Chapter Summaries

Celestial Maiden Gu Yue’s Ancient and Modern Bright Moon revealed the ruined city’s past, but it drew a terrifying curse that overtook the cultivators on Martial Dao Spirit Island. Lin Chen followed them into the darkness and heard a voice describe the current beings as failed products.

• Celestial Maiden Gu Yue retraced the town’s past, revealing a vast city destroyed by a battle whose participants and victims were nowhere to be seen.
• A bone-white temple filled with corpses appeared in the visions and swallowed the surrounding streets, turning the area into a Demon Grotto.
• Mister Mist and Celestial Maiden Gu Yue tried to withdraw and resist, but an unknown will overpowered them and stripped the cultivators of their emotions.
• Lin Chen watched the cultivators walk toward the depths as their bodies were harvested, then questioned how the hidden force could divide space without alerting the Immortal Alliance’s Heavenly Lords.
• After the other cultivators vanished into an impenetrable darkness, Lin Chen entered it and heard a voice call the present beings failed products that had not achieved a perfect, eternally living form.

Lin Chen awoke in a place resembling Martial Dao Spirit Island three months in the past and realized it was likely a reflection or illusion rather than true time travel. After witnessing a riot over Spirit Puppets turn into a massacre, he encountered Mister Mist, who said Evil Cultivators had trapped them in a mental illusion.

• Lin Chen woke in a newly kept house and found a date showing that it was three months before the Immortal Alliance fleet arrived.
• He reasoned that he had not traveled back in time and went outside, where cultivators were rioting against Spirit Puppets replacing their work.
• The island lord summoned a fiery storm and burned the rioters, while Lin Chen sensed that intervening would bring a deadly crisis.
• Lin Chen took refuge in an inn cellar, where Mister Mist attacked him before recognizing that Lin Chen was an East Sea Cultivator.
• Lin Chen saw that he had his original Lingnan face, and Mister Mist declared that Evil Cultivators had trapped them in a mental illusion.

Lin Chen and the gathered Immortal Alliance cultivators explored a ruined city where time had shifted and its inhabitants had vanished. They discovered that the city’s strange paintings were otherworldly writing that could corrupt minds, just as someone revealed the purpose behind the trap: life’s Great Ascension.

• Lin Chen joined Mister Mist, Celestial Maiden Gu Yue, True Lord Lie Kong, and other survivors, who debated whether to explore the city or wait for reinforcements before agreeing to move out.
• The cultivators emerged from the cellar to find that a day and night had passed in minutes, and they discovered the ruined city held no people, corpses, or ashes.
• Shadow Kill True Lord confirmed that he could find no shadows of living people, while True Lord Lie Kong proposed that the vanished inhabitants might explain their predicament.
• Lin Chen noticed strange, widespread paintings, and True Lord Lie Kong was nearly corrupted after recognizing them as Heavenly Script Cloud Seal from outside their world.
• Celestial Maiden Gu Yue connected the writing to Cloud Seal Demon Venerable, and Lin Chen suggested the enemy sought something beyond mutual destruction before an unseen speaker declared it was for life's Great Ascension.

Lin Chen and the Immortal Alliance cultivators encountered the Lord of the Celestial Being Path, whose soul had been scattered and whose remaining thought revealed the Native Sect’s beliefs and connection to Martial Dao Spirit Island and Incense Spirit Island. With their way out uncertain, the group decided to follow him to the sect’s temple, while Lin Chen discovered his planted Hell Strange Flowers were still spreading through the island.

• The Lord of the Celestial Being Path appeared before Lin Chen and the Nascent Soul cultivators, but Mister Mist recognized him as their enemy and Shadow Kill True Lord determined that he was only a lingering thought with his soul scattered.
• Lin Chen questioned the old man about the murals and learned that the Native Sect sought to free life from the mortal world, drew on Evolved Martial Dao, and was connected to Incense Spirit Island.
• True Lord Lie Kong asked where the sect was based, and the Lord of the Celestial Being Path invited the cultivators to its temple, where surviving cultivators had gathered.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators debated whether the invitation was a trap and decided they had to enter the sect’s base to find a way out.
• Lin Chen spotted a break in the ruins’ illusion and realized that the improved Hell Strange Flowers he had planted were still spreading and contesting control of the island.

