Chapter Summaries

Wang Mu persuaded Shi Huang to join King Wei’s camp after showing him evidence of the rebels’ atrocities, while an ancient willow recognized Shi Huang as the key to an approaching Great Tribulation. As the battlefield stabilized and Huang Tianhou’s defection shook the region, Wang Mu completed a pill that gave Spiritual Roots to ordinary people.

• Wang Mu showed Shi Huang images of blood sacrifices, soul gathering, and devastated cities, convincing him to join their cause.
• The ancient willow told Shi Huang that Wang Mu was beyond its understanding and that Shi Huang was destined to answer the Great Tribulation.
• Half a month later, the battlefield had become evenly matched, and news spread that Huang Tianhou had joined King Wei’s Mansion.
• Wang Mu told Wang Tianba to trust Shi Huang and let him act freely after joining their camp.
• Wang Mu gave his newly made pill to three ordinary people without Spiritual Roots, and spiritual energy appeared around them.

Wang Mu created pills that awakened dormant Spiritual Roots in mortals and dormant bloodlines in demons, then contacted Di Bailian to offer the Demon Race the new pill. The chapter ended with Di Qinglian, the first Young Emperor of the Emperor Demon Palace, appearing to speak with Wang Mu.

• Wang Mu's Huantian Pill gave three mortals newly detected Spiritual Roots, so he ordered mass production and a tenfold expansion of Langya Academies.
• Wang Mu refined a second pill using Demon Race Essence Blood and confirmed it could awaken a sea fish's dormant bloodline.
• Wang Mu called Di Bailian and offered to sell the Demon Race a pill that could awaken its sleeping bloodlines.
• Wang Mu demonstrated the pill's effect to Di Bailian and the Demon Race figures listening with her.
• Di Qinglian, the first Young Emperor of the Emperor Demon Palace, appeared and introduced himself to Wang Mu.

Wang Mu sold the Emperor Demon Palace a large order of Saintblood Pills and announced that the Langya Charity Foundation would distribute Huantian Pills for free, unsettling the Primal Origin Sacred Ground. Jiang Baiyi revealed to Ye Mo that their Sacred Ground had helped trap Wang Tianba and Luo Xuanshuang in the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Land, leaving the Wang Family’s conflict with them rooted in a plot that had failed.

• Di Qinglian requested one hundred thousand pills from Wang Mu, and Di Bailian negotiated their price up to one thousand five hundred Spirit Stones each.
• Wang Mu named the pills Saintblood Pills, gave the recipe to Tiangong Elder, and ordered production to increase.
• The Langya Charity Foundation announced that Huantian Pills, which could awaken Spiritual Roots in mortals, would be distributed for free, prompting an uproar across the Langya Forum.
• Ling Xiaozi ordered people to obtain Huantian Pills and investigate them, while Jiang Baiyi told Ye Mo they would fabricate a scandal if they found no flaw.
• Jiang Baiyi revealed that the Primal Origin Sacred Ground and the Qiankun Sacred Ground had plotted to trap Wang Tianba and Luo Xuanshuang in the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Land, but the pair had escaped and had a son there.

Ye Mo learned that Jiang Baiyi supported the Holy Arrival Meeting’s plan to revive the Holy God, but chose not to sacrifice ordinary people for the chance to reach higher worlds. Meanwhile, Wang Mu’s charity and academy expanded across the Northern Region, and he reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

• Jiang Baiyi told Ye Mo that Wang Mu was born in the Ancient Immortal Forbidden Land and that the Holy Arrival Meeting promised to open a path to the starfield’s heart if the Azure Yuan Realm helped revive the Holy God.
• Jiang Baiyi urged Ye Mo to prioritize the realm’s future, then privately discussed with an unseen voice whether Ye Mo might need to be eliminated if he refused their path.
• Ye Mo recorded Jiang Baiyi’s words and sent them to Great Love Immortal Venerable, explaining that he rejected sacrificing hundreds of millions of ordinary people for higher cultivation realms.
• Great Love Immortal Venerable warned Ye Mo to be careful around Jiang Baiyi, and Ye Mo said his cultivation technique’s flaw had been repaired.
• The Langya Charity Foundation distributed Huantian Pills to mortals while Langya Academy expanded, funded by the Emperor Demon Palace’s orders.
• Wang Mu’s investment returns increased as more Cultivators awakened, and after three months he reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Wang Mu learned that Huang Tianhou had crushed the feudal lords' rebellion, while Lin Yan warned that Di Wuming might be in danger. In Diqiu, Wang Tiangang revealed the late emperor's decree allowing him to take the throne if the young Emperor of Xia proved unfit, then disclosed that the emperor had a half-sister; Nie Tingting examined the jade bracelet left by her parents.

