Chapter Summaries

Chu Huai Xu awakened the Heaven Grade Treasure Chest’s Body Refining Divine Ability, Body Becoming Saint, and underwent a dramatic physical rebirth. The transformation drew part of the Power of Origin into his body and ended with a gigantic golden phantom appearing above Junzi Temple.

• Chu Huai Xu claimed his Body Refining Divine Ability and received Body Becoming Saint.
• Golden Light surrounded Chu Huai Xu as his Spiritual Power surged, prompting Jiang Zhi and the Dao Sect elders to rush to the Training Room and examine him.
• Zhao Shuqi and Jiang Zhi identified the changes as a profound Body Refining Divine Ability reshaping Chu Huai Xu’s body and strengthening his physique, Blood Qi Force, and healing.
• Jiang Zhi sensed that the Power of Origin was being drawn into Chu Huai Xu’s body after the reshaping ended.
• The Power of Origin partly merged into Chu Huai Xu’s body around his Heart Sword, and a ten-thousand-zhang golden phantom appeared above Junzi Temple as he opened his eyes.

Chu Huai Xu awakened the Body Refining Divine Ability Body Becoming Saint, causing a colossal Heaven and Earth Manifestation that stunned the Dao Sect. After the spectacle faded, he tested his new physique before the elders and activated the ability again, restoring his broken arm and dislocated shoulder.

• Jiang Zhi explained that Chu Huai Xu’s Power of Origin had fused with his Body Refining Divine Ability, producing the golden phantom and potentially revealing the ability’s theoretical limit.
• Chu Huai Xu experienced the phantom’s overwhelming power as it gazed across Mountain Beyond Mountain, then returned to his body when the manifestation vanished.
• At Jiang Zhi’s suggestion, Chu Huai Xu stabilized his aura and studied his new physique, finding that it resisted Sword Qi and rapidly healed wounds.
• Chu Huai Xu asked the elders to break his arm and dislocate his shoulder, and Zhao Shuqi eventually shattered the bones with a stronger palm strike.
• Chu Huai Xu activated Body Becoming Saint, and his broken arm and dislocated shoulder twisted back into place as golden power surged through him.

After discovering that [Saint Body State] rapidly healed his injuries and made him powerful enough to challenge Third Realm cultivators, Chu Huai Xu tested his strength with Chu Yinyin and prepared to return to Han Shuangjiang. He learned that she had entered the Dao Ancestor’s inheritance inside a stone by the Cold Pool, then was pulled into it himself.

• Chu Huai Xu found that activating [Saint Body State] restored his injuries within three breaths and greatly increased his strength and healing.
• Zhao Shuqi and Li Chunsong persuaded Chu Yinyin to spar with Chu Huai Xu, who struck her with only his physical strength and pretended to be hurt so she would not lose face.
• Chu Huai Xu learned from Li Chunsong that Han Shuangjiang was inside the Dao Ancestor inheritance in the Stone World beside the Cold Pool.
• Chu Huai Xu touched the stone, lost a strand of the Dao Canon’s power, and was pulled inside.

Li Chunsong revealed that Chu Huai Xu could enter the Dao Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm freely, while Han Shuangjiang was drawn into it and began clearing its trials. Chu Huai Xu entered later, passed the first trial with ease, and found his Spiritual Sense strengthened.

• Li Chunsong returned to Inquiry Peak boasting that Chu Huai Xu could come and go freely in the Dao Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm, shocking Jiang Zhi and the others.
• Han Shuangjiang reflected on missing Chu Huai Xu during his absence and cultivated until she reached the Great Perfection of the Second Realm.
• Han Shuangjiang was drawn into the Secret Realm and endured eighty-one breaths before the character Dao, strengthening her Sea of Consciousness and opening a stone door.
• Han Shuangjiang entered the next level, where Chu Huai Xu was trapped in the Third Level.
• Chu Huai Xu entered the Secret Realm, faced the character Dao, and passed its trial without discomfort, gaining denser Spiritual Sense Power.

Chu Huai Xu entered the second level of the Dao Ancestor’s secret realm and found the remains of nine mechanical puppets, along with signs that Han Shuangjiang had been injured. He absorbed the residual power in the medicinal bath she had used, gained a point of Spirit Gathering, and then summoned his Body Refining Divine Ability to try absorbing more.

