Chapter Summaries

Li Mo entered the underground palace with Ying Bing and Tian Miao after learning that Ba, powerful beings driven by spiritual Baleful Intent, might inhabit the tomb. Inside, they discovered the palace was moving and had separated them from the other explorers, leaving them to figure out how to reach its main burial chamber.

• As a fierce, inhuman roar came from the entrance, Jiang Yu and Tan Zhuyin led their groups into the underground palace.
• Tian Miao explained what Ba were and joined Li Mo and Ying Bing to explore the tomb.
• Li Mo used the Heavenly Mandate Divine Eye to identify Zhu Renji as an assassin assigned to kill him and Ying Bing.
• Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tian Miao entered the underground palace and found no trace of the people who had gone in before them.
• Tian Miao realized the underground palace was moving and warned that they could be trapped unless they identified its era and solved its layout.

Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tian Miao explored an ancient Underground Palace, where Tian Miao discovered murals depicting the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ past. The murals revealed that the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix might also have been the Ying Family’s ancestor, while something began awakening among the statues.

• Li Mo pretended that the White Jade Pendant had detected a ghost, and Ying Bing played along until they were interrupted by Tian Miao’s call.
• After Li Mo and Ying Bing left, an eerie green light appeared in the eye of one of the statues as its stone shell began to peel away.
• Tian Miao showed Li Mo and Ying Bing a mural depicting the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in a cataclysmic collapse.
• The three found another mural showing nine figures descending from the sky, led by a compassionate woman Li Mo recognized from Jade Phoenix God.
• Li Mo realized that the woman might be the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix and the ancestor of the Ying Family, and Ying Bing reacted with shock.

Tian Miao explained the origins of the Nine Heavens and the limits of the Heaven Derivation Sect’s ability to read destinies. The group was attacked by three ancient Demon Summoning Cult Ba, and after Li Mo defeated one, Tian Miao identified them as Dream Ba and connected them to the Cloud Dream branch.

• Tian Miao explained that the Nine Heavens began as inheritances passed down from nine immortals, but later became a name for the nine strongest people in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Tian Miao described three kinds of beings whose destinies the Heaven Derivation Sect could not read and stared seriously at Li Mo.
• Li Mo warned that his jade pendant was heating up as three metallic, shadow-wreathed figures emerged behind the group.
• Li Mo used the Crimson Firmament Sword and Forty to kill one Ba with a hammer strike while Ying Bing and Tian Miao defeated the other two.
• Tian Miao identified the creatures’ power as a Dream Domain and explained that they were Dream Ba from the vanished Cloud Dream branch of the Demon Summoning Cult.
• Tian Miao looked toward the mural’s far-left figure and began considering the tomb owner’s identity.

Tan Zhuyin and the Demon Summoning Cult discovered that eight members had died in the Underground Palace while Dream Ba surrounded them. Meanwhile, Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tian Miao solved the palace’s chess-like layout, reached its alchemy room, and collected pills.

• Tan Zhuyin’s group realized eight people were missing and found their corpses on the floating bridge, surrounded by Dream Ba.
• Tian Miao mapped the Underground Palace, and Ying Bing recognized that its shifting chambers followed a chess game she had solved.
• Ying Bing set the Bronze Beasts to nine and thirteen, opening the gateway to the correct side chamber.
• Li Mo’s group reached a vast alchemy room where robed Dream Ba offered each person a bottle of pills.
• Tian Miao identified Li Mo’s pill as an Udumbara Pill, while Ying Bing’s pills turned out to strengthen yang.

Cloud-Crossing Sword City’s swordsmen were trapped in an underground palace and nearly overwhelmed by Tomb-Guarding Beasts until Li Mo and Astonishing Shadow arrived. Li Mo killed the Black Year Beast and saved the group, earning investment rewards for protecting Wu Chushu and Bai Jinghong.

