Chapter Summaries

After completing his third body-refinement session, Chen Luo reached the Late Soul Transformation Stage and successfully derived matter from nothing by simulating the Dao Stone’s power. As war erupted between the Ancient God Sect and the Myriad Stars Gate, he focused on exploiting the distraction to search the Myriad Stars Gate’s ancestral grave.

• Venerable Kuchai told Le Qingzhu that he intended to take Chen Luo as his disciple, and Le Qingzhu promised to honor her agreement with him.
• Chen Luo returned to Third Peak, completed his third body-refinement session, and advanced to the Late Soul Transformation Stage.
• Chen Luo used the Dao Stone’s power to turn a tiny fish-shaped illusion into a stone, confirming that he could derive matter from nothing.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle reported that people from the Ancient God Sect had entered the Myriad Stars Gate and fought its Star Lord, with several people killed.
• Chen Luo decided to search the Myriad Stars Gate’s ancestral grave while the experts were occupied and gave the Flower-Backed Turtle a Jade Slip ordering him to find it.

More than twenty Soul Transformation cultivators disguised as members of the Ancient God Sect destroyed the Myriad Stars Gate’s Peacock Seal Point, unleashing Black Fiend Qi and provoking the Dao Sect. Moon Venerable left the Dao Palace to hunt the attackers and appeared over their hiding place, beginning her attack.

• Chen Luo told the Flower-Backed Turtle to dig up the enemy’s ancestral graves, then resumed cultivating.
• More than twenty disguised cultivators killed Kai Yang Star Lord, uncovered the underground palace, and destroyed the Peacock Statue at the Peacock Seal Point.
• Black Fiend Qi surged into the Myriad Stars Gate, causing heavy casualties before the Sun, Moon, and Star Ancestors suppressed the unrest.
• Sun Venerable, Immortal Venerable Haori, and Star Venerable discussed the destroyed seal point, and Moon Venerable left to kill their enemies.
• Moon Venerable appeared above the fringe market where three attackers were hiding and turned the market and their escape routes gray and illusory with a single strike.

Moon Venerable attacked the Ancient God Sect’s territory, and Venerable Kuchai fought her to protect it before retreating with part of a scroll containing the displaced marketplace. After recovering at the sect’s back mountain, he met Chen Luo, who had reached the Core Formation Realm.

• Moon Venerable trapped three Soul Transformation Cultivators and a marketplace in a scroll, but Venerable Kuchai struck her and disrupted the scroll.
• Moon Venerable overwhelmed Venerable Kuchai, injuring him and damaging his axe, while he escaped with half the scroll.
• Venerable Kuchai released the scroll over a wasteland, restoring the marketplace and its people, who fled after realizing they had witnessed Great Power Magical Combat.
• Venerable Kuchai treated his severe injuries at the Ancient God Sect’s back mountain, where Chen Luo arrived and recognized the damage to his body and Dao.
• Venerable Kuchai noticed Chen Luo’s Core Formation aura and reflected on why he had chosen him as his inheritor.

Chen Luo received Venerable Kuchai’s Void Spirit Technique and learned that Void Refinement Realm required finding the stars that reflected one’s heart and Dao Path. After sensing a sky full of stars, Chen Luo realized his many absorbed brains’ obsessions might be the reason and began trying to choose one.

• Venerable Kuchai gave Chen Luo the Void Spirit Technique, and Chen Luo returned to Third Peak to cultivate it.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle reported that Moon Venerable’s battles had plunged Myriad Stars Gate’s territory into chaos and that its Immortal Bones were guarded in the Dao Palace.
• Chen Luo reached Nascent Soul Realm in three days and asked Venerable Kuchai to explain the Void Spirit Technique.
• Venerable Kuchai explained how spirit formed the foundation of Void Refinement Realm and guided Chen Luo in searching for stars within the void.
• Chen Luo saw stars filling the heavens, realized his many obsessions could explain them, and began cultivating by trying to grasp one at random.

Chen Luo mastered the first step of the Void Spirit Technique and began studying how to materialize his god. The Flower-Backed Turtle then brought him the remains it had dug up from the Myriad Stars Gate.

