Chapter Summaries

Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect after the nine Dharma Aspects escaped, then found that the Extreme Cold Old Demon's storage bag held little besides cultivation inheritances. After weighing whether to give the Heavenly Talent Gu to Zhang Lingshu or make it a clone, Zhang Wan chose to refine it himself for greater strength.

• Zhang Wan collected the remaining ice spirit items, returned to the Jade Bone Sect, and reassured Old Ancestor Jade Bone and the sect's warriors that the danger had passed.
• Zhang Wan and Old Ancestor Jade Bone discussed claiming territory in the devastated Ming Kingdom, and Old Ancestor Jade Bone agreed to inspect it before deciding.
• Zhang Wan opened the Extreme Cold Old Demon's storage bag, found almost no treasures, and learned from its cultivation inheritances why the old demon had spent his fortune on the Heavenly Talent Gu Raising Formation.
• Zhang Wan considered giving the Heavenly Talent Gu to Zhang Lingshu or refining it into a clone, but decided to use it himself to increase his strength.
• Zhang Wan's Great Sun Source Heart swallowed the Heavenly Talent Gu and fused with his heart.

Zhang Wan began refining the Heavenly Talent Gu, distributed crop seeds and inheritances to the Jade Bone Sect, and strengthened the True Martial Sect’s defenses. Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding then targeted the True Martial Sect, believing its weakened ancestor would be easy to coerce.

• Zhang Wan refined the Heavenly Talent Gu and found that his aptitude, cultivation speed, and vitality had improved.
• The Wu Kingdom Six Sects agreed on how to divide part of Ming Kingdom’s territory among themselves.
• Zhang Wan gave high-yield crop seeds and inheritances to Old Ancestor Jade Bone, then returned to the True Martial Sect to guard against Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding.
• Zhang Wan upgraded the True Martial Sect’s protective formation to a Mid-grade Dharma Aspect formation and stayed to refine the Heavenly Talent Gu.
• Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding finished extorting the injured Dharma Aspects and turned his attention to the four who had avoided the battle, beginning with the True Martial Sect.

Zhang Wan used the True Martial Sect’s strengthened sect-protecting formation to withstand the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding’s assault. The attacker eventually left, and Zhang Wan ordered the sect’s warriors to stay inside in case he returned.

• Zhang Wan reassured the True Martial Sect’s warriors that the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding could not harm them while he was there.
• The Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding struck the sect-protecting formation with his iron staff, but it absorbed the attacks and redirected their force into the surrounding earth.
• Zhang Wan powered the formation with supreme-grade spirit stones and told the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding it could hold him off for a year or two.
• The Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding attacked the formation for two days and two nights, then stopped when he failed to damage it.
• The Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding threatened Zhang Wan and left to deal with other Dharma Aspects and cultivate in seclusion.
• Zhang Wan ordered the True Martial Sect’s warriors to remain inside the mountain gate for ten days to half a month in case the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding returned.

Zhang Wan waited at the True Martial Sect for news about the Bright Light Divine Mansion while refining the Heavenly Talent Gu, which rapidly raised his cultivation. A terrifying fluctuation revealed that the Bright Light Divine Mansion had reached the True God Realm, and Zhang Wan suspected its rise had been planned.

• Zhang Wan stayed in the True Martial Sect, where he refined the Heavenly Talent Gu and awaited news from the Abyssal Treasure Sea.
• Over the next year, Zhang Wan reached the peak of the Second Layer of Dharma Aspect, deduced the Third Layer cultivation formula, and advanced to the Third Layer.
• A terrifying fluctuation from the direction of the Abyssal Treasure Sea shook the world, and Zhang Wan restored the dazed True Martial Sect martial artists before ordering an investigation.
• The True Martial Sect's intelligence department learned that the Bright Light Divine Mansion had transformed into an Abyssal Treasure Saint Beast and reached the True God Realm after devouring its body and killing the trapped powerhouses.
• Zhang Wan concluded that the Bright Light Divine Mansion's breakthrough might have been part of a scheme.

After Bright Light Divine Mansion ascended to godhood, Zhang Wan learned that its breakthrough would trigger a long decline in the Great Xuanwu World's spiritual energy and feared the violence that might follow. As Abyssal Mansion Divine Lord announced a public Dao lecture, Zhang Wan chose to stay away and resolved to protect the Jade Bone Sect.

