Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng completed the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate and tested its ability to transfer objects between his true body and incarnation. He then tested his newly deduced Blood Linglong, finding that it weakened blood monsters and could purify divine blood, though the purification reduced its power.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Heaven-Mending Art and Spirit Pills to replenish his Magic Power while forming the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate.
• Cheng Buzheng and his Myriad Transformation Dao Body tested the gate by sending a Spirit Stone and Storage Bag through it, confirming that both passed through intact.
• Cheng Buzheng's incarnation sent a Storage Shell containing a Soul Puppet, the original Blood Linglong, and other items through the gate before departing the island.
• Cheng Buzheng received the Storage Shell and sent the Soul Puppet to reopen Fudao Hall in Immortal Alliance City.
• Cheng Buzheng tested his new Blood Linglong and found that it weakened blood monsters more than the original, then used the Super Purification Technique to purify divine blood at the cost of weakening its power.

Cheng Buzheng confirmed that repeatedly purifying and dividing the divine blood left it in a safe, phantom-like state, then considered the rare materials needed to make enough new Blood Linglong treasures. His Myriad Transformation Dao Body reached the distant Thunder Abyss, where a probe was destroyed by the Nine Heavens Gale and a battered figure was struck apart by lightning before re-forming.

• Cheng Buzheng tested the divine blood with repeated uses of Super Differentiation Technique and Super Purification Technique, then stored it with the new Blood Linglong.
• Cheng Buzheng calculated that he needed at least five new Blood Linglong and planned to obtain the scarce materials through Divine Blood Hall and other trade channels.
• Cheng Buzheng postponed giving his wife the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone and swallowed a Spirit Pill to cultivate.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body spent more than half a year fighting Purgatory Race squads, sending the divine blood he gathered to his true body and confirming information about the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill through soul-searching.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted the distant Thunder Abyss and sent a Qi Refining Soul Puppet toward it, but the Nine Heavens Gale tore the puppet apart.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the Thunder Abyss, where a ragged figure was blasted apart by heavenly lightning and quickly re-formed while cursing in pain.

Cheng Buzheng cautiously sent Soul Puppets into the Thunder Abyss, using Chu Daofeng’s map to navigate its deadly lightning and sacrificing several puppets along the way. He continued deeper while resisting the temptation of treasures off the marked path, hoping to reach the middle region so he could use [Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate] to send in more puppets.

• Venerable Guanping fled the Thunder Abyss after repeated lightning strikes shattered his body, then reformed and continued toward the outer reaches.
• Cheng Buzheng tested the Thunder Abyss with Soul Puppets and found that its outer lightning could annihilate even a puppet controlled by a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
• Cheng Buzheng used Chu Daofeng’s map and timed the lightning to guide Soul Puppets along a narrow safe route, losing several to unexpected bolts and aftershocks.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppet strayed toward a rare Spirit Medicine and was destroyed by a lightning strike, teaching him not to leave the mapped path for treasures.
• Cheng Buzheng continued deeper, ignored precious items beyond the route, and hoped the scouting puppet would reach the middle region so he could send in more through [Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate].

Cheng Buzheng sent a Soul Puppet into Thunder Abyss and encountered Venerable Guanping, a Spirit Transformation Supreme who wanted the puppet-refinement legacy. Their negotiations began with Guanping offering a Spirit Pill, then a map of Thunder Abyss, which caught Cheng Buzheng’s interest.

• Cheng Buzheng sent another Soul Puppet through Thunder Abyss after lightning destroyed the first one.
• The Soul Puppet approached Thunder Abyss’s middle layer, where immense lightning and suppressive force made travel perilous.
• Venerable Guanping emerged from the lightning and asked Cheng Buzheng how he had refined the puppet.
• Cheng Buzheng claimed he had obtained the puppet from an Abandoned Mansion and refused to reveal its refinement method.
• Venerable Guanping offered a Spirit Pill in exchange for the puppet legacy, but Cheng Buzheng showed no interest.
• Venerable Guanping offered his map of Thunder Abyss instead, and Cheng Buzheng wondered whether it included the core region.

Cheng Buzheng traded a puppet inheritance to Venerable Guanping for a map of Thunder Abyss, then used a fabricated explanation and the puppet’s accidental destruction to conceal his true capabilities. Outside the forbidden area, he examined the map and found it pointed toward part of the region Madam Yao had identified as containing [Primordial Chaos Qi].

