Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Corona’s Scheme: Cellular Abyss!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan settles into life in the Void Heaven Hall, enjoying a massive island and releasing Dragon Demon, Elephant God, and Zou Wu to roam freely.
• He studies a Golden Dao cultivation method and begins transforming his incomplete Heaven-Top Dao-Setting Art into the stronger Star-Extreme Golden Mysteries Canon, a path focused on slaughter, star-core power, and golden baleful intent.
• The Void Heaven Hall’s library satisfies most of his cultivation needs, but it lacks the Five Forms Methods he seeks. Meng Chuan considers obtaining them from the Mountain and Sea Realm.
• The Mountain and Sea Realm’s world will is nearing death. Meng Chuan worries that Tiger Gate, the Nine Mysteries Ancestor, and the little white tigers will perish with it. Though reluctant to become involved, he may have to compete to become the realm’s World’s Child and preserve it.
• After familiarizing himself with the Void Heaven Hall, Meng Chuan reconnects with several acquaintances, including Qing, whom he agrees to spar with and eventually teach.
• He finally contacts Garros of Radiant Star. Garros congratulates him on joining the Void Heaven Hall as a mundane-level cultivator and warns that outside the hall, powerful factions may target him because of his exceptional potential.
• Garros reveals that his request concerns Origin Light, specifically the Pangu Light emitted by Pangu Will. Tree Universe, Garros’s mentor, has conducted a long-running experiment called Cellular Originization.
• The experiment involves cultivating Pangu Light inside a body so that it mutates the subject’s cells and grants Pangu characteristics.
• Garros wants Meng Chuan to participate and provide cell samples after reaching at least 30% mutation. These samples would be given to Corona Ancestor, who hopes to use them to advance toward the Eleventh Breakthrough.
• Meng Chuan realizes that Garros and Corona’s request is far more dangerous and consequential than initially suggested. He suspects he is being recruited as a living experimental subject and perhaps even used as an intermediary spy.
• Master Dark Abyss secretly observes the discussion through Meng Chuan’s consciousness and immediately recognizes Garros’s hidden motives, advising Meng Chuan to hear the full proposal before deciding.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan becomes increasingly focused on rapidly improving his strength while balancing cultivation, responsibility, and personal safety. His concern for the Mountain and Sea Realm shows that his sense of duty extends beyond humanity.
• He demonstrates greater social confidence and initiative by contacting Garros, reconnecting with Qing, and taking advantage of opportunities to gain strength and information.
• Meng Chuan remains cautious and analytical. Although intrigued by the benefits of Cellular Originization, he does not allow Garros’s promises of immense rewards or moral pressure to sway him immediately.
• Garros presents himself as polite and trustworthy, even swearing an oath to reassure Meng Chuan. However, his request reveals that he is pursuing a highly valuable research objective for Corona Ancestor.
• Garros is surprised that Meng Chuan does not react as strongly as expected to the supposed honor and responsibility of helping Corona Ancestor approach the Eleventh Breakthrough.
• Master Dark Abyss acts as Meng Chuan’s hidden strategist. His experience allows him to quickly identify the manipulative structure behind Garros’s proposal.
• Qing continues to regard Meng Chuan as both a worthy sparring partner and a teacher, while Meng Chuan acknowledges Qing’s past assistance and intends to repay it by teaching him humanity’s martial arts.

Significant Themes

• Power and risk: Greater strength often requires confronting dangerous opportunities. Meng Chuan must decide whether the potential benefits of Pangu Light outweigh the possibility of cellular mutation or death.
• Hidden agendas and manipulation: Garros’s request is presented as beneficial and honorable, but Meng Chuan recognizes that he may be serving as a test subject in Corona Ancestor’s larger scheme.
• Responsibility versus personal peace: Meng Chuan would prefer peaceful cultivation, yet his connections to the Mountain and Sea Realm force him to consider sacrificing his freedom for others’ survival.
• Scientific experimentation and transformation: Cellular Originization explores the boundary between cultivation, mutation, and the acquisition of primordial traits.
• Inheritance and advancement: Meng Chuan’s pursuit of stronger cultivation methods parallels the broader struggle among powerful beings to obtain higher breakthroughs and inherit ancient powers.

Important Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan allows Dragon Demon, Elephant God, and Zou Wu to enjoy his enormous island, emphasizing his relaxed relationship with his monstrous companions.
• He reconnects with Qing through the Dao Domain Network and arranges a sparring session, reaffirming their mutual respect and his promise to teach Qing.
• Garros visits Meng Chuan in his personal virtual space, praises his achievement, and warns him about enemies outside the Void Heaven Hall.
• Garros explains the Cellular Originization experiment and asks Meng Chuan to become a participant.
• Meng Chuan secretly consults Master Dark Abyss during the conversation. Dark Abyss identifies Garros’s real purpose and warns Meng Chuan to remain cautious.
• The chapter ends with Meng Chuan silently weighing whether to accept a proposal that could either greatly increase his power or expose him to catastrophic danger.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Garros tries to recruit Meng Chuan as a subject for Tree Universe’s dangerous cellular-fusion experiment involving Pangu Light. The experiment could trigger a fatal rejection reaction, but Tree Universe’s power could supposedly halt the process or reverse time if necessary.
• Meng Chuan initially refuses, citing the danger and insisting that his combat strength comes primarily from martial arts—especially World Body—rather than exceptional physical talent.
• Garros offers him four highly coveted mental-control secret arts as compensation: Heart Ape Method, Spirit-Settling Tour, Record of Subtlety and the Myriad Worlds, and True Interpretation of Concepts.
• Meng Chuan learns that the experiment may grant him Pangu Traits, innate divine endowments connected to physical strength, origin energy, and life origin. This changes his attitude, since such traits could be extraordinarily valuable.
• Dark Abyss advises Meng Chuan to investigate Tree Universe’s true objective. He deduces that the experiment may be intended to discover whether origin—the fundamental lifespan reserve of Divine Realm beings—can be restored or regenerated.
• This possibility could allow gods to attain genuine immortality, fight without fearing permanent origin loss, and potentially change the balance of the war between the Dao Domain and the Cosmos.
• Meng Chuan attempts to negotiate additional compensation, including having his enormous thirty-million-Star-Coin debt to Corona Ancestor forgiven. Garros cannot promise this, though he agrees to discuss it.
• Convinced that the experiment could benefit both himself and the wider Dao Domain, Meng Chuan decides to pursue it.
• Three days later, he begins refining Pangu Fortune and the Sprout of New Life simultaneously. With the aid of Dragon Blood Elixir, Star Convergence, World Body, World Force, and physical strikes from Dragon Demon and Zou Wu, he forces the two treasures to fuse into his body.
• After three days of refinement, the process appears complete. Meng Chuan’s body and essence have begun undergoing a profound transformation.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Shifts from extreme caution and reluctance to determined acceptance after recognizing the experiment’s potential to regenerate origin. His motivations expand beyond personal strength: he hopes to protect Blue Star, aid his loved ones, and possibly help the entire Dao Domain.
• Dark Abyss: Demonstrates deep knowledge of divine traits, origin, and Tree Universe’s research. He acts as Meng Chuan’s strategic adviser and recognizes the experiment’s true significance.
• Garros: Shows strong confidence in Meng Chuan’s adaptability and physical potential. He becomes increasingly eager to persuade him, offering benefits and negotiating on Corona Ancestor’s behalf, though he has limited authority.
• Tree Universe: Though absent directly, he emerges as the chapter’s most important unseen figure. His research may aim not merely to produce Pangu Traits, but to solve the fundamental problem of origin depletion.
• Dragon Demon and Zou Wu: Support Meng Chuan’s cultivation by administering Dragon Blood Elixir and physically assisting with the refinement process. Their enthusiasm adds a lighter, more practical element to the intense experiment.