• Bai Jinghong killed the Human-Faced Bat King, but the fight left him weakened and poisoned.
• A second Black Year Beast approached, leaving the injured swordsmen preparing to fight it.
• Astonishing Shadow struck the Black Year Beast with an icy sword, and True Words briefly restrained it.
• Li Mo smashed the Black Year Beast with his hammer and killed it.
• Li Mo’s system notified him that he had earned investment rewards for saving Wu Chushu and Bai Jinghong.

After the Human-Faced Bat was defeated, Li Mo treated the injured swordsmen and joined Tian Miao at a newly discovered mural. The mural revealed how the Nine Heavens used the Power of All Living Beings to bind innate beings, and the Underground Palace began shaking again.

• Bai Jinghong claimed he had only made a slight move against the Human-Faced Bat, then vomited from the poison gas.
• Li Mo gave the swordsmen Detoxification Pills and healing medicine, and explained that the creatures were Tomb-Guarding Beasts.
• Li Mo and Ying Bing followed Tian Miao to a ruined Scripture Pavilion, where she examined a mural depicting the Nine Heavens battling powerful innate beings.
• Tian Miao explained that innate beings merged with the Dao and could be reborn, while Li Mo and Ying Bing inferred that the Power of All Living Beings had been used to control them.
• The group saw further murals showing humans praying new innate beings into existence as human totems, and suspected that some ancient High Priests were predecessors of the Demon Summoning Cult.
• The Underground Palace suddenly shook again.

Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tian Miao hurried deeper into the Underground Palace as it shook, leaving Bai Jinghong and the other swordsmen in a safe area. Ancient murals and a diary revealed the palace’s history and the God Summoning Cult Leader Qin Yuzhi’s fear that beings awakening inside him would turn a dream into reality.

• Li Mo and Ying Bing decided to press on toward the main tomb chamber while Bai Jinghong and the Three Heroes of Cloud-Crossing stayed behind in a safe area.
• Ying Bing opened another stone door, and Li Mo led the group into a narrow passage lined with murals.
• The murals depicted the black tribe defeating the white tribe, the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix sheltering the world, and the founding of Great Shang.
• Ying Bing read a diary identifying Qin Yuzhi as the God Summoning Cult Leader who built the Cloud Dream Underground Palace using the Nine-Deaths Chess Game.
• The diary revealed Qin Yuzhi feared that beings awakening inside him would make the dream real and reduce his existence to their dream.

Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tian Miao reached the Cloud Dream Palace, where Ying Bing heard a voice calling her and seemed tied to the presence awakening within her. As they entered the Crystal Palace, Jiang Yu and his allies arrived, but the gates shut before they could follow.

• Li Mo and Tian Miao discussed the writing that suggested Qin Yuzhi built the Cloud Dream Palace to contain an awakening presence, while Ying Bing recalled dreams from her past life.
• Ying Bing told Li Mo that an unseen voice ahead was calling for her, and the group pressed on as thunder from the pursuing Seventh Realm Profound Mastery Sage drew closer.
• Li Mo, Ying Bing, and Tian Miao entered the main tomb and found the Crystal Palace, a colored-glass coffin, and the remains of powerful figures.
• Jiang Yu and his Imperial Grand Uncle arrived at the main tomb, while Tan Zhuyin and the others broke through another wall and reached the chamber.
• Luo Yexian spotted the trio entering the Crystal Palace, but its gates shut before the silver-armored commander and the Demon Summoning Cult Dharma Kings could enter.

Li Mo and the others met a ghostly figure claiming to be Qin Yuzhi inside the Crystal Palace, where she revealed that the Nine Heavens inheritances were seeds for the revival of ancient beings. She asked Ying Bing to reclaim the Heavenly Phoenix Domain and destroy her body, but Li Mo grew suspicious and accused her of not being Qin Yuzhi.

