Chapter Summaries

Wu Yun took Xiao Lin and Ye Chu as disciples after testing their extraordinary talents, then learned that the World Tree’s growth had awakened their Origin Rules. He realized the Ancient Tablet World was entering its first Golden Age and prepared to take his companions out into the Chaotic Demon Sea.

• Wu Yun asked Xiao Lin and Ye Chu to become his disciples, and they happily accepted before returning with him to the Great Desolation Sect.
• Wu Yun arranged sparring matches with Lin Dong and Little Mink; Xiao Lin forced Lin Dong to use his Golden Bell Physique, while Ye Chu exhausted Little Mink with continuous attacks.
• Wu Yun gave Xiao Lin and Ye Chu Chief Disciple treatment and promised them a Pill River Empowerment, then agreed to take his companions outside the Ancient Tablet Space.
• Huang Yun reported that Xiao Lin and Ye Chu came from the Great Yan Dynasty and that their talents had awakened as the World Tree began flourishing.
• Huang Yun explained that the World Tree could bless beings born during its early growth with Origin Rules, leading Wu Yun to recognize the coming of the Ancient Tablet World's first Golden Age.

Wu Yun secured the Gu Family’s Outer Aid Token by overpowering Elder Gu Shuo’s test, agreeing to compete for a Great Desolation Tower spot. After studying how to imprint his martial arts into his Chaos Symbol Embryo, he joined Gu Mengqi and Gu Yan to attend the Martial Arts Gathering, where the competition was about to begin.

• Wu Yun comforted Bai Yun in the Ancient Tablet World and spent the night with her in a secluded hut.
• Gu Ya summoned Wu Yun to the Gu Family Council Hall, where Gu Shuo asked him to reconsider his demand for a Great Desolation Tower spot.
• Wu Yun rejected the Gu Family’s proposed alternatives and overcame Gu Shuo’s Primal Force pressure, earning the Outer Aid Token and the promised reward if he won.
• Wu Yun studied the Original Talisman Scripture and found that Yuan Qi and Dao-bearing talismans could store his martial arts and other techniques in the Chaos Symbol Embryo.
• At dawn, Wu Yun set out with Gu Mengqi and Gu Yan for the Martial Combat at the center of Martial Arts Gathering Island.

Wu Yun competed for the Gu Family at the Martial Arts Gathering, defeating Su Yan and helping the Gu Family advance to face the Wei Family. After Gu Mengqi lost the opening match against Wei Zhen, Wu Yun insisted the contest was not over because Asura Mode remained.

• Wei Zhen and Chen Luo suspected Wu Yun had killed Wei Song and Xu Yun, while Chen Luo vowed to avenge his junior brother if Wu Yun proved responsible.
• Wu Yun defeated Su Yan with his Azure Dragon Heavenly Seat Seal after countering Su Yan’s Black Demon techniques, securing the Gu Family’s victory over the Su Clan.
• The Wei Family overwhelmed the Song Family and advanced to face the Gu Family, whose draws matched Gu Mengqi against Wei Zhen, Gu Yan against Chen Luo, and Wu Yun against Wei Li.
• Gu Mengqi fought Wei Zhen but lost in fewer than twenty rounds, prompting Gu Yuntian to offer Wu Yun compensation and suggest ending the contest.
• Wu Yun refused to give up, pointing out that Asura Mode was still available.

Wu Yun challenged the Wei Family’s three contestants in Asura Mode and used the Great Desolation Scripture and Desolate Blade to win, leaving them nearly crippled. His victory set up a confrontation with Shen Tu Jue, who learned that Wu Yun was the outsider who had unleashed the devastating attack.

• Wu Yun rejected the Gu Family’s warnings and challenged Wei Zhen, Chen Luo, and Wei Li in Asura Mode for the Great Desolation Tower.
• Wei Li prepared to withdraw, but Wu Yun called Wei Zhen and Chen Luo onto the stage and refused to confirm whether he had killed Wei Family members on Mysterious Spirit Island.
• Wu Yun unleashed the Great Desolation Scripture, draining life from the mountain and gathering a vast pillar of energy as Shen Tu Jue watched from the Great Desolation Tower.
• Wu Yun formed a giant Desolate Blade that overwhelmed the three opponents, stripping away their life force before five elders intervened and blocked the attack.
• The referee declared Wu Yun and the Gu Family the winners, while Wei Zhen, Chen Luo, and Wei Li were left barely alive.
• Shen Tu Jue learned that Wu Yun had defeated the Wei Family’s contestants and prepared to face him.

