Chapter Summaries

After more than twenty years of cultivation, Chu He broke through to Sixth Turn and confronted the Dao Realm Heavenly Demon whose altar he had discovered. As Chu He began crushing the altar, the demon demanded to know whose descendant he was, while Chu He blamed the demons and monsters it had arranged.

• The Xia Clan restored order across the continent by distributing fiefs, settling clans, and assigning foreign races to controlled lands.
• After five years, the Xia Clan’s powerful figures entered secluded cultivation to study the lingering will around Lin Commandery and absorb the Spirit Rain’s benefits.
• A continent-wide pressure announced Chu He’s breakthrough to Sixth Turn, and he immediately located the mysterious altar linked to the Dao Realm Heavenly Demon.
• Chu He exchanged a stare with the altar’s Demon Eye and burned through its blood-red illusions, injuring the eye and setting the altar ablaze.
• Chu He seized the altar despite the demon’s beast claw blocking him, then said its demons and monsters had displeased him as the demon demanded to know whose descendant he was.

After breaking through, Chu He searched the Eight Desolations Domain for hidden demons and monsters, smashing an altar and extinguishing a skull’s soul flame while failing to find Big Black Rat. He then restored the Book Repository and rescued the exhausted beasts from the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, giving them a long rest before heading to the third floor.

• Chu He discovered that the altar’s voice was not the Heavenly Demon he sought, but smashed the altar and its beast claw anyway.
• Chu He searched a Secret Realm, took its jade pendants, and extinguished the soul flame inside an enormous skull.
• Chu He turned the skeleton Secret Realm’s traps into trials, then swept through the Eight Desolations Domain and cleared out its hidden survivors without finding Big Black Rat.
• Chu He restored the Book Repository, put away the great cauldron, and stroked the Willow Tree outside.
• Chu He rescued First Tiger, Cang You, and the other beasts from the second floor of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, fed them high-temperature subsidies, and promised them a long vacation.
• After the beasts recovered, Chu He headed toward the third floor of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.

After breaking through, Chu He spared Heavenly Demon Ha Yong, noticed the continent was drifting at alarming speed, and composed a poem whose Sage Words stunned the Xia Clan Territory. The pressure over Lin City then vanished, and Zhao Yuling, Lin Xueling, and Little Turtle returned to the Book Repository to reunite with Chu He.

• Chu He found that the demons on the third floor had perished and chose to let the recovering Heavenly Demon Ha Yong rest.
• Chu He sensed that the continent was drifting more than ten times faster than before and wondered where it would end up.
• Chu He composed a 136-character poem in the sky, and its stars appeared over the Xia Clan Territory as residents chanted its poetic meaning.
• Chu He sent the poem’s characters across the land, and people soon learned that the cultivation pressure over Lin City had disappeared.
• Zhao Yuling, Lin Xueling, and Little Turtle returned to Lin City and joined Chu He beneath the Willow Tree at the Book Repository.

Three years after his breakthrough, Chu He relaxed beneath the Willow Tree while his beasts entertained him and Lin City with performances on a giant sky stage. When a goat lost its temper and attacked its dragon co-stars, Chu He ended the show and threw it into the Demon Suppressing Pagoda for more training.

• Chu He spent his days enjoying stories, music, and plays performed by beasts he had gathered into troupes.
• Lin City residents grew accustomed to watching the sky-stage programs, while You Shi and You Wang became skilled performers with a growing audience.
• The Great Sage-level goat grew furious at the viewers’ comments and at being made to act as the weak one in the play.
• The goat broke the script by knocking Cang You and the other dragon to the ground, prompting Chu He to shut off the stage.
• Chu He grabbed the goat and tossed it into the third level of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to continue tempering it.

The Human Clan Alliance faced a renewed threat after several clans united over the disappearance of their Great Sages, and Sage Yu revealed that a hidden Human Clan senior might be responsible. Meanwhile, Chu He sensed the Barbarian Domain approaching a vastly stronger continent and set out to prevent a disastrous collision.

• The Human Clan experts learned that several clans had joined forces against them, blaming them for the disappearance of multiple Great Sages.
• Sage Yu told the assembly that a mysterious senior had captured a Crocodile Clan Great Sage and that a Great Sage aura had vanished in the Barbarian Domain.
• Ancestor Meng emerged from seclusion and ordered Sage Yu to seek the senior, offering the clan's ten highest-ranked supreme treasures in return for help.
• Sage Yu went to the Treasure Pavilion to collect the treasures and prepare for the Eight Desolations Domain.
• Chu He sensed the Barbarian Domain nearing a much larger, sturdier continent and left Lin City to stop them from colliding.

Chu He joined the Barbarian Domain to a higher-tier continent by forging the shattered land into a bridge, then explored the new shore. He discovered the Myriad Races Alliance city and wondered which Great Domain he had entered.