Significant Themes

• Risk versus opportunity: Meng Chuan must decide whether to endanger himself for a chance at unprecedented power and knowledge.
• The pursuit of true immortality: The chapter distinguishes ordinary longevity from the deeper issue of origin depletion, suggesting that even gods are not truly immortal.
• Scientific and martial experimentation: Tree Universe’s research combines cellular transformation, divine traits, cosmic energy, and martial cultivation.
• Personal strength serving larger responsibilities: Meng Chuan’s interest in the experiment is tied not only to becoming stronger but also to protecting his homeland, family, and allies.
• Negotiation and value: Meng Chuan recognizes that his participation is valuable and attempts to secure fair compensation rather than passively accepting the risks.
• Transformation of life essence: The refinement of Pangu Fortune and the Sprout of New Life symbolizes Meng Chuan’s body advancing toward a higher level of existence.

Character Interactions

• Garros and Meng Chuan engage in a tense negotiation over the experiment’s risks and rewards. Garros emphasizes Meng Chuan’s unique adaptability, while Meng Chuan presses for greater compensation.
• Dark Abyss privately guides Meng Chuan, revealing information Garros does not fully explain and helping him uncover the experiment’s deeper purpose.
• Meng Chuan questions Garros about Pangu Traits based on Dark Abyss’s instructions, using the conversation to evaluate the opportunity.
• Meng Chuan and Garros fail to reach a final agreement concerning his debt, though Garros promises to speak with Corona Ancestor.
• Dragon Demon and Zou Wu actively assist Meng Chuan’s refinement, striking his acupoints to help process the treasures while obeying his command not to bite him.

Chapter Summary: “Pangu’s Skull—Experiment Begins!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan awakens after refining Pangu Fortune, dragon blood, and the Sprout of New Life, causing a powerful aura that overturns his room and sends Zou Wu flying.
• His physical aptitude, vitality, detoxification ability, and resistance to various forms of damage improve dramatically. His body can now withstand dangers that previously required the Undying Three Dao Arts.
• He continues cultivating and purchases increasingly potent dragon-blood preparations through the True Dragon Tower to maximize his physical potential.
• Meng Chuan completes the conversion of his Metal and Earth techniques, reaching:
  • Star-Extreme Golden Mysteries Canon: Sixth-Order Dao Seeking, 25%
  • Earth-Fiend Dao-Bearing Scripture: Sixth-Order Dao Seeking, 18%
• His mental abilities also advance through Garros’s four secret arts, brain-nourishing medicine, and Dark Matter Cavity Fluid. His visualization of Dao Embryo prototypes and the Five-Element Method becomes far more efficient.
• He travels to Pangu City using his hidden light bracelet and begins using his Void Heaven Hall privileges to cultivate in the Pangu Legendary Lands.
• Meng Chuan spends over a month comprehending Pangu’s Skull, absorbing Pangu Energy and studying the mysteries of flesh, blood, sinews, and bones.
• His cultivation of the Dao of the Flesh advances to the mid-sixth-order level. He significantly improves Star Convergence and integrates the ape race’s battle art, Perfectly Penetrating True Insect Marvel Method, into it.
• His strength more than doubles through the combined effects of improved comprehension, cultivation efficiency, and the battle secret art.
• While preparing to continue to Pangu’s Spine, Meng Chuan receives a delayed announcement: the Tree Universe Team is recruiting another experimental subject for research involving Pangu Light.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Experiences a broad physical and mental transformation. His enhanced vitality grants him powerful resistance to toxins, mutations, radiation, pressure, and physical damage. His cultivation becomes increasingly self-reinforcing: better comprehension improves cultivation efficiency, which produces further breakthroughs. He remains cautious of the ancient Cosmic Legends despite his growing power.
• Argus: Continues serving as an experimental subject for Tree Universe’s Pangu Light research. He remains below the thirty-percent cellular-fusion threshold and is deeply aware of the dangers of cellular rejection and mutation. After seeing the recruitment notice, he suspects Meng Chuan may be the intended candidate, though he initially dismisses the possibility because Meng Chuan is only sixth order.
• Tree Universe Heavenly Venerable: Never appears directly, but his influence dominates the chapter through his experiment and recruitment notice. His laboratory is portrayed as extremely dangerous and potentially manipulative.
• Zou Wu and Dragon Demon: Provide a brief humorous reaction to Meng Chuan’s breakthrough, with Dragon Demon avoiding the disturbance because he expects it.

Significant Themes

• Power gained through accumulation: Meng Chuan’s growth follows a “snowball” effect in which comprehension, physical enhancement, mental control, and improved cultivation efficiency continually reinforce one another.
• The dangers of experimentation and cosmic power: Pangu Light and Origin Light can cause fatal cellular rejection, irreversible physical changes, altered species, cognitive distortion, personality changes, or even changes in identity.
• Caution toward ancient powerhouses: Meng Chuan recognizes that beings such as Tree Universe and Corona possess immeasurably greater experience and may be manipulating events through hidden schemes.
• Privilege and hierarchy: Membership in the Void Heaven Hall grants Meng Chuan extraordinary access to the Pangu Legendary Lands, illustrating how the Pangu Divine Temple’s hierarchy determines access to cultivation resources.
• Physical cultivation and comprehension: The chapter emphasizes that understanding the structure of Pangu’s body can directly strengthen the Dao of the Flesh and accelerate Meng Chuan’s martial progress.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan’s breakthrough physically disrupts his room, knocking Zou Wu aside while Dragon Demon dodges with amused familiarity.
• Meng Chuan interacts indirectly with other Void Heaven Hall members when living beings in Pangu City recognize his Time-Space Calamity Ring and discuss his reputation.
• Argus reports the recruitment notice to Supreme Heaven and speculates about possible candidates, including Meng Chuan.
• The chapter ends with Meng Chuan discovering that Tree Universe’s laboratory is recruiting an experimental subject, strongly implying that his long-awaited involvement in the Pangu Light experiment may finally be beginning.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan learns that Tree Universe is recruiting an additional participant for its Pangu Light experiment. The selection is based primarily on physical talent, potential, and compatibility with Origin Light—not combat strength.
• He registers despite fierce competition from numerous peak seventh-rank experts, including Ape Lord. Garros supports him by sending treasures that can improve his bodily potential.
• Supreme Heaven’s agents discuss the experiment and become concerned that Tree Universe’s research may have advanced. They also continue protecting their infiltrator, Argus, and begin planning an assassination against Meng Chuan.
• During the two-month preparation period, Meng Chuan focuses on cultivation, bodily refinement, and improving his various Dao paths. He also considers future development in the Five Forms Dao and plans to visit the Mountain and Sea Realm to obtain cultivation methods and resources.
• Due to financial difficulties, Meng Chuan decides to improve his weapon Demon-Subduing rather than purchase expensive eighth-rank materials. He uses Void Heaven Hall’s Earthfire Island and its Yang-Pole Square Tripod to forge the halberd.
• After half a month of arduous forging, Demon-Subduing successfully reaches seventh rank. Its weight, sharpness, destructive power, and battle-recording ability are all greatly enhanced, granting Meng Chuan combat power beyond that of ordinary seventh-rank cultivators.
• Meng Chuan decides not to upgrade Demon-Subduing further until he can determine the correct core material for its eventual Eighth Breakthrough and transformation into a Dao artifact.
• He receives updates from loved ones: Yang Yuelian is preparing to break through the Fifth Great Limit, while his master, Old Luo, is preparing to refine the Heavenly Baleful Clan Bloodline Reagent and potentially gain the Phototropism talent.
• Ape Lord worries about competing against Meng Chuan in a talent-based selection, but Meng Chuan reassures him that cultivation realm does not necessarily equal superior aptitude.
• Meng Chuan continues cultivating the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture, Star Convergence, and the Five Elements and Yin-Yang paths. His rapidly increasing talent allows him to break numerous trait limits and advance at an extraordinary pace.
• When the Tree Universe selection finally begins, no location is announced. A leaf-shaped mark suddenly appears on the back of Meng Chuan’s hand, carrying Tree Universe’s aura.
• Dark Abyss explains that the mark is a Dao-based sensing and transportation method. When Meng Chuan activates it, his soul is pulled into a separate Imagery World, where other powerful candidates begin arriving.

