Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo killed Spirit Pool Fairy and Xing Qi of the Myriad Stars Gate, then returned to the Qionghua Sect and stabilized his Soul Transformation cultivation. News of his breakthrough and Spirit Pool Fairy’s death spread, bringing the Southern Sky Region under his rule.

• Chen Luo killed Spirit Pool Fairy, collected her belongings, and tossed her severed head toward Xing Qi, who destroyed it with his barrier.
• Xing Qi attacked Chen Luo with his True Dharma, but Chen Luo transformed his starlight and stones into water and crushed him with a black chessboard.
• Chen Luo collected Xing Qi’s body and left Myriad Demon Mountain, adding two remnant souls to his soul banner.
• Chen Luo returned to the Qionghua Sect and found the Flower-Backed Turtle recovering from tribulation lightning while Xiong Linshan watched over him.
• Half a month later, Chen Luo finished reading Spirit Pool Fairy’s and Xing Qi’s obsessions and stabilized his Early Soul Transformation Stage cultivation.
• News of Chen Luo’s rise spread through the Southern Sky Region, Qionghua Sect disciples returned, and Chen Luo crushed several Nascent Soul cultivators who opposed him.

Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle tracked Ning Chenye to Guoshan County and found the ominous inn called “This Life,” where Ning Chenye invited them inside. Chen Luo remained outside as Ning Chenye hinted that he wanted to eat the Flower-Backed Turtle.

• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle discussed the Divine Dao Method while searching for Ning Chenye in the Seven Kingdoms Region.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle divined that Ning Chenye was in Guoshan County, a place Chen Luo had visited twice before.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle reached the redwood inn called “This Life” near the crooked-neck tree, and the Flower-Backed Turtle sensed danger when it tried to divine the inn.
• Chen Luo called for Ning Chenye from outside the inn and claimed he had brought seafood, causing the drinkers inside to fall silent.
• Ning Chenye invited Chen Luo inside for wine and food, then said the Flower-Backed Turtle would be nourishing to eat.

Chen Luo failed to stop Ning Chenye from vanishing with the inn, then investigated the inn’s medicinal fields in Guoshan County and uncovered a dangerous source of cursed blood. He fled with the Flower-Backed Turtle as the blood spread and a resentful ghostly presence emerged.

• Chen Luo urged Ning Chenye to leave the inn, but Ning Chenye shifted the inn from the present into the past and vanished despite Chen Luo’s attack.
• Chen Luo searched the inn’s grounds and found black qi rising from the soil beneath cursed Spirit Condensing Grass.
• Chen Luo touched dark red liquid in a pit, and the Evil Thought of a sixth-tier Remnant Grudge began to possess him until Old Brother Changqing’s warning restored his awareness.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle tried to divine the pit and was struck by lightning, while Chen Luo grabbed him and fled Guoshan County.
• Bloody Water flooded the medicinal fields, and a ghostly face emerged, calling for Big Brother Hai and accusing him of not being dead yet.

After fleeing a sixth-tier malicious residual resentment, Chen Luo stayed in the Southern Sky Region rather than returning to the Demon Realm. Thirty years later, the Qionghua Sect had risen to dominate the region, and Du Qiuxian brought seven gifted newcomers to Grand Void Peak, where they encountered Ao Ye.

• Chen Luo told the Flower-Backed Turtle that the danger near Guoshan County was sixth-tier malicious residual resentment, and they waited several days before leaving safely.
• Chen Luo declined the Flower-Backed Turtle's suggestion to return to the Demon Realm and planned to address matters in the Southern Sky Region.
• Over thirty years, the Qionghua Sect reclaimed its former territory and extended its control across the Southern Sky Region, while Old Master Whale became its guardian Divine Beast.
• Du Qiuxian redirected seven newly admitted gifted disciples to Grand Void Peak at Immortal Crane Chengfeng's request.
• Du Qiuxian led the seven newcomers up Grand Void Peak, where Ao Ye invited him to drink.

Chen Luo brought Du Qiuxian back to their ancestral homeland, reflecting on the past and revealing that Yue Kingdom lay within the Great Tomb. They arrived in the Imperial City, where Chen Luo sensed the restrictions that limited local cultivators.

