Chapter Summaries

After the words “Supreme Clarity Spirit Treasure” brought down heavenly lightning in the market, Daoist Qingxu fended off accusations by inventing a tale about the Tongtian Sect and Golden Ao Island. An old woman claiming to represent the Jietian Sacred Land threatened him and took his soul essence pouch, but Daoist Qingxu later learned she was a swindler; he ended the chapter angry at himself for being deceived.

• A fortune-teller died after trying to divine the meaning of “Supreme Clarity Spirit Treasure,” and Daoist Qingxu convinced the crowd that the words were too dangerous to investigate.
• When greedy onlookers demanded more information, Daoist Qingxu fabricated a story about the Tongtian Sect and Golden Ao Island, then left as they planned an expedition.
• An old woman confronted Daoist Qingxu in an alley, claimed the words belonged to the Jietian Sacred Land, made him swear not to repeat them, and took his soul essence pouch.
• Daoist Qingxu told Long Ling and Perfected Person Ziyang what had happened, and the three studied Jietian Secret Records, learning that the Sacred Land had vanished thousands of years earlier.
• Daoist Qingxu searched Unfallen City for the old woman and eventually heard from a drunken old sot that she was a swindler who tricked people out of their soul essence.
• Daoist Qingxu left the tavern blaming himself for falling for the old woman's threats and nearly exposing his sect's secret.

Daoist Qingxu exposed the old woman's fake treasure scheme and arrested her, but her sudden kiss unsettled his Dao heart. After reflecting on his emotions and changing his approach to cultivation, he met the reformed old woman again at a temple fair, where seeing her stirred his feelings once more.

• Daoist Qingxu exposed the old woman's fake Soul Essence Vein map and chased her through Lihu City until she fell from a roof and he caught her.
• The old woman admitted to swindling people, then kissed Daoist Qingxu, whose shock and embarrassment left him sprawled on the ground.
• After the old woman was taken to prison, Daoist Qingxu struggled with the memory of the kiss until Qingyun encouraged him to face and guide his emotions.
• Daoist Qingxu accepted his emotions through meditation, while the old woman reflected on her crimes and later reformed after her release.
• At a temple fair, Daoist Qingxu saw the old woman selling candied hawthorn and admitted that his Dao heart had fallen into turmoil again.
• The old woman explained that she had changed her ways and wanted to make amends, earning Daoist Qingxu's respect.

Daoist Qingxu gave an old woman a Penguin Jade Slip, and she became interested in joining the Emei Sect. Back at Longyuan Celestial Sect, a sudden assault and the arrival of a mysterious stone egg plunged Sky Zenith Domain into catastrophe, leaving Qingxu searching the visions within the egg for clues.

• Daoist Qingxu gave the old woman a Penguin Jade Slip, and she began reading about the Emei Sect before heading into the mountains.
• Daoist Qingxu returned to Lihu City, where Long Ling, Qin Shi Huang, and others teased him about rumors of an old flame.
• Mysterious figures emerged from a rift and attacked the cultivators of Sky Zenith Domain, while a blood-and-rune formation drained their Divine Soul Bodies.
• Daoist Qingxu rallied Longyuan Celestial Sect as a stone egg descended from the void, unleashed destructive power, and began to crack open.
• Daoist Qingxu prepared the sect-protecting formation and sensed visions of an ancient battlefield, an endless abyss, and struggling living beings within the stone egg.

The stone egg trapped the cultivators of the Sky Zenith Domain as it absorbed their negative emotions and produced the Doom Shade and rapidly spreading Demonic Sprouts. Their attacks failed to break the barrier, and the chapter left them facing the sprouts’ growing threat with no clear way to stop the domain from being destroyed.

• The stone egg opened a barrier that trapped the cultivators’ Divine Soul Bodies while a dark growth gathered their fear and despair.
• The cultivators joined forces and attacked the barrier, eventually opening a small crack after their first attempts failed.
• A cultivator charged through the crack but was torn apart by the void storms inside, discouraging others from trying to escape.
• The cultivators’ spreading negative emotions formed the Doom Shade, which grew stronger and influenced their minds.
• The Doom Shade entered the stone egg’s crack, and black Demonic Sprouts erupted and spread across the Sky Zenith Domain.
• The cultivators watched the Demonic Sprouts devour strength and vitality, unsure how to stop them.