• Chu Huai Xu thanked the Dao Ancestor for the gift of enhanced Spiritual Sense and discovered that Power of Origin now protected his Sea of Consciousness.
• He passed through the Light Membrane into the second level and found nine destroyed mechanical puppets, suggesting Han Shuangjiang had fought them and been wounded.
• Chu Huai Xu entered a Stone House and was compelled to sit in a tub of Herbal Liquid, which he suspected Han Shuangjiang had used.
• The medicinal bath caused intense pain in Chu Huai Xu’s Meridians before a System prompt announced that his Spirit Gathering attribute had increased by one.
• Chu Huai Xu noticed that medicinal power remained in the tub, sat back down, and activated Body Becoming Saint.

Chu Huai Xu absorbed the remaining Herbal Liquid, raised his Spirit Gathering attribute, and entered the third level of the Dao Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm. There, he was pulled into an inheritance vision and faced the Dao Ancestor’s sword strike, which annihilated him.

• Chu Huai Xu entered the Saint Body State and absorbed the Herbal Liquid until his Spirit Gathering attribute increased by one.
• Chu Huai Xu passed through the light membrane into the third level and found Han Shuangjiang absorbed in contemplation before a cracked Dao Character.
• A mysterious force pulled Chu Huai Xu onto Han Shuangjiang’s folded legs and drew him into an enlightenment vision.
• Chu Huai Xu recognized the figure atop Inquiry Peak as the Dao Ancestor, though he could not remember the man’s face.
• The Dao Ancestor demonstrated a sword strike that erased everything in its path, and Chu Huai Xu charged into it and was annihilated.

Chu Huai Xu repeatedly experienced the Dao Ancestor’s sword in the Sword Comprehension trial and used the opportunity to advance his Fearless Sword Intent. After returning to his body, he gave Han Shuangjiang a Grain Abstinence Pill, and she suddenly opened her eyes in the consciousness space.

• Chu Huai Xu realized that the Dao Ancestor’s sword could help him comprehend Sword Intent, and his panel showed that he needed only 110,000 Experience Points to advance.
• After hours of meditation yielded little progress, Chu Huai Xu worried that Han Shuangjiang might suffer from hunger and thirst while they remained trapped.
• The Daoist appeared again and told Chu Huai Xu to experience the sword; after being struck, Chu Huai Xu spent just over 10,000 Experience Points to advance his Sword Intent.
• Chu Huai Xu awoke on Han Shuangjiang’s legs and put a Grain Abstinence Pill into her mouth after noticing her pale, dry lips.
• In the consciousness space, Han Shuangjiang felt hungry and thirsty while trying to comprehend the sword, then suddenly opened her eyes and exclaimed.

Han Shuangjiang comprehended the Sword Mark in the Dao Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm while Chu Huai Xu entered the realm and waited for her. After she awoke, they reunited as Dao Companions, compared their experiences, and Chu Huai Xu teased her about having missed him.

• A warm current relieved Han Shuangjiang’s hunger and thirst as she continued comprehending the Sword Mark, while Chu Huai Xu watched over her and fed her Grain Abstinence Pills.
• Chu Huai Xu practiced controlling his newly gained strength, examined the items in his Black Bead, and waited two days for Han Shuangjiang to awaken.
• Han Shuangjiang entered the Heavenly Man State and opened her eyes to find Chu Huai Xu standing before the stone wall.
• Chu Huai Xu explained how he entered the Secret Realm and bragged about the benefits he had received in its earlier levels; Han Shuangjiang returned the Jade slips and told him which techniques she had learned.
• Chu Huai Xu questioned Han Shuangjiang about visiting the Cold Pool and teased her for thinking about him.

Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang entered another trial in the Dao Ancestor’s Secret Realm, where a formation separated them and trapped Chu Huai Xu in an immersive illusion. After fighting Evil Cultivators and suffering severe injuries, Chu Huai Xu was blamed by a bereaved boy and swung his sword at him.

• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang embraced, then continued through the Secret Realm and activated a formation around the carved character [Dao].
• The formation restrained Chu Huai Xu’s Heart Sword and drew him into a separate illusion, where he believed he was an ordinary Dao Sect Outer Sect Disciple.
• Chu Huai Xu fought three Evil Cultivators who were abducting townspeople, killing one and forcing the other two to flee after he feigned calling for reinforcements.
• The Hook-nosed Evil Cultivator’s attack left Chu Huai Xu with a severed hand, and the two surviving Evil Cultivators escaped while he went to comfort a boy beside his parents’ corpses.
• The boy accused Chu Huai Xu and the Dao Sect of failing to protect the town, and Chu Huai Xu, overwhelmed by pain and the boy’s hatred, swung his sword at him.

Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang endured nine different loops in the Dao Ancestor Secret Realm, facing trials that tested their choices as they tried to save victims from Evil Cultivators. When their hidden memories returned, the Dao Bell rang three times for each of them, revealing that both had received the Dao Ancestor’s Bestowed Three-Character Seal.

• Chu Huai Xu entered repeated loops in which he fought Evil Cultivators and faced the youth’s grief and hatred, sometimes striking him and sometimes dying or escaping.
• Han Shuangjiang experienced nine parallel loops against female Evil Cultivators and never drew her sword against the girl she was trying to save.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang felt pain as the memories of all nine loops surged back into their minds.
• The Dao Bell rang three times, and Xiang Yan and the other Dao Sect higher-ups recognized that someone had received the Three-Character Seal.
• The Dao Bell rang three more times, confirming that both Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang had received the Dao Ancestor’s Bestowed Three-Character Seal.

Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang received the three-character Dao Seals South Flowing Scenery and Return to True Origin after completing the Dao Ancestor Secret Realm. They discovered the seals’ powers and wondered whether entering Junzi Temple would earn them additional Dao Seals.

• The Dao Bell rang and revealed Return to True Origin, whose accompanying verse led Jiang Zhi to guess it belonged to Chu Huai Xu.
• The Dao Bell revealed South Flowing Scenery, and Xiang Yan and Lu Pan reasoned that it referred to the sun before its verse appeared.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang awoke in the secret realm with their respective three-character Dao Seals in their palms.
• Chu Huai Xu learned that South Flowing Scenery could dispel evil, transform Inner Demons, heal injuries, and even restore the dead.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang discussed their trials and reflected that the seals seemed to grant salvation to the killer and killing power to the merciful one.

Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang emerged from the Dao Ancestor Secret Realm with powerful bestowed Dao Seals, while Ming Xuanji and Cheng Yuyan discussed Chu Huai Xu’s role as a Variable. Jiang Zhi revealed that a Ninth-Realm Madman remained imprisoned inside Junzi Temple and took Chu Huai Xu to meet him.

• Chu Huai Xu wondered whether the Secret Realm’s trials and rewards followed a pattern of hardship that tempered people and compensated for their weaknesses.
• Ming Xuanji calculated that Chu Huai Xu had entered the Secret Realm and received the Dao Seal South Flowing Scenery, while Han Shuangjiang would receive Return to True Origin.
• Cheng Yuyan said he would protect Chu Huai Xu if they met, citing his debt to the Dao Sect.
• Chu Huai Xu and Han Shuangjiang emerged from the Secret Realm, and the Dao Sect’s leaders examined their bestowed seals.
• Jiang Zhi asked Chu Huai Xu to come with him to meet someone, revealing that a Ninth-Realm Madman was imprisoned inside Junzi Temple.

Chu Huai Xu visited the mad Zhong Ming with Jiang Zhi and began examining him after eating the Ding Sheng Cakes Zhong Ming had made. Far away, Ming Xuanji sensed the attempt to save Zhong Ming and warned Cheng Yuyan that Zhong Ming could not be saved.

• Xiang Yan and the others brought Chu Huai Xu to Junzi Temple’s Small Courtyard, where Jiang Zhi explained how to approach Zhong Ming.
• Chu Huai Xu and Jiang Zhi ate all the unpleasant Ding Sheng Cakes to keep Zhong Ming calm and earn his trust.
• Zhong Ming repeated Chu Huai Xu’s praise, and Jiang Zhi asked him to remain calm during the examination.
• Chu Huai Xu invoked the golden runes of South Flowing Scenery and sent their scorching power toward Zhong Ming.
• Ming Xuanji sensed the attempt from Qingming Mountain, and he warned Cheng Yuyan that Zhong Ming could not be saved.

