Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng slaughtered several Crystal Horn Race demons, then discovered that their half-step Demon Venerable, Crystal Calamity, was pursuing him. He concealed himself in a spatial interlayer and unleashed a prepared sword attack as Crystal Calamity approached.

• Cheng Buzheng ambushed and killed the Crystal Horn Race demons, erased the traces, and took their treasures.
• Crystal Calamity arrived at the scene, identified where its clan members had fallen, and calculated the killer’s route.
• Crystal Calamity pursued the killer, killing other cultivators and great demons along the way, while Cheng Buzheng unknowingly traveled ahead of it.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed Crystal Calamity behind him, hid in a spatial interlayer, and combined four imitation swords into a powerful weapon.
• Crystal Calamity sensed danger and searched the void, so Cheng Buzheng shifted behind it and struck with a torrent of chaotic Sword Qi.

Cheng Buzheng ambushed Crystal Calamity and shattered its domain, but their clash destroyed both sides’ prized defensive treasures without killing the half-step Demon Venerable. Seeing Crystal Calamity badly wounded and bluffing, Cheng Buzheng chose to continue the fight with another set of imitation swords.

• Crystal Calamity raised its Crystal Origin Shield, Mystic Crystal Diagram, and domain to defend against Cheng Buzheng’s chaotic Sword Qi.
• Cheng Buzheng used Great Luo Dharma Eye and Sword River Domain Breaker to expose the domain’s weakness and shatter it.
• The Sword Qi struck Crystal Calamity’s shield, and Cheng Buzheng detonated it, destroying the shield and Mystic Crystal Diagram while Crystal Calamity survived using its crystal pearl.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized that Crystal Calamity was gravely injured despite suppressing its wounds, while his own imitation Life-Bound Magic Treasure had crumbled to dust.
• Crystal Calamity invoked the alliance pact and feigned strength, but Cheng Buzheng refused to stop and brought out another set of imitation Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords.
• Crystal Calamity realized it could not withstand another such attack and declared that Cheng Buzheng would die with it.

Cheng Buzheng survived Crystal Calamity’s apparent self-destruction, healed his injuries, and killed the weakened Half-Step Demon Venerable with his sword formation. He then found a secluded island and began erasing Crystal Calamity’s imprint from its Storage Shell, hoping to uncover its treasures.

• Crystal Calamity unleashed a life-saving bloodline ability that devastated Cheng Buzheng’s defenses, but he escaped into a spatial interstice and healed himself with [Creation Heaven-Mending Art].
• Cheng Buzheng realized Crystal Calamity’s body had been weakened by its attack, then emerged and killed it with a river of chaotic Sword Qi.
• Cheng Buzheng collected Crystal Calamity’s surviving Storage Shell and left the battlefield, feeling no joy at avenging his wife.
• Cheng Buzheng found a long, narrow island, built a concealed underground Secret Chamber, and began wearing away the Storage Shell’s divine-sense imprint.

Cheng Buzheng examined Crystal Calamity’s storage shell and found fourth-tier divine blood and incomplete artifact blueprints, including a fragment of the mysterious Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill. He returned to the Forbidden Ancient City, exchanged divine blood, and settled into an inexpensive cave mansion at Purple Qi Manor.

• Cheng Buzheng refined Crystal Calamity’s storage shell and discovered fifteen drops of fourth-tier divine blood and a Jade Slip of artifact blueprints.
• Cheng Buzheng found that many blueprints had missing sections and that the fragmentary Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill might be the Purgatory Race’s clan-protecting treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng connected the Divine Mill to a line in Ancient Records and considered whether it could help him advance his Life-Bound Magic Treasure into a spiritual treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng left the secret chamber and returned safely to the Forbidden Ancient City.
• Cheng Buzheng queued for a day and night to enter the Divine Blood Hall, then completed his exchange.
• Cheng Buzheng checked into Purple Qi Manor and flew to his chosen cave mansion.