A demonic tree devoured Divine Soul Bodies and bore Netherblood Fruits that controlled cultivators with visions drawn from their deepest desires and fears. As the fruits’ influence spread, Long Ling and the others recognized the tree was not the Ginseng Fruit Tree and prepared to oppose it, while its power continued to grow.

• The demonic tree absorbed Divine Soul Bodies, erased cultivators’ memories with its fragrance, and produced mysterious infant-like fruits identified as legendary Netherblood Fruits.
• Cultivators gathered pure spiritual power and formed a barrier around the fruits, but their attempt failed to stop the fruits from ripening.
• The Netherblood Fruits opened their eyes and ensnared cultivators in visions, drawing them toward the tree and draining their vitality to nourish it.
• Long Ling, Daoist Qingxu, the abbot of Qiguang Temple, Golden Peng King, Tiger King, Great Immortal Weasel, Perfected Person Ziyang, and Li Bai recognized the tree’s evil nature and discussed how to fight it.
• The demonic tree continued expanding, shaking mountains and rivers as its roots spread and its branches covered the sky.

The cultivators fought the bizarre spirits born from the demonic tree, discovered how to exploit their vulnerability, and destroyed the tree’s core to stop the spirits from multiplying. The black vases then vanished and released the captured Divine Soul Bodies, which were drawn into a stone coffin emerging from a black hole as the cultivators prepared for a new threat.

• Netherblood Fruits transformed into bizarre spirits that drained cultivators’ vitality, while a heavenly formation turned many spirits into black vases that swallowed high-level cultivators.
• The cultivators formed teams and used Demon-Trapping Formations, discovering they could strike the spirits’ true bodies when the creatures devoured divine abilities and spiritual power.
• A small team entered the demonic tree, found its core fruit, broke the shield protecting it, and destroyed it, causing the tree to collapse and the spirits to weaken and fall.
• The destroyed black vases dissolved and released the trapped Divine Soul Bodies, which gathered above the cultivators and were sucked into a black hole containing an opening stone coffin.
• The stone coffin emitted scarlet mist and baleful manifestations as the cultivators set up defensive formations and studied its runes.

The cultivators tried to seal the War Corpse, but their attack broke the Ancient Coffin’s restriction and let blood rain and resentful forces strengthen it. Long Ling organized a desperate defense as the War Corpse emerged, and the chapter ended with the cultivators unleashing their Forbidden Art.

• The War Corpse emerged from the stone coffin and overwhelmed the cultivators until the cultivator leader wounded it with his greatsword.
• An aged cultivator identified the coffin’s baleful runes as the key, and the cultivators destroyed them, drawing the War Corpse back inside.
• The coffin cracked and released blood rain and ghosts, while Long Ling realized the cultivators had broken the restriction that restrained the War Corpse.
• Long Ling urged the cultivators to block the blood rain and destroy the Ancient Coffin, so the cultivator leader ordered the Sky Covering Grand Formation and led an assault.
• The War Corpse youth emerged as mummified corpses recovered, and the cultivators began reciting the Forbidden Art despite its cost.
• The cultivators gathered their life force and spiritual energy into a massive pillar of light aimed at the War Corpse.

The War Corpse's Blood Pearl clashed with the cultivators' Forbidden Art, and Long Ling, the abbot of Qiguang Temple, and Daoist Qingxu joined the fight with their powerful avatars. Though their combined attacks wounded the War Corpse and inspired the cultivators, he intensified his power, strengthening the dry corpses and sealing the battlefield in black mist, leaving the cultivators increasingly desperate.

• The War Corpse spat out a Blood Pearl that collided with the cultivators' Forbidden Art pillar, injuring both sides and weakening him.
• The abbot of Qiguang Temple manifested a giant Buddha, Long Ling unleashed her Bone Avatar, and Daoist Qingxu summoned the avatar of the Three Pure Ancestors to attack the War Corpse.
• The three leaders and the other cultivators fought the War Corpse and his dry corpses, damaging his armor as casualties mounted.
• The War Corpse expressed disbelief that the cultivators could resist him, then renewed his attacks and sought to break their defensive line.
• The War Corpse empowered the dry corpses and spread black mist around the battlefield, draining cultivators who tried to escape and making their attacks less effective.

The cultivators struggled against the War Corpse King, whose power grew as the blood-red wheel fed him energy. Yun Youzi discovered that a broken sword repelled the corpses and helped the cultivators turn the battle, though the War Corpse King remained a threat.

