Chapter Summaries

Battle Axe explained that the Heaven Treading Realm had three levels and that the snake and Golden Monkey fighting in the sky were stronger than Chu He. He urged the Human Clan to stay cautious as they traveled through the Azure Sky Mountain Range, then spotted unfamiliar Human Clan members pursuing an alien.

• Battle Axe warned Hong Ancestor and the Human Clan experts that the snake and monkey’s auras were stronger than Chu He’s.
• Battle Axe explained that the Heaven Treading Realm consisted of Heavenly Rank, Heavenly Venerable, and Heavenly Saint, and judged Chu He to be at most a newly advanced Heavenly Venerable.
• Battle Axe reassured the group that Heavenly Venerables were rare in the Azure Sky Mountain Range, though he privately feared the coming upheaval and worried about the Human Clan’s future.
• Battle Axe spotted several unfamiliar Dao Realm Human Clan members pursuing an alien near the mountain peak.

The Barbarian Domain and Great Qian began cooperating as the rising number of suns threatened the younger generation, while Battle Axe and Han Yi discussed preparations for disaster. During an exchange visit to Great Qian, Wang Tengfei, First Tiger, and the Barbarian Domain prodigies discovered that Great Qian’s Hidden Ancestor was believed to be a Heaven Saint.

• Han Yi recognized the Barbarian Domain’s God Devouring Military Formation and invited Battle Axe to help build a formation to protect Great Qian’s younger generation from the sun disaster.
• Battle Axe declined the invitation because the Barbarian Domain was unaffected by the suns, but offered to shelter Great Qian’s juniors if its preparations failed.
• The Barbarian Domain and Great Qian opened a passage and began exchanging delegations of Dao Realm experts and prodigies.
• Wang Tengfei, First Tiger, and Hong Ancestor visited Great Qian and felt a strange familiarity with its towering Golden Statue.
• A Great Qian prodigy identified the statue as the Hidden Ancestor, a Heaven Saint said to protect Great Qian, shocking the visitors from the Barbarian Domain.
• First Tiger reflected that Human Clan experts were adept at hiding their strength, and Wang Tengfei agreed that they were all lurking bastards.

Great Qian and the Barbarian Domain exchanged resources and moved Great Qian’s younger generation into the Domain as the heavenly disaster intensified. After seven suns appeared for several days, a tremendous explosion shook the Azure Sky Mountain Range.

• Great Qian’s delegation entered the Barbarian Domain and recognized it as a powerful refuge, while its leader resolved to tell Ancestor Han about it.
• A voice urged Ye Feng to remain in the Domain and look toward a mysterious direction; his attempt to peer that way caused his eyes to bleed.
• Great Qian and the Barbarian Domain negotiated, and Great Qian transferred resources and younger descendants into the Domain.
• The two sides placed golden statues of Chu He at the Domain’s entrance, and the World Suppressing Cauldron and Heavenly Stele infused them with mysterious power.
• After seven suns hung in the sky for several days, an explosion near the Barbarian Domain shook the Azure Sky Mountain Range.

Chu He completed sixty years of secluded cultivation and reached the first level of the Eighth Turn as the world outside the Barbarian Domain was devastated by blazing heat. Mingti emerged from an oasis destroyed by darkness and set out to find its missing brothers, while Chu He ended the Barbarian Domain’s concealment.

• Battle Axe ordered the Barbarian Domain to close and guarded its border as the seven suns’ heat devastated the world.
• The heat scorched vast territories and shattered Secret Realms, while mysterious oases offered shelter from the flames.
• Mingti destroyed an oasis, discovered its brothers were missing, and went searching for them.
• Chu He emerged from sixty years of cultivation after reaching the first level of the Eighth Turn and examined his transformed body.
• Chu He lifted the Barbarian Domain’s concealed state after confirming that no trouble had reached it during his seclusion.

Chu He checked on the foreign races imprisoned in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda and fed them medicine to help them recover, while deciding to put some of them to work. Black Crane encouraged Black Crow and Black Panther by insisting their brothers would soon arrive to rescue them, leaving Chu He eager for more captives to replenish the pagoda.

• Chu He removed the foreign races from the oil cauldrons and assigned the reformed captives work at his Myriad Beast Lotus Platform.
• Chu He found the Dao Realm prisoners on the third floor alive but battered by decades of lightning, and noted that the ordeal had strengthened them.
• Chu He tested the fourth floor's Iron Comb Prison himself, found its soul-itching effect could not penetrate his powerful soul, and lowered the prisoners to feed them medicine.
• Black Crane urged Black Crow and Black Panther to recover because their brothers would soon come to rescue them, and the brothers drew hope from his reassurance.
• Chu He praised Black Crane's will to survive, patted Black Crow's head, and hoped more of their brothers would arrive to replenish the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.