• Zhang Wan realized Bright Light Divine Mansion had used the Abyssal Treasure Sea and the experts it trapped to transform and ascend to the True God Realm.
• Zhang Wan learned that True God ascension and departure from the Great Xuanwu World would drain its spiritual energy for tens of thousands of years, potentially driving powerful experts to slaughter living beings for nourishment.
• Zhang Wan rejected the idea of abandoning his family and friends, resolved not to let events reach that point, and vowed to protect the Jade Bone Sect.
• Abyssal Mansion Divine Lord announced that he would spread his martial path over the Abyssal Treasure Sea in three months and invited everyone to listen to his Dao.
• Although Zhang Wan was tempted to attend, he decided against going because revealing his age and cultivation to the gathered experts could bring unpredictable consequences.

As Abyssal Mansion Divine Lord’s preaching began and upheaval spread, Zhang Wan moved the Xuan Gu Branch Temple from Qiu Kingdom to safety in Wu Kingdom and strengthened the Jade Bone Sect. He then used the alias Ye Shengtian to plunder weakened forces, finding the Martial Spirit Domain increasingly chaotic but still restrained by the surviving Void God of the Sacred Origin Sect.

• Zhang Wan and Old Ancestor Jade Bone agreed to bring the Xuan Gu Branch Temple back to Wu Kingdom, and Zhang Wan evacuated most of its disciples and their relatives from Qiu Kingdom.
• Zhang Wan gave Ji Ci and Huang Jue inferior Martial Intent Pills and urged them to break through to the True Core Realm.
• Zhang Wan visited the True Martial Sect to review information about warriors who had died in the Abyssal Treasure Sea and identify vulnerable forces to raid during Abyssal Mansion Divine Lord’s preaching.
• After the preaching began, Zhang Wan traveled as Ye Shengtian, displaying First Level Dharma Aspect cultivation, and targeted forces whose senior experts had died or departed.
• Zhang Wan found that other raiders had already destroyed some of his targets, as conflicts and looting spread across the Martial World.
• Zhang Wan judged the Martial Spirit Domain less chaotic than domains where every Void God had fallen, because the Sacred Origin Sect’s Void God still survived.

Zhang Wan plundered weakened factions, obtaining Dharma Aspect inheritances and the Myriad Infant Immortal Herb, then used its boost to comprehension to strengthen his cultivation and martial skills. After advancing to the Fourth Layer of Dharma Aspect, he learned that the Abyssal Mansion Divine Lord had departed and the Martial Spirit Domain had erupted into war over dwindling resources.

• Zhang Wan raided factions without Dharma Aspect protectors, stole their resources and inheritances, and found more than half a stalk of the Myriad Infant Immortal Herb.
• Zhang Wan returned to the True Martial Sect, ordered disciples to gather intelligence, and tested the herb's effect on his comprehension during secluded cultivation.
• After learning the Abyssal Mansion Divine Lord had finished preaching, Zhang Wan cultivated for three months, reached the peak of the Third Layer of Dharma Aspect, and deduced new cultivation methods and martial skills.
• Zhang Wan perfected the Crimson Sun Following Wind Movement Skill into the Crimson Sun Body Technique and the Ten Force Molten Flame Fist into the Great Sun Divine Fist, then broke through to the Fourth Layer of Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wan emerged from seclusion and learned from Zhen Dan that the Martial Spirit Domain had descended into chaos as factions fought over spiritual treasures and resources.

Zhang Wan prepared the Jade Bone Sect for the spreading conflict in the Martial Spirit Domain, then learned that the Four Sects of Zhou Qi Kingdom had begun a war to annex one another and seize a chance at the Dharma Aspect realm. The True Martial Sect investigated but had not yet intervened.

• Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect and secretly strengthened its grand formation while discussing how it could survive the upheaval with Old Ancestor Jade Bone.
• Zhang Wan gave Zhang Lingshu the formation plate for a mid-grade Dharma Aspect grand formation and instructed her to protect the sect and their family.
• Zhang Wan returned to the True Martial Sect after several days, where he received news that the four True Core powers of Zhou Qi Kingdom were at war.
• The True Martial Sect's intelligence department discovered that the Four Sects had chosen to fight until one annexed the others, hoping the victor could exploit the wider conflict to advance toward the Dharma Aspect realm.
• Zhang Wan read the report and recognized that the Four Sects had entered the turmoil because the deaths of powerful beings had opened a rare opportunity.