After winning the Martial Combat, Wu Yun extorted the Wei Family and Chen Luo to remove the Desolation Energy from their bodies, earning their resentment. Shen Tu Jue appeared and agreed to begin their Tower Defense Battle early, leaving Wu Yun facing him in the air.

• Wu Yun refused to save Wei Zhen, Wei Li, and Chen Luo until Wei Lin and Chen Luo paid him in Mysterious Yuan Pills and valuables.
• Wei Lin and Chen Luo gathered the demanded payment, and Wu Yun drew the Desolation Energy from the three men, restoring their vitality.
• Chen Luo left to seek help from Old Man Evil Bone, while Wei Lin took Wei Zhen and Wei Li away and Wu Yun rejected Gu Shuo's offer to join the Gu Family.
• Shen Tu Jue appeared above the mountain, and Wu Yun challenged him to start the Tower Defense Battle immediately.
• Shen Tu Jue accepted, and Wu Yun rose into the air to face him.

Wu Yun fought Shen Tu Jue before the Great Desolation Tower, testing the talented Iron Asura while easily countering his attacks. Shen Tu Jue admitted he could not defeat Wu Yun but summoned his Ghost Emperor Soul Suppressing Tower in one last attempt to reach him.

• Shen Tu Jue challenged Wu Yun for the path into the Great Desolation Tower, while Wu Yun felt the Primeval Qi would benefit the World Tree and Stone Talisman.
• Shen Tu Jue attacked with his Asura Finger Spear Art and Asura Body, but Wu Yun evaded him and repeatedly struck his back with Through-Back Fist.
• Shen Tu Jue trapped Wu Yun in his Asura Earth Fiend Prison and unleashed the Asura Blade Prison, but Wu Yun shattered the Blade Radiances with his fists.
• Shen Tu Jue recognized Wu Yun could defeat him and summoned the Ghost Emperor Soul Suppressing Tower, determined to try to touch him.

Wu Yun defeated Shen Tu Jue and earned the right to enter the Great Desolation Tower, then offered to help Shen Tu Jue advance his body cultivation if he joined him. Shen Tu Jue listened as Wu Yun claimed he had once handled three Samsara Stage experts at once.

• Wu Yun used his Gravity Domain and Movement Character Secret Technique to overpower Shen Tu Jue, pin him down, and shatter the Ghost Emperor Soul Suppressing Tower.
• Shen Tu Jue admitted defeat, and Wu Yun arranged to enter the Great Desolation Tower the next day.
• Gu Shuo urged Gu Yan and Gu Mengqi to recruit Wu Yun after seeing his strength, then grew alarmed when Shen Tu Jue and Shen Tu Rong came to visit him.
• Shen Tu Rong left Wu Yun's room after he chose to speak with Shen Tu Jue alone, while she sat in the courtyard with Gu Yan and Gu Mengqi.
• Wu Yun offered to help Shen Tu Jue improve his body cultivation and reach Death Profound Stage Major Accomplishment within three years if he followed him.
• Shen Tu Jue questioned Wu Yun's confidence, and Wu Yun said that he had once handled three Samsara Stage experts at once.

Wu Yun demonstrated his Samsara-level pressure to Shen Tu Jue and recruited him before entering the Great Desolation Tower to absorb its Primeval Qi. After three days on the seventh floor, Wu Yun broke through to the Imperial Body and gained the Divine Mountain Body, while his breakthrough shook the tower and mountain.

• Wu Yun overwhelmed Shen Tu Jue and Shen Tu Rong with his pressure, convincing Shen Tu Jue that his strength rivaled the Samsara Stage.
• Shen Tu Jue agreed to follow Wu Yun, while Wu Yun declined to bring Shen Tu Rong along for now.
• Gu Shuo opened the Great Desolation Tower, and Wu Yun entered alone and began absorbing its Primeval Qi.
• The Stone Talisman and World Tree also absorbed the Primeval Qi as Wu Yun climbed to the seventh floor.
• After three days of cultivation, Wu Yun completed the Great Majestic Mountain Physique and broke through to the Divine Mountain Body, causing the tower and mountain to shake.

Wu Yun broke through his Body Scripture, received the Primeval Spirit Seed by signing in at the Great Desolation Tower, and entered its eighth floor with Lin Dong to cultivate in the Golden Sea. He left the Master of the Great Desolation in the World Tree to recover and began condensing Azure Dragon Light Patterns.