• A woman's voice revealed a vision inside the Crystal Palace, and she identified herself as Qin Yuzhi while looking at Ying Bing.
• Li Mo tested the figure with a gold brick, which passed through her, then asked whether she had released the Black Year Beast; she said it was her, but also Him, pointing to the crystal coffin.
• Qin Yuzhi explained that the Nine Heavens inheritances were seeds for their original owners' revival and that she had sealed her body in the coffin while her Will Soul escaped into the Heavenly Phoenix Domain.
• Qin Yuzhi addressed Ying Bing as the Primal Phoenix Ancestral God and asked her to reclaim the domain, stop the Great Dream Ancestral God from awakening, and let Qin Yuzhi's body return to dust.
• Li Mo stopped Ying Bing from opening the coffin, asked Tian Miao whether she could see Qin Yuzhi's destiny, and concluded that the figure was not Qin Yuzhi.

Ying Bing exposed the being posing as Qin Yuzhi as the Cloud Dream Ancestral God, who used the Heavenly Phoenix Domain to trap the group in dreams. After Li Mo and Ying Bing awakened, Ying Bing moved to refine the domain while Li Mo opened the coffin containing the real Qin Yuzhi.

• Ying Bing accused the supposed Qin Yuzhi of being Cloud Dream Immortal, and the Ancestral God tested the group as the Heavenly Phoenix Domain grew unstable.
• The Cloud Dream Ancestral God cast the group into a dream, where Li Mo recognized the false scene and broke free.
• Ying Bing awakened alongside Li Mo, and she told him to open the coffin.
• Tian Miao used a word of truth to strengthen Li Mo, who shifted the heavy coffin lid open.
• Ying Bing flew toward the main body of the Heavenly Phoenix Domain to refine it rather than undo its seal.

Li Mo and Ying Bing freed Qin Yuzhi from her coffin and woke her by interrupting her dream of winning mahjong. As Cloud Dream Immortal vanished, she sent half of the Heavenly Phoenix Domain into Ying Bing, leaving Li Mo with an unclaimed investment return.

• Ying Bing cut down the black arms reaching from the Heavenly Phoenix Domain while Li Mo opened Qin Yuzhi's coffin.
• Li Mo discovered Qin Yuzhi was alive and, after shaking and slapping her failed to wake her, roused her by claiming he had robbed her mahjong win.
• Qin Yuzhi awoke, causing Cloud Dream Immortal's manifestation and the domain's turmoil to stop.
• Before disappearing, Cloud Dream Immortal warned that Qin Yuzhi would awaken one day and sent the Heavenly Phoenix Domain into Ying Bing.
• The Demon Summoning Cult and Great Yu Dynasty watched the Crystal Palace flare as Jiang Yu and Imperial Grand Uncle considered claiming whoever received its inheritance.
• Li Mo received a notification that Ying Bing had obtained half of the Heavenly Phoenix Domain and that he had an unclaimed investment return.

Ying Bing absorbed the Heavenly Phoenix Domain and appeared to undergo a dangerous transformation, but Li Mo used Sharing the Moon to reconnect with her Will Soul. After Qin Yuzhi questioned whether Ying Bing was truly herself, Li Mo cut off her embarrassing answer and turned to the danger waiting outside the Crystal Palace.

• The Heavenly Phoenix Domain merged into Ying Bing's brow, alarming Qin Yuzhi, who warned Li Mo that Ying Bing possessed three and a half of the Nine Souls of Primal Phoenix.
• Li Mo approached Ying Bing through the domain's radiance and used Sharing the Moon to awaken her Will Soul and connect with it.
• Ying Bing returned to herself and responded to Li Mo, but Qin Yuzhi warned that a revived consciousness might not realize it had changed.
• Qin Yuzhi suggested testing Ying Bing by asking what the awakened consciousness could never do, and Ying Bing began exposing Li Mo's lewd interests.
• Li Mo covered Ying Bing's mouth and insisted he believed her, then announced that hostile groups were waiting outside the Crystal Palace and asked how they could escape.

Li Mo explained to Qin Yuzhi that thousands of years had passed, Great Shang had fallen, and her cult had become the notorious Demon Summoning Cult. With enemies surrounding the Crystal Palace and Qin Yuzhi unable to help, Li Mo suddenly came up with a plan.