• Chu He controlled the colliding continents and used his will and violet-black fire to forge a fifteen-kilometer bridge between them.
• Chu He made a stone tablet, inscribed it with “Chu Bridge,” and planted it at the bridgehead.
• Chu He crossed onto the new continent and observed its enormous cities, powerful inhabitants, and stable rules that blocked his consciousness.
• Chu He explored only the outskirts before finding a vast city where many races, including humans, traded together.
• Chu He read the name Myriad Races Alliance, broke a fissure in its banner with his glare, and guessed that he had entered one of the Eastern Wasteland’s three Great Domains.

Chu He entered a trade city of the Myriad Races Alliance in the East Cang Domain and sought out a musician whose playing caught his interest. He offered the stall owner precious pills in exchange for a performance, and the girl agreed to play from his score.

• A Wild Boar sensed a terrifying glare during cultivation and fled to its clan grounds to seek protection from its Old Ancestor.
• Chu He bypassed the trade city's entrance fee and walked past the Wild Boar guards, drawing reverent looks from those waiting in line.
• Chu He explored the city and learned that it stood in the East Cang Domain and was a low-tier city of the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Chu He stopped at a Human Clan stall, where an Old Man sold goods alongside his innate-level grandson and granddaughter, a practiced Jade Flute player.
• Chu He placed a King Breakthrough Pill and an Emperor Origin Pill on the stall to persuade the Old Man to allow a performance.
• The girl agreed to play, and Chu He handed her the score for Rising Tide of the Azure Sea.

Chu He quietly explored the Human Clan city, then returned to the Book Repository and considered fortifying Lin City and the Xia Clan Territory. He remained wary that powerful hidden experts in the East Cang Domain could bring trouble despite his low profile.

• The Old Man took his granddaughter and the young man back to the inn, while his granddaughter praised Chu He for giving her pills, sheet music, and a Jade Flute.
• Chu He wandered the city, trading for trinkets and chatting with locals before leaving without attracting attention.
• On his way back, Chu He passed Chu Bridge, saw foreign races inspecting the area, and returned to the Book Repository.
• Chu He decided to further renovate Lin City and considered tempering the entire Xia Clan Territory into an Ancient Forbidden Ground.
• Chu He reflected on the possibility of hidden Dao Realm and stronger experts in the East Cang Domain and resolved to stay vigilant.

Chu He sent captured Great Sage beasts to gather materials for transforming the Xia Clan's territory, promising them freedom in exchange, and assigned First Tiger and four crocodiles other work. Meanwhile, the six clans invaded the Human Realm, where Kongming Great Sage prepared to fight them and began drawing lots after they refused to choose a clan to sacrifice.

• Chu He gave the captured Great Sage beasts material lists and Universe Pouches, offering vacation time for the supplies they collected.
• You Shi and the other Nether Dragons asked to help, and Chu He gave each dragon two bags to fill with treasures.
• Chu He told First Tiger and the four crocodiles that they would have a chance to earn vacation time through other work.
• The six clans descended on the Human Realm with Emperor Sovereign- and Saint Sovereign-level forces, surrounding the Human Clan's formation.
• Kongming Great Sage challenged the invaders to choose a clan to lose three members in battle, then began shaking lots when they would not choose.
• The six clans urged Kongming Great Sage to choose the Crocodile Clan, saying they had agreed on it before arriving.

Kongming Great Sage drew the Jackal Clan as the Human Clan’s next opponent and vowed that the humans would fight them to the death. Chaiyu distrusted the other clans’ promises of support and resisted leading the charge, leaving the allied races deadlocked until a jackal arrived with an urgent message.

• Kongming Great Sage spared the Crocodile Clan, drew the Jackal Clan, and announced that the humans would target them above all other races.
• Kongming Great Sage ordered the Human Clan warriors to kill the jackals, and they answered with a unified roar.
• An Elephant Trample Clan Great Sage and a Divine Eagle Clan Great Sage promised to protect Chaiyu, while the other allied clans offered similar assurances.
• Chaiyu rejected the allies’ guarantees and argued that the Crocodile Clan should have led the charge, then suggested the others attack first.
• The allied clans and the Jackal Clan reached a stalemate, until an excited jackal flew over and transmitted a message to the Jackal Clan Great Sages.

Kongming Great Sage’s bamboo-lot bluff caused several clans in the coalition to retreat, lifting the immediate threat to the Human Clan. He and the sword-wielding young man then wondered why the coalition had collapsed and worried about Ancestor Meng and the next Myriad Races Council.