Cheng Buzheng inspected the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone he had acquired for Murong Wanwan and destroyed a hidden trap planted by an old cultivator, unknowingly prompting its owner to act. After refining his Beast-Enticement Talismans, he began using the Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass to make new ones, leaving the refinement underway.

• Cheng Buzheng examined his new cave abode, confirmed it had no surveillance formation, and placed a warning formation in the Quiet Room.
• Cheng Buzheng detected and destroyed a black-smoke worm hidden in the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone he had exchanged for Murong Wanwan.
• A gloomy old man in a Black Robe noticed the trap had been discovered and decided to meet the powerful cultivators who had exchanged for lifespan-extending treasures.
• Cheng Buzheng refined his stacks of modified Beast-Enticement Talismans over three days, then rested for half a day.
• Cheng Buzheng distilled the Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass into azure liquid and began using the Beast-Enticement Art to turn it into talisman material.

Cheng Buzheng reforged Beast-Enticement Talismans and studied magic treasure diagrams, discovering that a fragment of the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill might help his Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword advance into a spirit treasure. He then began investigating divine blood in the Forbidden Ancient City, seeking the danger hidden within it.

• Cheng Buzheng refined several stacks of Beast-Enticement Talismans, with only a few failing after his concentration wavered.
• Cheng Buzheng recorded and examined magic treasure diagrams, then recognized that the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill fragment contained a core Spirit Restriction suited to his Life-Bound Magic Treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng set aside the fragmentary diagram for study, sorted the other diagrams into Jade Slips, and began using the Creation Small Plate to deduce unfamiliar Spirit Restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body destroyed its copied Jade Slip and took out a drop of third-tier divine blood to study.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Great Luo Dharma Eye and spell techniques to separate the divine blood into golden particles as he searched for the source of its danger.

Cheng Buzheng tested whether he could remove the danger from divine blood, first using [Purification Technique] and then deducing stronger purification and differentiation methods. When those methods led only to an endless cycle of purification and splitting, he turned to Blood Linglong, but the treasure was in the family’s Secret Realm and divine blood could not be taken off Seal Boundary Island.

• Cheng Buzheng repeatedly used [Purification Technique] on the divine blood, weakening its dangerous power but failing to erase the blood-red monsters completely.
• Cheng Buzheng restored his Magic Power, then used his true body to deduce [Super Purification Technique] and [Super Differentiation Technique].
• Cheng Buzheng used the new techniques to purify and split the divine blood, but each split produced more blood-red monsters and the process eventually stopped working.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that splitting could not reveal the divine blood’s nature and considered using Blood Linglong, which was kept in the family’s Secret Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized that sending Blood Linglong to him would be difficult because divine blood was forbidden from leaving Seal Boundary Island and departing cultivators were checked and made to swear a Heart Demon Oath.

Cheng Buzheng tested whether Blood Linglong could remove the hidden dangers in divine blood, discovering that it purified the blood’s essence but lacked the power to finish the job. He concluded that his approach was sound and considered ways to amplify Blood Linglong’s effects.

• Cheng Buzheng had a Soul Puppet bring Blood Linglong from the family Secret Realm to Forbidden Ancient City.
• Cheng Buzheng used Blood Linglong on a drop of divine blood and found that it weakened the blood’s hidden monsters without diminishing its power.
• Cheng Buzheng combined Blood Linglong with his secret techniques, discovering that its purification altered the divine blood’s essence before the techniques exhausted its power.
• Cheng Buzheng repeated the experiments with his third-tier divine blood until he had used it all, confirming that Blood Linglong’s effect was consistent but incomplete.
• Cheng Buzheng decided that Blood Linglong needed greater power and considered upgrading it or studying its design to create multiple treasures for a magic treasure Great Array.

Cheng Buzheng weighed ways to learn Blood Linglong’s construction diagram and chose to delay destroying the treasure for a risky secret art, while leaving it and the divine blood with his Third-order Soul Puppet in Forbidden Ancient City. Meanwhile, his true body deduced an upgraded Teleportation Guiding Jade design, the [Teleportation Boundary Talisman], but found its materials so rare that refining it seemed nearly impossible.