Lin Chen explained how the enemy had used the cultivators’ caution to divide the Immortal Alliance Army and trap them, then questioned the Lord of the Celestial Being Path about the Native Sect. The Lord revealed the sect’s goal of freeing souls from physical bodies and returning them to the Dao, while the cultivators held back and listened.

• Grayish-white mist spread across the ruins, exposing a boundless darkness filled with blood-red Hell Strange Flowers.
• Lin Chen joined the Nascent Soul True Lords’ secret Divine Sense communication and explained how the enemy had turned their caution and separation into a trap.
• Celestial Maiden Gu Yue questioned how the Lord of the Celestial Being Path could destroy them as a lingering thought, and Lin Chen linked the island’s vanished inhabitants to the sect’s experiments.
• Lin Chen asked the Lord of the Celestial Being Path about the Native Sect, causing the mist to vanish and blood-red flowers to cover the ruins.
• The Lord of the Celestial Being Path described the soul as the foundation of life and said the Native Sect sought to free every living being from the body and return them to the Dao.

The Lord of the Celestial Being Path revealed that the Hell Ten Paths’ sacrifice had awakened a Flesh and Blood Mother Tree on Martial Dao Spirit Island, a demonic creature born from over a million lives. As the creature’s contamination began transforming the cultivators, Lin Chen identified it as a defective experiment and explained the greater being’s plan to unite all souls into a single eternal life.

• Mister Mist and the other Nascent Soul True Lords discovered that their Dao Domains could not escape the Lord of the Celestial Being Path’s control.
• The Lord of the Celestial Being Path revealed the Tree of Life, and the shattered surroundings exposed Martial Dao Spirit Island as a living Demon Grotto.
• The Flesh and Blood Mother Tree appeared as a Spirit Transformation-level demonic creature, but Lin Chen called it a defective product.
• The Lord of the Celestial Being Path reacted violently, and its whispers began invading the cultivators’ minds and mutating their bodies.
• Lin Chen deduced that the Drought Demon had used the island’s million inhabitants as an experiment and described the greater being’s aim to return all living souls to a shared origin.

Drought Demon and Heavenly Demon planned to bring about a Great Tribulation by destroying spirit veins and unleashing war, pestilence, famine, and death, while Drought Demon advanced beyond his bloodline limits. As reinforcements reached Martial Dao Spirit Island, a terrifying natural omen of blood rain and weeping appeared, heralding a Fierce Demon.

• Drought Demon and Heavenly Demon discussed the decline of the other Heavenly Lords and planned to destroy the High Order Spirit Veins, bringing on the Age of Dharma's End and the Great Tribulation.
• Drought Demon spread his Corpse Poison throughout the regions beyond the Central Lands, causing countless living beings to become parasitized and destined to awaken in a hundred years.
• Drought Demon transformed beyond the limitations of his Ancient Variant Drought Demon bloodline and declared he would let the transmigrator challenge his Dao.
• Old Woman Han Yue and Divine Firmament Dao Master arrived at Martial Dao Spirit Island with a second, smaller group of Immortal Alliance reinforcements.
• Blood rain and ghostlike sobbing appeared over the island, infecting the cultivators with grief and prompting Cloud Lord to recognize a natural anomaly associated with the appearance of a Fierce Demon.

Lin Chen identified the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree’s true-spirit illusion and its plan to devour the Immortal Alliance, but he was swallowed while seeking an opportunity. The tree corrupted and consumed the Nascent Soul True Lords until lightning split the Blood Moon in response to a call for Thunder Duke’s aid.

• Lin Chen explained that Martial Dao Spirit Island had captured their bodies and trapped their true spirits in an illusion while the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree grew by devouring cultivators.
• The Mother Tree unleashed blood rain and contamination, revealing the embryo beneath its Blood Moon as the vessel for a greater being.
• Lin Chen was devoured, leaving the other cultivators believing he had died and depriving them of a plan to escape.
• Celestial Maiden Gu Yue’s summoned shadow dissipated, and the remaining Nascent Soul True Lords were transformed or consumed by the Mother Tree.
• As the Mother Tree continued to evolve, lightning tore through the Blood Moon after someone called, “Thunder Duke, lend me your aid!”

Zhang Hao was contaminated by the Blood Moon after seeing the Mother Tree and fled underground, while Tree Elder urged him to hide at Penglai. At Martial Dao Spirit Island, the Immortal Alliance’s reinforcements freed the trapped cultivators and prepared to face the Mother Tree as the Nine Great Immortal Sects’ Dao Sons arrived.

