Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo confronted the Pure Yang Sect Leader and Xilou over Zhao Dongge, then used Inner Demon Qi and his Corpse Puppets to turn their ambush into a fierce battle. As the mountain was destroyed, Uncle Nine led Da Wang Village’s residents in praying to the Great Master for protection.

• The Pure Yang Sect Leader and Xilou confronted Chen Luo, demanding Zhao Dongge and offering to spare Chen Luo if he revealed his secret.
• Chen Luo vanished into an illusion and sent his Corpse Puppets to attack the Pure Yang Sect Leader and Xilou.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader used the Square Seal and Four Seasons Transformation against Fang Tianzun’s Corpse Puppet, while Ren Ji’s Corpse Puppet battered Xilou.
• Xilou and the Pure Yang Sect Leader combined their attacks, destroying the already-collapsing snow mountain in a massive explosion.
• Uncle Nine kept Da Wang Village’s residents inside Iron Spear Temple and led them in praying to the Great Master, whose divine form began protecting the temple.

Chen Luo used the chaos caused by Xilou’s Immortal Artifact talisman to kill Xilou, steal his brain, and escape the ruined Great Snow Mountain. He disguised himself as an Ancient Sword Sect disciple and headed toward its mountain gate, while the Pure Yang Immortal Sect discovered the deaths of its two men.

• Xilou used a spirit talisman to summon a Bronze Bell phantom, whose Immortal Spiritual Energy erased Chen Luo’s apparent body and shattered Great Snow Mountain into a vast inland sea.
• Chen Luo revealed himself beside Xilou, killed him with corpse poison, took his brain, and added him to the Soul Banner.
• Chen Luo concluded that the Upper Nine Sects’ Immortal Artifacts made them nearly invincible, then fled toward the Ancient Sword Sect under a borrowed identity.
• Chen Luo met two Ancient Sword Sect disciples, learned their mountain gate’s formation would open in three months, and declined their invitation to hunt Plague Beasts.
• Xiang Xixing found the two shattered Life Tablets and realized the Pure Yang Immortal Sect’s two dispatched figures had been killed.

Xiang Xixing’s attempt to divine the Snow Mountain Ancestor was thwarted when his artifact shattered, while Chen Luo returned to the Ancient Sword Sect and uncovered evidence of the world’s declining spiritual energy. He used his remaining Merit Point to obtain a cultivation quota for Mu Jian Yu, who arrived at the sect three days later.

• Xiang Xixing tried to locate the Snow Mountain Ancestor with a divination artifact, but it exploded and left him suspecting the Ancient Sword Sect had intervened.
• After three months without being pursued, Chen Luo returned to the Ancient Sword Sect through its cross-domain teleportation formation.
• Chen Luo exchanged his Merit Points for sword cultivation insights and an entry quota, then learned from the insights that spiritual resources had steadily declined over thousands of years.
• Chen Luo marked the Autumn Water Sword Master as a future target and sent the quota to Mu Jian Yu with a spirit talisman.
• Three days later, Mu Jian Yu arrived and was stunned that Chen Luo had entered the Ancient Sword Sect and obtained a quota for her.

Chen Luo entered the Ancient Sword Sect with Mu Jian Yu, shared its Sword Dao Insights with her, and sent three puppet clones to investigate the sect and the wider world. After learning that the Plague Beast Calamity had worsened and conflict between the Ancient Sword Sect and Pure Yang Immortal Sect was escalating, he took Mu Jian Yu on a mission to Crouching Tiger Ridge, where he reflected on a clone’s mysterious death.

• Chen Luo entered the Ancient Sword Sect with Mu Jian Yu and gave her Sword Dao Insights he had already mastered, which she hoped could help her approach Dao Integration.
• Chen Luo sent three disguised puppet clones to investigate ancient seniors, developments in the Immortal Cultivation World, and clues about Immortal Artifacts.
• Chen Luo learned that the Plague Beast Calamity had spread, the Immortal Dao Alliance remained silent, and two disciples he knew had been found dead near the Pure Yang Immortal Sect; he declined the Ancient Sword Sect’s offer of revenge.
• Chen Luo took Mu Jian Yu on an extension mission to the Crouching Tiger Ridge black market, where she remarked on the Ancient Sword Sect’s far-reaching influence.
• Chen Luo learned that his second clone had been killed inside the Ancient Sword Sect by an unknown attacker and considered the power of Immortal Artifacts.

Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu witnessed the escalating conflict between the Ancient Sword Sect and the Pure Yang Immortal Sect, then watched the Two Demons of Wrath and Hatred capture two Ancient Sword Sect disciples while seeking news of an awakened Patriarch. The chapter ended as a hidden Ancient Sword Sect disciple prepared to attack the demons with talismans.

• A female Ancient Sword Sect cultivator killed a subdued Pure Yang Immortal Sect disciple, and she and her companion discussed the sect conflict and an awakened second-generation Patriarch.
• The Two Demons of Wrath and Hatred ambushed the Ancient Sword Sect disciples and demanded to know which Patriarch had awakened.
• The bald demon struck Sister Yao with his staff, while the Skeletal Old Demon immobilized her companion and began feeding on their anger and hatred.
• The Skeletal Old Demon tortured the captives to intensify their hatred, while his companion warned him not to kill them before they learned who had awakened.
• A concealed Ancient Sword Sect disciple prepared to intervene with talismans and create a chance to rescue the captives.

At Crouching Tiger Ridge, the Two Demons of Wrath and Hatred used the Six Desires Heavenly Demon Art to torment Ancient Sword Sect cultivators and tried to capture everyone who witnessed them. Mu Jian Yu and Chen Luo stopped the demons, and Chen Luo used the Sorrowful Thoughts Art to strip away their emotions.

• The Skeletal Old Demon tormented two Ancient Sword Sect cultivators and revealed that the Six Desires Heavenly Demon Art drew power from people's emotions.
• The Skeletal Old Demon ordered the Glaring Strongman to seal off Crouching Tiger Ridge and capture the witnesses.
• Mu Jian Yu struck the Glaring Strongman with Sword Qi, revealing her Void Return Realm cultivation and drawing the Two Demons into battle.
• Mu Jian Yu cut both demons in half with one sword strike while Chen Luo took the black slab containing the Six Desires Heavenly Demon Art.
• Chen Luo pulled the demons' remnant souls from their bodies and used the Sorrowful Thoughts Art, leaving both old demons weeping uncontrollably.

Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu abandoned their Ancient Sword Sect task while searching for the Autumn Water Sword Master's tomb, as the war between the Ancient Sword Sect and Pure Yang Immortal Sect escalated. Yang Wusheng used One Tenth Power of the Pure Yang Immortal Bell to devastate the battlefield and seize a mountain range, leaving the Ancient Sword Sect unable to stop him.

• Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu completed their market task, then Chen Luo revealed he planned to rob graves rather than return to the sect.
• Three Pure Yang Immortal Sect cultivators awakened One Tenth Power of the Pure Yang Immortal Bell, hoping to seize a mineral vein before the Ancient Sword Sect could respond.
• The two sects' war spread, and the Pure Yang Immortal Sect entered the Ancient Sword Sect's territory and fought a bloody battle at Gourd Mouth.
• Chen Luo refused to deliver medicinal pills to Gourd Mouth and continued searching for the Autumn Water Sword Master's tomb with Mu Jian Yu and the Treasure Hunting Rat.
• Yang Wusheng appeared above the battlefield with the Immortal Bell, ignited cultivators across the region, and took a mountain range.
• An Ancient Sword Sect Dao Integration Cultivator confronted Yang Wusheng, but ten Immortal Artifact talismans only blocked his bell strike before Yang Wusheng withdrew.

Yang Wusheng and Kunwu clashed with Immortal Artifact projections, devastating the spiritual domain while Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu searched a newly exposed cavern. Chen Luo found the Scripture of Salvation but no intact corpse, and the duel’s aftershocks reached the cavern as the spiritual domain began to collapse.

• Yang Wusheng and Kunwu accused each other of killing their allies, then struck with the Pure Yang Immortal Bell and a wooden sword, splitting the earth and devastating the surrounding region.
• Chen Luo explained to Mu Jian Yu that the weapons were incomplete projections of True Immortal Artifacts, while the Treasure Hunting Rat found a fissure opened by the battle.
• Chen Luo entered the cavern to search for the senior from twenty-seven thousand years ago, leaving Mu Jian Yu to keep watch outside.
• Chen Luo found earthen pots filled with black mud and bone fragments, realizing the senior’s remains had been reduced to ashes and abandoning his search for the brain.
• Chen Luo read the wall inscription with Old Brother Changqing’s help and learned that the Scripture of Salvation was a divine-soul secret art that could improve the chance of surviving the Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• The battle’s aftershock shook the cavern as Yang Wusheng and Kunwu moved closer, and the Ancient Sword Sect’s spiritual domain showed signs of breaking apart.

Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu escaped the collapsing Spirit Domain as it broke away from the Immortal Cultivation World and became the first Mortal World. Years later, after the Pure Yang Immortal Sect defeated the Ancient Sword Sect and Chen Luo investigated the Autumn Water Sword Master's failed pill recipe, Mu Jian Yu told him that her Great Limit was approaching.

• Chen Luo rescued Mu Jian Yu and fled the collapsing Spirit Domain, which fell into the lower world and became the first Mortal World.
• Chen Luo and Mu Jian Yu found the Fire Eye Sect's market reduced to ruins by the Plague Beast Calamity and settled in an abandoned courtyard.
• Over several years, the Pure Yang Immortal Sect and the Ancient Sword Sect fought over spirit veins until a six-life patriarch awakened and the Pure Yang Immortal Sect prevailed.
• Chen Luo studied the black mud and discovered that the Autumn Water Sword Master had made it from her own remains while attempting to complete the Autumn Water Pill recipe.
• Mu Jian Yu told Chen Luo that her Great Limit was approaching.

Mu Jian Yu said farewell to Chen Luo and returned to rest out her remaining months as the Plague Beast calamity consumed more of the Immortal Cultivation World. Chen Luo learned the Upper Nine Sects’ Reincarnation Technique was Artifact Spirit Transformation, then refined an Autumn Water Pill as the surviving sects and demons prepared to flee.

• Mu Jian Yu gave Chen Luo her saved Spirit Stones and Sword Dao materials, then left to spend her remaining time in the Qionghua Sect and speak with her Senior Brother Apprentice.
• The Plague Beasts overran more territory, while Yang Wusheng and Kunwu discussed the ten-thousand-year cycle and the trouble surrounding the Pure Yang Bell and the Ancient Sword.
• Ten years later, Chen Luo discovered that the Upper Nine Sects preserved their souls by becoming Immortal Artifact spirits, a method that eroded their memories and humanity.
• Chen Luo’s Puppet removed an Autumn Water Pill from the furnace, and Chen Luo reflected on the materials the Flood Dragon King had provided.
• The Flood Dragon King met with the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon and other demons to plan their escape, while cursing Chen Luo for cheating him out of his spirit herbs.

Chen Luo fled the Upper Realm’s battle and returned to Gourd Mouth, where he settled in Gray Stone City to study three secret techniques. Three years passed as conflict above continued to shatter domains, and the chapter ended with Du Ping'an rushing to Longevity Temple carrying a woman.

• Chen Luo left the ruins after reaching the Dao Integration Realm and escaped the Upper Realm’s clash between two Immortal Artifacts by descending through a crack.
• Chen Luo followed his lingering connection to Gourd Mouth and found a scorched domain where Sword Qi protected a surviving Human Kingdom.
• Chen Luo entered Gray Stone City disguised as a Wandering Daoist, established Longevity Temple, and left a Puppet Clone to handle visitors while he studied Heavenly Stars, the Scripture of Salvation, and the Reincarnation Technique.
• Three years passed as Chen Luo cultivated and learned that the Upper Nine Sects and the Immortal Clan were fighting above, causing domains to fall into the Lower Realm.
• Chen Luo read signs of coming upheaval in the stars as Gray Stone City discussed the Emperor’s Heaven Worship Tax, then saw Du Ping'an arrive at Longevity Temple carrying a woman.

Chen Luo saved Du Ping'an and his sister Xiao Die from poison, then accepted Du Ping'an as his personal disciple after the young man sought him out. He brought Du Ping'an to an underground chamber and began teaching him the Scripture of Salvation.

