan.
• Heavenly River True Lord ordered a retreat before Jiemie and Ancestor Xuanhuang could catch them, leaving the Ancient Abyss surrounded by raging chaos.
• Jiemie persuaded the cultivators to establish a defensive line with ten Unity Realm experts and forty Fusion Dao Realm cultivators, and later harassment attempts were repelled, bringing both sides to a stalemate.

Heavenly River True Lord tried three ways to break the Ten Directions Jiemie Grand Formation, but Blood Butcher stayed in position, the formation repelled a direct assault, and Kongxuan exposed Shi Gu’s attempt to find a hidden entrance. After the final failure, Heavenly River ordered the besiegers to retreat and reassess the defensive line.

• Heavenly River True Lord sent thirty Fusion Dao Realm cultivators to provoke Blood Butcher, but Blood Butcher obeyed orders and did not leave the formation.
• Heavenly River True Lord ordered five hundred cultivators to attack a weak point, but the formation absorbed and reflected their strike, injuring the attackers.
• True Lord Shi Gu led an elite squad toward a supposed hidden back door between Jiemie’s and Kongxuan’s sectors.
• True Lord Kongxuan’s spatial avatar revealed that the back door was a trap and ensnared the squad in a Space Law net.
• True Lord Shi Gu detonated a Great Luo True Artifact to escape with a few survivors, and Heavenly River True Lord ordered the forces to withdraw hundreds of millions of li.

Heavenly River True Lord and the Rebel-Suppression Alliance spent tens of millions of years trying to break the Unity Realm defenders’ blockade of the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, but every scheme failed. Their repeated losses and the defenders’ mockery pushed the alliance toward despair, while Heavenly River himself began to show exhaustion.

• Heavenly River True Lord led the alliance in driving tens of thousands of Chaos beasts against the Ten Directions Jiemie Grand Formation, but Blood Butcher annihilated them with one palm strike.
• The alliance sent a river of nearly a million dead stars crashing toward the formation, but True Lord Tianxing shattered them with his chains.
• Heavenly River True Lord’s followers poisoned the underground Chaos river feeding the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, but a Unity Realm defender purged the toxins before they could spread.
• The Unity Realm defenders grew accustomed to the alliance’s attacks and mocked their repeated failures, while the alliance suffered resource losses and damage to its cultivators’ origins.
• As despair spread through the camp, Heavenly River True Lord watched in silence and recognized that his followers—and he himself—were nearing their breaking point.

After tens of millions of years of cultivation in the hidden cave abode, Hongchu and dozens of Eternal Dao Realm members broke through their Rule Shackles and regained peak Unity Realm cultivation. The reunited group learned that only seven of their scattered companions remained missing and discussed the ongoing crisis at the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss.

• Zhou Ming, Pangu, and Taichu continued studying True Saint insights while Wu practiced the Martial Dao in a separate small world.
• Hongchu shattered his final Rule Shackle and returned to the Unity Realm, triggering dozens of other Eternal Dao Realm members to regain their peak cultivation.
• The reunited cultivators gathered in the great hall, where Cang Xuan reported that they had found 129 of their 136 scattered companions, leaving seven still missing.
• Hongchu recounted the failed schemes around the Nether Spring Ancient Abyss, prompting the group to laugh at Heavenly River True Lord and Jiemie's predicament.
• Houtu explained that Jiemie had trapped himself through greed and arrogance by refusing either to pay the price demanded or abandon his weaker followers and flee.

After repeated defeats, the Rebel-Suppression Alliance teetered on the brink of dissolution. Heavenly River True Lord secured thirty thousand years to find a way past the Unity Realm defense, then set out with Chaotic Ancient True Lord, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and True Lord Shi Gu to search for an opening.

• True Lord Withered and Flourishing argued that the alliance could not breach the Ten Directions Jiemie Grand Formation and urged everyone to disband.
• Chaotic Ancient True Lord and the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas tried to quiet the dissent, while True Lord Shi Gu pleaded for the alliance to remain together.
• Heavenly River True Lord acknowledged the deadlock and promised to dissolve the alliance himself if he could not find a way forward within thirty thousand years.
• True Lord Withered and Flourishing agreed to wait, and Heavenly River True Lord called Chaotic Ancient True Lord, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and True Lord Shi Gu to accompany him in search of an opening.