• Wu Yun's breakthrough caused a powerful gravity eruption that alarmed the elders outside the tower, who argued over its source while waiting for him to emerge.
• A crack in the eighth-floor barrier released a purple-gold piece of the Master of the Great Desolation's skin, which Wu Yun sealed with his Overlord Blood and put away.
• Wu Yun signed in at the tower and obtained the Primeval Spirit Seed, then resolved to move the sleeping Master of the Great Desolation to the World Tree for healing.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit Yan awakened, and Wu Yun had Yan transfer the Master of the Great Desolation into the Stone Talisman and then into the Ancient Tablet World.
• Wu Yun and Lin Dong entered the eighth floor's Golden Sea to cultivate; Lin Dong used Devouring to advance toward the Imperial Body while Wu Yun cultivated the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.

Wu Yun and Lin Dong strengthened their physiques while absorbing the Great Desolation Tower’s Primeval Qi, and the Ancestral Stone Spirit recovered enough to reveal itself fully. After Wu Yun removed the tower and admitted taking it, he killed Wei Lin with one slap, leaving the Five Great Families stunned.

• Wu Yun cultivated the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art as Lin Dong broke through to the Vajra Emperor Physique, then began cultivating the same art.
• Wu Yun, Lin Dong, and the Ancestral Stone Spirit absorbed the eighth floor’s Primeval Qi for ten days; Wu Yun gained eight hundred Azure Dragon Light Patterns and one-tenth of the Primeval Talisman Script.
• Wu Yun sent the Great Desolation Tower into the Ancient Tablet, and the Five Great Families questioned him when it vanished.
• Wu Yun admitted taking the tower, and Wei Lin urged the families to attack him while provoking him to strike.
• Wu Yun slapped Wei Lin, killing him and destroying his primordial spirit.

Wu Yun seized control of the Great Desolation Tower and used his overwhelming strength to force the Five Great Families into an agreement to send young prodigies to train in the Great Desolation Sect. After arranging their entry into the Ancient Tablet World, he prepared to leave, but Old Man Evil Bone arrived and challenged him to come out and die.

• Wu Yun explained that he had taken the Great Desolation Tower and offered to compensate the Five Great Families by helping them raise powerful experts.
• Wei Zhen arrived to challenge Wu Yun, who used his abilities to make Wei Zhen kneel and forced the entire Wei Family to prostrate themselves.
• Wu Yun summoned the ancestors of the Five Great Families and reached an agreement to train their young prodigies, demonstrating his sincerity by helping Shen Tu Jue break through to Life Profound Stage Consummation.
• The Shen Tu Family, Gu Family, Song Family, Su Clan, and Wei Family selected prodigies, whom Wu Yun sent into the Ancient Tablet World for Lin Dong to train.
• Old Man Evil Bone arrived above the Gu Family and demanded that Wu Yun come out and die, while Wei Zhen decided not to intervene.

Wu Yun killed Old Man Evil Bone and Chen Luo, then traveled toward the Heavenly Merchant Region with his companions. On the way, he met the wounded Mu Lingshan, the Life and Death Ancestral Talisman, after she followed him to escape the Blood Demon Shark Tribe.

• Wu Yun killed Old Man Evil Bone with the Azure Dragon Heavenly Seat Seal, then killed Chen Luo and took their treasures.
• Wu Yun and his companions sailed toward the Heavenly Merchant Region aboard a ship provided by the Shen Tu Family, while Shen Tu Jue explained the region and its upcoming auction.
• Wu Yun encountered Commander Xia and a group of Blood Demon Sharks searching for an injured fugitive, and the group let his ship pass.
• Wu Yun found Mu Lingshan on an island, shared grilled fish with her, and learned that the Blood Demon Sharks had injured her.
• Mu Lingshan fell asleep beside Wu Yun as a blue barrier formed around her and her wounds began to heal.

Wu Yun discovered that Mu Lingshan was the living Life and Death Ancestral Talisman, and her meeting with Jiang Yinyin awakened a mysterious bond between them. After imprinting the Life-Death Talisman Script and receiving the Life and Death Coffin Lid, Wu Yun returned to the ship, where Commander Xia confronted the crew.

