Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo and Zi Tianji killed the cultivators they encountered in the Great Tomb and collected their brains, souls, and belongings. After learning that the tomb was guarded by an early Dao Integration expert, Chen Luo fled toward the inner layer, but the old monster struck at them as they crossed the barrier.

• Chen Luo absorbed You Zhao’s brain and drew her remnant soul into the Soul Banner, while Zi Tianji killed Zhu Chang and helped gather the pair’s Storage Bags.
• Chen Luo and Zi Tianji continued upstream, where two Ancient Sword Sect Sword Cultivators confronted them and began fighting.
• Zi Tianji fought the short, stout female cultivator with crafty swordsmanship, while Chen Luo used the Illusion Spirit Gu to ambush and kill the Tall Thin Male Cultivator.
• Chen Luo searched the man’s brain and learned that an Underworld Ghost Cultivator had returned through a corpse and was a genuine Dao Integration Old Monster.
• Chen Luo killed the female Sword Cultivator, seized Zi Tianji, and rushed toward the Robber’s Tunnel, but the Dao Integration expert distorted the world and launched an attack from behind.

Chen Luo faced a Dao Integration cultivator who controlled the tomb’s waters and sent Zi Tianji away with a powerful teleportation talisman. He used a Dao Stone, fire talismans, and puppets to resist the enemy, who then turned his attention toward the distant battle involving Feng Xiaotian.

• Chen Luo used a Major Teleportation Talisman and Immortal Emperor Changqing’s guidance to send Zi Tianji out of the tomb despite the enemy’s interference.
• A Dao Integration cultivator transformed the tomb into water, suppressed other powers, and attacked Chen Luo with a giant hand.
• Chen Luo activated a Dao Stone and a Fire Spirit Formation, then unleashed fire talismans that slowed the giant hand.
• Chen Luo sent more than twenty fire-aligned puppets against the hand, and their attack blew off two fingers before the hand recovered.
• The Dao Integration cultivator dismissed Chen Luo as an ant and turned toward the distant spell battle involving Five Elements Ancestor and Feng Xiaotian.

Chen Luo used the Illusion Spirit Gu to lure a Dao Integration old monster through a formation and teleport him into the Immortal Emperor Changqing’s Tomb. The old monster found his cultivation suppressed in the tomb’s wasteland, while Chen Luo watched from the outskirts.

• Chen Luo’s sword attack failed to overcome the old monster, but the hidden power of his Illusion Spirit Gu trapped the enemy in an illusion.
• The old monster used a Water Monkey summoned from his Eight-angled Wooden Plate to find the formation’s edge and break free of the illusion.
• Chen Luo arranged a Cross-domain Teleportation Formation with Zi Tianji’s help and drew the old monster into it with the Illusion Spirit Gu as bait.
• The formation sent the old monster to the Immortal Emperor Changqing’s Tomb, where the wasteland suppressed his Dao Integration power and his wooden plate’s patterns turned gray.
• Chen Luo observed that the old monster had arrived in the tomb’s outer region rather than being teleported into the sky.

Chen Luo used the Emperor Tomb’s Formation Patterns to kill the Old Ghost, a Dao Integration cultivator, after luring him inside. He escaped the Ancient Sword Sect’s arriving expert with a concealed identity and fled to a remote mountain to cultivate.

• Chen Luo merged his aura with the Emperor Tomb and entered the formation, causing the Old Ghost’s attacks to trigger its deadly Formation Patterns.
• The Old Ghost tried to flee, but the Emperor Tomb’s restrictions struck him; his spear attack failed, and the Formation Patterns destroyed his body and soul.
• Chen Luo realized that illusion arts could briefly affect the Old Ghost’s soul, then returned through the transmission passage to the Great Tomb.
• Chen Luo salvaged Fire Patterned Mysterious Crystals before an Ancient Sword Sect expert’s Divine Sense searched the area, and he evaded it by changing his aura with Tall Thin Male Cultivator’s Brain.
• Chen Luo fled the region with the crystals and Dao Integration methods recalled by the three old brothers, then found a remote mountain and prepared to cultivate.