Zhang Wan led True Martial Sect’s army to Zhou Qi Kingdom to annihilate its Four Sects and intimidate the surrounding kingdoms’ True Core powers. The sects were crushed in a single day, though some survivors escaped or remained away from their mountain gates.

• Zhang Wan decided to personally destroy the Four Sects of Zhou Qi Kingdom to deter the surrounding kingdoms from acting prematurely.
• True Martial Sect assembled nearly one hundred thousand martial artists and set out with more than a thousand flying boats.
• Zhang Wan shattered Ask Heaven Sect’s protective formation, wounded its True Core martial artists, and sent the army to slaughter its disciples.
• Zhang Wan led the army to Vajra Gate and repeated the assault, then True Martial Sect breached all four sects’ mountain gates within a day.
• Many disciples of the Four Sects were killed, while some escaped or stayed away; Zhang Wan let the survivors go if they left Zhou Qi Kingdom and did not challenge True Martial Sect.

After True Martial Sect destroyed the Four Sects of Zhou Qi Kingdom, Zhang Wan extracted their spirit-vein essence, strengthened True Martial Sect’s vein, and reassured Jade Bone Sect as the surrounding powers reacted. Four years later, he had advanced to the mid-stage of the Fifth Layer of Dharma Aspect and greatly increased his strength while preparing for war.

• Zhang Wan extracted the essence from the Four Sects’ spirit veins and used one spherical magical artifact to improve True Martial Sect’s top-grade spirit vein.
• Zhang Wan returned to Jade Bone Sect and discussed the threat from True Martial Sect with Old Ancestor Jade Bone, then represented the sect at a meeting summoned by Thousand Corpse Sect.
• Zhang Wan returned to True Martial Sect and spent four years cultivating and preparing for conflict across the Martial Spirit Domain.
• Zhang Wan perfected his restrictions, life-bound magical artifact, and eight supporting martial techniques to the Mid-grade Dharma Aspect level, advancing to the mid-stage of the Fifth Layer of Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wan fused the Great Sun Source Heart with the Fighting Star Shuttle, enabling him to unleash its full power, which surpassed what True Martial Old Ancestor had wielded.

Zhang Wan, now confident in his strength after gaining the Myriad Infant Immortal Herb, investigated why Dharma Aspect factions were stirring and accepted an invitation to a clandestine meeting. There he learned the gathering had been convened by the Nether River Old Ancestor of the powerful Nether Spring Sect.

• Zhang Wan assessed his strength and concluded he could fight the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding, even if the latter had reached the eighth level of Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wan wondered why Dharma Aspect factions were becoming restless despite their past defeats by the Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding.
• The Wine Immortal Child contacted Zhang Wan through a transmission jade and invited him to a clandestine meeting of Dharma Aspects.
• Zhang Wan disguised himself as the True Martial Old Ancestor, traveled to the meeting place, and entered its concealing barrier.
• The Wine Immortal Child opened the meeting and introduced the Nether River Old Ancestor as its true convener.

Nether River revealed a Golden Sword Talisman and gathered the assembled Dharma Aspects to form an alliance against Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding. Zhang Wan used Lightning Annihilation Seeds to escape the meeting without exposing his identity, and other reluctant guests slipped away as the gathering broke apart.

• Nether River displayed a supreme-grade Dharma Aspect Golden Sword Talisman, persuading the assembled Dharma Aspects that Pagoda-Holding could be killed.
• Nether River demanded that everyone sign an alliance oath, while unwilling participants would have to remain until Pagoda-Holding was defeated.
• Zhang Wan, who had come only to observe, took out three Low-grade Dharma Aspect Lightning Annihilation Seeds and frightened everyone into retreating.
• Zhang Wan disguised his voice, refused to join the alliance, and escaped using the Crimson Sun Body Technique without revealing his identity.
• Other Dharma Aspects who did not want to participate used the disruption to slip away, leaving Nether River and the others unable to identify who had caused it.

Zhang Wan sabotaged Nether River Old Ancestor’s plot, then used the calm that followed to improve his artifact-refinement skills and strengthen his dharma artifacts. After Nether River and Nether Lake Old Ancestor failed to kill the newly powerful Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding, Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect to check on its development.