• Kongming Great Sage drew the Mangwa Clan, but the Mangwa Great Sages led their clan away before fighting began.
• Kongming Great Sage drew the Kuyang Clan, but the Crocodile Clan withdrew after receiving a message, leaving the Kuyang, Elephant Trample, and Divine Eagle clans to abandon the attack.
• The Kuyang, Elephant Trample, and Divine Eagle Great Sages complained about the coalition’s collapse and withdrew.
• The sword-wielding young man questioned why the clans had retreated, while Kongming Great Sage celebrated the Human Clan’s survival and said the cause should be investigated.
• The sword-wielding young man asked about Ancestor Meng’s condition, and he and Kongming Great Sage worried that the Pig-Haired Clan’s role as the next Myriad Races Council host could bring new trouble.

The Crocodile Clan discovered that Kun Crocodile, Thunder Crocodile, and Bitter Crocodile had emptied the clan’s stores and severed ties after warning them not to provoke the Human Clan. Chu He used the beasts’ offerings to build the Ancient Forbidden Ground across Xia Clan territory, where its growing power transformed the land and left Xia Yuan anticipating a new era.

• Lotus Crocodile learned that Kun Crocodile, Thunder Crocodile, and Bitter Crocodile had taken nearly every portable treasure, warned the clan not to provoke the Human Clan, and destroyed their ties to the clan before leaving.
• Lotus Crocodile and the other two Great Saints turned their attention toward the Human Realm after hearing the warning.
• Chu He exchanged the beasts’ clan treasures for vacation time, and Thunder Saint agreed with Bitter Crocodile that obedience had made their situation more comfortable.
• Chu He spent three years building the Ancient Forbidden Ground throughout Xia Clan territory with the help of a tiger and four crocodiles.
• The Ancient Forbidden Ground altered the land, making stones harder to break and restricting flight and combat, especially for Kings and stronger cultivators.
• Xia Yuan welcomed the changes and eagerly anticipated the arrival of a great era.

Chu He prepared for his second super sign-in as the hundred-year mark approached, tending to the beasts imprisoned in his Demon Suppressing Pagoda. After the sign-in, he obtained the powerful Sky-Splitting Bow and decided to use it sparingly.

• Chu He returned to the Book Repository and put newly captured dragons into the Demon Suppressing Pagoda's oil cauldron, where Cang You explained that it had captured them to reclaim its stolen treasures.
• Chu He fed Heavenly Demon Ha Yong treasures, then tossed it beneath a sphere of lightning, bringing back its demonic flames and fighting spirit.
• Chu He waited through the month until the sign-in day, then performed his preparations and completed his second super sign-in at noon.
• The system rewarded Chu He with the purple-gold Sky-Splitting Bow and nine arrows, whose power could kill a distant target with a single shot.
• Chu He inspected the bow, judged it useful but dangerously lethal, and put it away to use only when necessary.

Chu He ended the beasts’ temporary training as the Xia Clan faced mounting pressure from powerful clans in East Cang Domain. Meng Yi, Zhao Yuling, and Lin Xueling learned how dangerous their new enemies were, and the chapter ended with enemy Emperor Venerables arriving across the bridge.

• Chu He brought the beasts, including Heavenly Demon Ha Yong, ashore and continued nurturing Ha Yong after sensing its potential to reach the Dao Sovereign Realm.
• The Xia Clan’s territory grew emptier as people pursued opportunities elsewhere, while the Xia Clan’s new Secret Realm developments drew conflict with outsiders.
• Meng Yi, Zhao Yuling, and Lin Xueling guarded the edge of the Barbarian Domain as the Xia Clan confronted three hostile branches from East Cang Domain.
• Meng Yi explained that East Cang Domain held forces far stronger than the Xia Clan and that Chu He might also face powerful rivals there.
• A group of alien Emperor Venerables appeared beyond the bridge and advanced toward Meng Yi, Zhao Yuling, and Lin Xueling.

Meng Yi, Zhao Yuling, and Lin Xueling faced nine alien Emperors, including two far stronger than themselves, until Lin Teng arrived from the opposite shore and challenged them. The chapter ended as the aliens attacked Lin Teng and an unseen voice sounded from the void.

• Nine alien Emperors approached Meng Yi, Zhao Yuling, and Lin Xueling, and the two leading beasts revealed their overwhelming fourth- and fifth-level Emperor Realm strength.
• The leopard-like alien warned the humans to leave, then sent flames at Meng Yi that Zhao Yuling and Lin Xueling helped extinguish.
• A voice from the opposite shore rejected the demand and claimed the Xia Clan would not leave.
• Lin Teng appeared above Chu Bridge, and Zhao Yuling, Lin Xueling, and Meng Yi recognized him despite his changed appearance.
• The leopard-like alien dismissed Lin Teng as a second-level Emperor Realm fighter and attacked him with a flaming claw.
• As Meng Yi and the others rushed to help Lin Teng, a cold, pleasant voice rang out from the void.