• Cheng Buzheng considered investigating the Blood Fiend Gate or using a secret art that could destroy Blood Linglong, but decided to wait for more information and try Small Plate’s deduction first.
• Cheng Buzheng stored the divine blood and Blood Linglong with his Third-order Soul Puppet at Purple Qi Manor, then left Forbidden Ancient City for the outskirts.
• Cheng Buzheng’s true body failed to deduce the damaged [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill] diagram, though he gained several Spirit Restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng ruled out carrying divine blood past the Seal Boundary Ancient City’s inner demon oath and considered upgrading the Teleportation Guiding Jade to bypass its spatial blockade.
• Cheng Buzheng used Small Plate to deduce the [Teleportation Boundary Talisman] and discovered that its design required numerous unknown treasures beyond rare Spirit Materials.

Cheng Buzheng abandoned his attempt to overcome Seal Boundary Ancient City’s restrictions and used [Celestial Cycle Divination] and the Creation Small Plate to deduce a set of [Blood Linglong] treasures and their supporting arrays. After Murong Wanwan gathered the required Spirit Materials, he began refining a new [Blood Linglong].

• Cheng Buzheng spent months using [Celestial Cycle Divination] to derive a high-grade [Blood Linglong] blueprint capable of purifying spirit blood.
• Cheng Buzheng devised several supporting arrays, including the [Twelve All-Heavens Blood Spirit Array], and used the Creation Small Plate to complete their designs.
• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan a list of required Spirit Materials and asked her to gather them while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body continued deeper into the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng analyzed and recorded another Spirit Restriction while waiting for Murong Wanwan to return with the materials.
• Murong Wanwan returned with every listed Spiritual Item, and Cheng Buzheng began refining a new [Blood Linglong].

Cheng Buzheng finished refining a new Blood Linglong but could not test it because the divine blood and his incarnation remained trapped behind Seal Boundary Ancient City's restrictions. In the Forbidden Sea, his incarnation hunted Purgatory Blood Demons, then ambushed four Human Origin Blood Demon Envoys and their Desolate Beasts before drawing out four Blood River Desolate Beasts to harvest their divine blood.

• Cheng Buzheng completed the Blood Linglong and wondered whether it would work like the one held by his incarnation, but he could not deliver it to the Forbidden Sea or bring divine blood through Seal Boundary Ancient City's restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body hunted lone Purgatory Blood Demons and small groups while avoiding larger forces, as the Purgatory Race organized into squads across the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted four Human Origin Blood Demon Envoys directing Desolate Beasts to kill a besieged great demon, and he waited until the demon was slain before striking.
• Cheng Buzheng used a sword attack to kill the four Purgatory Blood Demons and the surrounding Desolate Beasts, then used a spirit talisman to summon four Blood River Desolate Beasts.
• Cheng Buzheng suppressed the four Blood River Desolate Beasts and began extracting their spatial coordinates to open the Blood River Space and condense divine blood.

Cheng Buzheng collected the spoils from a battle, incinerated the remains, and retreated to a barren island to recover his Magic Power. Meanwhile, Madam Yao fled a pursuing Purgatory Blood Demon and activated the last of her Jade Talismans to contact Cheng Buzheng, who recognized her message and listened.

• Cheng Buzheng collected the divine blood and other valuables from the fallen Desolate Beasts, great demons, and Purgatory Blood Demons, then burned their remains to ashes with the [Great Sun Tathagata Sword].
• Cheng Buzheng flew to a barren island, carved out a Quiet Room, and began restoring his Magic Power.
• Three Purgatory Blood Demons discussed Madam Yao's escape and set off to support Prison Eight, who was pursuing her.
• Madam Yao used her seventh Jade Talisman to send a message to Cheng Buzheng while Prison Eight chased her across the blood-colored ocean.
• Cheng Buzheng felt the Jade Talisman's disturbance, recognized it as the one Madam Yao had left him, and activated it to hear her voice.