• Nie Tingting reported that Huang Tianhou had defeated the rebel forces and that all 372 rebellious feudal lords had been executed.
• Nie Tingting told Wang Mu that Han Li had gone missing, and Wang Mu decided to wait for further news.
• Di Bailian told Wang Mu that Lin Yan had exposed more than forty Holy Arrival Meeting spies in the Emperor Demon Palace, and Lin Yan warned that Di Wuming might be in trouble.
• Wang Tiangang confronted the Emperor of Xia over his plan to flee to the Central Region and his willingness to sacrifice commoners, then produced the late emperor's decree authorizing him to take the realm if the emperor proved incompetent.
• Wang Tiangang revealed that the late emperor had fathered a daughter with a woman from a sect, while Nie Tingting examined the jade bracelet her parents had left her.

Wang Mu rescued Lin Yan, Di Bailian, and the Emperor Demon Palace from a Soul Clan infiltrator who had possessed Di Wuming, then discussed an unspecified matter with the recovering palace master. Meanwhile, monks sent by the Ancient Buddha entered the Northern Region, and a fierce battle raged along the border between the Northern and Central Regions.

• Lin Yan suspected a Soul Clan infiltrator had damaged Di Wuming's seclusion restriction, but Di Qinglian refused to awaken their father in case it ruined his breakthrough.
• Di Wuming emerged from seclusion and, possessed by a Soul Clan member, killed several Young Emperors and attacked the survivors; Lin Yan used a talisman to shield himself and Di Bailian.
• Wang Mu arrived alone, blocked the possessed Di Wuming's attacks, and used a curse seal to extract and destroy the Soul Clan intruder's soul.
• Di Wuming survived but was weakened, and he mistook Wang Mu's request for advice as a question about marrying Di Bailian before Wang Mu corrected him.
• Monks sent by the Ancient Buddha tried to enter the Northern Region to spread Mahayana Buddhist teachings, while Cultivators at the border ordered them to leave.
• A battle between men and beasts erupted near the border between the Northern and Central Regions.

The Holy Arrival Meeting launched a coordinated invasion of the Azure Yuan Realm, leaving Northern Darkness Sacred Ground and the Wang Family surrounded by powerful enemies. Wang Mu urged the elders to concentrate their forces and began outlining a plan to resist.

• An ancient bell rang ninety-nine times as Luo Xuanshuang learned that two Buddhist Kingdoms and three Pure Lands had invaded.
• Luo Xuanshuang revealed that the Holy Arrival Meeting had secretly expanded its influence across the Western Land and Central Region.
• The Primal Origin Sacred Ground, Qiankun Sacred Ground, and Four Great Ancient Clans attacked Northern Darkness Sacred Ground's forces and the Immortal Dynasty, while the clans established Blood Sacrifice altars.
• Wang Mu warned the elders that the Holy Arrival Meeting intended to consume the realm's fate and would eventually betray its allies.
• Wang Mu proposed concentrating their forces in one place because they could not defend the vast Northern Region, and asked whether the Void Trains were ready.

Wang Mu organized the evacuation of the Northern Region's survivors to the North Sea and prepared to draw on its spiritual energy as invading forces gathered for an assault. In the ruined Yingchuan City, Ye Mo rejected the path of immortality and challenged his master Jiang Baiyi before leaving to follow his own purpose.