• The War Corpses and dried corpses sent rune-covered threads into the formation, forming a blood-red wheel that strengthened the War Corpse King.
• Long Ling, the abbot of Qiguang Temple, Daoist Qingxu, and the other cultivators attacked the wheel, but the War Corpse King and his army overwhelmed them and consumed the souls of fallen cultivators.
• Yun Youzi noticed that the corpses retreated from a rusted broken sword and reported his discovery to Long Ling and the other leaders.
• The cultivators formed a defensive line around the broken sword and chanted ancient incantations, awakening its power and restraining the War Corpse King.
• The broken sword dispelled black mist and weakened the corpses, while its power strengthened the abbot of Qiguang Temple and Daoist Qingxu and helped purifying lightning turn dried corpses to ash.

After the Myriad Source Essence appeared across the Sky Zenith Domain, rival factions slaughtered one another to claim it. Long Ling kept Earth's cultivators out of the fighting, then sent Hu Xiaocao and concealed Cultivation Mechas to steal the treasures while the battle continued.

• Ancient steles appeared throughout the Sky Zenith Domain, producing Myriad Source Essence that triggered violent battles among the cultivators.
• Long Ling stopped Tiger King, Golden Peng King, Great Sage Monkey King, and the other Earth cultivators from joining the fighting so they could preserve their strength.
• Hu Xiaocao revealed Earth's mother airship and its concealed Cultivation Mechas, which could rival cultivators at the Sky Spirit Realm.
• Long Ling ordered Hu Xiaocao to lead the mechas in secretly obtaining the Myriad Source Essence without exposing Earth's strength.
• The mechas infiltrated the battlefield and began seizing Myriad Source Essence as the factions fought, leaving the cultivators unaware that Earth was taking the spoils.

The Nether Envoy stole the Myriad Source Essence, prompting cultivators to summon a guardian and pursue it. As the crystal’s arrival sparked a brutal scramble in the Sky Zenith Domain, Long Ling chose to keep the Longyuan Celestial Sect out of the fighting and prepare a secret mecha strike.

• The Nether Envoy seized the Myriad Source Essence from cultivators at an altar and vanished into the clouds.
• An elderly cultivator rallied the survivors, who summoned a guardian and traveled with it to a mist-shrouded island where they sensed a mecha and the crystal.
• News that the Myriad Source Essence could help cultivators reach the Myriad Laws Realm spread across the Cosmos Cultivation World, drawing powerful figures into the Sky Zenith Domain.
• Cultivators fought and died across the Sky Zenith Domain as they competed for the Myriad Source Essence.
• Long Ling and the leaders of the Longyuan Celestial Sect decided not to join the battle directly and instead prepared to send their mechas to seize the crystal in secret.

Long Ling revealed a genuine Myriad Source Essence and a perfect counterfeit, then ordered the Longyuan Celestial Sect to use the fakes and rumors to provoke rival factions into fighting. She established the Sky Zenith Ranking to reward qualified cultivators for their strength and contributions, leaving the disciples preparing to compete for the Myriad Source Essence and help Earth gain influence.

• Long Ling showed the disciples a Myriad Source Essence and explained that they should cultivate and prepare for greater turmoil rather than rush into battle.
• Long Ling revealed that Tian Shu Perfected Person Hu Xiaocao had made an indistinguishable counterfeit Myriad Source Essence.
• Long Ling ordered the disciples to distribute counterfeit essences and spread rumors that rival factions held large supplies, so those factions would attack one another while the Longyuan Celestial Sect gained resources and followers.
• Long Ling told the disciples that only cultivators at the pinnacle of the Heaven Realm could qualify to use the Myriad Source Essence, with eligibility determined by strength and merit.
• Long Ling established the Sky Zenith Ranking to track cultivators’ performance and determine who would receive the right to use the Myriad Source Essence.

Long Ling sent disciples to explore Netherworld Valley and ordered Golden Peng King, Tiger King, and Great Sage Monkey King to spread counterfeit Myriad Source Essence and provoke conflict among the Sky Zenith Domain’s factions. Their scheme ignited a battle between the Star Pointing Sect and the Smiling Azure Sect, which they exploited to sow chaos and seize treasures while preserving their strength.