• Yan and the others recognized Mu Lingshan's Immortal Heaven Derivation Technique but could not identify her true nature, so Wu Yun brought her into the Ancient Tablet Space for safety.
• Mu Lingshan sensed a familiar presence in the Jiang Family residence and met Jiang Yinyin, whose life-and-death power resonated with hers; Yan identified Mu Lingshan as the Life and Death Ancestral Talisman.
• Wu Yun told Mu Lingshan and Jiang Yinyin that they shared an ancient inheritance, then taught Mu Lingshan the Soft Character of the Body Book before they went to sleep together.
• The Chaos Symbol Embryo scanned Mu Lingshan and imprinted the Life-Death Talisman Script, giving Wu Yun the Life and Death Ancestral Talisman; Mu Lingshan also gave him the Life and Death Coffin Lid.
• Wu Yun returned to the ship as Shen Tu Jue faced a Blood Demon Shark Tribe squad, and Commander Xia boarded to inspect the vessel for a mission target.

Wu Yun and his companions defeated a Blood Demon Shark Tribe force, took the Demon Shark’s Tooth, and refined it into a Pure Yuan Treasure for Lin Dong’s halberd. They reached Heavenly Merchant City, where Wu Yun planned to explore the city and gather resources with his companions.

• Commander Xia tried to inspect Wu Yun’s ship, but Shen Tu Jue knocked him into the sea; Xia later called reinforcements and tracked the ship from beneath the water.
• Wu Yun brought Lin Dong and Xiao Yan out to fight the Blood Demon Sharks surrounding the ship, and the three companions slaughtered most of the attackers.
• Lin Dong defeated Commander Xia and took the Demon Shark’s Tooth, which Wu Yun refined into a Pure Yuan Treasure and used to upgrade Lin Dong’s Heaven Scale Ancient Halberd.
• Wu Yun ordered Commander Xia imprisoned, then continued with Shen Tu Jue and crossed into the Heavenly Merchant Region five days later.
• Wu Yun and Shen Tu Jue arrived in Heavenly Merchant City, where Wu Yun released Bai Yun, Ling Qingzhu, Xuan Su, Little Mink, Lin Dong, and the others to explore and shop.

Lin Dong and Wu Yun’s group entered Heavenly Merchant City for the Heavenly Merchant Auction, where Wu Yun attracted the attention of the Evil Wind Grotto-Heaven’s Xie Yan. At the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion, Wu Yun offered World Tree-produced Life Mysterious Spirit Fruits for sale and negotiated their price with manager Tang Dongling.

• Wu Yun led his group to the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion, drawing attention from the crowds and from Xie Yan, who recognized Wu Yun as the killer of Old Man Evil Bone.
• Xie Yan declined to attack Wu Yun in Heavenly Merchant City but planned to settle their conflict after the auction and take the women with him.
• Wu Yun let his companions shop while Xuan Su helped sell Ancient Tablet World specialties and buy resources for the sect.
• Wu Yun presented three grades of Life Mysterious Spirit Fruits to the Pavilion’s appraisers and explained how they could help cultivators break through.
• Tang Dongling examined the fruits and offered to buy them, but Wu Yun countered with higher prices and agreed to provide three High-Grade Fruits for testing.

Wu Yun traded Life Mysterious Spirit Fruits with Tang Dongling and arranged to exchange more for the Heavenly Net Immortal Bed, while she learned of his dangerous reputation and chose to befriend him. As the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion auction began, Wu Yun's group attended while Lin Dong and Little Mink went to inspect its treasure vault.

• Tang Dongling bought nine Life Mysterious Spirit Fruits from Wu Yun and agreed to ask the Pavilion Elders about selling him the Heavenly Net Immortal Bed.
• Tang Dongling told a treasure appraiser that Wu Yun was likely the same man who defeated Shen Tu Jue, took the Great Desolation Tower, and crippled two of the Yuan Sect's chief instructors, and she urged him to keep Wu Yun's identity secret.
• After testing the fruits, Tang Dongling found they enabled breakthroughs with remarkable success, so she agreed to auction some and trade the Heavenly Net Immortal Bed for ten High-Grade Fruits.
• Wu Yun asked to see the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion's hidden treasure vault, and Tang Dongling agreed; Wu Yun sent Lin Dong and Little Mink there while he went to the auction with Ling Qingzhu, Bai Yun, and the others.
• Tang Dongling welcomed Wu Yun at the auction, where his companions drew attention, and she opened the event by presenting the mid-grade Heavenly Martial Art Fire Demon Heaven-Reaching Palm.

Wu Yun sold extraordinary Life Mysterious Spirit Fruits at the Heavenly Merchant Auction, earning enough Mysterious Yuan Pills to bid freely on rare treasures. When a mysterious dried corpse appeared in a Crystal Coffin, Huangwu identified it as a damaged Devouring Heavenly Corpse, and Wu Yun resolved to obtain and repair it.