• Mu Xiao Yu brought Du Qiuxian to Chen Luo, who told him to prepare for a journey to their hometown.
• Chen Luo and Du Qiuxian visited the grave in Black Mountain Village, and Chen Luo asked whether Du Qiuxian wanted to see their original homeland.
• Chen Luo repaired and activated the Cross-Regional Teleportation Formation with Du Qiuxian, and they traveled to Yue Kingdom.
• Chen Luo discovered that Yue Kingdom was enclosed by failed restrictions connected to the Great Tomb, while Du Qiuxian struggled to sense its scant spiritual energy.
• Chen Luo flew with Du Qiuxian to Yue Kingdom's Imperial City and saw a young emperor holding court and three local cultivators, two at Qi Refining Layer One.

Chen Luo returned to Yue Kingdom to visit old acquaintances and family memorials after more than a century away. He left Du Jian and Xie Shuang behind, then failed to get Wang Chengguan to give him another imprint and was expelled from the Nameless Small Courtyard.

• Chen Luo reunited with the aged Du Jian at Pill Fire Palace and introduced him to Du Qiuxian, Du De's son.
• Chen Luo visited Green Bamboo Valley, saw the elderly Xie Shuang drawing talismans, and secretly gave her spiritual energy to extend her life by two years.
• Chen Luo visited his third uncle Chen Dahe's tablet and then looked from afar at the flourishing Chen family in the Capital City, where Chen Lin's grandson led the court.
• Chen Luo entered the Nameless Small Courtyard and called for Wang Chengguan, hoping to receive another imprint.
• After Chen Luo tossed in a magical artifact and tried to enter the pool, the courtyard's formation bounced him outside and shut its gate.

After wandering the Southern Sky Region for fifty years, Chen Luo returned to Qionghua Sect and entered seclusion to find a cultivation path suited to his unusual Three Aspects Dharma Seed. Three hundred years later, Huang Ying visited the ruins of Divine Lake Immortal Sect, reflecting on her past with Chen Luo as her lifespan neared its end.

• Chen Luo traveled across the Southern Sky Region for fifty years, gathering more than three hundred Genius Brains and bringing his External Brains to over eight hundred.
• Chen Luo returned to Qionghua Sect, guided its disciples, settled sect affairs, and began seclusion to calculate a path beyond Spirit Transformation with Old Brother Changqing.
• Qionghua Sect grew dominant during Chen Luo's seclusion, while the Flower-Backed Turtle slept and Grand Void Ancestor Gu He remained trapped in the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• Three hundred years later, Huang Ying visited the ruined Divine Lake Immortal Sect and recalled selling spirit talismans with Chen Luo when they were young cultivators.
• Huang Ying found a Sect Competition Token and headed toward the Rear Mountain Cemetery, then left without seeing Chen Luo because he was in seclusion.

Huang Ying and Mo Wenjian died after reconnecting with Chen Luo, who helped Gu He survive a tribulation before leaving the Lower Realm. Chen Luo brought the Flower-Backed Turtle to Guoshan County to enter White Immortal Cave, where a black aura recognized him as Big Brother Hai.

• Huang Ying revisited the ruins of the Divine Lake Immortal Sect and remembered her youth with Senior Brother Apprentice before dying.
• Lu Tianhe’s experiment failed, and after learning Xing Qi had gone missing, he ordered the Purple Green Star Domain to recruit disciples.
• Mo Wenjian challenged Chen Luo, lost, and died after returning to the Sword-Seeking Sect, whose fame spread because of his commemorative stele.
• Chen Luo helped Grand Void Ancestor Gu He pass his Inner Demon Tribulation, then decided to leave the Lower Realm for the center of the Immortal Palace.
• Chen Luo took the Flower-Backed Turtle to Guoshan County to enter White Immortal Cave, where a black aura greeted him as Big Brother Hai.

Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle fled a sixth-tier lingering resentment that mistook Chen Luo for Big Brother Hai, then escaped through a broken stele into a strange chamber. There Chen Luo found a chained White Immortal Cave disciple’s skeleton and discovered the dead man had been a Spirit Transformation cultivator with a grudge against a rebellious slave.