• Wang Mu ordered the Northern Region's survivors relocated to the North Sea and gave Elder Tianyuan the Vast Sea Spirit-Evolving Formation to extract the sea's spiritual energy.
• Luo Xuanshuang, Northern Darkness elders, and Wang Family experts raised a vast continent from beneath the North Sea while enormous void trains carried people there.
• Ancient wills planned to attack the North Sea, seize its Earth Vein and human qi, and bring about the Holy God's return.
• Ling Xiaozi ordered the Primal Origin Sacred Ground's disciples to launch a final assault on Northern Darkness, then learned that the Holy Son was missing.
• Ye Mo told Jiang Baiyi that he no longer wished to become an immortal and declared that he still wanted to be human.
• Ye Mo asked Jiang Baiyi to grant him guidance, and his aura and battle intent surged as the two prepared to fight.

Wang Mu used an ancient deduction art to calculate the near future while the Wang Family rallied the Azure Yuan Realm’s forces in the North Sea and prepared the population for the coming enemies. As sects opened their teachings and Cultivators rejected the Wang Family’s cultivation rewards, the realm united around defending its ancestral home.

• Wang Mu used grains of sand to precisely deduce the near future, exhausting himself before checking the messages on his Communication Talisman.
• The Wang Family gathered its allies in the North Sea, restored daily life, and promoted cultivation through the [Passing the Torch] event and the [Cultivation Fund].
• Wang Mu opened the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s inherited methods and the Northern Darkness Emperor Scripture on the Forum, offering recruitment to those who comprehended them.
• Sects and aristocratic families followed the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s example by sharing their techniques and assigning elders to answer questions.
• Cultivators on the Forum refused the Wang Family’s rewards, pledging to cultivate and defend the Azure Yuan Realm without payment.

Wang Mu’s cultivation fund helped strengthen the Northern Region as a great battle approached. A month later, an enemy force arrived at the North Sea, where Luo Xuanshuang confronted its Buddhist leaders and their allies.

• Wang Mu kept the cultivation fund active so cultivators would have resources to advance as the coming battle drew near.
• Ye Mo defeated Jiang Baiyi, thanked him for his past kindness, and left after Jiang Baiyi severed their master-disciple bond.
• Powerful figures from the Primal Origin Sacred Ground pursued Ye Mo, and Jiang Baiyi entered the void to confront them.
• A month later, Wang Mu sensed that the enemy had arrived at the North Sea.
• An immense fleet emerged from a black hole, and two ancient Buddhas and three veiled figures condemned the North Sea cultivators and the Wang Family.
• Luo Xuanshuang blocked the invaders with an azure immortal sword and challenged the Buddhas for calling the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground and the Wang Family enemies of salvation.

The Western Land and Central Region forces launched a full-scale assault on the North Sea, where Sacred Ground elders and allied sects fought back. As the battle spread, the enemy leaders discussed their numerical advantage and warned the North Sea to surrender, while the Wang Family had yet to appear.

• Sangharama Venerable cast his prayer beads, sending Buddhist forces from twelve grotto-heavens into battle as North Sea sects rallied to meet them.
• The Yan Family ancestor fought an Earth Immortal attacker, while Xiong Kui challenged the North Sea and a Five Hidden Sect Daoist answered with lightning arts.
• Elder Tianwu clashed with the Hidden Sword Immortal as experts from the Sacred Grounds joined the battle across the North Sea.
• Ling Xiaozi noted that the Wang Family had gathered many formerly neutral Northern Region forces, while Su Li urged the allied leaders to end the battle quickly before the Wang Family acted.
• A crystal-bodied Buddhist figure called on the North Sea to turn back, as the excerpt ended with his thousand-handed Dharma Idol beginning to appear.

Luo Xuanshuang held off the invading forces while allies from Great Xia and Kunlun joined the battle, shifting the tide against the three Pure Lands. The enemy sect masters summoned an ancestor whose Quasi-Emperor aura froze the battlefield.

• Luo Xuanshuang killed more than ten Earth Immortals and wounded Venerable Jialan while fighting Venerable Kasyapa.
• Su Li and Ling Xiaozi joined the fight against Luo Xuanshuang, but she continued to hold her own against all four opponents.
• Wang Tianba led the Zhenshijun into battle, while Shi Huang, a black-clad youth, and a young girl overwhelmed enemies in other parts of the battlefield.
• Murong Qiushui arrived with Kunlun Sacred Ground reinforcements, further turning the battle against the three Pure Lands.
• Dugu Jian called for the ancestor to act, and the Quasi-Emperor's arrival froze time and space across the North Sea.