• Zhang Hao saw the moon turn red and became entranced by the Mother Tree’s whispers until Tree Elder woke him and told him to escape underground.
• Zhang Hao discovered that the Blood Moon had contaminated his Nascent Soul, mutated his body, damaged his soul, and cost him at least a hundred years of Dao Cultivation.
• Tree Elder explained that the disaster was local and likely caused by a powerful Demonic Beast, then warned Zhang Hao to hide at Penglai while the Immortal Alliance searched for him.
• At Martial Dao Spirit Island, the Divine Firmament Dao Master’s lightning broke the Mother Tree’s restraints and freed the trapped Immortal Alliance cultivators.
• Heavenly Craftsman Venerable cautioned the reinforcements not to underestimate the Mother Tree, and Old Woman Han Yue revealed the arrival of the Nine Great Immortal Sects’ Dao Sons.

The Dao Children and Old Woman Han Yue worked together to counter the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree’s corruption and kill the Spirit Transformation demon. Just as the onlookers believed the threat was gone, True Lord Xingmu warned that it would not be so easily resolved, and another abnormal change began.

• Xu Yuanling and Song Jingxuan assessed the Mother Tree’s contamination and demonic cultivation method, while Fang Wangming urged the Immortal Alliance to slaughter anyone who practiced it.
• Old Woman Han Yue used the Moon Wheel to purify the Blood Moon and break the Mother Tree’s advantage in timing.
• Su Liyue blanketed the sky with talismanic snow, and Shen Qingyang’s Water God Sons formed a grand formation that sealed and devastated the Blood Sea.
• Xu Yuanling used the Supreme Dipper Decree to expose the Mother Tree’s true body and disable its life-substitution techniques.
• Gu Wushuang unleashed a sword strike that erased the Blood Sea, Demonic Beasts, and Mother Tree, prompting Xu Yuanyang to marvel at the Dao Children’s coordination.
• True Lord Xingmu warned that the Mother Tree would not be so easily defeated, and another abnormal change arose.

The Dao Children and Immortal Alliance cultivators tried to confirm that the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree had been killed, but its final counterattack trapped them in a realm of corpse horrors. They discovered that although the Mother Tree’s corpse was dead, the fetus inside it remained alive and began drawing power from the surrounding world; the chapter ended as Lin Chen’s Shore Flowers appeared and an infant cried.

• Gu Wushuang warned that the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree was not dead, and the cultivators were engulfed by darkness, falling blood, and countless corpse-like women.
• A female corpse seized Wu Yong, killed him with the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, and drew his soul away through crimson patterns.
• Fang Wangming and the other cultivators broke through the darkness with their techniques and believed they had destroyed the Mother Tree.
• The hearts of living beings across a million-mile sea territory began beating in unison, killing surviving cultivators as spiritual qi and the surrounding world resonated with the rhythm.
• Su Liyue realized that the fetus inside the dead Mother Tree was alive, and Song Jingxuan suspected it was receiving help from an external force.
• The Xuanmen Dao Child tore open the dream to reveal a boundless sea of Lin Chen’s Shore Flowers, and an infant cried across Heaven and Earth.

Lin Chen awakened from a century-long dream and planned to use a spirit embryo, his Split Spirits, and the Ghost Ship to break through to Spirit Transformation and eventually become a Heavenly Lord. As countless voices across the Dream Realm called his name, he answered and began to act.

• Lin Chen reunited with his Split Spirits and explained that the danger posed by increasingly active Heavenly Lords had changed his plans.
• Lin Chen proposed merging the Split Spirits, fifth-order Dream Spiritual Energy, Soul Returning Wood, and the spirit embryo born from the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree to meet the requirements for Spirit Transformation.
• True Lord Xuanhuang warned that the spirit embryo might be part of Celestial Venerable Drought Demon's scheme, but Lin Chen said the Ghost Ship's higher-dimensional aura could suppress Drought Demon's influence.
• Lin Chen revealed his plan to use the Ghost Ship to create the Nine Netherlands, transform it into a new world, and gather its accumulated inheritances and resources to advance toward becoming a Heavenly Lord.
• Lin Chen and his Split Spirits agreed to proceed, and countless voices in the Dream Realm called out his name before he answered, "I... am here."