• Zhang Wan escaped the secret gathering, returned to the True Martial Sect, and decided to let Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding draw his enemies’ attention while he cultivated.
• Zhang Wan used the last of the Myriad Infant Immortal Herb to raise his artifact refinement to the mid-grade Dharma Aspect level, then began refining his dharma artifacts.
• Nether River and Nether Lake Old Ancestor led Dharma Aspects to attack Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding, who had reached the Eighth Level Dharma Aspect and escaped after being severely wounded by the Golden Sword Talisman.
• Nether River and the other attackers were also wounded, and both sides held back from further action, leaving the surrounding kingdoms quiet.
• Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect, reassured its disciples, and asked Old Ancestor Jade Bone about the sect’s progress and the calm situation in Wu Kingdom.

Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect, attended to his family, and saw Ji Ci break through to the True Core realm. After revealing his strength and knowledge to Ji Ci, Zhang Wan returned to the True Martial Sect, where Ghost Sea Old Ancestor unexpectedly emerged amid tensions with Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding, You He, and the others.

• Zhang Wan spent several months with his aging parents and guided his three nephews and nieces, while Zhang Shifeng reached the Ninth Level Postnatal.
• Ji Ci successfully broke through to the True Core realm, while Huang Jue failed for the second time and lost his chance to try again through the sect.
• Zhang Wan held a modest celebration for Ji Ci, then revealed the situation across the Martial Spirit Domain and his Sixth Level True Core cultivation, making Ji Ci obedient to his lead.
• Old Ancestor Jade Bone observed Zhang Wan's handling of Ji Ci and maintained their tacit understanding about Zhang Wan's mysteries.
• Zhang Wan returned to the True Martial Sect, where Ghost Sea Old Ancestor emerged before the conflict with Old Ancestor Pagoda-Holding, You He, and the others escalated.

Ghost Sea Old Ancestor exploited the injured Dharma Aspect forces to extort resources, then failed to break through the True Martial Sect’s protective formation. Zhang Wan stayed calm and returned to refining artifacts, but soon detected Ghost Sea Old Ancestor sneaking into the sect.

• Ghost Sea Old Ancestor attacked the Mountain Pagoda Sect and Nether Spring Sect, then extorted cultivation resources from each.
• Zhang Wan predicted that Ghost Sea Old Ancestor would continue extorting Dharma Aspect forces and considered how his rise might shift the balance of power.
• Zhang Wan recalled the True Martial Sect’s True Innates and potential Innates, activated its protective formation, and waited for Ghost Sea Old Ancestor.
• Ghost Sea Old Ancestor attacked the True Martial Sect’s formation for a day and night, failed to damage it, and left after issuing threats.
• After waiting for over half a month, Zhang Wan allowed the sect’s disciples to return to their branch locations and resumed refining artifacts.
• Before a month had passed, Zhang Wan detected Ghost Sea Old Ancestor secretly infiltrating the True Martial Sect.

Zhang Wan followed Ghost Sea Old Ancestor into True Martial Sect’s treasure vault and discovered he used Heaven-Deceiving and Fake Item Talismans to steal treasures. Suspecting Ghost Sea Old Ancestor had part of the Heaven-Deceiving Inheritance, Zhang Wan ambushed him, severed his arm, and unleashed the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame as Ghost Sea Old Ancestor tried to defend himself.

• Zhang Wan secretly followed Ghost Sea Old Ancestor through True Martial Sect and watched him use a Heaven-Deceiving Talisman to pass through the treasure vault’s formation.
• Ghost Sea Old Ancestor used a Fake Item Talisman to replace stolen treasures with convincing replicas, and Zhang Wan suspected he possessed part of the Heaven-Deceiving Inheritance.
• Zhang Wan entered the vault, redirected the sect-protecting formation’s power into its defenses, and attacked Ghost Sea Old Ancestor with the Great Sun Flame Blade.
• Ghost Sea Old Ancestor escaped Zhang Wan’s ambush but lost an arm when Zhang Wan’s strike broke through his defenses and ghost sea.
• Ghost Sea Old Ancestor drew a round shield artifact and talismans, but Zhang Wan’s Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame engulfed the shield and spread toward him.