2. Character Development

• Meng Chuan: Becomes more disciplined and strategically minded. He recognizes his disadvantages in bloodline and innate talent but seeks to compensate through cultivation, bodily mutation, treasures, and preparation. His forging of Demon-Subduing demonstrates growing independence and practical ingenuity. He also begins seriously considering his long-term martial path beyond the limits of the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture.
• Ape Lord: Although he outwardly complains and claims he will merely “make up the numbers,” his anxiety reveals that he is genuinely invested in the competition and has prepared seriously.
• Demon-Subduing: Develops greater spirituality and stronger battle-recording abilities after reaching seventh rank. Its weapon spirit becomes increasingly eager and impatient during the forging process, suggesting that it is evolving alongside Meng Chuan.
• Old Luo: Takes a dangerous step toward bloodline transformation, hoping to gain Phototropism and return from the sunless Purgatory.
• Yang Yuelian: Her Battle Heart Clarity continues improving, allowing her cultivation speed to rise and bringing her close to becoming the Yang Family’s first martial Venerable.

3. Significant Themes

• Talent versus cultivation: The Tree Universe experiment emphasizes innate physical potential rather than combat ability, forcing Meng Chuan to confront his relative disadvantage against powerful bloodlines and peak experts.
• Preparation and persistence: Meng Chuan relies on continuous cultivation, bodily refinement, and relentless effort rather than expecting a shortcut. His forging process mirrors his martial path: repeated tempering gradually produces strength.
• The relationship between wielder and weapon: Demon-Subduing’s growth parallels Meng Chuan’s own evolution. However, he recognizes that a weapon can become a burden if it surpasses its master, emphasizing the need for balance.
• Financial and material limitations: Even a powerful cultivator must manage scarce resources. Meng Chuan’s lack of money affects both his weapon’s advancement and his future plans, encouraging him to seek mining opportunities and additional income.
• Evolution and bloodline potential: The Five Forms Dao, physical mutation, bloodline transformation, and Pangu Light all center on the theme of unlocking deeper biological and spiritual potential.
• The path beyond inherited teachings: Meng Chuan realizes that the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture reaches its established endpoint at “withering” and “flourishing,” meaning he must eventually create the next stage himself.

4. Character Interactions

• Meng Chuan and Garros: Garros encourages Meng Chuan’s participation and sends him treasures to improve his physical potential before the selection.
• Supreme Heaven’s agents: Their discussion reveals that Meng Chuan is considered a growing threat. They debate whether Tree Universe’s experiment has advanced and begin relying on Argus for possible assassination plans.
• Meng Chuan and Ape Lord: They discuss the upcoming selection. Ape Lord is discouraged by the number of elite competitors, while Meng Chuan tries to reassure him that talent is not determined solely by realm.
• Meng Chuan and Dark Abyss: Dark Abyss identifies the leaf mark as Tree Universe’s Dao-based sensing method and helps Meng Chuan understand how he has been transported.
• Meng Chuan and Demon-Subduing: Their bond is portrayed as increasingly intimate and spiritual. Meng Chuan senses the weapon’s anticipation, guides it through forging, and regards it as a potential future legendary artifact.
• Meng Chuan and his family/friends: Messages about Yang Yuelian and Old Luo remind him of his continuing connections to the human world and his concern for the advancement and safety of those close to him.
  The chapter ends as Meng Chuan enters Tree Universe’s Imagery World, marking the beginning of the long-awaited experimental selection.

Chapter Summary: Devouring Entity, Drug-Resistant Dragon, Destroyer Titan!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chuan enters an assessment held inside Tree Universe’s Imagery World, a mental realm so realistic that the candidates initially mistake it for reality. Although injury or death there will not directly affect their outside bodies, Meng realizes the selection is still highly dangerous.
• He reunites with Ape Lord and encounters Qing, who expresses interest in fighting Meng at equal strength. Meng thanks Qing for teaching him Primitive Techniques, which he has transformed into a collection of martial arts.
• The arrival of True Dragon Tower’s candidates draws attention, especially Levitar, the “King of Drug Resistance.” Levitar’s body can withstand and rapidly expel toxins from drugs that would kill others. Meng recognizes him as a major rival because Meng himself possesses unusually strong drug resistance.
• Another major candidate, Xiong Ba, appears. Though resembling a small black raccoon, he possesses the rare Devouring Body, allowing him to perfectly digest anything he consumes, transform into the forms of other creatures, and inherit their bloodline abilities.
• Argus arrives alongside an incarnation of Heavenly Venerable Tree Universe. Meng realizes that Argus may already be involved in the Cellular Originization experiment and may be serving as an evaluator or judge.
• The candidates receive details of the experiment, which seeks to fuse their cells with Pangu Light. The procedure could cause deadly rejection, but no one withdraws because of the enormous potential benefits and the prestige of being selected.
• Tree Universe announces the first test: measuring physical potential. Candidates must make a spiritual tree grow by comprehending Tree Universe’s Dao. Anyone scoring below sixty will be eliminated.
• Argus establishes a benchmark by scoring 88, surpassing his earlier score of 85. He boasts that his physical potential has increased and hints that he has become a “Destruction Titan.”
• Xiong Ba takes the second test and scores 78. Although he easily passes, he is shocked and frustrated that his score is significantly lower than Argus’s.
• Qing explains that Xiong Ba’s Devouring Body develops more fully at later stages and that Levitar, Qing, and Meng may possess even greater current potential. The chapter ends as the competition is about to continue.

Character Developments

• Meng Chuan: Remains calm and observant while recognizing the danger and intensity of the selection. His confidence grows as he identifies the strongest competitors, but he also acknowledges that Levitar may surpass him in drug resistance. His martial arts library has expanded through Qing’s teachings.
• Ape Lord: Becomes increasingly pessimistic after seeing the overwhelming number of elite candidates. He realizes he may be only a supporting participant, though he continues to encourage Meng and analyze the competition.
• Qing: Acts as an informed guide, explaining the abilities and backgrounds of the major candidates. He respects Meng’s talent and considers Meng, Levitar, and himself among the strongest prospects.
• Levitar: Is portrayed as an extraordinarily powerful physical cultivator whose body continuously improves despite already reaching the peak of the seventh stage. He takes Meng seriously as a fellow drug-related genius.
• Xiong Ba: Demonstrates immense physical strength and passes the first test with a high score, but his pride is wounded when he falls well below Argus. His abilities and potential remain formidable.
• Argus: Displays great arrogance and confidence. His score of 88 reveals that his physical potential has grown, and his inner thoughts suggest he has evolved into a rare Destruction Titan.
• Heavenly Venerable Tree Universe: Establishes the rules and danger of the experiment, maintaining an impartial and authoritative presence.