After leaving the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, Chu He discovered he could draw the suns’ flames into his inner worlds and used them to temper his essence blood. His gaze devastated creatures that looked back, while a mysterious Old Man worried that Chu He might interfere with his plans; a month later, only six weakened suns remained.

• Chu He saw that Little Turtle had reached the ninth level of the Dao Realm, then raised his gaze to the eight suns and drew their flames into one of his inner worlds.
• Creatures across the oases suffered devastating injuries when they looked toward the fiery sky, and the Old Man wondered how a being of Chu He's power had entered the region.
• Chu He continued staring at the suns each day, tempering his essence blood until darkness fell and then returning to the Book Repository.
• A month later, Chu He noticed that the suns no longer appeared together and that their number had dwindled from eight to six.

Chu He enjoyed the restored warmth of the Barbarian Domain, repaired its restrictions, and opened Forget Worry Sundries, a mysterious shop that served customers according to fate. After his first customer bought ordinary pills and found the shop had vanished, Chu He continued painting, leaving the shop’s strange rules in effect.

• Mingti emerged from its cave with lingering injuries from the flames in the sky and postponed rescuing Fourth Brother until it recovered or its elder brothers arrived.
• Three months later, the Barbarian Domain’s eight suns had dwindled to four, and Chu He stopped basking in them and began repairing the domain’s restrictions.
• Chu He found the people of the Barbarian Domain living like ordinary people, then opened Forget Worry Sundries in a border city and set up the Fate Needle and die.
• A burly man bought Six Flavor Rehmannia Pills after the die showed one, drank them, and returned to find the shop had disappeared.
• The burly man suspected he had encountered Ancestor Yuan and ran toward the Town Martial Division, while Chu He continued painting inside his hidden shop.

Chu He recognized that his new customer had fulfilled the conditions for the Gu Du Bai Tian inheritance and gave him a painting that activated its final trial. The man became trapped in a silent wasteland, where he endured the trial by practicing saber techniques in his mind.

• After the Town Martial Division left, a broad man carrying a familiar greatsaber entered Chu He's shop and rolled a five.
• Chu He recognized the saber as the treasure from the Gu Du Bai Tian inheritance he had left behind centuries earlier, and realized the man had reached the Emperor Realm.
• Chu He painted the man a portrait with vivid Dragon Eyes, then sold him suitable pills for one Premium Yuan Stone and gave him the painting.
• A hundred paces from the shop, the man looked into the portrait's Dragon Eyes and found himself unable to move or speak in a wasteland where a voice declared the final inheritance trial had begun.
• As the trial continued, the man passed the time by practicing saber techniques in his mind, becoming increasingly numb and focused.

After awakening from a ten-thousand-year experience that lasted only an instant, Chen Nan credited Master Solitude for his breakthrough and tried to become his disciple. He left the Town Martial Division determined to keep advancing, while a young girl also received a painting from Chu He and misunderstood Chen Nan’s kowtowing.

• Chen Nan awoke, discovered that only an instant had passed, and thanked Master Solitude at the vanished General Store for his teachings.
• Chen Nan waited hungrily for a response, but onlookers called the Town Martial Division, whose staff took him away for treatment.
• Chu He gave a young girl who entered the General Store a secret manual and a painting that granted her some cultivation insights.
• After Chen Nan was taken away, the girl thanked the absent senior and privately judged Chen Nan shameless for begging to become a disciple.
• After swallowing pills and leaving the Town Martial Division, Chen Nan decided Master Solitude wanted him to grow stronger before joining the sect and vowed not to disappoint him.

After leaving the Yellow Sand World, Chu He questioned the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon about the Great Wilderness, the Origin Dao, and the Celestial Clan. He learned that the Great Wilderness had once been a Great World of Origin and that the Celestial Clan enforced rules across countless realms.

• After two months of waiting at the store, Chu He left Ever-Peace Street and sensed an ancient arrangement within the Yellow Sand World.
• Chu He realized the Great Wilderness might be part of an even older being’s arrangement and wondered why heaven and earth rejected those who sought the Dao of Origin.
• Chu He questioned the Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon, who said it came from the Dragon Ascending Realm and was Azure Dragon’s eighteenth son.
• The Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon explained that the Abyss, the Demon Abyss, and the Celestial Clan had conspired to reduce the Great Wilderness to a Celestial Clan pasture, where it had sought an Origin Fruit.
• The Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon told Chu He that Origin Dao Masters surpassed Heaven-Treading cultivators and that the Celestial Clan’s rules protected its share of opportunities.
• The Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon warned that anyone who violated those rules would face the Celestial Clan’s wrath and a hunt by all the heavens.