Ming Xuanji used a life-draining Curse Killing Technique against Chu Huai Xu, while Chu Huai Xu used the Dao Seal to help Zhong Ming sleep peacefully. The curse failed and badly weakened Ming Xuanji, who ended the chapter insisting that Huo Ding Yi’s Eight Characters of Birth were both correct and wrong.

• Cheng Yuyan questioned Ming Xuanji’s plans for Zhong Ming, but Ming Xuanji said Zhong Ming had to go mad to restore order.
• Ming Xuanji took out the Spirit Seed planted in Lin Zixuan and prepared to use it with Huo Ding Yi’s Eight Characters of Birth to curse Chu Huai Xu from ten thousand miles away.
• Cheng Yuyan warned that his intuition told him the curse might fail, but Ming Xuanji spent three years of his lifespan casting it.
• At Junzi Temple, Chu Huai Xu used the Dao Seal to help Zhong Ming, who fell into a peaceful sleep.
• Chu Huai Xu suddenly coughed as a strange power briefly spread through him and dispersed on its own.
• Ming Xuanji suffered severe backlash and repeatedly contradicted himself while trying to determine whether Huo Ding Yi’s Eight Characters of Birth were correct.

Ming Xuanji became convinced that Chu Huai Xu had disrupted his divination and the Dao Ancestor’s plan, while Jiang Zhi warned Chu Huai Xu that Ming Xuanji might have attacked him from afar. After the group confirmed Chu Huai Xu was safe, he asked to study Kunlun Cave Heaven’s cultivation methods, despite warnings not to try them.

• Ming Xuanji raged over Huo Ding Yi’s birth details and insisted that restoring order was his duty, unaware that Huo Ding Yi’s soul had already scattered.
• Cheng Yuyan urged Ming Xuanji to heal his injuries and criticized the idea that humans could act on Heaven’s behalf.
• Jiang Zhi told Chu Huai Xu that Ming Xuanji, the Moon Kingdom’s Old National Preceptor and the Spirit Seed girl’s master, was a likely source of the strange attack.
• Chu Huai Xu asked Jiang Zhi to kill Ming Xuanji, but Jiang Zhi explained that the national preceptor’s connection to the Moon Kingdom’s National Destiny made him difficult to kill.
• Jiang Zhi and Chu Huai Xu returned to the others, who suspected Ming Xuanji after learning of Chu Huai Xu’s abnormal condition and lingering death aura.
• Chu Huai Xu asked Xiang Yan and the Elders to study Kunlun Cave Heaven’s Cultivation Methods and techniques, and they warned him not to try them because others had gone berserk.

Chu Huai Xu examined the cultivation methods and arts from Ye Kongxuan’s storage bag, learning about Kunlun Cave Heaven’s cultivation requirements and discovering the External Incarnation art. He realized Ye Kongxuan’s corpse could satisfy one of the art’s requirements, but he still lacked the necessary materials and Experience Points.

• Nangong Yue explained that Chu Huai Xu could learn the contents of Jade slips by dripping blood onto them, then showed him the slips he had collected.
• After returning home, Chu Huai Xu spent time with Han Shuangjiang before examining the system interface in his bedroom.
• Chu Huai Xu learned that the Heavenly Will Four Symbols Profound Control Art required a Four Symbols Spiritual Root or a Heavenly Spiritual Root, while the Leaving Fire Burning Heaven Art required a fire-attributed Spiritual Root of at least Earth Grade.
• Chu Huai Xu found that the External Incarnation art could make a corpse cultivate, but it required a Spiritual Root, open Eight Extraordinary Meridians, Heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and 1.36 million Experience Points.
• Chu Huai Xu realized that Ye Kongxuan’s corpse could serve as the corpse required by the External Incarnation art.

Chu Huai Xu helped Han Shuangjiang obtain a Third Realm cultivation method, then learned that his Medicine Cauldron had gained stronger alchemy and defensive abilities as well as a new power to refine rare materials. He tried to refine the sun’s power but was told he did not meet the conditions, leaving him to investigate the newly revealed Power of All Things.