The North Sea faced an invasion by three Quasi-Emperors and a terrifying Ancient God Clan expert, while the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground and its allies struggled to hold them back. Just as the Ancient God Clan expert moved to destroy the North Sea, Wang Mu appeared and repelled him with a flick of his finger.

• Luo Xuanshuang summoned the Northern Darkness Measuring Heavens Ruler, which manifested the Northern Darkness Great Emperor and fought the Primordial Pure Land Quasi-Emperor.
• Ling Xiaozi called forth the Ganges-Sands Radiant King Buddha Lord and Xuanming Supreme, but Di Wuming arrived and fought both Quasi-Emperors to a standstill.
• Luo Xuanshuang explained that Quasi-Emperors could not use their full strength without risking forced ascension, while the North Sea's people wondered whether Wang Mu had secured Di Wuming's aid.
• An Ancient God Clan expert appeared and attacked the North Sea, overwhelming its formation and prompting Luo Xuanshuang, the Northern Darkness disciples, and countless cultivators to resist.
• The Ancient God Clan expert began crushing the North Sea in his palm, but Wang Mu appeared and repelled him with a flick of his finger.

Wang Mu revealed overwhelming strength by repelling the Ancient God Clan expert and countering his starry-sky attack with chaos mist. As the enemy’s power drew the Heavenly Dao’s response, the battle reached a turning point.

• Wang Mu shocked the North Sea cultivators and his companions by appearing and repelling the Ancient God Clan expert with a flick of his finger.
• The Ancient God Clan expert called Wang Mu a great variable, vanished, and summoned destructive pillars of light from the Star River.
• Wang Mu covered the sky in chaos mist, swallowed the pillars, and struck the Ancient God Clan expert with the mist’s refining power.
• The Ancient God Clan expert transformed into a Golden God Clan member and grew stronger as ancient symbols resonated with heaven and earth.
• A majestic aura descended, and the onlookers identified it as the Heavenly Dao responding to power that exceeded the world’s limit.

The Ancient God used a divine ability to evade the Heavenly Dao’s perception, provoking the legendary Nine Heavens Immortal Tribulation against Wang Mu. Wang Mu’s Chaos Dao Domain absorbed the tribulation and began evolving into a universe, while the Ancient God attacked before Wang Mu could grow stronger.

• The Ancient God concealed himself from the Heavenly Dao, which redirected its attention to Wang Mu and began a tribulation that threatened everyone on the battlefield.
• Luo Xuanshuang and the others realized the Heavenly Dao counted the surrounding armies as fellow tribulation-crossers, and observers identified the descending lightning as the Nine Heavens Immortal Tribulation.
• The Ancient God and the assembled Sacred Land Experts learned that Wang Mu was still in the Spirit Transformation realm despite fighting a Quasi-Emperor.
• Wang Mu spread his Chaos Dao Domain beneath the tribulation, and the nine-colored lightning generated particles, meteorites, and stars within it instead of destroying it.
• The Ancient God opened a divine eye and fired a beam at Wang Mu, but Wang Mu crushed the attack with formless power.

Wang Mu killed the Ancient God during his tribulation, turning the battle in the North Sea’s favor and forcing the allied army to retreat. As Shi Huang and Wang Tianba reclaimed territory, Dugu Ye planned mass blood sacrifices to summon the Holy God within five years.

• Wang Mu directed the remaining Nine Heavens Immortal Tribulations at the Ancient God, killed him, and absorbed his remains into his Chaos universe.
• Wang Mu stopped the Elder Tianwu from pursuing the retreating allied army and ordered his allies to reclaim occupied lands and destroy Blood Sacrifice altars.
• At the Primal Origin Sacred Ground, Dugu Ye proposed breeding mortals and sacrificing newborns to gather enough power to open an Ancient Starry Road for the Holy God.
• Shi Huang, Wang Tianba, and their armies reclaimed territory around the North Sea while the other regions of the Azure Yuan Realm descended into misery.