• Chen Luo used a pill to cure Xiao Die’s poisoning and spiritual power to heal Du Ping'an’s injuries, then sent the siblings home.
• Chen Luo sensed an unusual power in Du Ping'an that stirred the dormant Scripture of Salvation and the Reincarnation Technique.
• Du Ping'an told his father about the attack and asked to learn martial arts, then chose to seek Chen Luo as his master.
• Chen Luo accepted Du Ping'an as his personal disciple, sparking rumors and a rush of other families’ descendants seeking discipleship.
• Chen Luo led Du Ping'an into an underground chamber and revealed a jade-bright stone stele, saying he would teach him the Scripture of Salvation.

After three years of training under Chen Luo, Du Ping'an used the Scripture of Salvation to slaughter a gang of bandits and then returned home after his family summoned him. He found the Du Family Head sick in bed and demanded to know who had harmed him.

• Chen Luo taught Du Ping'an the Scripture of Salvation, and Du Ping'an memorized half of the secret art.
• Three years later, Du Ping'an killed the Xiangma Gang bandits while accompanying the Huishi County Yamen runners, insisting that his brutal technique guided people toward goodness.
• Du Xiaodie told Du Ping'an that their father wanted him home, and Du Ping'an left Longevity Temple with her.
• On the way home, Chen Luo secretly gathered spiritual energy to strengthen Du Ping'an as he cultivated in the carriage.
• Du Ping'an arrived at the Du Family residence and found the Du Family Head ill in bed, then demanded to know who had done it.

Du Ping'an failed to gain the recognition of a Life Demon, while Chen Luo discovered that such beings were already appearing across the region and gathered several in a new Secret Chamber. As Chen Luo prepared to help Du Ping'an tame one and travel to Great Cang's capital, he sensed Immortal Cultivators fleeing from the Upper Realm into the changed lands.

• The Du Family Head showed Du Ping'an a copper mirror containing a Life Demon and explained that gaining its recognition could lead to the Innate Realm.
• Du Ping'an tried to bond with the Life Demon but failed, and his father warned that the Pure Yang creature would kill women who attempted to absorb it.
• A strange inn called The Past appeared in Great Cang's imperial palace, where a red-dressed woman terrorized the New Emperor after the imperial family's ten consecrated experts died inside it.
• Chen Luo gathered more than a dozen Life Demons around Gray Stone City and placed them in a Secret Chamber beneath Longevity Temple.
• Du Ping'an returned to the temple, and Chen Luo gave him a key so he could choose a Life Demon for Chen Luo to tame.
• Chen Luo planned to travel to Great Cang's capital and sensed Immortal Cultivators fleeing the Upper Realm into the transformed lands.

Du Ping'an collected Life Demons from the secret chamber, and Chen Luo combined them into one that suited his disciple before leaving the temple. Du Ping'an set out to guide an Evil Temple toward goodness, while Chen Luo arrived at the Great Cang imperial palace and faced a red-clothed woman.

• Du Ping'an entered the underground chamber and took seven Life Demon weapons, but Chen Luo destroyed one and used the others to create a compatible Life Demon for him.
• Chen Luo told Du Ping'an to carry on without him, then vanished; Du Ping'an found the temple damaged and empty the next day.
• Du Ping'an resolved to grow stronger and left for Black Tiger Stockade to guide the demons and monsters at its Evil Temple toward good deeds.
• Chen Luo arrived in the Capital City of the Great Cang Kingdom, entered the imperial palace, and found the New Emperor fleeing a strange power.
• The New Emperor begged Chen Luo for help, but Chen Luo looked past him at a red-clothed woman and asked, “Is Uncle here?”

Chen Luo confronted Ning Yan, Ning Chenye’s wife, in Great Cang’s imperial palace and failed to seize her Spring and Autumn Gu when she escaped. He then concealed Great Cang from wandering cultivators, leaving the mortal nation hidden behind his Dao Integration power.

• Chen Luo recognized Ning Yan and tried to learn where Ning Chenye was while both she and Chen Luo coveted each other’s Special Gu.
• Chen Luo attacked Ning Yan, but her mature Spring and Autumn Gu pulled her out of the space-time before he could capture her.
• Ning Yan escaped and realized Chen Luo had reached the Dao Integration Realm, while Chen Luo regretted missing his chance to take her Gu.
• The Great Cang New Emperor offered to share his realm with Chen Luo, but Chen Luo vanished from the imperial palace.
• Chen Luo used his Dao Integration power to hide Great Cang from approaching Immortal Cultivators, who mistook the vanished plain for an illusion and left.