• Long Ling dispatched groups to investigate Netherworld Valley and secretly sent Golden Peng King, Tiger King, and Great Sage Monkey King to distribute counterfeit Myriad Source Essence among the major forces.
• Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples explored Netherworld Valley while Golden Peng King and his companions infiltrated the Sky Zenith Domain and spread the counterfeits, increasing suspicion and conflict among its factions.
• Golden Peng King and his companions spread rumors that the Smiling Azure Sect possessed Myriad Source Essence, prompting the Star Pointing Sect to send an assassination squad to raid its treasure vault.
• The Star Pointing Sect squad triggered the Smiling Azure Sect’s defenses and became trapped in a battle, which Golden Peng King, Tiger King, and Great Sage Monkey King worsened by attacking both sides and creating confusion.
• Tiger King and his companions used demonic-beast aura to summon poisonous insects, rats, and ants, which looted treasures from the battlefield and attacked helpless wounded cultivators.

The Golden Peng King, the Tiger King, and the Great Sage Monkey King seized control of the Smiling Azure Sect and the Star Pointing Sect, expanding the Longyuan Celestial Sect’s influence through the Honeycomb Plan. They developed intelligent subterranean creatures into spies and weapons, then used false rumors and provocation to ignite a battle between the Crimson Flame Sect and the Azure Water Gate; the fight over the secret realm remained unresolved.

• The Golden Peng King used a blood curse to control the exhausted leaders of the Smiling Azure Sect and the Star Pointing Sect, and the Longyuan Celestial Sect took over their territories and resources.
• Subterranean creatures collected the defeated cultivators’ storage bags, and the Longyuan Celestial Sect’s disciples sorted the spoils after returning to Lihu City.
• The Golden Peng King, the Tiger King, and the Great Sage Monkey King nurtured the subterranean creatures, awakening their intelligence and preparing them to gather intelligence and undermine rival sects.
• The Golden Peng King sent subterranean creatures to spread false claims that the Crimson Flame Sect and the Azure Water Gate were each about to seize the secret realm in Witch-Calamity Valley.
• The Tiger King disguised himself as a Crimson Flame Sect cultivator and provoked the Azure Water Gate, triggering a battle outside the secret realm as the Longyuan Celestial Sect directed the subterranean creatures from the shadows.

The Longyuan Celestial Sect seized control of the Crimson Flame Sect and the Azure Water Gate, while Nine-Tailed Fox King united the ferocious beasts of the Sky Zenith Mountains and prepared to coordinate with Long Ling. As the forces readied a joint offensive, Longyuan began spreading forged Myriad Source Essence and false information to intensify chaos across the Sky Zenith Domain.

• Golden Peng King, Tiger King, Great Sage Monkey King, and Longyuan Celestial Sect disciples took control after the leaders of the Crimson Flame Sect and Azure Water Gate were gravely wounded, and both sects submitted.
• Long Ling reviewed the takeover and planned to use the newly absorbed forces to expand Longyuan Celestial Sect's influence.
• Nine-Tailed Fox King led Bear King, Great Immortal Weasel, and other Demon Kings into the Sky Zenith Mountains, where they rallied the ferocious beasts at the Sky Zenith Abyss and formed an army.
• Nine-Tailed Fox King contacted Long Ling and agreed to wait until the Sky Zenith Domain's factions were weakened before launching a coordinated attack with the Longyuan Celestial Sect.
• Golden Peng King, Daoist Qingxu, and Zhi Dun began their operation, sending underground creatures to distribute forged Myriad Source Essence and false letters among the various factions.

Long Ling, Nine-Tailed Fox King, and Nethermist entered the battle for Sky Zenith Domain as Star and Apocalypse pursued an ancient prophecy tied to the blood moon. When Nethermist’s coin destabilized the gate to the ancient era, the rival forces joined together to contain its power.

• Heaven Fiend Sect destroyed Spirit Void Valley and searched its ruins for the Myriad Source Essence, prompting smaller factions to consider forming an alliance.
• Long Ling and Nine-Tailed Fox King prepared their forces while Nethermist ordered Shadowmoon to break free from the Sealed Domain.
• Long Ling signaled the Demon Race to attack, Longyuan Celestial Sect struck from the shadows, and Shadowmoon pursued an ancient treasure as Apocalypse searched for a prophetic target.
• Star performed a ritual at the ancient altar on blood moon night, opening a gate that he called the source of Sky Zenith Domain’s true power.
• Nethermist confronted Star and used her glowing coin against the gate, causing an explosion that destabilized its power.
• Long Ling called for the factions to unite, and Longyuan Celestial Sect, the Demon Race, and Shadowmoon formed a formation to try to seal the gate.