Chen Luo identified how to refine Fire Patterned Mysterious Crystal into Fire Crystal Pills and began making them while the Ancient Sword Sect’s search for the tomb robbers reshaped Five Elements City. Zi Tianji gained influence under the new city lord, but an Ancient Sword Sect Void Return Venerable arrived to question him about the theft.

• Chen Luo recovered the memories and materials needed to refine Fire Patterned Mysterious Crystal into Fire Crystal Pills, then began preparing the necessary talismans and refining method.
• An Ancient Sword Sect Dao Integration sword cultivator searched the Great Tomb, captured Five Elements Ancestor, and failed to find Chen Luo or the other tomb robbers.
• The Ancient Sword Sect took control of Five Elements City and purged Five Elements Ancestor’s allies, while Zi Tianji defected early and became chief shopkeeper of the Myriad Treasure Pavilion.
• Le Shang summoned Zi Tianji as Ancient Sword Sect investigators renewed their inquiry into the stolen crystal mine.
• A Mid Void Return Ancient Sword Sect Venerable examined Zi Tianji and questioned whether he was the tomb robber they sought.

Over ten years, Chen Luo cultivated with Fire Crystal Pills and advanced to Peak Void Return, nearing the Dao Integration Realm. His breakthrough stirred a storm over Yellow Leaf Valley, drawing Old Ancestor Huang Ye and Liu Hai toward the mountain.

• Zi Tianji gave Han Yue a detailed account of the Profound Crystal Vein theft while concealing Chen Luo's identity and his own gains.
• Han Yue left Five Elements City after the investigation, and Le Shang told Zi Tianji that he had already cooperated.
• Chen Luo spent half a year refining Fire Crystal Pills and then cultivated for ten years.
• Old Ancestor Huang Ye and Liu Hai saw the Spirit Spring at Yellow Leaf Valley dry up and wondered what to do next.
• A violent spiritual-energy storm formed over the mountain, and Huang Ye and Liu Hai flew toward its source.
• Chen Luo broke through to Late Void Return and then Peak Void Return, approaching the Dao Integration Realm.

After emerging from ten years of seclusion, Chen Luo dispersed the turbulent black cloud caused by his cultivation and subdued the cultivators drawn to the disturbance. He sent them to gather information and find Daoist Wusheng, then took Huang Ye and Liu Hai to Yellow Leaf Valley after sensing a familiar aura there.

• Chen Luo left his depleted cave abode after exhausting the valley’s spiritual energy and dispersed the black cloud above the mountain.
• Huang Ye and Liu Hai arrived, mistook the disturbance for an opportunity, and bowed to Chen Luo when they realized he was a mighty expert.
• The Five Elders of Chaotic Stars and dozens of other cultivators arrived, but Chen Luo pressed them all to the ground with his power.
• Chen Luo gave the gathered cultivators information about recent events, Zi Tianji in Five Elements City, and Daoist Wusheng, then ordered them to act while planting replicated brains in their glabellae.
• Chen Luo asked Huang Ye and Liu Hai to take him to Yellow Leaf Valley, then carried them there in a single stride after sensing a familiar aura in the sect.

Chen Luo met Mu Jian Yu in Yellow Leaf Valley and gave her a secret art and remnant souls to help her restore her cultivation. He then sent Huang Ye and Liu Hai to Five Elements City to collect information from Zi Tianji, leaving himself settled in the valley.

• Chen Luo summoned an old acquaintance, and Mu Jian Yu arrived at Yellow Leaf Valley, where she was shocked to find that his cultivation had recovered.
• Chen Luo gave Mu Jian Yu the Soul Devouring Art and remnant souls to help her overcome her cultivation bottleneck.
• Chen Luo offered Huang Ye and Liu Hai a Nascent Soul Realm cultivation method in exchange for retrieving Zi Tianji's gathered information.
• Chen Luo gave Huang Ye and Liu Hai Ancient Sword Sect identity tokens and sent them through a Teleportation Formation to Five Elements City.
• Chen Luo remained in Yellow Leaf Valley, deciding that its lack of a Spirit Vein did not matter at his current cultivation.