Du Ping'an attacked Black Tiger Mountain in an attempt to guide its bandits towards goodness, then killed one of three powerful black-clothed men and gained feedback from the Life Demon. Meanwhile, Chen Luo followed Third Brother's Grudge to a dead desert Realm Area, where he arrived beneath falling meteors and found no living people.

• Du Ping'an beat the Black Tiger Mountain bandits and tried to make one attack him again so he could guide him towards goodness.
• Three black-clothed men emerged from the mountain, and Du Ping'an attacked them, overpowering all three despite their threats and martial arts prowess.
• Du Ping'an killed one black-clothed man, received feedback from the Life Demon, and turned his attention to the two survivors.
• Chen Luo observed the chaos spreading across Great Cang and the Immortal Cultivation World, then heard Third Brother's Grudge identify someone among three falling meteors as an old acquaintance.
• Chen Luo left the Gourd Mouth Realm Area, crossed the darkness between realms, and entered one meteor's Realm Area.
• Chen Luo found himself in an empty desert with disordered spiritual energy and no living people.

Chen Luo followed a hidden aura beneath the sand and encountered a chained Body Cultivator who revealed that no one in the Immortal Cultivation World could pass the Great Heavenly Tribulation. Chen Luo agreed to kill an Incense Offering Spirit in the Sacred Palace and bring back its divine weapon, receiving a Rootless Fruit pit as a deposit.

• Chen Luo descended through a Blood Pool and was teleported into a sealed chamber, where he met a giant chained Body Cultivator who had mistaken his aura for resentment.
• The Body Cultivator recognized Chen Luo was not resentment and refused to explain the Emperor Tomb, but offered to share a secret about the Immortal Cultivation World.
• The Body Cultivator told Chen Luo that Tribulation Transcendence was the eighth realm on the Immortal Path and claimed people in this world could not pass the Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chen Luo agreed to kill the Incense Offering Spirit in the Sacred Palace and bring the Body Cultivator its Incense Offering Divine Weapon.
• The Body Cultivator gave Chen Luo a Rootless Fruit pit as a deposit, then demonstrated that the chains binding him suppressed even his slight movements.

Chen Luo returned to the realm around the Gourd Mouth and planned to spend the next twenty years studying the Scripture of Salvation, while Du Ping'an reached East Desolate City seeking a major opportunity to advance his cultivation. The chapter left Du Ping'an facing Zhang Sijing, who was abusing scholars and threatening a young woman, as the other bystanders backed down.

• Chen Luo returned to the Gourd Mouth realm, absorbed Du Ping'an's cultivation experience, and refined the Scripture of Salvation before deciding to wait out the remaining years there.
• Du Ping'an left Gray Stone City after convincing its magistrate and general to follow his way of doing good, but the threat of war drove him to East Desolate City.
• Du Ping'an listened as scholars discussed the realm's rulers in a tavern, then watched Zhang Sijing and his guards beat them and threaten the young woman pouring wine.
• Zhang Sijing revealed that he was the Supreme Great Heavenly King's son, causing the would-be interveners to retreat.
• Du Ping'an approached Zhang Sijing and said he was not there to uphold justice, while the beaten scholars and nearby drinkers lost hope.

Du Ping'an founded the Path of Collective Goodness by beating Zhang Sijing and claiming to guide him toward goodness, then recruited a young woman and scholars as his first disciples. After Du Ping'an defeated Zhang Sanhe's rescuers and revealed his Innate Realm strength, Zhang Sanhe withdrew and planned to return with Sect Leader Lin Dong.

• Du Ping'an declared that he would establish the Path of Collective Goodness and began his attempt to save Zhang Sijing by beating him when he tried to assault a young woman.
• Du Ping'an defeated Zhang Sijing's guards, repeatedly smashed Zhang Sijing into the inn's walls, and forced him to claim he understood good karma.
• A young woman joined Du Ping'an as the Senior Sister Master, and the scholars agreed to become the Twelve Sages under his school.
• Zhang Sanhe arrived with soldiers and jianghu experts to rescue Zhang Sijing, but Du Ping'an killed one attacker with a single blow and frightened the others into retreating.
• Du Ping'an announced that East Desolate City's imperial examinations must require joining his school, while Zhang Sanhe returned to his residence to await Sect Leader Lin Dong.