• Wu Yun won a mid-grade Heavenly Martial Art for six million Mysterious Yuan Pills.
• Tang Dongling auctioned azure, crimson, and golden Life Mysterious Spirit Fruits, whose demonstrated breakthrough effects drove fierce bidding and earned Wu Yun nearly three hundred million Mysterious Yuan Pills.
• Wu Yun and Ling Qingzhu spent the first half of the auction bidding on martial arts, Heaven Tier Spirit Treasures, and other rare goods.
• A pitch-black corpse in a Crystal Coffin triggered Wu Yun's Devouring Rune, and Huangwu identified it as a damaged Devouring Heavenly Corpse once refined by the Devouring Master.
• Wu Yun considered repairing and possibly mass-producing the Devouring Heavenly Corpse while Tang Dongyu told the audience it had survived a Death Profound Stage expert's full-force attack.

Wu Yun’s group swept up auction treasures at the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion, including the Heavenly Phoenix Shattering Void Bow, while Xie Yan won the silver tower tied to the Lightning Ancestral Symbol. After the auction, Little Mink and Lin Dong took treasures worth at least one billion Mysterious Yuan Pills from the Pavilion’s vault, and Wu Yun offered to trade for them with rare high-grade resources.

• Wu Yun’s group outbid Chen Ying for the Devouring Heavenly Corpse, then let Xie Yan raise the price to twenty million and take it.
• Wu Yun’s group bought numerous auction items, including the Heavenly Phoenix Shattering Void Bow for thirty million Mysterious Yuan Pills.
• Wu Yun bid sixty million for the silver tower, then stopped when Xie Yan offered sixty-five million and won it.
• Little Mink and Lin Dong returned from the hidden vault with treasures worth at least one billion Mysterious Yuan Pills.
• Wu Yun offered Tang Dongling high-grade treasures in exchange for the vault’s contents and considered continuing business with the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion.

Wu Yun seized the Silver Tower from Xie Yan and captured the pursuing factions before entering the Ancient Tablet World with the Devouring Heavenly Corpse. As he began refining the corpse, a mental image revealed a vast black crack filled with an evil aura.

• Wu Yun and Huangwu divided their forces to pursue the Evil Wind Grotto-Heaven’s groups carrying the Devouring Heavenly Corpse and the Silver Tower.
• Zhou Qian and Chen Ying ambushed Xie Yan, but Old Man Magic Scorpion’s Death Profound Stage power drove them back.
• Wu Yun subdued Xie Yan, Old Man Magic Scorpion, Zhou Qian, Chen Ying, and their followers with the Ancient Tablet’s force and his Gravity Domain, took the Silver Tower, and sent them into the Ancient Tablet World.
• Lin Dong and Little Mink’s group obtained the Devouring Heavenly Corpse, and Wu Yun’s group entered the Ancient Tablet World.
• Wu Yun infused Devouring Power into the corpse and saw a mental image of an enormous black crack spreading an evil aura across the plane.

Wu Yun learned that an Alien Demon Emperor had wounded the Devouring Heavenly Corpse, then recovered the corpse and uncovered the Lightning Ancestral Symbol’s location. As he traveled southwest with his companions, Wu Xuan of Evil Wind Grotto-Heaven confronted him over the stolen Silver Tower and the fate of Xie Yan and Demon Scorpion.

• Wu Yun watched the Devouring Heavenly Corpse’s memory of the Devouring Master entering a Planar Rift, being struck by a powerful demon, and escaping after the corpse took a blow for him.
• Wu Yun imprinted the damaged Devouring Heavenly Corpse and found materials in the Heavenly Merchant Pavilion’s treasury to begin repairing it.
• Wu Yun broke the seal on the Silver Tower and discovered a map pointing to the Lightning Ancestral Symbol in the southwestern Chaotic Demon Sea.
• Wu Yun asked Mu Lingshan to summon a fast sea beast, and she brought forth a Sea Suppressing Mysterious Whale that Wu Yun enhanced with Wind and Water Talisman Scripts.
• Wu Yun began cultivating aboard the whale and prepared to break through to Life Profound Stage Consummation before a Samsara Stage man emerged from a spatial passage.
• Wu Xuan identified himself as the master of Evil Wind Grotto-Heaven and demanded to know whether Wu Yun had killed Xie Yan and Demon Scorpion.