After Huang Ye and Liu Hai returned from Five Elements City with damaged souls, Chen Luo learned that Zi Tianji’s message was “Change” and left Yellow Leaf Valley with Mu Jian Yu. A clone stayed behind, where it confronted four Ancient Sword Sect cultivators and revealed a trap of white mist and Baleful Souls.

• Huang Ye and Liu Hai returned through Chen Luo’s Teleportation Formation after being captured and Soul Searched in Five Elements City, and Chen Luo healed them and recovered the brains he had planted in them.
• Chen Luo learned that Zi Tianji had secretly sent the word “Change” and inferred that the Ancient Sword Sect was still hunting him, so he left Yellow Leaf Valley with Mu Jian Yu while leaving a clone behind.
• A White-haired Elder and three Void Return cultivators arrived at Yellow Leaf Valley and sealed it with a grand formation, mistaking Chen Luo’s clone for Five Elements Ancestor’s accomplice.
• The four cultivators attacked the clone with sword rain, but it dissolved into ripples as white mist swallowed the formation and erased their attack.
• Chen Luo’s Soul Banner released a mass of shadows into the mist, and the sword cultivators realized their opponent was a Soul Cultivator.

Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu killed four Ancient Sword Sect cultivators, and Chen Luo fled before their Dao Integration elders arrived. The elders traced the deaths to a Soul Cultivator and decided to pursue him despite the danger.

• Chen Luo unleashed his Soul Banner and its Baleful Souls killed three of the four cultivators who had attacked him.
• Chen Luo trapped and killed the last fleeing Sword Cultivator, then collected the four brains and their Storage Bags.
• Chen Luo gave Mu Jian Yu some of the spoils and left with her, while his clone disguised Yellow Leaf Valley with Puppets.
• The Withered Old Man and the Old Woman arrived, traced the four deaths, and used Flow Reversal to view Chen Luo's attack.
• The Withered Old Man insisted they could not let the Soul Cultivator go, while the Old Woman judged him to be a Peak Void Return Soul Cultivator nearing madness.

The Withered Old Man and the Old Woman avoided confronting the unknown Soul Cultivator and instead sealed Yellow Leaf Valley’s region for three hundred years to display their power. Chen Luo left Huang Ye and Liu Hai behind, then traveled with Mu Jian Yu to Panshi Market Town, where he learned Daoist Wusheng had joined the Underworld to pursue the Corpse Immortal Dao.

• The Old Woman persuaded the Withered Old Man to avoid a direct attack and punish Yellow Leaf Valley instead, so the two Dao Integration Cultivators crushed the valley and sealed its spiritual energy for three hundred years.
• Huang Ye and Liu Hai found Chen Luo’s courtyard empty and realized their connection with him had ended.
• Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu arrived at Panshi Market Town after leaving Yellow Leaf Valley’s region.
• Chen Luo learned from Zi Tianji that Daoist Wusheng had abandoned his body, become a Yellow Springs Ghost Cultivator, and sought powerful corpses to advance the Corpse Immortal Dao.
• Chen Luo concluded that dealing with Daoist Wusheng would require confronting the Underworld.

Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu settled in Panshi Market Town while Chen Luo planned to find resources for a breakthrough to the Dao Integration Realm and reclaim the Qionghua Sect’s Dao. After securing a fortified cave abode, Chen Luo examined his strength and Rare Insects as Mu Jian Yu set out on her own.

• Chen Luo told Mu Jian Yu he would seek breakthrough resources and then find a way to deal with Daoist Wusheng and reclaim the Qionghua Sect’s Dao.
• Chen Luo bought two mountain cave abodes in Panshi Market Town, and the Three Great Clans chose not to confront him after hearing what happened.
• Chen Luo strengthened the cave abodes’ formations and upgraded their Spirit Gathering Formation before Mu Jian Yu left after resting for several days.
• Chen Luo reviewed his chances against Dao Integration Cultivators and concluded that the Three-Phase Dharma Seed, Gu insects, and Soul Banner were his most useful powers against them.
• Chen Luo summoned five Rare Insects, including the Illusion Spirit Gu, and considered how to care for them while lamenting that he had not obtained Ning Chenye’s Spring and Autumn Gu.