Cheng Buzheng received Madam Yao’s plea for help, with news of Primordial Chaos Qi offered as payment, and replenished his power before setting out. As the Purgatory Blood Demon closed in, Madam Yao lost hope of rescue and unleashed her Profound Demon Lust Maiden technique, but the demon summoned six Desolate Beasts to kill her.

• Madam Yao offered Cheng Buzheng information about Primordial Chaos Qi in exchange for his help, and he considered the possibility that the legendary treasure existed.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Heaven-Mending Art to restore his Magic Power, sent Madam Yao a map, and departed after retrieving his formation.
• Madam Yao followed the map while the Purgatory Blood Demon pursued her, but her Magic Power dwindled and her escape technique weakened.
• Madam Yao stopped, confronted the Purgatory Blood Demon, and summoned the Profound Demon Lust Maiden to ensnare its mind.
• Before succumbing to the illusion, the Purgatory Blood Demon summoned six mid-stage fourth-rank Desolate Beasts and ordered them to kill Madam Yao.

Cheng Buzheng rescued Madam Yao from Prison Eight and demanded the information she had promised about the Primordial Chaos Qi. He learned it was supposedly deep within the Thunder Abyss, and Madam Yao offered two rare Spirit Materials after admitting her information was limited.

• Cheng Buzheng emerged from hiding, trapped Prison Eight with his Primordial Force Field, and carried Madam Yao away before the Blood Demon's companions arrived.
• Prison Eight told the other Purgatory Blood Demons that a Nascent Soul Middle Stage human cultivator had rescued Madam Yao, then they continued their extermination mission.
• On a desolate island, Cheng Buzheng pressed Madam Yao for details about the Primordial Chaos Qi, and she explained that she had learned of it from a Golden Core cultivator's inherited secret.
• Madam Yao revealed that the Primordial Chaos Qi was believed to lie deep within the Thunder Abyss and gave Cheng Buzheng a map marking only its approximate location.
• Madam Yao admitted her information was limited and offered Cheng Buzheng two rare Spirit Materials as compensation.

Cheng Buzheng made Madam Yao swear a detailed Heart Demon Oath confirming the truth and secrecy of the Primordial Chaos Qi information, then left her on the island. He used the Primordial Force Field to track the Purgatory Blood Demons, hoping to learn more about the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill.

• Cheng Buzheng rejected compensation and asked Madam Yao to swear a Heart Demon Oath about the Primordial Chaos Qi information.
• Madam Yao agreed to Cheng Buzheng's oath terms and asked him to swear that he would not attack her; both completed their oaths.
• Cheng Buzheng warned Madam Yao to return to the Forbidden Ancient City, then flew away while she complained that he had left her behind.
• Cheng Buzheng formed a spirit serpent from the Primordial Force Field to track the Purgatory Blood Demons he had previously encountered.
• Cheng Buzheng pursued the four Purgatory Blood Demons, hoping to find information that could help complete the blueprint for the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill.

Cheng Buzheng ambushed the four Purgatory Blood Demons, broke their Blood Prison Space, and incapacitated them so he could search their souls without interference. He harvested divine blood from their four special Desolate Beasts and began refining the remaining corpses.

• Cheng Buzheng found the four Purgatory Blood Demons with his Great Luo Dharma Eye and approached them through the spatial interlayer.
• The Purgatory Blood Demons unleashed their Blood Prison Space, but Cheng Buzheng used the Calamity-Crossing Dharma Robe and Earth Zhenyuan Sword to purge its ominous power and suppress them.
• Cheng Buzheng pierced the four demons’ Dantians and used the Soul-Slaying Spirit-Extinguishing Sword to muddle their thoughts.
• Cheng Buzheng lured out and slaughtered the Desolate Beasts, then extracted four drops of divine blood from the special beasts the demons had kept in Blood River Space.
• Cheng Buzheng collected valuable Spirit Materials from the corpses and began refining the remaining flesh and blood.