Significant Themes

• Competition among extraordinary talents: The selection gathers the finest physical-path geniuses in the Pangu Divine Temple, making even powerful figures like Ape Lord feel insignificant.
• Physical potential versus current cultivation: The tests emphasize innate and future potential rather than simply combat realm or present strength.
• Risk and opportunity: The Cellular Originization experiment may cause fatal cellular rejection, yet the chance to gain Pangu traits makes the danger worthwhile.
• Evolution through consumption and transformation: Xiong Ba’s Devouring Body and Argus’s Destruction Titan transformation illustrate different paths to surpassing ordinary biological limits.
• Humility versus arrogance: Meng remains restrained and analytical, while Argus openly boasts about his superiority. Xiong Ba’s reaction shows how pride can be shaken by objective measurements.
• The value and danger of drugs: True Dragon Tower’s expertise highlights both the power of biological medicines and the importance of surviving their toxicity.

Important Character Interactions

• Meng and Ape Lord reunite warmly, though Ape Lord jokingly complains that Meng has not taught him Qing’s techniques.
• Meng and Qing maintain a respectful relationship based on mutual teaching. Qing acknowledges Meng’s ability, while Meng credits Qing’s techniques for enriching his martial arts.
• Meng and Levitar silently assess one another as potential rivals, particularly in drug resistance and physical development.
• Qing and Ape Lord provide Meng with information about Levitar, Xiong Ba, Argus, and the likely hierarchy among the candidates.
• Argus taunts or patronizes Xiong Ba after scoring 88, suggesting that Xiong Ba may eventually approach only his “lower limit.”
• The candidates collectively respond to the experiment’s danger with determination, revealing their shared ambition and refusal to retreat from a potentially transformative opportunity.

Key plot points and events

• Qing steps up to the physical-potential test and scores 80, setting a new record. Ape Lord scores 70, while most of the other candidates score in the low 60s; roughly half pass.
• Levitar then scores 82, taking first place from Qing. Meng Chuan follows with 83, becoming the new leader, though still two points below Argus’s earlier score of 85.
• The final test begins: candidates must endure escalating doses of Withering Agent, a potent substance that causes severe pain and drains life force but can strengthen the body if properly processed. Whoever remains at the end will join Argus in Tree Universe’s Pangu Light experiment.
• Many candidates withdraw as the dosage rises. Xiong Ba thrives, using his Devouring Body to consume even the agent’s harmful effects. Levitar shows almost no distress, relying on his exceptional natural physique and resistance.
• Qing calmly absorbs the agent’s benefits while expelling its toxins through his pores. Meng Chuan uses his Star Convergence gravity method to refine the Withering Law into strength, gaining physical benefits and progress in his Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture.
• At the next increase, Ape Lord struggles painfully but continues. Only 23 candidates remain, with Xiong Ba, Levitar, Qing, and Meng standing out. The chapter ends as Meng senses the agent’s effects beginning to resemble the power of True Nine-Dragon Power.

Character developments and interactions

• Qing proves that exceptional ability need not come from a prestigious background or special lineage. His calm, disciplined response to the test reinforces his reputation as a formidable self-made talent.
• Meng Chuan surpasses Levitar in physical potential and demonstrates adaptability by turning the Withering Agent into training fuel. He remains realistic about his current limits but believes he can surpass Argus through continued breakthroughs.
• Levitar respects Meng and lets him take the final spot in the first test, then competes confidently. His resilience shows that raw physical toughness may rival specialized abilities.
• Xiong Ba is confident his Devouring Body will give him the edge in the endurance test, and so far it does. His easy digestion of both medicine and toxin distinguishes him from the others.
• Ape Lord jokes with Qing and encourages Meng, but is eventually forced to focus on enduring the increasingly painful doses himself.
• Argus watches the contenders closely. Meng’s score unsettles him, even though he outwardly remains composed; he still believes his previous record represents the peak.

Significant themes

• Talent takes many forms: inherited constitutions, natural physiques, disciplined cultivation, and adaptability each offer different advantages.
• Limits can be surpassed through effort: Meng’s confidence rests on repeated self-improvement, while Qing’s rise reflects persistence despite limited resources.
• Power carries risk: the experiment offers rare gains, but success requires enduring serious pain and knowing when to withdraw.
• Competition remains unsettled: physical-potential scores do not determine the final outcome; resilience, resistance, and the ability to process the agent may matter just as much.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan uses the Withering Agent as a cultivation aid, combining it with the Withering and Flourishing True Scripture, Star Convergence, and his hard-body techniques. The drug rapidly strengthens his body and advances his understanding of the Wood Dao.
• The contest narrows to four: Xiong Ba, Levitar, Qing, and Meng. At a tenfold dose, the others are eliminated, leaving these contenders to face increasingly dangerous amounts of the agent.
• Levitar reveals the power of his awakened Ancient Dragon Physique and Eternal Silence bloodline, which lets him endure the drug exceptionally well. Xiong Ba’s Devouring Body eventually reaches its limit, and he withdraws.
• Qing and Meng burn away much of the agent’s impurities through their life force. At the fiftyfold dose, Meng nearly fails, but his Charlesman-Theory Perfect Body and precise mental control let him contain and process the Withering Law. He also fuses four mental-control arts, improving his mastery and glimpsing a path to advance his Martial God Body beyond its limit.
• Qing withdraws when the toxins threaten to break his body. The contest’s pressure triggers a major insight: he realizes he can perceive the flow of energy and believes he is ready for his Eighth Breakthrough. He leaves to pursue godhood.
• The contest continues between Meng and Levitar. As the dose rises from sixtyfold to eightyfold, both suffer severe physical and mental strain. Tree Universe stops the test before either damages their foundation, declaring that their endurance has reached its limit.
• Since neither has won, Tree Universe announces a Pressure Resistance test to decide the contest rather than relying solely on their nearly equal physical-potential scores.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan turns the test into an opportunity for rapid cultivation. Under extreme pressure, he demonstrates extraordinary bodily control, deepens his mental-control skills, and begins to see how to push his Martial God Body further.
• Levitar proves that his dragon physique and bloodline can withstand astonishing levels of Withering Law, making him Meng’s equal in endurance. He is also shaken by how close he came to losing.
• Qing withdraws from the contest but gains a life-changing insight. His confidence in rising beyond his low-tier origins is strengthened, and he sets out to ascend to godhood.
• Xiong Ba recognizes the limits of his still-developing Devouring Body and withdraws rather than risk lasting damage.
• Argus moves from boredom to keen interest as the finalists display resilience approaching his own former limits.

Significant themes

• Endurance and self-mastery: Survival depends not only on raw strength but on how precisely each contestant controls and uses their body.
• Adversity as opportunity: Meng converts a dangerous ordeal into cultivation progress, while Qing gains the insight that changes his path.
• Different paths to strength: Bloodline, physique, technique, comprehension, and training each offer distinct advantages—and none guarantees victory.
• Origins versus potential: Qing refuses to accept the crowd’s assumption that coming from a low-grade planet limits his future.
• Knowing one’s limits: Xiong Ba and Qing withdraw before destroying their foundations, while Tree Universe ends the test to prevent the finalists from doing the same.