Chen Luo used poison and the advice of his Insect Cultivator Brains to raise his two Silver-backed Centipedes, causing them to fight until one evolved by devouring the other. He stored the evolved centipede and went to Panshi Market Town to see whether news had arrived from Zi Tianji.

• Chen Luo fed the five Rare Insects pills, Spirit Stones, and other materials, but only the Silver-backed Centipedes eagerly ate them.
• Chen Luo spent three days refining potent spiritual poisons and put the centipedes in a sealed area to feed on them.
• One Silver-backed Centipede died from the poison and transformed into a white centipede, while the other emerged blackened from poison liquid.
• The black and white centipedes fought and eventually devoured each other, leaving one evolved Silver-backed Centipede that broke through Chen Luo's restrictions.
• Chen Luo stored the evolved centipede in the Grotto-heaven Gourd, sent the Illusion Spirit Gu out to gather information, and walked through Panshi Market Town.

Chen Luo discovered that a supposedly valuable spirit sword was a discarded Spirit Artifact and recognized the stall owner’s scheme to lure buyers. When the stall owner and his accomplices tried to target him, Chen Luo used the Illusion Spirit Gu to conceal his attack from the crowd.

• Chen Luo noticed a Spirit Artifact’s aura at a market stall and became interested in the Ancient Tomb where the sword had been found.
• A burly Artifact Forger and two sect cultivators haggled with the stall owner, who demanded five High-grade Spirit Stones or an Artifact Forger’s inheritance.
• Chen Luo examined the sword and realized its spirituality had dissipated, while the stall owner and the two cultivators were working together to deceive buyers.
• The stall owner tried to draw Chen Luo into revealing where he had obtained the sword, while Chen Luo realized they were plotting against him.
• Chen Luo activated the Illusion Spirit Gu to hide the truth from the onlookers, tossed the sword aside, and reached for the stall owner’s head.

Chen Luo uncovered a deadly scam in Panshi Market Town, then met Daoist Ge, a mysterious fortune teller who recognized him as an anomaly from another era. Daoist Ge joined Chen Luo at his cave abode and reported that a Great Fiend had appeared in the world, hinting at the great changes that would reshape the future.

• Chen Luo used Soul Search on a stall owner and learned that the owner and the Robbing Cultivator Man and Woman lured travelers into traps; he then killed the pair while the Illusion Spirit Gu concealed the violence from the crowd.
• A fortune teller who could see through Chen Luo’s illusion invited him to draw a fortune stick, which read “Mountains and Rivers Change Daily.”
• The fortune teller identified himself as Ge and said Chen Luo was not from this era, then asked how he had become involved in the Changes in the Overall Situation.
• Chen Luo stopped Daoist Ge from leaving and persuaded him to mark Chen Luo so he could monitor the anomaly; Ge then accepted Chen Luo’s invitation to stay at his cave abode.
• Daoist Ge practiced the Art Dao and told Chen Luo that a Great Fiend had appeared in the southeast, under an Ominous Star.

Chen Luo joined Daoist Ge on the trail of Daoist Wusheng, whose search for a mysterious object had brought Underworld Ghost Cultivators to the Mystic Light Domain. The chapter ended with Mo Yuanjun and Le Qingzhu hiding beneath the ruined market town, surrounded by the Ghost Cultivators.

• Daoist Ge warned Chen Luo that a Calamity of Heaven's Collapse was unavoidable, and agreed to travel with him.
• Zi Tianji reported that Daoist Wusheng had appeared in the Mystic Light Domain with Underworld Ghost Cultivators, and Chen Luo sent scouts ahead before deciding to follow.
• Chen Luo created an Illusion Spirit Gu clone to travel ahead, then took Daoist Ge with him to the Mystic Light Domain.
• Daoist Wusheng and the Underworld Ghost Cultivators searched a market town for an object, leaving it in ruins and killing its inhabitants.
• Mo Yuanjun and Le Qingzhu survived beneath the ruins in a house protected by yellow talismans.