• Li Mo told Qin Yuzhi how he and Ying Bing had reached the Crystal Palace and that factions, including the crown prince and his protector, blocked the exit.
• Qin Yuzhi revealed her inherited divine whip, but Li Mo recognized it as an artifact from the fallen Great Shang Dynasty.
• Li Mo explained that Great Yu had replaced Great Shang and that Qin Yuzhi's cult had become the infamous Demon Summoning Cult, leaving her devastated.
• Ying Bing warned that the crown prince's protector was a mid-stage Profound Mastery cultivator whose Dao of Heavenly Tribulation countered Qin Yuzhi's Dream Dao.
• As thunder and destructive power shook the Crystal Palace, Li Mo announced that he had thought of a way out.

The Cloud Dream Ancestral God awakened and fought the Great Yu forces while the Demon Summoning Cult joined the battle. In the chaos, Li Mo and Qin Yuzhi used a decoy and Dream Butterflies to escape, though Li Mo remained worried about Ice Block.

• The Cloud Dream Ancestral God filled the Underground Palace with a dreamscape, and the Demon Summoning Cult followers attacked the Heaven Patrol Guards as the Ancestral God clashed with the divine lightning.
• Jiang Yu fought Tan Zhuyin, but spotted Li Mo sneaking out of the Crystal Palace and pursued him; Tan Zhuyin and the Demon Summoning Holy Son followed.
• Li Mo and Qin Yuzhi revealed that the divine light was a trick created with the Mirage Spirit Divine Pearl and that the Ancestral God was only a dream shadow.
• Qin Yuzhi concealed herself and Li Mo among Dream Butterflies, guiding them through the battle as they made their escape.
• Li Mo glanced at Ice Block, whose destiny he still could not see, then focused on controlling his External Incarnation.

Li Mo fled Lanke Mountain with a divine treasure while the Crown Prince of Great Yu and Demon Summoning Cult disciples pursued him, and Qin Yuzhi used her Dream Escape Art to take him and their companions back to Autumn Water Pavilion. Li Mo then let his External Incarnation be destroyed, leaving the world to believe Divine Hammer Little Overlord had died.

• Li Mo emerged from the underground palace carrying a divine treasure as Jiang Yu, Tan Zhuyin, the Heaven Patrol Guard, and Demon Summoning Cult disciples chased him.
• Li Mo warned the Cloud-Crossing Sword City swordsmen not to intervene, but Elder Zeng and the others disguised themselves in black hoods and flew after the pursuers.
• Other martial artists copied the swordsmen and put on hoods, while Qin Yuzhi used her Dream Escape Art to bring Li Mo, Ice Block, and Tian Miao to Autumn Water Pavilion in Purple Sun Prefecture.
• Li Mo sat down to control his External Incarnation, and news spread that Divine Hammer Little Overlord had fallen at Lanke Mountain.
• Fifty li from Lanke Mountain, Zhu Renji struck Li Mo's External Incarnation with his palm, and it vanished, leaving only a strand of hair as Elder Zeng screamed.

After Li Mo faked his death, Elder Zeng and the others took a strand of his hair as his remains, while Li Mo offered the disillusioned Qin Yuzhi a place in his supposed Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect. Ying Bing then sensed a presence calling to her from the Heavenly Phoenix Domain.

• Elder Zeng and the Three Heroes of Cloud-Crossing believed Li Mo had died, and Elder Zeng led them to recover his lone remaining hair.
• At Autumn Water Pavilion, Qin Yuzhi grieved over losing her career, and Li Mo offered to re-employ her in the Myriad Phenomena Immortal Sect.
• Li Mo told Qin Yuzhi she would stay at Autumn Water Pavilion and report to the Clear Abyss Sect before joining his sect.
• Ying Bing retired to her chamber and worried that she might become someone who no longer remembered Li Mo.
• Ying Bing felt an unseen presence calling to her from the Heavenly Phoenix Domain and sensed its gaze fixed on her.