Character interactions

• Levitar taunts Xiong Ba, arguing that a Devouring Body cannot compensate once the body is overwhelmed.
• The crowd compares the finalists and speculates about their advantages, sometimes underestimating Qing because of his origins.
• Qing ignores the crowd’s judgment, encourages Meng to continue, and asks Tree Universe to send him away so he can pursue his breakthrough.
• Tree Universe protects Meng and Levitar from further harm, then proposes the Pressure Resistance test to settle the contest fairly.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• The final contest takes place in a second, deeper Imagery World: a forest-lined obstacle course where pressure grows with every step. Contestants must endure the crushing force, clear hazards, and reach the finish first.
• Levitar initially takes the lead, relying on his peak-seventh-rank physique to outrun Meng Chuan. As the pressure intensifies, he uses dragon techniques and a protective halo to shield his vulnerable organs while conserving strength.
• Meng Chuan holds back his enhancement abilities, managing his pace and energy. He reshapes his body with Perfect Body to crawl efficiently beneath the pressure, then activates Wuji True Demon Form as the strain becomes greater.
• The two repeatedly overtake one another. Levitar later uses the Magnetic Origin Body of Myriad Kalpas to disperse the pressure and surge ahead; Meng Chuan recognizes the art and considers learning it.
• Beyond the 500,000-meter mark, the pressure overwhelms Meng Chuan’s body and will. He is badly injured and struggles to control his strength, while Levitar’s greater physical resilience and mental control give him an advantage.
• With only 30,000 meters left, both contestants are nearly flattened by the pressure. Levitar awakens more of his bloodline power and makes a desperate final sprint.
• Meng Chuan recalls that winning is essential to earn the chance to pursue his dangerous physical-cultivation experiment. He enters a focused state, activates World Body, and channels his strength through his body and into the ground. He begins closing the gap as the chapter ends, with the finish line—and Levitar—still ahead.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan displays patience and tactical discipline, saving his strongest abilities for the final stretch. The trial exposes weaknesses in his mental control and in his sixth-rank physical cultivation, but his resolve deepens as he refuses to give up. He adapts repeatedly, using body reshaping, defensive techniques, and finally World Body.
• Levitar proves both formidable and resourceful, combining superior physique with layered defensive and offensive techniques. As the course tests him, he becomes increasingly desperate, ultimately pushing beyond his usual limits by awakening his bloodline power.

Significant themes

• Adaptation over raw strength: Success depends on adjusting one’s body and techniques to changing conditions, not simply being the strongest.
• Endurance and restraint: Meng Chuan’s decision to conserve energy early is as important as his final burst.
• Physical versus mental strength: The contest exposes how control of the mind and will can matter as much as bodily resilience.
• Determination in pursuit of growth: Meng Chuan’s refusal to fall short reflects his commitment to a risky path of cultivation.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan and Levitar compete directly throughout the course, repeatedly passing one another and forcing the other to respond.
• Their contrasting approaches define the rivalry: Levitar relies on his powerful physique and advanced techniques, while Meng Chuan uses careful energy management, bodily adaptation, and strategic timing.

Plot and events

• Meng Chuan withstands the crushing pressure of the Imagery World’s race by using Star Convergence to absorb and convert the pressure into strength. His body and martial control improve rapidly.
• He overtakes the much stronger Levitar, survives the escalating force with the True Chi Method, and crawls across the finish line first. Tree Universe’s energy then fully heals both competitors.
• Back in reality, the experiment’s accumulated rewards transfer to Meng Chuan: a major advance in the Dao of the Flesh, enhanced physical abilities, and deep insights into the Wood Dao. Tree 1008 welcomes him to Tree Universe’s Pangu Light experiment and guides him to its laboratory estate.
• Meanwhile, spectators mistakenly assume Levitar won until his angry departure gives away the result. Argus reports Meng’s victory and extraordinary potential to Supreme Heaven. Divine Lord Mitian, Argus’s secret teacher, orders him to find an opportunity to kill Meng.
• At the Emerald Wilds estate, Tree 1008 explains that it is a legendary object capable of separating itself from ordinary spacetime and functioning independently.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan demonstrates exceptional resilience, precision, and adaptability. He wins through superior bodily control and potential rather than raw strength, and his experimental rewards deepen both his physical cultivation and Wood Dao understanding.
• Levitar accepts the defeat, attributing it to Meng’s control of his body. He plans to break through to the eighth tier and later test himself on the brutal Interstellar Outer-Ring Battlefield. Though disappointed to miss a chance to fight Meng at equal strength, he recognizes Meng’s ability.
• Argus becomes increasingly resentful of Tree Universe’s attention to Meng. He uses Meng’s success to alarm Supreme Heaven, while privately remaining a traitor under Mitian’s influence.
• Tree 1008 acts as Meng’s welcoming guide, explaining the estate and its access rules.
• The spectators’ mistaken congratulations to Levitar contrast with his visible frustration, turning the outcome into a public revelation.

Significant themes

• Skill versus raw power: Meng defeats a higher-tier opponent through refined control, technique, and effective use of pressure.
• Growth through hardship: The race’s danger becomes a source of strength and insight.
• Competition and experimentation: Tree Universe’s trial appears designed to test specific abilities, with rewards that reshape participants.
• Political danger: Meng’s talent threatens the balance between the Void Heaven Hall and Supreme Heaven, making his rise a target for covert opposition.
• Discovery of higher dimensions: The Emerald Wilds introduces a space that exists independently of normal spacetime.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan learns that the Emerald Wilds are independent of time and space, so inhabitants there do not age or die. Tree 1008 takes him to Fungus Chamber 06, where he begins the Pangu Light experiment.
• After carefully checking the fungal strain with Master Dark Abyss, Meng Chuan implants it in his inner world. It quickly spreads an invisible network through his body and boosts the energy drawn in by his Star Convergence technique to roughly three times its former rate.
• The network also converts some of his Primordial Qi into potent Wood Dao energy. This improves his body and deepens his Wood Dao understanding, so Meng Chuan recognizes the strain’s benefits despite initially resenting its appetite for his cultivation energy.
• Tree 1008 explains the experiment’s stages: after about three months, the strain should reach maturity and begin releasing Pangu Light. At that point, cellular fusion may bring powerful innate traits, but subjects risk bodily breakdown and uncontrolled mutation. Surviving the process and producing useful results could earn Meng a request from Tree Universe Heavenly Venerable.
• Meng asks for Tree Universe’s Wood Dao cultivation art. Tree 1008 explains its immense scope and says the request is not guaranteed, though exceptional results might earn him all three Divine Realm sections. Dark Abyss urges Meng to pursue it, describing the art as a route toward the Wood Dao’s deepest mysteries.
• As a welcome gift, Tree 1008 gives Meng a wisp of fortune from the Eternal Forest. It slowly strengthens him, particularly his toughness and resistance, apparently improving his chances of surviving the experiment.
• Back on his island, Meng begins cultivation with the strain’s help. It lets him absorb more energy and practice several five-element arts simultaneously with striking efficiency.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan balances caution with ambition: he verifies the strain before implanting it, accepts the known risks, and sees the experiment as a path to greater strength and rare knowledge. He is also quick to recognize the strain’s usefulness once he understands how it works.
• Tree 1008 acts as both supervisor and candid guide, explaining the risks, stages, and possible rewards while supporting Meng’s prospects.
• Dark Abyss serves as Meng’s adviser and safety net, helping check the strain and urging him to seek Tree Universe’s art. Their teasing exchange also shows their familiar, affectionate rapport.
• Meng’s view of Tree Universe grows more awe-struck: he learns that its Heavenly Venerable is an extraordinarily ancient, powerful being with near-innate-divine-spirit talent.