• Chu Huai Xu considered whether Ye Kongxuan’s corpse could become an External Incarnation, but acknowledged he lacked the materials and Experience Points to attempt it.
• Chu Huai Xu paid for Han Shuangjiang’s Heaven Grade cultivation method and required treasures, and she began cultivating the Heaven Deceiving Art to advance to the Third Realm.
• The Medicine Cauldron finished refining an Origin Fragment, increasing its Spirit Pill success rates and defensive ability and unlocking a power to refine rare things under Heaven and Earth.
• Chu Huai Xu tested the new power on a branch from the Parasol Tree and learned it could refine only the essence of a ten-thousand-year tree by infusing Power of Origin.
• Chu Huai Xu tried to refine the sun’s Power of All Things, South Flowing Scenery, but the system said he did not meet the conditions.

Chu Huai Xu tested whether [Dao Gives Birth to One] could refine the power of all things, then discovered that the Power of the Profound Crystal it produced was identical to the power within a Dao Seal. He ended the chapter wondering how the Dao Ancestor had gathered enough Power of Origin to create three thousand Dao Seals.

• Chu Huai Xu speculated that each Dao Seal required Power of Origin and wondered how the Dao Ancestor had obtained enough to make three thousand.
• Chu Huai Xu used [Dao Gives Birth to One] to refine Level 2 Spirit Pills while Han Shuangjiang broke through into the Third Realm.
• Chu Huai Xu raised his own minor realm to Level 28, then visited the Treasure Pavilion to find a material he could refine.
• Chu Huai Xu rejected the Ten-thousand-year Profound Turtle Shell and bought Ten-thousand-year Profound Crystal Marrow Fluid after the system confirmed it could be refined.
• Chu Huai Xu refined the fluid into the Power of the Profound Crystal and realized it was the same kind of power as that contained in Dao Seals.

Chu Huai Xu researched Spirit Fetuses and learned more about the Profound Yin Physique, while still wondering about the mysterious power of his Heart Sword. In the Moon Kingdom, Ming Xuanji revealed that his failed curse against Chu Huai Xu had backfired because someone had tampered with Chu Huai Xu’s fate.

• Chu Huai Xu went to the Scripture Pavilion, exchanged for the Third Realm volume of the Dao Canon, and searched the Spirit Fetus Compendium for information about the Heart Sword and Profound Yin Physique.
• Chu Huai Xu learned that the Profound Yin Physique’s Yang Harvesting Yin Nourishment required a Dual Cultivation Method and sufficient cultivation, and he concluded that his own strength could handle it.
• Qin Xuanxiao visited Ming Xuanji at the Monastery and brought food for Lin Zixuan, while wondering why Ming Xuanji had aged and been injured.
• Ming Xuanji told Qin Xuanxiao to have Chu Huai Xu plant another Spirit Seed in Lin Zixuan, explaining that he had extracted the previous one.
• Ming Xuanji revealed that he had used the Curse Killing Technique on Chu Huai Xu and suffered a backlash, while Chu Huai Xu remained completely unharmed.
• Ming Xuanji concluded that someone had tampered with Chu Huai Xu’s fate and that Chu Huai Xu had defied fate.

Ming Xuanji revealed that Huo Ding Yi’s destiny had been altered by someone whose methods surpassed his own, then told Qin Xuanxiao to befriend Xu Ziqing and give him the name of his family’s killer. At Hidden Spirit Mountain, Xu Ziqing advanced his Sword Nurturing Technique, awakening another restriction in the Bronze Sword as Jiang Zhi reflected on the sword and the approaching competition.

• Ming Xuanji told Qin Xuanxiao that Huo Ding Yi was an uncalculable Variable whose destiny had been altered by a powerful unknown person.
• Ming Xuanji revealed that Xu Ziqing was the Sword Attendant from the Dao Ancestor’s Admonition and urged Qin Xuanxiao and Lin Zixuan to befriend him.
• Ming Xuanji told Qin Xuanxiao that Xu Ziqing’s family killer was Yu Chi Huai De of Spring Autumn Mountain.
• Xu Ziqing cultivated the Sword Nurturing Technique to the Third Layer, causing another restriction on the Bronze Sword to be undone.
• The awakened Bronze Sword displayed its disdain toward Jiang Zhi, who considered the upcoming Third Realm Grand Competition and began hoping Chu Huai Xu would win.