On the blood moon night, the Sky Zenith Domain descended into chaos as corrupted cultivators and ferocious beasts attacked while factions fought over the Myriad Source Essence. In a forgotten corner of the Sky Zenith Mountains, the legendary Myriad Souls Banners began to awaken and grow stronger.

• Nethermist appeared with an ancient coin that resonated with the light gate as Xingchen completed his ritual on the altar.
• The blood moon stirred suppressed desires among cultivators, and a blood light from Mount Li Summit drew those who had lost their minds toward it.
• Red-marked cultivators attacked factions holding the Myriad Source Essence, growing stronger by feeding on their victims and overwhelming defensive formations.
• Cultivators and sects united against the red-marked attackers, but their resistance failed as the attackers pursued survivors.
• A beast tide poured into the Sky Zenith Domain while factions slaughtered one another over the Myriad Source Essence, devastating the region.
• In the Sky Zenith Mountains, countless black banners absorbed resentment and baleful force, and cultivators identified them as the ancient evil Myriad Souls Banners.

Hu Xiaocao and Earth's cultivators turned the blood moon calamity into an opportunity by forming a sea of blood that nourished Ghost Cultivators. After Long Ling ordered her to deploy Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army, the soldiers transformed in the sea, while its resentment and power continued to grow.

• Hu Xiaocao explained that the Myriad Souls Banners would absorb the calamity's baleful essence and give rise to intelligent Ghost Cultivators for Earth's forces.
• Hu Xiaocao guided the Ghost Cultivators toward the Sky Zenith Mountains, where a vast sea of blood formed and Earth's cultivators began fortifying its shores.
• Hu Xiaocao reported the sea of blood's success to Long Ling and the other leaders, who praised the plan and claimed the sea as a base for Earth's forces.
• Long Ling ordered Hu Xiaocao to put Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army into the sea of blood, and Hu Xiaocao released the soldiers from a spatial Jade Plate.
• The Terracotta Army absorbed the sea's ghost essence, shed their clay shells, and became stronger flesh-and-blood warriors.
• The sea of blood grew darker and more turbulent as resentment took physical form and blood-red lightning struck the transforming Terracotta Army.

The Terracotta warriors began reviving in the sea of blood as cultivators watched the coffins of Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian. Meanwhile, counterfeit Myriad Source Essence caused deaths across the Sky Zenith Domain, prompting the Extraterritorial Heavenly Sect to rally cultivators at the Heaven Dao Platform to oppose Shadowmoon and Apocalypse.

• Blood energy and origin-baleful energy awakened the Terracotta warriors, while the runes on Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Meng Tian's coffins began to glow.
• Cultivators who used counterfeit Myriad Source Essence suffered internal energy explosions, and investigations revealed that more than half of the circulating supply was fake.
• Cultivators blamed Shadowmoon and Apocalypse for the counterfeit scheme, but the Blood Moon Night made them fear confronting the two forces.
• The Extraterritorial Heavenly Sect decided to gather allies and prepare a campaign against Shadowmoon and Apocalypse.
• Cosmos cultivators assembled at the Heaven Dao Platform, where Jing Yufei displayed evidence against the two forces and rallied them into battle formations.

The major forces of the Sky Zenith Domain joined the Outer Heavenly Sect to prepare for battle, while Long Ling used the Cosmos cultivators’ accusations against Tianqi and Bloodshadow to advance the Longyuan Celestial Sect’s plans. Her agents provoked a violent split within the Heavenly Sect Alliance, leaving Jing Yufei trying to stop a melee that had already spiraled out of control.

• Qing Yunzi, Zidian Zhenjun, Tie Shanyue, and other leaders pledged their forces to the Outer Heavenly Sect, and Jing Yufei rallied the assembled cultivators to unite against evil.
• In Lihu City, Long Ling decided to exploit the conflict between the Cosmos cultivators, Tianqi, and Bloodshadow while the Longyuan Celestial Sect gained resources, territory, and allies.
• Long Ling ordered Daoist Qingxu to continue spreading fake Myriad Source Essence and sent newly surrendered forces to infiltrate the Heavenly Sect Alliance as undercover agents.
• The undercover agents fueled resentment over resource distribution until representatives of Qingdao Sect and Zidian Valley clashed at an alliance meeting and their disciples broke into a melee.
• The fighting spread through the alliance, and the undercover cultivators withdrew after weakening its unity; Jing Yufei ordered the combatants to stop, but they remained consumed by hatred and greed.