Significant themes

• Power through risk: The experiment offers rapid growth and potential innate abilities, but survival is uncertain.
• Knowledge as a reward: Meng’s greatest prize may be access to Tree Universe’s foundational art, not merely immediate cultivation gains.
• Adaptation and transformation: The fungal strain both aids Meng and alters his body, making cultivation a process of mutual change.
• The vast gap between legends and mortals: Tree Universe’s power and knowledge highlight how much Meng has yet to understand.

Character interactions

• Meng’s cautious, repeated confirmations frustrate both Tree 1008 and Dark Abyss, who tell him to proceed.
• Tree 1008 speaks frankly with Meng about the dangers rather than concealing them, then offers encouragement and the Eternal Forest’s fortune.
• Dark Abyss guides Meng’s ambitions while joking with him about his weakened state; their banter underscores their close, informal master–disciple relationship.

Plot points and events

• The Pangu Spirit Root lets Meng Chuan cultivate all five branches of the Five Elements Method at once, greatly increasing his efficiency and strengthening his physical cultivation. It also improves his visualization of the Mother River of the Stars Dao Embryo, boosting its power and potentially helping him reach his Seventh Breakthrough.
• Dark Abyss warns that the Spirit Root will release increasing amounts of harmful Pangu Light as it matures. Meng must study and adapt to small releases during its growth phase rather than letting his Dao Embryo absorb them all. Dark Abyss promises to guide him, though admits he has no direct experience with Pangu Origin Light.
• Determined to keep the Spirit Root permanently, Meng trains his Limit-Breaking Trait and physical techniques, and spends heavily on restorative medicine to prepare for the mature phase.
• Argus, meanwhile, is undergoing his own Pangu Light experiment. His fusion rate reaches only 27.4%, and he has yet to gain a Pangu Trait. He continues despite the danger because he is feeding Supreme Heaven information about Tree Universe’s research in exchange for help understanding the Evolution Method that destroyed his people. He also knows a catastrophic Destruction Trial is coming in eighty-four years.
• After three months, Meng’s Spirit Root enters its final growth phase. Its crystal-like roots spread through his meridians, nearly becoming a new organ. Before the first major release of Pangu Light, Meng goes to Tree Universe’s laboratory for guidance.
• Dark Abyss reassures him that the Spirit Root is only a mechanism for releasing and controlling Pangu Light, not a hidden threat that can take over his body. Meng then encounters Argus at the teleportation array and travels to the Emerald Wilds, while Argus watches him, still seeking a chance to strike.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan shifts from marveling at the Spirit Root’s benefits to cautiously preparing for its risks. He wants to master cellular fusion rather than give up the powerful cultivation aid.
• Dark Abyss acts as Meng’s blunt but protective adviser, cautioning him against shortcuts while joking about his own lack of expertise. Meng trusts and appreciates him.
• Argus is revealed as desperate and conflicted: he wants to survive the coming catastrophe, but his dealings with Supreme Heaven have pushed him toward betraying Meng. His own experiment shows how dangerous and difficult Pangu Light fusion is.
• Zou Wu and Dragon Demon help maintain Dark Abyss and later assist Meng with strenuous physical conditioning, highlighting their subordinate roles and exhaustion.
• Meng’s instinctive dislike of Argus grows stronger, while Argus silently studies him and waits for an opportunity to act.

Significant themes

• Power versus danger: The Spirit Root offers extraordinary growth but may deform or destroy the body.
• Preparation and adaptation: Meng is urged to understand Pangu Light gradually instead of relying on a shortcut.
• Trust and uncertainty: Meng relies on Dark Abyss’s reassurance while remaining wary of Tree Universe’s experiment.
• Survival and betrayal: Argus’s fear of future disaster drives him toward morally dangerous choices.

Plot points and events

• Argus privately decides not to kill Meng Chuan yet. Keeping him alive brings Argus rewards from Supreme Heaven, including resources for enduring Pangu Light and cultivating Destruction. Argus’s Pangu Light fusion has recently increased, and he hopes to reach 30%.
• Meng Chuan is unsettled by his unusually strong disgust toward Argus. He concludes they simply dislike each other, judges Argus to be a formidable opponent, and decides to keep his distance while focusing on cultivation.
• Meng Chuan mistakes Tree 996 for Tree 1008 and learns that Treefolk are independent beings created from muscle cells and controlled, when needed, by Tree Universe. Dark Abyss says Meng might someday make similar constructs, but only after strengthening his will and mental power.
• At the Fungus Chamber, Tree Universe briefly takes over Tree 1008 to examine Meng and gives him medicine for dangerous mental effects caused by Pangu Light. Tree Universe offers to teach Meng the preliminary Wood Dao method if he reaches a 30% fusion rate, and orders regular examinations once Meng enters the experiment’s maturation stage.
• Tree 1008 explains that “Mind Surges” occur when residual Pangu Will triggers delusions and whispers. The medicine—made with Tree Universe’s mental power—is limited, so Meng must eventually endure the effects himself, find other remedies, or quit the experiment.
• Tree Universe secretly watches Meng leave, warns Pei Jian that Supreme Heaven will likely act, and reflects that the decisive variable may lie “with man.” He examines Meng’s entire life through the River of Time, discovers a striking event involving Meng and a higher-dimensional presence, then blurs the vision to protect him from Shanghao’s notice.
• Tree Universe sends out Pangu Tokens, one of which heads toward Meng’s hometown. Soon afterward, Meng feels a vague warning. Dark Abyss suspects Supreme Heaven may be preparing to act, but says the greater danger could come from someone close to Meng—perhaps the Son of the Titan—and warns that Meng’s identity may have been exposed.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan recognizes Argus’s superior current strength without panicking, choosing patience and cultivation over confrontation. He also realizes that mental resilience must develop alongside his body as Pangu Light fusion deepens.
• Argus is motivated by ambition and resentment: he wants the benefits of keeping Meng alive, yet admits he may simply enjoy the prospect of killing him.
• Tree Universe shows both playful, teasing familiarity with Dark Abyss and serious protective concern for Meng. His River of Time vision reveals the extraordinary significance of Meng’s past and prompts him to conceal it.
• Dark Abyss remains Meng’s adviser, explaining the limits of creating Muscle Cell Constructs and helping interpret the warning he senses.
• Tree 1008 is a helpful but unwitting intermediary, unaware that Tree Universe briefly controlled him.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Meng acknowledges that he cannot yet defeat Argus and chooses to grow stronger rather than provoke a fight.
• The cost of advancement: Pangu Light improves physical potential but threatens the mind, making cultivation a test of psychological endurance as well as strength.
• Hidden identities and fate: Meng’s origins, his connection to higher-dimensional forces, and the possibility that others have discovered who he is deepen the story’s mystery.
• Protection and uncertainty: Tree Universe takes steps to shield Meng, but the danger may come from allies or people close to him, not only obvious enemies.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chuan fears Tree Universe may have seen his history through time. Dark Abyss reassures him that Tree Universe cannot reveal his secret to Cosmos and is unlikely to covet the experiences that helped him grow.
• The encounter prompts Meng Chuan to seek protection from future observation. He suspects that breaking further shackles in his core trait [Transcendence] could eventually free him from perception through spacetime, karma, and other cosmic constraints.
• Dark Abyss explains why Tree Universe needs mortal participants: studying Pangu Origin Light and pursuing the dangerous eleventh-tier breakthrough through the flesh require cautious experimentation. Tree Universe learns from others before advancing, while also offering them rare opportunities and knowledge.
• Meng Chuan considers founding a collaborative martial-arts organization in the future, so practitioners can help test and develop the path together. He postpones the idea until after his Eighth Breakthrough.
• Elsewhere, Xuan Mou—the former Abbot of Shaolin—reaches the Eighth Breakthrough, becomes a god, and receives a Pangu Token at the Illuminating Stillness Sect.
• Back on his island, Meng Chuan’s Wood Dao reaches 50% proficiency, aided by the Pangu Spirit Root and Fungal Network. His other elements are progressing too, and his cultivation has accelerated dramatically.
• Meng Chuan spars with Ape Lord and defeats him in fewer than a hundred moves, demonstrating how much stronger he has become.
• At the end, Meng Chuan notices a bulge in his abdomen and realizes the Pangu Spirit Root is maturing.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chuan turns fear of being watched into a practical goal: strengthen traits that can shield him from perception. He also begins imagining a collective, cooperative future for martial arts, while staying focused on his current cultivation.
• Dark Abyss acts as mentor and confidant, calming Meng Chuan’s anxiety and explaining the risks and purpose of Tree Universe’s experiment. His own past as a failed flesh-path Cosmic Legend gives his warning about Demon Gods particular weight.
• Ape Lord admires Meng Chuan’s rapid progress, then experiences it firsthand in their spar. He accepts the loss with humor and proposes that they compete over drinking instead.
• Xuan Mou’s ascension marks another Blue Star practitioner’s success and provides a brief glimpse of the wider universe’s spiritual powers.