As the East Sea Immortal Alliance celebrated its victory over the Hell Ten Paths, Spider Web Spirit Queen and Forget Demon Venerable secretly spread their influence across a Mountain City and discussed waiting for a chance to strike. Across the world, people began calling Lin Chen’s name, and he emerged from the dreamscape through a door into the Real World, beginning the Path of the Primordial Spirit.

• The East Sea Immortal Alliance’s victory over the Hell Ten Paths brought prosperity and celebration to Penglai Island and the wider Cultivation World.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen and Forget Demon Venerable spread spider threads through a Mountain City and decided to wait for a better opportunity to attack the Immortal Alliance.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen and Forget Demon Venerable discovered their controlled puppets breaking free and calling out Lin Chen’s name.
• People across the Central Land and Four Seas, including humans, demons, devils, and ghosts, began unconsciously saying Lin Chen’s name.
• Lin Chen left the dreamscape through a door into the Real World, beginning the Path of the Primordial Spirit.

A mysterious spiritual fetus formed a Nascent Soul and faced attacks from the cultivators who feared its power. As the Death River Dao Child appeared to kill it, Song Jingxuan discovered an extra figure among the Dao Children: someone who had just successfully formed a Nascent Soul.

• The cultivators realized the Flesh and Blood Mother Tree’s fetus was the source of the danger and feared a Heavenly Lord might descend through it.
• The Heavenly River Old Monster tore open the Sea of Flowers with Primordial Heavy Water, revealing a radiant spiritual fetus absorbing spiritual qi and transforming its surroundings into information.
• Old Woman Han Yue froze the space around the fetus, and Death River Dao Child Fang Wangming summoned the Death River to drag it under.
• The cultivators believed the fetus was dead, but Song Jingxuan noticed there were seven Dao Children present and demanded to know who the extra figure was.
• The mysterious figure revealed that he had finally overcome his tribulations and formed a Nascent Soul.

Lin Chen appeared among the Immortal Alliance cultivators, revealed his power over dreams and forgetting, and tried to leave before they could identify him. As he faded from their memories, Fang Wangming and Li Mingzhen resisted his escape and struck at him.

• Gu Wushuang attacked Lin Chen with a deadly sword, but Lin Chen returned unharmed through a method the cultivators mistook for Zhang Tianwen's Reverse-Time Reversion.
• True Lord Xingmu recognized Lin Chen, and the Xuanmen Dao Child deduced that he had awakened from the Dream Realm and might be tied to the Nanhua Dream Sect or Heavenly Demon Cult.
• Lin Chen tried to withdraw, but the Heavenly River Old Monster sealed the surrounding space with Primordial Heavy Water.
• Lin Chen's power erased the cultivators' memories of him, leading them to recognize him as the Forget Demon Venerable and decide to attack.
• The cultivators lost track of Lin Chen as their memories and actions clashed, but Fang Wangming and Li Mingzhen remained aware of him; Li Mingzhen raised his hand and plunged the world into darkness.

Lin Chen was ambushed by the Immortal Alliance elders, who used a secret art to extinguish his Three Fires and make the world itself condemn him to death. As his body rotted away, he revealed a Sixth-Order Spirit Embryo and began to reduce the surrounding region’s dimension.

• Li Mingzhen used Dream Power to trap Lin Chen’s consciousness and free the other cultivators from his Way of Forgetting, but Lin Chen broke out and identified Li Mingzhen as the culprit.
• Li Mingzhen accused Lin Chen of masterminding the attack on the Flying Boat Sea Market, and Lin Chen admitted it before the gathered Immortal Alliance cultivators attacked him.
• Xu Yuanling summoned the Supreme Dipper Seven Stars God while Fang Wangming used ghosts to extinguish Lin Chen’s Three Fires, causing the world to condemn him to death.
• Lin Chen’s remade body succumbed to the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, but the cultivators remained wary of his ability to return.
• A childlike Sixth-Order Spirit Embryo appeared where Lin Chen’s shell had fallen and declared, “Dimensional reduction!”

Lin Chen unveiled his Order Dao Domain, silenced spiritual energy across the battlefield, and sent the Xuanmen Dao Child away with a talisman. After Gu Wushuang struck him, Lin Chen separated the fighters into a star-lit night realm and revealed his plan to harvest their Destiny Divine Abilities.