• A woman’s face emerged from the lingering resentment, and Second Brother’s Grudge identified her as Yun Niang before the monster attacked Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle.
• Chen Luo used a Demon Suppressing Jade Talisman and the Slaughter Seal against the pursuing sixth-tier demon, but neither attack harmed it.
• The lingering resentment bit the Flower-Backed Turtle’s shell as Chen Luo carried him through the herb garden toward a broken stele.
• The White Immortal Cave Disciple Token activated the stele, and Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle vanished into a barrier while the lingering resentment crashed into the stone.
• Chen Luo awoke in a damp underground chamber beside a chained skeleton, whose token identified him as a Thirty-third Generation White Immortal Cave True Disciple.
• Chen Luo read the skeleton’s damaged brainwaves and learned that the White Bone Person had been a Spirit Transformation cultivator who died vowing to kill a rebellious slave.

Chen Luo and Flower-Backed Turtle escaped into the Upper Realm and learned about White Stone Ridge and White Immortal Cave’s downfall. While searching for the daughter of a dead formation master, Chen Luo encountered Shu Fan, who mistook him for an Ascended One and tried to recruit him into the Myriad Stars Gate.

• Chen Luo and Flower-Backed Turtle left the stone prison and found themselves in a region overflowing with wild spiritual resources.
• At White Stone Market Town, Chen Luo learned that White Stone Ridge was governed by True Lord White Stone under Patriarch Huang Dao, and that the Myriad Stars Gate had risen after White Immortal Cave’s decline.
• Chen Luo remembered the White Immortal Cave formation master’s promise to find his daughter, Su Xin'er, and he and Flower-Backed Turtle parted ways to pursue their own leads.
• In White Stone City, Chen Luo found a courtyard that stirred the formation master’s memory and asked Shu Fan whether it was Su Xin'er's home.
• Shu Fan mistook Chen Luo for an Ascended One and urged him to join the Myriad Stars Gate during its disciple recruitment ceremony.
• After Chen Luo left to investigate the recruitment, Shu Fan sent a message reporting a suspected Spirit Transformation Ascended One.

Chen Luo disguised himself as a fortune teller, recruited the cautious rogue cultivator Dan Tao, and sent him to infiltrate Myriad Stars Gate despite hearing that its disciples were being killed by someone practicing an evil art. Dan Tao joined the sect and discovered that it was offering an Immortal Corpse for an enormous number of merit points.

• Chen Luo verified that Myriad Stars Gate was recruiting, then disguised himself and searched White Stone Market Town for a suitable recruit.
• Chen Luo subdued Dan Tao, used the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique to raise his cultivation, gave him a cultivation technique, and marked him.
• Dan Tao warned Chen Luo that Myriad Stars Gate recruits were rumored to be killed by an evil-art cultivator, but Chen Luo told him to join while he handled the danger.
• Dan Tao entered Myriad Stars Gate and released his aura; Liu Fei mistook him for a disguised Ascended One and ushered him inside.
• Dan Tao passed the recruitment tests, received an Identity Token and Task Token, and asked Liu Fei about the Immortal Corpse listed among the sect's rewards.

Dan Tao infiltrated the Myriad Stars Gate under Chen Luo’s direction and became Lu Tianhe’s disciple by posing as a surviving member of White Immortal Cave. Lu Tianhe secretly planned to kill him for Merit Points, while Dan Tao recognized his upgraded access privileges as the opportunity Chen Luo had prepared.

• Liu Fei offered Dan Tao a million-point task that was actually a deadly trap, but Dan Tao left the outpost and reported everything to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo ordered Dan Tao to return with Liu Fei and accept the task, then gave him a disguised identity and instructions for approaching Lu Tianhe.
• Dan Tao followed Liu Fei and Shu Fan to the Purple Green Star Domain and became Lu Tianhe’s personal successor, despite the other disciples’ pitying looks.
• Lu Tianhe discovered Dan Tao’s White Immortal Cave token, claimed to be a fellow survivor, and gave him an Immortal Art while raising his access privileges.
• After Dan Tao left, Lu Tianhe revealed that the Myriad Stars Gate was White Immortal Cave’s enemy and planned to kill Dan Tao for Merit Points, while Dan Tao rejoiced over his new privileges.

Dan Tao used Lu Tianhe’s authority to plunder resources, while Chen Luo took over and broke into the Elders' Secret Vault. Chen Luo’s rampage left Lu Tianhe blamed across the Myriad Stars Gate as he counted his vast haul.