Significant themes

• Privacy versus power: As Meng Chuan grows, beings capable of perceiving through spacetime may expose or manipulate his life; transcending cosmic constraints may be his only defense.
• Cooperation and shared progress: Even powerful beings benefit from experimentation, and no one can fully develop a path alone.
• Risk, caution, and ambition: The flesh path and study of Origin Light offer great rewards but attract lethal dangers, especially from Demon Gods.
• Steady growth and its costs: Meng Chuan’s gains are accelerating, but the Spirit Root’s coming maturity suggests the experiment’s difficult phase is approaching.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan’s Pangu Spirit Root completes its growth and begins releasing Pangu light. Dark Abyss warns him to increase the cellular fusion gradually, stop at his limit, and sever the fungal strain if necessary.
• The fungal network reappears, wrapping around Meng Chuan’s cells and delivering the light throughout his body. Dark Abyss suppresses the flow with destructive divine power while Meng Chuan begins the fusion.
• The process is intense: Meng Chuan’s body and soul convulse under the influx. Dark Abyss directs Dragon Demon, Elephant God, and Zou Wu to administer medicines and wood-aspect energy to help him endure and deepen the fusion.
• Once the spirit root reaches his brain, Meng Chuan regains control and discovers that the changes have greatly heightened his perception. He can see and manipulate ambient energy, and he can perceive his own martial fortune as a tangible force that could benefit others.
• The fusion continues smoothly, strengthening his body and bringing the level past ten percent. But Meng Chuan eventually absorbs all the Pangu light in the fungal strain, apparently surpassing twenty percent in a single attempt.
• He then becomes motionless. Dark Abyss finds no bodily rejection, suspects mental contamination, and uses a potion and spiritual power to investigate. Meng Chuan’s mind has been pulled into a vision of primordial chaos.
• In the vision, he encounters a murky, non-energy substance that cannot be converted into primordial qi. A pagoda-like structure begins to emerge, with a palace faintly visible above it. Meanwhile, Tree Universe observes the same vision, and Argus senses an unexplained reaction from his own fungal strain.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan shows his habitual caution and preparation, but his extraordinary adaptability lets him absorb far more Pangu light than expected. The fusion grants him sharper perception, control over energy, and insight into his own shareable martial fortune.
• Dark Abyss acts as a vigilant mentor and caretaker, controlling the fusion and directing emergency support. His pride in Meng Chuan’s potential grows, though he becomes alarmed when Meng Chuan abruptly falls still.
• Zou Wu is awed by Meng Chuan’s potential and resolves to remain with him, believing that following him may restore Zou Wu’s former standing.
• Tree Universe recognizes that Meng Chuan’s vision concerns the universe’s origin and Pangu splitting heaven and earth.
• Argus becomes uneasy when his own fungal strain reacts despite his not having fused with it.

Significant themes

• Preparation versus the unknown: Careful planning helps Meng Chuan manage the fusion, but the process still exceeds expectations and leads into an unexplained vision.
• Growth through risk and adaptation: Meng Chuan’s body and mind are transformed by absorbing Pangu light, with the possibility of developing genuine Pangu traits.
• Fortune as power that can be shared: Meng Chuan learns that martial fortune is an expression of will and could aid friends and family, though he rejects selling it.
• Mentorship and loyalty: Dark Abyss’s guidance steadies Meng Chuan, while Zou Wu’s resolve deepens as he witnesses Meng Chuan’s promise.

Character interactions

• Dark Abyss repeatedly advises Meng Chuan, suppresses the spirit root’s output, and coordinates the others’ help during the dangerous fusion.
• Dragon Demon, Elephant God, and Zou Wu administer medicines and energy under Dark Abyss’s direction.
• Meng Chuan’s discoveries about fortune lead him to consider helping those close to him—and whether his improved fusion might settle a debt involving Corona.
• Dark Abyss, the three beasts, and Daoxin gather to examine Meng Chuan’s mental imagery, while Tree Universe independently witnesses the same vision.

Key plot points and events

• After fusing Pangu Light into his cells, Meng Chuan is drawn into an Imagery World resembling Pangu Divine Temple. He finds a stele listing Inner Gate members who have cultivated the Pangu Creation Canon, including the Four Divine Lords and three Heavenly Venerables; Ape Lord’s name is absent.
• Tree Universe explains that defeating the Dao River’s Ferryman will earn Meng Chuan the radiance of Pangu Will. Though warned that defeat could harm his real body, Meng Chuan cannot leave and must face the challenge.
• The Ferryman, a chained, gaunt old man, reveals that he sacrificed his body pursuing the Dao and is consumed by grievance and madness. He attacks with devastating speed and flame-like force.
• Meng Chuan initially evades while assessing the Ferryman’s abilities. He realizes the opponent is formidable but weakened, and that his defenses are less exceptional than his offensive power.
• Meng Chuan finally turns to fight back, striking with Abyss Cleave and enduring the Ferryman’s powerful counterattack. His blow sends the Ferryman staggering, revealing that victory may be possible.
• Tree Universe and Great Heavenly Venerable Pei Jian observe. Pei Jian identifies the Ferryman as a pioneering practitioner who nearly crossed the human-divine boundary through the Dao of the Flesh, and recognizes his techniques as an expression of Martial Dao.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan shows his usual caution and practical streak, but accepts the challenge once escape proves impossible. He uses keen observation, adaptability, and layered defenses to turn a desperate fight into a viable contest.
• The Ferryman is revealed as a once-great Dao seeker whose failed breakthrough and long confinement have left him physically diminished and mentally unstable. His bitterness fuels his violence.
• Tree Universe demonstrates a protective but unsentimental attitude, pushing Meng Chuan to face the trial while monitoring his unusual potential.
• Pei Jian takes a closer interest in Meng Chuan, noting his extraordinary growth and tangled fate, and confirms he is not currently the being implicated in Destruction.