Zi Yan arrived to help Lin Teng face the invading aliens, but let them retreat after sensing something and hearing an unseen cue. At the Xia Clan’s territory, she discovered its strange power affected visitors differently, while a dragon and tiger arrived dragging wounded foreign Great Emperors.

• Zi Yan froze the Leopard-shaped Alien’s attack and forced it to consider retreating.
• Lin Teng wanted to attack the aliens, but Zi Yan stopped him and allowed them to leave.
• Meng Yi warned Lin Teng and Zi Yan about the restrictive force over the Xia Clan’s territory as they traveled toward Lin City.
• Zi Yan withdrew her aura when the territory’s deadly pressure surged, but Lin Teng continued flying without noticing it.
• Zi Yan warned Elder Ye not to resist, but Elder Ye fell from the sky and fainted.
• A dragon and tiger dragged wounded foreign Great Emperors into Xia Clan territory, and Zi Yan demanded that Lin Teng explain his family’s strange circumstances.

Chu He reflected on Lin Teng finding a life partner and worried that Zi Yan’s hidden age would shock his family if they learned it. Lin Teng brought Zi Yan and Elder Ye into Lin City, where the city’s unusual customs made Zi Yan curious and left Lin Teng realizing his parents had given him a house as a task.

• Chu He thought Lin Teng had found a companion despite the large age gap, and guessed that the couple might soon have a child.
• Elder Ye emerged from hiding and followed Lin Teng and Zi Yan to meet Lin Teng’s elders, though the strange place made him uneasy.
• Lin Teng recognized that Uncle Little Chu had likely been the one who taught him to cultivate in his dreams and understood how precious that favor was.
• Zi Yan noticed Lin City’s unusual layout, paired residents, pregnant women, and strange scent, while Elder Ye was also astonished.
• Lin Teng recalled his parents planning to give him a house and have him stay in Lin City with Zi Yan for years, then led them to the Lin Family Book Repository.

Lin Teng, Zi Yan, and Elder Ye visited Chu He beneath the Willow Tree, where Elder Ye sensed the courtyard’s terrifying depths despite everything appearing ordinary. After Chu He served him tea, Elder Ye slipped back into an astonishing state of enlightenment.

• The Little Turtle recognized Lin Teng, greeted him excitedly, and shared Royal Dog Food with him, Zi Yan, and Elder Ye.
• Elder Ye realized the courtyard’s environment had caused his sudden enlightenment and grew uneasy about Chu He, the Willow Tree, and the dark tower.
• Lin Teng and Zi Yan greeted Chu He as Uncle Little Chu, and Chu He asked the Little Turtle to bring chairs for their guests.
• Chu He served tea, and Elder Ye drank his cup in one gulp before the tea returned him to the state of enlightenment.

The Five Clans of Nanshan learned that their Nine Great Emperors had been captured by Human Clan outsiders and split up to demand justice from the ancestral land and the Myriad Races Alliance. At the Liangchuan Alliance city, the Pig Demon Sacred Ancestor investigated the cracked plaque linked to an earlier attack just as the clans arrived to accuse the Human Clan.

• The Five Clans of Nanshan gathered in fury over the capture of their Nine Great Emperors and decided to seek help from both the ancestral land and the Myriad Races Alliance.
• Shi Ya and Yu Kong headed for the ancestral land while the other beasts set out for the Alliance city to demand the Old Ancestors’ return and compensation.
• The Pig Demon Sacred Ancestor examined the cracked city-gate plaque after the Liangchuan Alliance Leader blamed it for an earlier ambush, but found no traces of the attacker.
• The Pig Demon Sacred Ancestor prepared to leave after assuring the Liangchuan Alliance Leader that it would deal with the culprit if discovered.
• The Five Clans of Nanshan arrived with blood-red banners and called on the Alliance Leader to uphold justice, accusing the Human Clan of breaking the rules.

Elder Ye entered a deep state of enlightenment after drinking Chu He's tea, while Zi Yan wondered at the Xia Clan's hidden power and the tea's effects. After several days, Elder Ye emerged from his breakthrough and bowed to Chu He in thanks.

• Zi Yan considered how the tea affected each person differently and recalled the strange pressure that had nearly erased Elder Ye when they entered the Xia Clan Territory.
• Zi Yan observed that Little Chu remained unaffected by Elder Ye's aura and that her teacup endured her forceful grip, deepening her suspicions about the Xia Clan.
• After several days, Elder Ye's breakthrough stirred his body, but a breeze muted his roar and his presence remained imperceptible until he opened his eyes.
• Zi Yan asked whether Elder Ye had broken through, and he respectfully thanked Chu He for the tea.
• Chu He dismissed the tea as simple hospitality and turned the page of his book.