• Chen Luo used nearly four hundred External Brains to test ways of cultivating Star Refinement until he found a star whose obsession was Core Formation.
• Chen Luo turned a stone into gold, proving to Venerable Kuchai that he had mastered the first step of the Void Spirit Technique.
• Venerable Kuchai gave Chen Luo the Ancient God Sect’s Fundamental Diagram and explained how to fuse his god with the aura of the savage beast.
• Venerable Kuchai sent Chen Luo to cultivate at the foot of the mountain, where Chen Luo noticed Le Qingzhu’s abandoned thatched cottage and reflected on the chaos at the Myriad Stars Gate.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle arrived carrying a coffin filled with the remains of an Old Ancestor from the back mountain of the Myriad Stars Gate.

Chen Luo advanced to the peak of the Soul Transformation Realm at the Ancient God Sect and completed the Void Spirit Technique, then left the sect to pursue his next steps amid the growing conflict. The chapter ends with him heading down the mountain, stronger and ready to rise.

• Chen Luo read nineteen skulls recovered from the Myriad Stars Gate’s tombs and added their brains to his External Brains, including three Void Return cultivators from White Immortal Cave.
• Chen Luo sent the Flower-Backed Turtle to investigate Silent Valley while he returned to hiding and continued cultivating.
• Chen Luo mastered the second step of the Void Spirit Technique, then completed the final step; Venerable Kuchai left the Ancient God Sect and gave him a Bone Slip containing his cultivation insights.
• Chen Luo saw that most of the Ancient God Sect’s Soul Transformation experts had departed and used the Origin Seal to inspect the web of Karmic Laws.
• Ling Dong and Zhang Xi searched for Chen Luo at his former cultivation site, while Chen Luo noticed a new karmic thread tied to Ding Luo.
• Chen Luo left the Ancient God Sect, having reached the peak of the Soul Transformation Realm and achieved his purpose there.

Chen Luo traveled to Yongxian Kingdom to pursue resources for his cultivation and sat quietly in a desert inn as snake catchers discussed a recent heavenly anomaly. The Old Bladesman realized that no one else could see Chen Luo, leaving him frightened and confused.

• Chen Luo arrived in Yongxian Kingdom, intending to take resources from the Dao Sect and build the Evergreen Sect into a powerful force.
• The Old Bladesman entered a desert inn where snake catchers waited for the Sand Snake to appear and asked Chen Luo to share his table.
• The snake catchers discussed how a midnight blaze over Yongxian Capital had caused destruction and driven Sand Snake prices sharply higher.
• The Old Bladesman listened to the debate about whether the anomaly came from an immortal or a powerful cultivator, while Chen Luo remained unmoved.
• A nearby snake catcher told the Old Bladesman he had been talking to himself, and the Old Bladesman realized nobody else could see Chen Luo.

Chen Luo reached the Yongxian Kingdom to hunt the Big Black Dog, a Spirit Transformation Peak great demon, while the Old Bladesman survived a devastating attack thanks to a mysterious young man’s teacup. As the sand serpent king emerged and the demon’s black gale swept Chen Luo into the fight, a strange flute sounded from underground.

• The Old Bladesman saw a mysterious young man who vanished after leaving him a teacup, while the other snake catchers insisted no one had been there.
• A giant boulder crushed the inn and nearby buildings, but the Old Bladesman survived when the teacup shattered into specks of light and shielded him.
• Chen Luo identified the demonic aura of a Spirit Transformation Peak great demon and flew toward the Big Black Dog, intending to claim the Yongxian Kingdom.
• After night fell, a massive black sand serpent burst from underground and flayed nearby snake catchers with its storm of sand.
• The black gale swept Chen Luo and the Big Black Dog together, and Chen Luo’s Void Spirit Technique let the wind pass through him unharmed.
• A strange flute sound rose from underground as Chen Luo faced the Big Black Dog in the black gale.

Chen Luo killed Big Black Dog and the cultivators who attacked him, then collected their souls and continued toward the center of the storm. The chapter ends as he considers the hierarchy of Void Refinement experts, reaching the level of Myriad Stars Gate's Sun, Moon, and Star Patriarchs.