• Cheng Buzheng agreed to trade the puppet inheritance for Venerable Guanping’s Thunder Abyss map and confirmed that the map was genuine.
• Venerable Guanping suspected Cheng Buzheng had altered the inheritance because the Soul Puppet had reached him despite Thunder Abyss’s restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng claimed a damaged rare treasure extended his puppets’ control range, and offered to swear a great heart-demon oath.
• The Soul Puppet shattered before Cheng Buzheng finished the oath, and Venerable Guanping realized his own pressure had damaged it before retrieving the Jade Slip.
• Cheng Buzheng shifted his consciousness back to his Myriad Transformation Dao Body and reviewed the map, finding that it covered part of Madam Yao’s region for [Primordial Chaos Qi].

Cheng Buzheng hid in a spatial fold and waited for Venerable Guanping to stop watching Thunder Abyss after their earlier encounter. Though Guanping appeared to leave, Cheng Buzheng remained cautious and ended the chapter still concealed, waiting before making his next move.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Great Luo Dharma Eye to discover Venerable Guanping secretly watching Thunder Abyss and reflected on how his Soul Puppet had broken during their earlier exchange.
• Cheng Buzheng waited in hiding while periodically replenishing his Magic Power, and Venerable Guanping eventually appeared to leave before returning far from Thunder Abyss.
• Cheng Buzheng continued waiting for another year and a half as Venerable Guanping made a second apparent departure.
• After scanning the area and finding no sign of Venerable Guanping, Cheng Buzheng concluded that he had likely left for good but remained hidden and kept his Soul Puppet put away.

Cheng Buzheng tried to send Soul Puppets into Thunder Abyss and discovered that the middle layer’s suppressive force made his Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate consume far more Magic Power. As he struggled to open the gate, White Situ and several Purgatory Blood Demons spotted him and decided to capture him for his knowledge and techniques.

• Cheng Buzheng confirmed Venerable Guanping had left, then sent Soul Puppets into Thunder Abyss, where most were destroyed before one reached the middle layer.
• Cheng Buzheng saw that the middle layer’s enormous lightning strikes could kill even Nascent Soul powerhouses and began using Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate to send in more Soul Puppets.
• Cheng Buzheng found the teleportation gate unusually difficult to form and suspected Thunder Abyss’s mysterious suppressive force was interfering with space.
• White Situ and several Purgatory Blood Demons detected Cheng Buzheng’s disturbance from three million li away.
• White Situ identified the source as a human Nascent Soul cultivator and persuaded the others to join him in capturing Cheng Buzheng for his intelligence and secrets.

Cheng Buzheng completed the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate and sent Soul Puppets through it while Purgatory Clan experts attacked him. He killed one attacker and withstood the others’ strikes, but White Situ and the remaining enemies continued their assault.

• White Situ sent three Purgatory Blood Demon Envoys and a Purgatory Situ toward Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body, which was replenishing its Magic Power while forming the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted the approaching Purgatory Clan experts and recognized their leader as a rare Purgatory Situ whose memories held valuable knowledge, so he decided to capture him.
• White Situ’s eye technique tracked Cheng Buzheng even after he shifted position, forcing Cheng Buzheng to keep forming the gate despite the incoming danger.
• Cheng Buzheng completed the gate, tossed a Storage Bag of Soul Puppets through it, and cut off the Magic Power supply before confronting the attackers.
• Cheng Buzheng’s sword light destroyed the first Purgatory Blood Demon Envoy, while his Calamity-Crossing Dharma Robe nullified the other three experts’ attacks.
• White Situ and the remaining Purgatory Clan experts attacked together, and Cheng Buzheng used rapid movement to evade them.

Cheng Buzheng killed another Purgatory Blood Demon Envoy, but White Situ summoned the Progenitor’s phantom and unleashed a forbidden attack. Cheng Buzheng met it with his strongest sword strike and defenses, yet his Chaos Sword Qi began to falter under the clash.

• Cheng Buzheng dodged the Desolate Beasts and the Purgatory Blood Demon Envoys’ attacks as White Situ began casting the Purgatory Clan’s forbidden art.
• Cheng Buzheng killed one Purgatory Blood Demon Envoy with a strange sword strike, freeing its summoned Desolate Beasts and sending them scattering.
• The remaining Purgatory Blood Demon Envoy’s paired attacks struck Cheng Buzheng, but his golden defensive radiance withstood them.
• White Situ’s phantom opened its eyes and attacked Cheng Buzheng with a Heaven-Seizing Giant Palm, suppressing his control over the surrounding Spirit Energy.
• Cheng Buzheng unleashed his Chaos Sword Qi and strengthened his defenses, but the collision damaged his customized longsword and threatened to collapse the sword technique.

Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body battled Purgatory Situ's supreme forbidden art, and the clash left his body destroyed while his Nascent Soul fled. Elsewhere, Venerable Guanping traveled toward Thunder Abyss with Demon Venerable Xiaotian, who agreed to help search for hidden human juniors.

• Purgatory Situ's Heaven-Seizing Giant Palm shattered Cheng Buzheng's Chaos Sword Qi, so Cheng Buzheng detonated the remaining sword power and recovered his Magic Power with a secret art.
• Cheng Buzheng's One Sword Tilts the Heavens failed to stop the giant palm, and his Calamity-Crossing Dharma Robe broke as the attack engulfed him.
• Purgatory Situ searched the battlefield, spotted Cheng Buzheng's fleeing Nascent Soul, and ordered the Purgatory Blood Demon envoy to capture it.
• Venerable Guanping traveled toward Thunder Abyss aboard a Flying Boat with Demon Venerable Xiaotian, and they agreed to pool their maps and explore the region's core.
• Venerable Guanping congratulated Demon Venerable Xiaotian on awakening the Heaven-Piercing Dharma Eye, then asked him to search for human juniors near Thunder Abyss.

Venerable Guanping persuaded Demon Venerable Xiaotian to help search for Cheng Buzheng, while Cheng Buzheng used a feigned escape to draw in two Purgatory Race pursuers before restoring his body at the cost of a minor realm. He killed the Purgatory Blood Demon Envoy and left the weakened Purgatory Situ fleeing.

• Venerable Guanping told Demon Venerable Xiaotian that Cheng Buzheng likely possessed a powerful concealment divine ability and offered compensation for help finding him.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian agreed to assist Venerable Guanping, and the two examined maps as their Flying Boat sped toward Thunder Abyss.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Nascent Soul incarnation halted its flight and used the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] to restore its physical body, lowering his cultivation to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Cheng Buzheng attacked and killed the pursuing Purgatory Blood Demon Envoy with a ghostly sword light.
• Purgatory Situ fled at full speed after seeing Cheng Buzheng restored and realizing he was too weakened to fight.

Cheng Buzheng defeated and captured Purgatory Situ, then searched his memories and learned about the Purgatory Clan’s treasures and plans. After discovering a mysterious pearl in Purgatory Situ’s ashes, he kept it and left for Thunder Abyss.

• Cheng Buzheng caught Purgatory Situ after killing the remaining Purgatory Blood Demon Envoys, then looted the battlefield and took his captive to a remote island.
• Cheng Buzheng searched Purgatory Situ’s memories and learned that priests held high status in the Purgatory Clan and that the clan might soon make a major move.
• Cheng Buzheng recorded Spirit Restrictions and Purgatory Treasure diagrams, including the Demonic Purgatory Battle Spear, which formed part of the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill.
• Cheng Buzheng found no further useful memories and burned Purgatory Situ, but noticed a mysterious pearl among the ashes and stored it away.
• Cheng Buzheng left the island and flew toward Thunder Abyss.

Cheng Buzheng reconstructed part of the [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill] diagram but found Small Plate could not yet deduce it, then resumed cultivation while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body sent Soul Puppets deeper into Thunder Abyss. Meanwhile, Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian searched the area around Thunder Abyss, capturing cultivators and making them swear Heart Demon Oaths as their search continued.

• Cheng Buzheng reconstructed a little more than one-tenth of the [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill] diagram using the [Demonic Purgatory Battle Spear] diagram, but Small Plate could not deduce it.
• Cheng Buzheng copied the diagram information into Small Plate, recorded the Purgatory Treasure diagrams and Spirit Restrictions from Purgatory Situ Baixuan’s memories, and resumed cultivating.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body hid a million li from Thunder Abyss while a Soul Puppet approached the depths of its middle region after more than twenty Soul Puppets were destroyed.
• Venerable Guanping asked Demon Venerable Xiaotian to search around Thunder Abyss for a cultivator, and Demon Venerable Xiaotian began circling the area.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian captured several Nascent Soul cultivators, while Venerable Guanping checked their auras and Storage Bags and had them swear great Heart Demon Oaths before releasing them.

Cheng Buzheng sensed danger and fled when his Myriad Transformation Dao Body discovered Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping pursuing him. The two Supremes caught up and demanded that he swear a Heart Demon Oath, but he refused and prepared to fight.