Chu He questioned Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon and considered the dangers posed by the Abyss and Demon Realm, then spent four years training his students while keeping a low profile. After five hundred years of signing in, he completed a super sign-in and received the Myriad Worlds Tower, a powerful purple-gold treasure.

• Chu He questioned Nine-Clawed Divine Dragon about Origin Dao Masters and later found the demon-connected prisoners knew little more than the dragon.
• Chu He concluded the Celestial Clan posed no immediate concern, resolved to conceal his strength, and decided to train his students more seriously.
• Over four years, Chu He trained the students of Old Master's Academy, Zhao Yuling, and the others while keeping the suns from multiplying further.
• Chu He gathered his subordinates, performed a solemn ritual before his Guan Gong Statue, and completed his five-hundredth year of sign-ins.
• Chu He received the purple-gold Myriad Worlds Tower and learned its information, judging the treasure very good.

Chu He activated the Myriad Worlds Tower and sent a treasured sword carrying his consciousness into a small world, where he saved Chu Fan from three Gray Wolves. He offered Chu Fan the Heavenly One Path’s inheritance and left him to choose whether to accept its dangerous legacy.

• Chu He placed his golden statue on the Myriad Worlds Tower’s imperial throne and used a Boundary Crossing Stone to send a treasured sword into another world with his consciousness attached.
• The sword struck down three Gray Wolves pursuing the badly wounded Chu Fan on Mount Qi Wang.
• Chu He revealed himself to Chu Fan as the intelligent sword King's Might Sword and offered him a fortuitous opportunity.
• Chu He told Chu Fan the story of Wang Quan, the first Heavenly Master of the Heavenly One Path, and described the path’s rise and mysterious fall.
• Chu He offered Chu Fan the Heavenly One Path’s inheritance, warned him of its enemies and karma, and asked him to choose whether to accept it.

Chu Fan accepted the Heavenly One Path inheritance from Chu He and began studying its first volume, while Chu He planted hundreds of fabricated Dao lineages among promising youths across various realms. Chu He then turned his attention to choosing people from the Barbarian Domain to unlock the Myriad Worlds Tower’s true power.

• Chu Fan agreed to inherit the Heavenly One Path, and Chu He placed a tower-shaped mark in his forehead and healed his wounds.
• Chu Fan absorbed the first volume of Wang Quan's cultivation method, which covered realms up to Sacred Venerable and beyond his previous understanding.
• Chu He returned to the Myriad Worlds Tower and sent a ring bearing his aura through the altar.
• Chu He spread several hundred Dao lineages among promising young men and women, making them believe they carried dangerous karma and hidden enemies.
• Chu He wondered whether his chosen inheritors would resent his fabricated stories, then decided to choose people from the Barbarian Domain.

Chu He created a million tokens marked “Heavenly Court” and gathered Human Clan candidates, revealing the lost court’s history and offering them a path to inherit its power. Li Jing sent them to train in various worlds, where their actions would earn points and clues about the Heavenly Court’s fall.

• Chu He refined a mountain of gold into nearly a million tokens and inscribed “Heavenly Court” on each one, awakening a vision of the court’s rise and defeat in those who saw them.
• Chu He summoned a group of mostly young Human Clan members, suppressed their power, and placed himself among them.
• Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li Jing welcomed the candidates and showed them the silent palaces and tombstones of fallen Heavenly Court powerhouses.
• When a candidate asked what had happened to the Heavenly Court, Li Jing said they would have to uncover the answer through clues in various worlds.
• Li Jing explained that the candidates would train in those worlds, earn points by strengthening Human Clan fortune, and exchange points for treasures or opportunities to enter the Heavenly Court.

Chu He prepared the Heavenly Court trial and hid the Barbarian Domain beneath the yellow sands to avoid entanglement with the Heavenly Clan. While investigating a strange inscription beneath the land, he encountered the ancient presence called Heavenly Clan Bai Ju and decided to fight it.