Significant themes

• The cost of pursuing the Dao: The Ferryman’s sacrifice and collapse show how relentless ambition can exact a terrible price.
• Growth through adversity: Meng Chuan’s talent has repeatedly improved during cultivation, and this trial tests how far his hard-won abilities can take him.
• Courage balanced with caution: Meng Chuan does not charge blindly; he studies the Ferryman, protects himself, and strikes only after identifying weaknesses.
• Legacy and innovation: The Ferryman’s Martial Dao represents a path he pioneered, while Meng Chuan’s response shows how a new generation can adapt and build upon earlier paths.

Character interactions

• Meng Chuan questions Tree Universe about the trial and begs to be withdrawn when he learns defeat could threaten his real body; Tree Universe refuses to intervene.
• The Ferryman challenges Meng Chuan with a bitter question about whether his life’s sacrifice was right or wrong, then attacks when Meng Chuan cannot answer.
• Meng Chuan and the Ferryman exchange blows, each revealing the other’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Tree Universe and Pei Jian watch and discuss Meng Chuan’s potential, the mystery of his fate, and the Ferryman’s connection to Martial Dao.

Plot points and events

• Meng Chuan confronts Ferryman, a rapidly strengthening, flame-wreathed fighter, and activates World Body, his defensive Dao arts, and his full martial power.
• Ferryman suppresses Meng Chuan’s connection to the world and overwhelms him in a brutal exchange. Meng Chuan survives through exceptional resilience and regeneration, but Ferryman’s blows grow increasingly dangerous.
• Ferryman unleashes three all-or-nothing punches—Cinders, Destruction, and Extinction. Meng Chuan barely blocks the first two; the third mangles his waist and thigh.
• Despite his injuries, Meng Chuan uses a Five Elements attack and hidden mental force to disrupt Ferryman’s reactions. He follows with a rapid series of strikes, ending with Ascend the Tower, and kills him.
• Returned to the edge of the Dao River, Meng Chuan reflects on the fight and his newly awakened use of martial-will radiance. Tree Universe then tells him he is in the hall and warns him not to touch the river while crossing.

Character developments

• Meng Chuan demonstrates the results of his training: endurance, recovery, and the ability to apply martial will to both physical attacks and mental techniques. He wins not by matching Ferryman’s power directly, but by enduring the assault, recognizing an opening, and exploiting it.
• Ferryman reveals himself as a formidable but seemingly outdated cultivator. His ecstatic, reckless fighting style suggests a life consumed by his pursuit of the Dao of the Flesh—and perhaps a death incurred in that pursuit.

Character interactions

• Ferryman mocks Meng Chuan’s low realm and toughness, while praising his potential to ascend to godhood. Their exchange is a contest of relentless attacks, taunts, and mutual refusal to yield.
• Tree Universe watches from the sidelines, prepared to rescue Meng Chuan, but ultimately lets him face the danger. Pei Jian remarks that Meng Chuan’s body lacks the unified structure needed to withstand Ferryman’s ultimate attack.

Significant themes

• Endurance and adaptation: Meng Chuan survives a seemingly overwhelming opponent by combining defense, recovery, and ingenuity.
• Power versus unity: Pei Jian’s warning highlights that strength alone is insufficient without a coherent physical foundation.
• The cost of pursuing transcendence: Ferryman’s obsession with breaking the limits of the body appears to have ended in failure, even as his legacy becomes a deadly trial for Meng Chuan.
• Growth through combat: The battle validates Meng Chuan’s recent cultivation and gives him insight into both his own abilities and Ferryman’s techniques.

Meng Chuan learned that the Pangu Illusion was a land of Dao Traces where he could earn origin Dao resonance, but Tree Universe forced him to face Ji Lingzi and experience the danger of the Earth-Cleaving Palace firsthand. After Tree Universe restored him, Meng Chuan gained insight from the resonance and decided to delay further fights until he was better prepared.

• Tree Universe explained that defeating Dao Traces in the land of Dao Traces yielded dao resonance, and warned Meng Chuan not to touch the other traces before his eighth breakthrough.
• Tree Universe sent Meng Chuan to face Ji Lingzi, who killed him instantly with a torrent of starlight and forced him out of the Pangu Illusion.
• Meng Chuan awoke at Void Heaven Hall, where Tree Universe used a drop of his life origin to restore him while Dark Abyss asked what had happened.
• Meng Chuan received origin Dao resonance from defeating Ferryman, and Dark Abyss identified Ferryman as the failed pioneer Xuluo, also known as Heaven-Raider Xuluo.
• Meng Chuan resolved to consolidate his gains and wait until he was fully prepared before challenging Ferryman again.

Meng Chuan discovered that his cells had fused with 20% of the pangu light, greatly increasing his physical power, and learned that Argus had once reached a similar fusion rate. After Argus tested him and Dark Abyss warned that Argus likely served Supreme Heaven, Meng Chuan resolved to keep his distance and grow stronger.

• Meng Chuan examined his body and found that the pangu light had boosted his blood vitality and physical strength, while leaving his mental power struggling to keep pace.
• Tree 1008 measured Meng Chuan’s fusion rate at 20%, found Argus’s first fusion rate had been 19.6%, and warned Meng Chuan that further fusion would be dangerous.
• Argus intercepted Meng Chuan, asked about his fusion rate, and abruptly tested his strength with a grab that Meng Chuan narrowly evaded.
• Dark Abyss revealed that Argus carried a Puppet Token and likely had ties to Supreme Heaven, warning Meng Chuan to stay out of the conflict.
• Meng Chuan left the Emerald Wilds, resolved to endure and train, and vowed to grow strong enough to confront those plotting against him.

Argus delayed Supreme Heaven’s order to kill Meng while secretly investigating his background, and Meng learned from Dark Abyss that Argus was likely a Supreme Heaven spy. After six months of cultivation, Meng returned to the Pangu Illusion to challenge Ferryman again, where their battle reached a decisive clash of Extinction punches.

• Argus told Eurleus he would act against Meng, but privately decided to investigate first and wait until his Destruction Cultivation Method reached its seventh breakthrough and granted him a Pangu Trait.
• Dark Abyss divined that a mysterious law-based power protected Argus and advised Meng to avoid him, keep quiet, and leave the Pangu Divine Temple after obtaining a Pangu Trait.
• Meng advanced his water and fire Daos to the middle of rank six, increased his Pangu Light fusion rate above 24%, and entered the Pangu Illusion with Dark Abyss’s approval.
• Meng encountered Levitar at the Dao River, then faced Ferryman and found that his improved defenses could withstand the old man’s attacks.
• Meng and Ferryman fought across the ruined landscape, and Ferryman unleashed his Extinction punch before Meng answered with an Extinction of his own.

Meng Chuan defeated the Ferryman and gained the Three Annihilation Fists, then continued fusing with Pangu light despite his fusion rate lagging behind Argus’s. His first Mind Surge revealed the growing danger to his sanity, leaving him aware that he needed to strengthen his mind and will to continue the experiment safely.

• Meng Chuan defeated the Ferryman, who died from the poisonous fire, and Meng Chuan resolved to restrain him in future fights so he could learn more.
• Meng Chuan reflected on his new Three Annihilation Fists, his goals of surpassing Argus, and his master Luo’s improved bloodline and prospects.
• Meng Chuan encountered Argus and learned that his own Pangu fusion rate had reached 26.1%, while Argus had obtained a Pangu trait after passing thirty percent.
• Meng Chuan continued fusing Pangu light and suffered increasing physical pain as his cells changed.
• Meng Chuan experienced a Mind Surge and hallucinated the figure from the Destruction Calling before Dark Abyss confirmed that residual Pangu will had affected his mind.
• Zou Wu injected Meng Chuan with Mind Potion, and Dark Abyss warned him to strengthen his mind and will to withstand future Mind Surges.