• Bamboo Flute Woman and Sand Serpent King fought while Chen Luo and the snake catchers were swept into a massive sand attack by the Sand Scorpion.
• Chen Luo struck the Sand Scorpion with a Chessboard, and Sand Serpent King tried to pass him off as an ally called Elder Donkey.
• Bamboo Flute Woman mistook Chen Luo for a donkey demon and tried to recruit him, so he smashed her flute and crushed her, Sand Serpent King, the Sand Scorpion, Big Black Dog, and others with his attacks.
• Chen Luo collected the victims' souls with his Soul Banner, checked their Storage Bags, and left to claim Yongxian Kingdom as his territory.
• A Myriad Stars Gate cultivator found the broken flute, blamed Silent Valley for another attack, and flew to warn the Dao Palace.
• Chen Luo disguised his aura as a Snake Catcher while traveling and reviewed four levels of Void Refinement experts, beginning with ordinary Sixth-tier Demons and ending at the Sun, Moon, and Star Patriarchs.

Chen Luo encountered a past afterimage of the Old Bladesman, then confronted a White-furred Fox and a demonic evil creature near a wilderness Evil Shrine. After defeating them with his chessboard and Rare Insects, he found a hieroglyph on the altar that read like a curse.

• The Old Bladesman’s past afterimage accused Chen Luo of taking his soul and attacked, then vanished without leaving a trace.
• Chen Luo discovered that the Old Bladesman had become the strongest Baleful Soul in his Soul Banner and decided to keep him.
• A White-furred Fox at an Evil Shrine triggered a gray-white aura that froze Chen Luo’s memories and summoned a poisonous tentacle.
• Old Brother Changqing broke through the strange aura, and Chen Luo remembered the Old Fox before smashing the White-furred Fox with his chessboard.
• Chen Luo sent four Rare Insects to devour the demonic evil creature, which they consumed as the mountain collapsed.
• Chen Luo examined the ruined altar and found hieroglyphs resembling a little person that he identified as a curse.

Chen Luo destroyed the Evil Shrine, reached Yongxian Capital, and took control of National Preceptor Li Shengnan to establish a base there. After arranging for storytellers and guards, he studied the Barbarian God cultivation method and copied the four strange cursed characters, which began to stir with eerie life.

• Chen Luo found four strange characters around the Evil Shrine’s altar and burned the shrine and its traces to ash.
• Chen Luo arrived in Yongxian Capital, passed through the eastern Treasure Pagoda’s formation, and confronted National Preceptor Li Shengnan.
• Chen Luo immobilized Li Shengnan and used the Reverse Soul Seizing Technique to rewrite her cognition, then ordered her to bring him influential storytellers.
• Chen Luo sent Puppets to replace the guards at the Treasure Pagoda while Li Shengnan arranged his request.
• Chen Luo studied the Barbarian God Fundamental Diagram and copied the four cursed characters onto paper, where black aura turned the ink red and an eerie laugh sounded.

Chen Luo spread a fabricated cultivation legend through Yongxian Capital to prepare for Void Refinement, then entered its legend after two years of cultivation. There, he encountered a powerful Faith Aggregate who mistook him for a new deity.

• Chen Luo ordered Du Jiang and the other storytellers to spread his story, and let them revise its presentation while keeping its main plot unchanged.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle brought Chen Luo twelve Soul Transformation Realm brains and one Void Refinement Realm brain from graves in Silent Valley, then went to seek another target.
• Over two years, Chen Luo unified Yongxian Capital's thinking and required cultivators above Foundation Establishment to join the Evergreen Sect.
• Chen Luo's divine soul left his body and entered the white realm formed by his spreading legend, while his Indestructible Body Manifestation guarded it.
• Chen Luo saw bubbles connected to living people and met a powerful baby-shaped Faith Aggregate, who asked if he was a new deity.

Chen Luo spirit-roamed beyond the Yongxian Kingdom with the Fortune Child, learning how Incense Offering Spirits used worship and Wish Power. After seeing the Fortune Child answer a prayer, Chen Luo created a Chessboard with Wish Power and prepared to play chess with him.