Ying Bing met Ying Huang, a consciousness who revealed that the Heavenly Phoenix Domain had been used to deduce the future and urged her to retrieve its other half. After Ying Bing vowed to remain herself, the system began a new ranking of peerless prodigies in the Imperial Capital, while Li Mo prepared to collect investment rewards.

• Ying Bing encountered Ying Huang within the Heavenly Phoenix Domain and learned that the voice from Cloud Dream Palace had been hers.
• Ying Huang explained that the Lanke Mountain chess game represented her incomplete deductions of the future and asked Ying Bing to retrieve the other half of the Heavenly Phoenix Domain.
• Ying Bing agreed to claim the other half but insisted she would rather die than become Ying Huang or anyone else.
• Ying Bing awoke with the incomplete Heavenly Phoenix Domain fully belonging to her and resolved to surpass Ying Huang and herself.
• The system began a new ranking of peerless prodigies in the Imperial Capital, with the loser required to plant forty-nine strawberries on the winner.
• Li Mo returned to his room and began collecting investment feedback from the factions and martial world figures who had escaped Lanke Mountain.

Li Mo sorted his investment rewards and found the Hundred Refinements of Divine Treasures, a forging method that could temper his body and advance his cultivation. As dusk fell, Ying Bing sought Qin Yuzhi’s advice on how to resist the influence of other consciousnesses.

• Li Mo organized his growing investment rewards and marked supplies needed by impoverished villages and towns that worshiped the Heavenly Venerable Immortal.
• Li Mo upgraded the Flood Dragon-Slaying Sword Art with the Ancient Bronze Heavenly Book Seal, turning it into the top-grade supreme Dragon-Slaying Sword Art for Princess Little Jiang.
• Li Mo received the Hundred Refinements of Divine Treasures from investing in Ying Bing and persuaded Hammer Treasure to help him forge, promising it a beautiful sword as a playmate.
• Ying Bing stopped contacting the incomplete Heavenly Phoenix Domain and found Qin Yuzhi writing a résumé in the courtyard.
• Ying Bing asked Qin Yuzhi how to remain clear-headed and avoid the influence of other consciousnesses.

Li Mo sought ways to keep the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix from awakening within Ying Bing, but Qin Yuzhi had no knowledge of the ancient being’s temperament. A clue from Ying Bing’s dream led him to conclude that the Primal Phoenix had never been in love and did not understand love.

• Jiang Chulong worried that Big Brother Li was dead, so Li Mo reassured her and taught her the Dragon-Slaying Sword Art.
• Jiang Chulong challenged Red Dragon with her new sword art, then Li Mo sent her out of the Small World and cultivated through the night.
• Li Mo asked Qin Yuzhi whether Cloud Dream Immortal could awaken inside her, and Qin Yuzhi explained how she suppressed the awakening by acting against Cloud Dream Immortal’s nature.
• Qin Yuzhi said she knew nothing about the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix’s preferences, so Li Mo recalled the Ying Family’s creation story from Ying Bing’s dream.
• Li Mo concluded that the Nine-Colored Primal Phoenix had never been in love and did not understand love, stunning Qin Yuzhi.

Ying Bing wondered whether her growing attachment to Li Mo was love, while the group gathered at Autumn Water Pavilion for a mahjong tournament. At the main peak, Elder Zeng reported that Li Mo had died in the Cloud Dream Underground Palace, leaving Elder Han He wondering who he had seen playing mahjong.

• Ying Bing reflected on her past rejection of love and her growing closeness to Li Mo, then sat with him to eat fried dough sticks and drink soy milk.
• Qin Yuzhi arrived with a mahjong table and wondered whether Li Mo's Love Battle Plan had begun.
• Li Mo woke Shang Wu to fill the last seat, and Autumn Water Pavilion's first Sparrow God Tournament began.
• Elder Zeng told Shangguan Wencang that Li Mo had died in the Cloud Dream Underground Palace and showed him a hair as evidence.
• Elder Han He realized he had just seen Li Mo playing mahjong at Autumn Water Pavilion and feared he had seen a ghost.