Zhang Wan killed Ghost Sea Old Ancestor, claimed his treasures and Heaven-Deceiving Inheritance Fragment, and absorbed his remnant body to raise his cultivation. A year later, as declining spiritual energy sparked widespread wars, Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect and learned that the Thousand Corpse Sect had suppressed the other Wu Kingdom sects.

• Ghost Sea Old Ancestor used talismans to survive Zhang Wan's initial attacks, but Zhang Wan killed him with the Great Sun Divine Fist and seized his soul and remnant body.
• Zhang Wan searched Ghost Sea Old Ancestor's storage bag, found the Heaven-Deceiving Inheritance Fragment, and resolved to integrate its principles into his cultivation.
• Zhang Wan absorbed Ghost Sea Old Ancestor's remnant body with the Great Sun Source Heart, while the surrounding kingdoms remained unaware of the old ancestor's death.
• A year later, declining spiritual energy and fears of a coming dark era fueled wars among lower-level martial forces, while Zhang Wan reached the mid-stage of the Sixth Layer of Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wan returned to the Jade Bone Sect and learned from Old Ancestor Jade Bone and Ji Ci that the Thousand Corpse Sect had suppressed the other Wu Kingdom sects when they considered going to war.

Zhang Wan strengthened Jade Bone Sect by guiding promising disciples and providing new cultivation inheritances. After returning briefly to True Martial Sect, he learned that his father, Zhang Changlin, was near death and went back to Jade Bone Sect.

• Old Ancestor Jade Bone, Ji Ci, and Zhang Wan agreed to set aside their disputes and focus on strengthening Jade Bone Sect, with Ji Ci handling most sect matters.
• Zhang Wan guided Tie Jinge, Zhang Lingshu, Zhao Qixin, Li Wenxing, and Wan Yunfei, teaching them the Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace Cultivation and the Great Five Elements Cultivation.
• The five disciples spent several months switching cultivation methods, and all succeeded under Zhang Wan's guidance.
• Zhang Wan gave Old Ancestor Jade Bone and Ji Ci six cultivation methods for the sect; Ji Ci failed to switch to two of them but successfully adopted the Yin Yang Qi Art.
• Zhang Wan returned to True Martial Sect, but six months later his siblings told him Zhang Changlin had collapsed and was rapidly weakening, so he returned to Jade Bone Sect.

Zhang Wan grieved the deaths of his parents, then developed Ashen Divine Concealment during secluded cultivation. After learning that rival Dharma Manifestation forces were expanding, he allowed the True Martial Sect to do the same and prepared a new disguise to help it hold its ground.

• Zhang Wan cared for his dying father Zhang Changlin, who passed away, and collected his soul before his mother Lin Yue also died.
• Zhang Wan buried his parents, secretly preserved their bodies with spiritual objects, and later returned to secluded cultivation.
• Zhang Wan comprehended Ashen Divine Concealment, which let him closely imitate other cultivators, including True Martial Old Ancestor.
• After the True Martial Sect asked whether it should expand, Zhang Wan permitted it to claim territory while considering how to keep it strong without exposing his power.
• Zhang Wan decided to impersonate Ghost Sea Old Ancestor, searched his soul for his memories, and spent half a month refining it and the corpse scraps into a humanoid artifact.

Zhang Wan disguised himself as Ghost Sea Old Ancestor and rebuilt Ghost Sea by harvesting corpses and souls, then improved the Nether Jar and added a Spirit Gathering Jar. After four months in seclusion, he emerged to find Dharma Aspect sects extracting the essence of the dead with large formations, though their methods wasted much of it.

• Zhang Wan took control of Ghost Sea Old Ancestor’s Nether Jar and Yin Yang Pearl, then began collecting corpses and souls to condense a new Ghost Sea.
• After processing the remains of more than three hundred million dead beings, Zhang Wan found the Nether Jar’s conversion rate was too low and used experience points to raise it to fifteen percent.
• Zhang Wan refined a Spirit Gathering Jar to capture energy wasted by the Nether Jar, spending another four months completing the work.
• Zhang Wan’s corpse-robbing raids shook hundreds of countries, prompting Dharma Aspect forces to prepare formations to defend their resources and collect the dead themselves.
• Zhang Wan emerged from seclusion and saw the sects using Yin-Yang Blood Formations to draw the essence of the dead toward their mountain gates, wasting at least half of it.