• The Bellyband Baby showed Chen Luo his Wealth-Bringing Divine General and explained how Incense Offering Spirits gained power from worshippers and had declined after ancient wars.
• The Bellyband Baby led Chen Luo away from the Yongxian Kingdom and brought him to Fortune Hall, where Chen Luo learned that he was the Fortune Child worshipped by the kingdom.
• Chen Luo watched the Fortune Child use divine arts, receive incense from a Fortune Slip, and answer a worshipper's request for luck.
• Chen Luo realized incense offerings and Wish Power were separate, then used a wisp of Wish Power to create a Chessboard.
• The Fortune Child invited Chen Luo to play chess and conjured two boxes of Chess Pieces.

Chen Luo returned from the Legendary Realm after what felt like one day, only to learn that three months had passed and Myriad Stars Gate’s war had temporarily paused. As he considered the coming struggle over the Immortal Artifact and refused to surrender Yongxian Kingdom’s Sand Snakes, the Flower-Backed Turtle reported that the Demon Race’s ancestral graves held valuable treasures.

• Chen Luo left Fortune Child’s palace and returned his divine soul to his body in Yongxian Capital, where Li Shengnan had been cultivating nearby.
• Fortune Child warned his divine generals to avoid offending Chen Luo, citing the strength of his Divine Duty.
• Li Shengnan told Chen Luo that three months had passed and that Sun Venerable had ended the fighting by heavily wounding a Demon Race Venerable.
• Li Shengnan reported that the factions were preparing negotiations over the Immortal Artifact and that Elder Gui, Yuwen Ling, and Ding Jian had gained notorious grave-robbing nicknames.
• Chen Luo dismissed Myriad Stars Gate’s demand for Yongxian Kingdom’s Sand Snakes and told Li Shengnan to ignore it.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle contacted Chen Luo and said there were good things in the Demon Race’s ancestral graves.

Chen Luo explored Yongxian Capital’s Turbid District and found that stories about him had become popular among its ordinary people. After using Sand Snake venom to restore his soul, he entered the Legendary Realm to seek the power of his own legend, where he discovered a rain-soaked ink-wash world and a recreation of the tavern where his stories were told.

• Chen Luo decided to postpone raiding Demon Race tombs because his strength was insufficient, then walked through the Turbid District of Yongxian Capital.
• Chen Luo heard a storyteller portray him as a murderous figure and visited the Fortune Temple, where he saw statues of the Fortune Child and two Subordinate Deities.
• Chen Luo used Sand Snake venom to refresh his soul and entered the Legendary Realm to find the power created by stories about him.
• Chen Luo found himself in a black-and-white world of ink-wash scenery and noticed that the buildings grew more numerous as he followed his soul’s pull.
• Chen Luo recognized the Drunken Immortal Pavilion from the mortal world, entered its empty recreation, and took out his Grotto-heaven Gourd.

Chen Luo explored the inn’s Legendary Realm, defeated Painting Resentment with fire, and absorbed the power of the demon statue that embodied his legend. Fortune Child then appeared with news of a place filled with unclaimed Incense Offerings and asked whether Chen Luo would come.

• Chen Luo released the Baleful Souls from his Soul Banner to search the inn, but one vanished near the ink-painted doors and something attacked him from behind.
• Chen Luo identified the invisible attacker as Painting Resentment and used the Chessboard’s flames to expose and badly injure it.
• Chen Luo crushed Painting Resentment with his burning hand, and the Baleful Souls devoured the monster’s ink.
• Chen Luo found a three-headed, eight-armed demon statue that embodied his legend and absorbed its power after it challenged him.
• Fortune Child arrived in an Apricot Yellow Little Bird and asked Chen Luo to visit a place with abundant unclaimed Incense Offerings.

Chen Luo joined Fortune Child, Myriad Stars Immortal Master, and Yellow Springs Ghost Master in the Legendary Realm as the three Incense Offering Spirits tried to gain faith from its inhabitants. Their efforts awakened an obese official in Jiangzhou City, who broke out of prison beneath a blood-red moon.