Cheng Buzheng refined Desolate Beast essence blood for his family and brought four defeated Purgatory Blood Demons to a cave to search their memories. He learned about the Purgatory Race and its confinement in the Forbidden Sea, found a possible lead on the [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill], and began searching the remaining demons for more information.

• Cheng Buzheng refined the Desolate Beast corpses into essence blood for his Golden Core Realm family juniors.
• Cheng Buzheng transported the four incapacitated Purgatory Blood Demons to a cave, sealed them, and began searching one demon's memories.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the Purgatory Race had priestly and Divine Envoy lineages and that a powerful formation trapped the race within the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng found that the [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill] was the Purgatory Race's clan-suppressing treasure, and that a priest skilled in artifact refining might know its design.
• Cheng Buzheng searched a second Purgatory Blood Demon's memories but found no information about the [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill].

Cheng Buzheng realized that the Purgatory Blood Demons’ [Blood Prison Space] could help him solve the problem of transmitting divine blood across vast distances. He used the Creation Small Plate to begin deducing a suitable divine ability, but the first attempt veered off course.

• Cheng Buzheng soul-searched four Purgatory Blood Demons, learned of the Purgatory Race’s brutal customs, and killed and incinerated them.
• Cheng Buzheng reviewed the battle and connected [Blood Prison Space], the Scarlet Gate, the Blood River Space, and a spatial coordinate point carried by a Desolate Beast.
• Cheng Buzheng realized the secret art’s spatial principles might let him transmit divine blood between himself and his Myriad Transformation Dao Body.
• Cheng Buzheng rejected secret arts and teleportation Magic Treasures as impractical, then chose to deduce an unorthodox divine ability using the Creation Small Plate.
• Cheng Buzheng’s first deduction produced a result that veered from his intended direction, though it cost him only a few points of Deduction Value.

Cheng Buzheng repeatedly deduced and refined [Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate], a divine ability that used heart-spirit resonance to teleport objects. By its sixth-grade form, it could reach the full perception range of [Heart Spirit Divine Eye], allowing his true body and Myriad Transformation Dao Body in the Forbidden Sea to exchange treasures and letting Foundation Establishment cultivators pass through safely.

• Cheng Buzheng made seven deductions before completing the first-grade [Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate], which consumed enormous Magic Power and could teleport only inanimate objects within its limited range.
• Cheng Buzheng deduced the divine ability to second and third grade, extending its teleportation range alongside [Heart Spirit Divine Eye].
• Cheng Buzheng advanced [Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate] to fourth grade; it could reach across the Immortal Alliance's territory and its passage could carry ordinary mortals.
• Cheng Buzheng advanced the divine ability to fifth grade, increasing its range and allowing Qi Refining Cultivators to pass through without collapsing the passage.
• Cheng Buzheng completed the sixth-grade deduction, bringing the range to the limit of his sixth-grade [Heart Spirit Divine Eye] and strengthening the passage enough for Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators to travel safely.

Cheng Buzheng deduced a new mystery that strengthened the passage created by Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate, then successfully cultivated the ability by imprinting its Dao Seal on the bones of his left hand. He prepared to test the teleportation effect after his Myriad Transformation Dao Body found a place to settle in the Forbidden Sea.

• Cheng Buzheng named the new mystery Impregnable as a Golden Citadel, which allowed early Golden Core Mortal Cultivators to pass through Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate without collapsing its passage.
• Cheng Buzheng chose the bones in his left palm as the vessel for Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate and gathered over a thousand boxes of soul-type Spirit Medicines to support its cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng used Creation Heaven-Mending Art and Spirit Pills to replenish his divine sense while he condensed the divine ability Dao Seal.
• Cheng Buzheng successfully merged the Dao Seal into his left hand, and the panel no longer marked Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate as uncultivated.
• Cheng Buzheng prepared to test the teleportation ability after his Myriad Transformation Dao Body found a place to settle in the Forbidden Sea.