• Chu He upgraded the Three-Eyed General with precious materials, solar fire, limited intelligence, and a connection to the Myriad Worlds Tower to monitor the trial participants.
• As storms and Nine Suns upheaved the world outside the Barbarian Domain, Chu He sank the domain beneath the yellow sands and sealed it off.
• The Barbarian Domain's people gathered in confusion while Human Clan experts held an emergency meeting, but Chu He ignored their response and descended beneath the domain.
• Chu He found a vast serpent-like string of glowing characters that his spiritual power could not scan, and its appearance transformed the Star Abyss in his eyes.
• An ancient presence revealed the name Heavenly Clan Bai Ju to Chu He, who concluded that the being had come to its death.

Chu He trapped the Heavenly Clan Bai Ju in his Star River in Palm and overwhelmed it with escalating gravity and attacks. Bai Ju tried to negotiate, but Chu He ignored it and summoned countless golden phantoms to suppress it.

• Chu He unleashed Star River in Palm, separating the Heavenly Clan Bai Ju from the Barbarian Domain and exiling it into a star river void.
• The Heavenly Clan Bai Ju resisted with yin-and-yang beams and three destructive heavenly sounds that damaged Chu He's meteors and vital blood essence.
• Bai Ju formed a radiant star and declared its name, asking Chu He to talk things over.
• Chu He judged that Bai Ju was relying on its own power inside his palm and continued attacking instead of negotiating.
• Chu He increased the star river's gravity and summoned golden phantoms whose enormous palms rose to suppress Bai Ju.

Chu He defeated Heavenly Clan Bai Ju, then placed him in the World Suppressing Cauldron, whose reaction disturbed Bai Ju and prompted Chu He to seal off the Town Boundary Tower. Meanwhile, tombstones rose across the Azure Sky Mountain Range as the nine suns blazed above a strange divide of scorching light and cool drizzle.

• Chu He pinned Heavenly Clan Bai Ju with a golden hand and repeatedly struck him until he was fully suppressed.
• Chu He put Bai Ju into the World Suppressing Cauldron after it trembled with interest, and the cauldron then fell silent.
• Bai Ju retreated through the cauldron's darkness and showed fear as a malicious presence approached.
• Chu He sealed the area around the Town Boundary Tower to stop others from probing it.
• Tombstones bearing strange characters rose across the Azure Sky Mountain Range as the suns' heat gave way to cool mist and rain below.

Chu He entered the low-energy Ming Kingdom through the Myriad Worlds Tower to experience an ordinary mortal life, taking over the body of a poor scholar. He woke hungry in an inn and discovered he could not afford the roasted sheep he ordered.

• Chu He finished preparing the Myriad Worlds Tower, then decided to spend decades living an ordinary life in another world.
• Chu He's consciousness descended into the Ming Kingdom and took over a scholar whose soul had just gone out, dissolving the scholar's lingering wish to provide for his younger sister.
• Chu He sensed that the world had very little vital energy and was pleased that it offered a chance to experience mortal life.
• Chu He woke in the inn, found the scholar's body weak and himself hungry, then went downstairs to order a whole roasted sheep.
• The waiter told Chu He the sheep cost ten taels and required upfront payment, and Chu He found his pockets empty.

Chu He traveled through the mortal world to experience ordinary life, enduring hunger and hardship while his Breathing Technique grew stronger. He arrived at Xiaotang Village and found the old Willow Tree and thatched huts from the scholar’s memory.

• Chu He left the capital after eating at a scholars’ gathering and walked nearly a full day to reach the city’s outskirts.
• Chu He spent a month traveling on foot, surviving on spring water, wild fruit, and fish while reflecting on the hardships of ordinary life.
• Chu He continued walking for three more months, and his Breathing Technique advanced until it circulated freely as he moved or slept.
• Chu He earned silver by selling wild yams, but several groups of people gave him more money after mistaking him for a poor traveler.
• Chu He reached Xiaotang Village at midnight, recalled the scholar’s obsession with a little girl, and found the old Willow Tree and two dilapidated thatched huts.

Chu He secretly nursed Chu Xiaoya back to health and taught her cultivation while claiming to be her brother’s senior brother. After years of nightly lessons, he stopped visiting, and Chu Xiaoya found his letter and jade pendant, then set out with determination.

• Chu He entered Chu Xiaoya’s hut at night, gave her silver and herbs, and began teaching her the Breathing Technique while concealing his identity.
• Chu He visited nightly for a month, helping Chu Xiaoya recover and passing down cultivation methods and martial arts.
• Chu He continued teaching Chu Xiaoya over the following years, while her health and eyesight improved and she learned to trust him.
• Chu He stopped appearing, and Chu Xiaoya grew worried when he failed to return for two nights.
• Chu Xiaoya found a letter and jade pendant hidden under her bed, read the letter, and left the hut with determination.