• Fortune Child brought Chen Luo to the Legendary Realm, where they met Myriad Stars Immortal Master and Yellow Springs Ghost Master.
• Myriad Stars Immortal Master, Yellow Springs Ghost Master, and Fortune Child sent their powers into the world below to reach people who could provide faith.
• Chen Luo descended into the city and saw a corrupt official's Desire Body transform a gathering of imagined people into straw figures.
• The spirits' power reached the real obese official in Jiangzhou City's Dark Death Prison, and he gained strength from Myriad Stars Immortal Master's star-speck.
• The obese official broke out of prison, killing guards and smashing through the walls as a Blood Moon appeared over Jiangzhou City.

Chen Luo returned from a year of cultivation to find the Myriad Stars Gate nearing completion of its immortal artifact, while he enlisted Fortune Child, Star Cluster, and Underworld in a plan to exploit the coming conflict. The three Incense Offering Spirits considered helping him seize territory and incense offerings if the Myriad Stars Gate fell.

• Chen Luo watched the Three Great Deities use manufactured turmoil and official worship to spread their faith, then established the Evergreen Sect around Jiangzhou City.
• After half a year of sharing a Small World’s faith, Star Cluster rose from Early Void Return to Late Void Return, while Chen Luo left the incense offerings around his Legendary Image unabsorbed.
• Chen Luo returned to his body after thirty years had passed outside, where his External Brains had kept his affairs running and the Evergreen Sect had spread across Yongxian Kingdom.
• At the Myriad Stars Gate, Sun Venerable, Moon Venerable, and Star Venerable prepared for the final stage of refining their immortal artifact and its inevitable tribulation.
• Chen Luo proposed that Fortune Child, Star Cluster, and Underworld exploit the Myriad Stars Gate’s possible fall by taking territory, driving out Immortal Cultivators, and claiming the resulting incense offerings.
• Star Cluster and Underworld judged the plan risky but agreed they could try it.

Venerable Kuchai searched the Purple Green Star Domain for his brother Kuzhu, but the Dao Sect’s leopard-headed person refused to reveal his fate and defeated him. Ten days later, the Four Great Dao Sects launched their final assault on the Myriad Stars Gate, and Chen Luo entered the battle zone as its forces and families faced slaughter.

• Venerable Kuchai found a Faceless Person in the Purple Green Star Palace and learned that the Black Pool lay underground.
• Venerable Kuchai confronted the leopard-headed person about Kuzhu, but it attacked him and claimed strength gave it the right to break their agreement.
• The leopard-headed person threatened Venerable Kuchai’s sect and disciple, and Venerable Kuchai left after warning it not to fall into his hands.
• Ten days later, a fiery phenomenon transformed the Myriad Stars Gate’s territory as the Four Great Dao Sects attacked its three Ancestors and invaded the Dao Palace.
• Chen Luo entered the Lower Level Conflict Zone, where a Sword Cultivator and a red-clad female cultivator slaughtered Myriad Stars Gate forces.
• The red-clad female cultivator drained the blood of two guards, broke the formation protecting their families, and killed the ordinary people inside.

Chen Luo entered the Myriad Stars Gate amid a battle between Void Return Venerables, hoping to witness the sect’s Dao and advance his own power. At the ruined summit, he spotted a corpse beneath an Immortal Artifact Blank and prepared to use a gu insect to draw it toward him.

• Chen Luo rescued a little girl from a red-clad female cultivator and killed her and the sword cultivator who accompanied her.
• Chen Luo reached the mountain’s battlefield and saw two Void Return Venerables display Truth Manifestation as they fought.
• Chen Luo absorbed falling magma with his Grotto-heaven Gourd and reached the summit, where seven Void Return Cultivators fought over Void Transformation.
• A Skunk Demon approached the copper hammer but was covered in Stone Flowers and killed after the seven combatants’ power struck him.
• Chen Luo recognized a bald corpse beneath the Immortal Artifact Blank and took a gu insect from his Grotto-heaven Gourd to lure the corpse toward him.