• Dan Tao used Lu Tianhe’s mark to take pills, artifacts, and cultivation methods from the sect’s rooms, then told Chen Luo he had borrowed everything he could reach.
• Chen Luo took control of Dan Tao and used the Treasure Hunting Rat to locate a hidden route behind the Pill Refining Room wall.
• Chen Luo seized the pill furnace and medicine cabinets, then made the Young Daoists dig through the wall to the Elders' Secret Vault under the claim that Elder Lu had ordered it.
• When the pill room steward tried to alert the sect, Chen Luo struck him down and entered the vault, collecting its spirit materials and treasures.
• Chen Luo plundered the Artifact Forging Room and Cultivation Room, stripped the Cultivation Method Pavilion guard, and left Lu Tianhe blamed for the damage throughout the Myriad Stars Gate.
• Chen Luo tallied his gains in a side room, while the sect’s upper ranks treated his actions as Lu Tianhe’s intentions and expected Lu Tianhe to repay the debts.

Chen Luo used Dan Tao to deceive Lu Tianhe and exploit Myriad Stars Gate’s resources while secretly gathering information and allies. Lu Tianhe led Dan Tao into a hidden chamber to refine him, but Dan Tao survived the ambush and an unknown attacker seized Lu Tianhe’s Nascent Soul.

• Chen Luo gave most of the looted resources to Dan Tao, deepening the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique’s hold on him.
• After Dan Tao’s raid on Purple Green Star Headquarters, Lu Tianhe invested in him and ordered him to cultivate in seclusion.
• Over the next half year, Chen Luo gathered information and recruited people while Dan Tao mastered the third floor of Lu Tianhe’s cultivation method.
• Lu Tianhe led Dan Tao through a hidden passage to a chamber containing a Blood Pool and corpses, then had a Stone Spirit attack him.
• Dan Tao emerged unharmed, and a hidden attacker snapped Lu Tianhe’s neck and seized his Nascent Soul as Lu Tianhe realized he had been set up.

Chen Luo killed Lu Tianhe despite the Myriad Stars Gate’s warning, leaving Dan Tao marked as the apparent culprit. The sect’s Void Return Ancestors assigned the case as a Class B task, which Shang Xuanyi accepted with Shi Shang joining him.

• Lu Tianhe warned Chen Luo that killing him would mark his killer with the Myriad Stars Gate’s starlight, but Chen Luo destroyed Lu Tianhe’s Nascent Soul and watched his spirit disperse.
• Chen Luo took Lu Tianhe’s Storage Bag, put his body in the Blood Pool, and used his brain to order the Stone Spirit to guard the Secret Chamber; Dan Tao fled the Myriad Stars Gate while carrying the mark.
• The Myriad Stars Gate’s three Void Return Ancestors reviewed the recorded killing and issued a task to kill Dan Tao, placing it in the Task Hall as Class B.
• Shang Xuanyi intercepted the task talisman, and Shi Shang offered him Hundred Flowers Immortal Ambrosia to join the mission.
• Shang Xuanyi accepted Shi Shang’s offer, and the two set out together.

Shang Xuanyi, Shi Shang, and Zhu Yan accepted a Myriad Stars Gate task to kill Chen Luo, whose escape to a remote valley left him facing pursuit. After the Flower-Backed Turtle warned that the danger was grave, Chen Luo prepared a layered formation and concealed weapons, talismans, poisons, curses, and corpses, leaving the coming confrontation unresolved.

• Shang Xuanyi, Shi Shang, and Zhu Yan accepted the task to hunt the killer of Lu Tianhe and flew toward the Purple Green Star Domain.
• Dan Tao fled White Stone City with Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle, while the Turtle warned that the Myriad Stars Gate could track Chen Luo's aura.
• Chen Luo rejected Dan Tao's offer to cover their retreat and decided to take a risk against the approaching hunters.
• Chen Luo laid out a fourth-tier formation in the valley and buried spirit talismans, planted a Soul Banner, and arranged poisons, curses, Talisman Treasures, and Refined Corpses.
• Chen Luo took out a chessboard and held his gourd, still concerned that he had too few methods.