Mo Yuanjun and Le Qingzhu survived the Yellow Springs invasion by seeking protection from Daoist Wusheng, while Chen Luo and Zi Tianji investigated the ruined Mystic Light Domain. The chapter left the survivors amid growing danger as a Yellow Springs group approached and Rossi went to confront it.

• Mo Yuanjun and Le Qingzhu escaped their hiding place, and Daoist Wusheng recognized them as Borrowers from the Ancient and spared them.
• Chen Luo questioned a corpse cultivator and learned that a calamity had devastated the market town with gray particles and a monstrous presence.
• Zi Tianji uncovered a Shadow Stone in an underground chamber, and Chen Luo burned the beetles guarding it before taking the stone.
• Mo Yuanjun told Daoist Wusheng that he and Le Qingzhu had come from the future, and the pair stayed close to him for protection.
• A subordinate warned Daoist Wusheng that a group had killed Twenty-Four and Seventy-Seven, and Rossi went to meet the approaching Spirit Refinement experts.

Chen Luo and Zi Tianji searched the ruined market for Yellow Springs Ghost Cultivators, where Chen Luo discovered that poison was subtly shifting the streets. After rescuing Jia Tao and slaughtering the Ghost Cultivators, Chen Luo used Karmic Law to trace their leader’s connections.

• Chen Luo and Zi Tianji searched the market and found that poison, rather than an array formation, was causing the streets to shift.
• Chen Luo and Zi Tianji found Jia Tao being tortured by Yellow Springs Ghost Cultivators and Chen Luo attacked their hair-crowned Pavilion Master.
• Chen Luo’s strange power made the Ghost Cultivators turn on one another, and his Soul Banner devoured the Pavilion Master’s soul and the nearby remnants.
• Zi Tianji worried that killing the Pavilion Master would alert Silent Old Ghost, but Chen Luo said their target could not escape.
• Chen Luo assumed the appearance of a Heavenly Secret Cultivator and used Karmic Law to send threads through the fog toward a distant area.

Chen Luo ambushed Daoist Wusheng and overwhelmed him with his Soul Banner, then struck him down as he fled. He seized Daoist Wusheng’s 'Dao' and Storage Bag, intending to settle the long-standing enmity with Silent Valley.

• Chen Luo used the threads released through the Origin Seal to trace Daoist Wusheng after Rossi’s death alerted the Underworld.
• Daoist Wusheng’s group was ambushed by Baleful Souls, and a green-robed Soul Banner cultivator attacked him.
• Zi Tianji rescued Mo Yuanjun and Le Qingzhu and told them that Chen Luo was fighting Daoist Wusheng.
• Daoist Wusheng seized control of the surrounding spiritual qi with a second 'Dao' and fled when Chen Luo’s body turned mistlike.
• Chen Luo caught Daoist Wusheng, cut him in half with a blood-colored longsaber, and took his 'Dao' and Storage Bag.

Daoist Wusheng unleashed Silent Valley’s Dao in a final attack, but Chen Luo survived and fled with the others. An Underworld Dao Integration Old Ghost pursued Chen Luo, destroyed his companions and clone, and then trapped Chen Luo and Daoist Ge inside a hundred-mile Flame Prison.

• Daoist Wusheng’s Silent Valley Dao annihilated the canyon and its occupants, but Chen Luo’s Illusion Spirit Gu clone survived the blast.
• Chen Luo gave Daoist Wusheng’s fragments to Zi Tianji and the others, then fled with them aboard Zi Tianji’s flying vessel.
• The group found themselves trapped in repeating scenery, and an Underworld Dao Integration Old Ghost attacked with Fire Rain that killed Le Qingzhu, Mo Yuanjun, and Zi Tianji and destroyed Chen Luo’s clone.
• Chen Luo’s main body received the clone’s returned aura and fled, while Daoist Ge realized a mark had linked him to Chen Luo.
• The Underworld Dao Integration Old Ghost caught up with Chen Luo and Daoist Ge and sealed the surrounding hundred miles inside a Flame Prison.