• Lin Chen used his Order Dao Domain to dataize the surrounding region and overwhelm the other cultivators' domains.
• Lin Chen crushed a Dharma-Silencing Pearl, silencing spiritual energy and disabling the cultivators gathered around him.
• Lin Chen used an Instant Thousand Mile Talisman to teleport Xuanmen Dao Child Li Mingzhen to the Outer Domain's Year Warden's territory.
• Gu Wushuang pierced Lin Chen with a sword and deduced that the Lin Chen they had fought was only an incarnation of his true body, the Sixth-Order Spirit Embryo.
• Lin Chen's domain separated Gu Wushuang and the other fighters into a kingdom of night, where Lin Chen stood with Spirit Medium Bride and declared his intent to harvest their Destiny Divine Abilities.

Lin Chen fought Tianhe Sect Dao Child Shen Qingyang inside his Sea of Life Dao Domain, which absorbed its victims and evolved ways to counter their powers. Lin Chen realized the sea could learn from him and turned the battle into a race to overcome its adaptations.

• Shen Qingyang questioned how Lin Chen, a Rogue Cultivator, had reached such heights and offered him a chance to join the Immortal Alliance under a Life and Death Blood Contract.
• Lin Chen challenged Shen Qingyang to reveal his Dao, and Shen Qingyang transformed the grassland into Canghai, a boundless Sea of Life that dissolved Lin Chen’s body and soul.
• The sea repeatedly recreated Lin Chen and used copies of his Spiritual Power Method Great Sound is Silent to destroy him, while Lin Chen realized it was learning from his memories and methods.
• Lin Chen released his Digital Virus into the sea, but the Sea of Life adapted and developed immunity, revealing its ability to evolve countermeasures from absorbed wisdom.
• Lin Chen recognized that Shen Qingyang’s Dao Domain could turn opponents’ methods into its provisions, and Shen Qingyang sent the Sea of Life surging toward him again.

Lin Chen used a hidden virus to damage Shen Qingyang’s Sea of Life, then drew on the region’s abundant spiritual energy and his own Dao Domain to keep their battle at a stalemate. Elsewhere, his separate confrontations with Su Liyue and Gu Wushuang continued, and Lin Chen revealed that dividing his enemies was part of his plan to Impact Spirit Transmutation.

• Lin Chen triggered his hidden Word is Law command, destroying the infected copies of himself and weakening Shen Qingyang’s Sea of Life.
• Shen Qingyang used Artificial Spirit Crystals to restore his Sea of Life, while Lin Chen flooded it with players from his simulated game and reached a stalemate with him.
• Lin Chen explained that the spiritual energy released by the earlier battle replenished his strength, then hinted that others were already restraining Shen Qingyang’s allies.
• Su Liyue fought Lin Chen in a shifting formation that turned the land and stars into a dangerous chessboard, leaving her unable to break away.
• Gu Wushuang clashed with Lin Chen in a deadly sword fight and asked why he had divided the powerful cultivators against him.
• Lin Chen told Gu Wushuang that he had divided his enemies to Impact Spirit Transmutation.

Lin Chen met the Divine Firmament Dao Master on the battlefield and agreed to protect Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao’s disciples in exchange for the sect’s supreme method and secrets. The Dao Master revealed that Taixuan’s rise to Immortal Alliance Leader was tied to the Death River, leaving Lin Chen with a new warning about the cult.

• Lin Chen confronted the Divine Firmament Dao Master over his restrained fighting and heard how Canghai’s plan to destroy both the human and demon Cultivation Worlds had led the Dao Master to support it.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master admitted that Canghai had betrayed the Immortal Alliance and proposed a deal; Lin Chen agreed to aid Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao’s disciples in return for its supreme method and hidden knowledge.
• The Dao Master told Lin Chen that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation’s control core lay at Tiangong Island and warned him not to delve into dreams if the great calamity began.
• The Dao Master warned Lin Chen about the Death River Cult and Taixuan, while Lin Chen vowed to destroy the cult and recalled signs that Taixuan’s rise was suspicious.
• The Dao Master revealed that Taixuan had cultivated in seclusion without fighting or facing opposition before becoming Alliance Leader, and said his inquiry into Taixuan’s origins had returned the answer: “Death River.”