Shang Xuanyi, Shi Shang, and Zhu Yan attacked Chen Luo’s formation, broke through it, and were hit by its poison, curse, and other hidden tricks. With Flower-Backed Turtle and Dan Tao apparently defeated, Shang Xuanyi confronted Chen Luo and offered him a contract in exchange for his life.

• Chen Luo waited inside his fourth-tier formation as Shang Xuanyi, Shi Shang, and Zhu Yan arrived and attacked it.
• Zhu Yan located seven formation cores, and Shi Shang’s sword rain opened a gap in the formation.
• Shang Xuanyi unleashed a deluge that struck Dan Tao and Flower-Backed Turtle, while Shi Shang entered the formation and struck Flower-Backed Turtle down.
• Shi Shang and Zhu Yan discovered they had been affected by poison and a curse, and Shang Xuanyi crushed three Corpse Puppets that attacked him.
• Shang Xuanyi recognized Chen Luo as the target connected to Lu Tianhe’s death and offered him a Beast Skin Contract in exchange for his submission.

Chen Luo fought the three Myriad Stars Gate true disciples who had tried to capture him, revealing a strength that shocked Shang Xuanyi. After killing Shi Shang and Zhu Yan, he also caught and killed Shang Xuanyi as he tried to escape.

• Shang Xuanyi offered to spare Chen Luo if he became his servant and promised to show him one of the Myriad Stars Gate’s Fundamental Diagrams.
• Chen Luo transformed the battlefield and used Baleful Souls from his Soul Banner to attack Shang Xuanyi, Shi Shang, and Zhu Yan.
• Chen Luo struck Shi Shang dead and defeated Zhu Yan’s Underworld Ferry attack, killing her with his Chessboard.
• Shang Xuanyi realized Chen Luo’s strength had been misjudged and tried to retreat, while Chen Luo collected the dead disciples’ belongings.
• Chen Luo bypassed Shang Xuanyi’s shield, crushed his head, and devoured his escaping Nascent Soul.

After killing three Myriad Stars Gate disciples, Chen Luo fled with the Flower-Backed Turtle and Dan Tao, then took refuge at a Fifth-rank Spirit Vein to strengthen himself and study how to sever the sect’s marks. Meanwhile, the Myriad Stars Gate’s ancestors learned of the deaths and sent the Tian Shu Star Lord to investigate Purple Green Star.

• Chen Luo collected the three new marks, their loot, and their fierce souls, then fled with the Flower-Backed Turtle and Dan Tao after deciding they could not keep fighting the Myriad Stars Gate head-on.
• At a Fifth-rank Spirit Vein, Chen Luo studied Old Brother Changqing’s plan to cut off the sect’s perception, but found that he lacked the controlled materials Star Sand and Nine Nether Leaf.
• Chen Luo read Lu Tianhe’s notes on the Spirit Evolution Secret Technique and began cultivating with help from the brains he had acquired.
• The Myriad Stars Gate sect master reported the destroyed Five-Colored Spirit Flower fields and the deaths of the Tian Quan Star Lord and Shang Xuanyi’s group to the Three Ancestors of Myriad Stars.
• Ancestor Haori gave the Tian Shu Star Lord a Jade Ruyi and ordered him to investigate Purple Green Star before going to Tian Quan Star.

Chen Luo learned of the dead artifact-forging grandmaster Ouyang Lian and planned to retrieve his corpse from the Myriad Stars Gate’s territory. Before he could act, the Tian Shu Star Lord confronted him, and Chen Luo’s attempt to shift suspicion onto unseen powers left the Star Lord sympathizing with him.

• Chen Luo sent Dan Tao and the Flower-Backed Turtle to gather intelligence and mastered the Spirit Evolution Secret Technique, forming the Spirit Soul Seal.
• Dan Tao reported that Ouyang Lian, a renowned artifact-forging grandmaster, was buried near Cloud Severing Mountain Range on Tian Shu Star.
• Chen Luo sensed the Tian Shu Star Lord approaching and sent Dan Tao to flee before meeting the powerful Myriad Stars Gate sect master in the sky.
• The Tian Shu Star Lord questioned Chen Luo about the people supposedly backing him, while Chen Luo realized he could exploit the Star Lord’s mistaken assumptions.
• Chen Luo claimed they were both chess pieces unable to understand a Venerable One’s plans, and the Tian Shu Star Lord sympathized with him.