Wang Mu helped the Emperor Demon Palace defeat Four Gods Valley and recovered the Dragon Phoenix Heart, a treasure that could complete Xiao Wanmeng’s Dragon Phoenix Bloodline. After sharing the defeated Quasi-Emperor Azure Dragon’s corpse with his allies, he brought Xiao Wanmeng into a Secret Room to use the heart.

• Di Bailian told Wang Mu that Four Gods Valley had joined forces with the Holy Arrival Meeting and attacked the Emperor Demon Palace’s territories.
• Wang Mu sent an incarnation to the Eastern Region, where he and Di Wuming helped defeat Four Gods Valley and found the Dragon Phoenix Heart hidden beneath the valley.
• Wang Mu and Di Wuming divided the Quasi-Emperor Azure Dragon’s corpse between them before Wang Mu’s incarnation returned to the North Sea.
• Wang Mu distributed the dragon meat among his allies and the people, helping Li Yuanhua reach the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Wang Mu brought Xiao Wanmeng into a Secret Room and told her to remove her clothes so he could use the Dragon Phoenix Heart to strengthen her bloodline.

Wang Mu held a sermon that helped countless cultivators break through, while his own cultivation advanced. Two months later, Han Li appeared, survived a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and reached the Earth Immortal realm before coming to see Wang Mu.

• Lin Yan told Wang Mu that he planned to travel west in search of the Heavenly Oracle Immortal Flame, and Wang Mu warned him to be careful.
• Wang Mu announced a sermon and established a floating island above Heavenly Severing Island to host it.
• Wang Mu's sermon inspired breakthroughs among the gathered cultivators and helped advance his own cultivation; he announced another sermon in three months.
• Two months later, Han Li appeared above the North Sea and underwent the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Han Li survived the tribulation, reached the Earth Immortal realm, and went to Star-Picking Tower to greet Wang Mu.

Han Li told Wang Mu how he had found the World Core, and Wang Mu used it to open passages to the Azure Yuan Realm’s richest spirit veins, greatly increasing the North Sea’s spiritual energy. Over the next three years, Wang Mu’s sermons strengthened the region while the enemy’s plans stalled, but Wang Mu entered seclusion and left everyone uneasy.

• Han Li recounted how he had entered the World Core by accident, mastered the Tai Xu Dragon Emperor Scripture there, and left a void mark before escaping.
• Wang Mu and Han Li returned to the World Core, where Wang Mu anchored it and opened passages to resource-rich regions across the Azure Yuan Realm.
• Wang Mu’s formation drew spiritual energy into the North Sea, transforming its formerly barren environment before the second sermon.
• Over the following three years, Wang Mu gave nine sermons as North Sea cultivators grew stronger and the Holy Arrival Meeting’s plans to open the Ancient Starry Road fell behind schedule.
• Lin Yan left for the Western Region, Ye Mo reported finding the Ancient Immortal Court’s ruins, and Wang Mu entered seclusion half a year before the chapter’s end.

Ten years after Wang Mu drove back the invading factions, the Heavenly Devil Clan poured into the Azure Yuan Realm through an ancient path and attacked the North Sea. Luo Xuanshuang and the defenders fought back, but a peak Quasi-Emperor called the Infinite Demon God overwhelmed her until Han Li arrived and challenged it.

• The Northern Region recovered, while the Primal Origin Sacred Ground, Qiankun Sacred Ground, and Four Great Ancient Clans retreated after years of defeats.
• The ancient altar opened a vast vortex, and thousands of Heavenly Devils descended on the North Sea to devour its vitality and fortune.
• Luo Xuanshuang attacked the invaders, but the Infinite Demon God emerged and defeated her despite her Quasi-Emperor strength.
• The Infinite Demon God demanded Luo Xuanshuang submit, and she answered by attacking it again, only for it to repel her sword with a finger.
• Han Li appeared through a void gate, blocked the Demon God's black beam, and identified himself as a student under Wang Mu's Young Master.
• Han Li multiplied across different voids and blasted the Heavenly Devils, forcing the Infinite Demon God back and provoking its fury.