• Cheng Buzheng investigated his growing unease, ruled out danger to his true body, and searched the Forbidden Sea with the Great Luo Dharma Eye.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping aboard an ancient bronze vessel and fled through the spatial interstice.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian detected Cheng Buzheng’s hiding place, and he and Venerable Guanping pursued him until he could no longer escape.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian forced Cheng Buzheng to reveal himself, and Venerable Guanping challenged him with a Jade Slip containing a Heart Demon Oath.
• Cheng Buzheng refused to swear the oath, angering Venerable Guanping while Demon Venerable Xiaotian watched with keen interest.

Cheng Buzheng escaped Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian with a Teleportation Guiding Jade, then regrouped in a hidden chamber and continued his attempt to reach the Houtu Turbid Qi through Thunder Abyss. The chapter left his Soul Puppet at the edge of the unmapped final stretch, where the journey was expected to be most dangerous.

• Cheng Buzheng teleported away from Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian, who concluded he had escaped beyond their sea region.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping departed for the Thunder Abyss, while Venerable Guanping resolved to investigate Cheng Buzheng’s identity through the mysterious rogue cultivator Lone Walker.
• Cheng Buzheng emerged from a Teleportation Guiding Jade in a concealed chamber on a barren island, secured the area, and prepared to control a Soul Puppet in Thunder Abyss.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppet survived the middle region and reached Thunder Abyss’s inner region, where a Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate delivered a Storage Bag and more Soul Puppets.
• Cheng Buzheng hid the new Soul Puppets along the route and advanced until only the unmapped final stretch before the Houtu Turbid Qi remained.

Cheng Buzheng used Soul Puppets to map the Thunder Abyss forbidden land and finally found a cave filled with Houtu Turbid Qi. Meanwhile, Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian entered Thunder Abyss and began cautiously exploring its middle region.

• Cheng Buzheng sacrificed many Soul Puppets while mapping Thunder Abyss, gradually piecing together the route to the Houtu Turbid Qi.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian entered Thunder Abyss, endured its law-infused lightning, and sent constructs ahead to scout the middle region.
• Cheng Buzheng gathered the surviving Soul Puppets near the cave, hid three of them, and sent another inside cautiously.
• Cheng Buzheng found a cavern containing a pool and strands of Mysterious Yellow mist, recognizing them as the Houtu Turbid Qi he had sought.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that the dark-yellow mist in the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area was precious Houtu Turbid Qi, but his low-order Soul Puppet could not collect it. He brought in the white-haired Old Daoist Soul Puppet and the Primordial Mirage Bottle to retrieve it, then noticed something strange when a Puppet bounced out of the emptied pit.

• Cheng Buzheng recognized the dark-yellow mist as Houtu Turbid Qi and found that his Qi Refining Stage Soul Puppet could not move it.
• Cheng Buzheng arranged for the Third-order white-haired Old Daoist Soul Puppet and the Primordial Mirage Bottle to be sent into the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area, and Fudao Hall closed while the transfer was prepared.
• The white-haired Old Daoist Soul Puppet used the Primordial Mirage Bottle to collect all the Houtu Turbid Qi and sent the bottle back through the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate.
• Cheng Buzheng recalled the Third-order Soul Puppet and began placing low-order Soul Puppets around the cavern to explore the forbidden area's core region.
• A Puppet plunged into the empty pit of profound yellow earth, bounced back out, and prompted Cheng Buzheng to investigate.

Cheng Buzheng uncovered a mysterious yellow wonder stone in the Thunder Abyss and hid it deep underground with a Soul Puppet guarding it, then stashed his remaining puppets and headed toward the core region. As his puppets continued to be destroyed by lightning, Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian approached the core and agreed to use their avatars to scout the way.

• Cheng Buzheng stripped the boulder from the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone and discovered that it and its fragments could evade divine sense.
• Cheng Buzheng fused a Soul Puppet into the stone fragments, concealed the wonder stone inside a cooled boulder, and buried it a thousand zhang underground.
• Cheng Buzheng hid his final batch of Soul Puppet Puppets in a lightning-wreathed ancient forest, then followed Venerable Guanping's map toward Thunder Abyss's core region.
• A massive lightning bolt destroyed Cheng Buzheng's Soul Puppet, so the Myriad Transformation Dao Body sent another puppet into the Thunder Abyss.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian discussed their dwindling avatars and agreed to send Law avatars ahead once their scouting avatars were exhausted.

Cheng Buzheng moved his Soul Puppets closer to the Thunder Abyss Core Layer, then ventured inside alone to search for [Primordial Chaos Qi]. The Teleportation Guiding Jade barely survived transporting more puppets, and Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian entered the core region nearby as Cheng Buzheng made progress through its deadly lightning.

• Venerable Guanping and Venerable Xiaotian agreed to follow the old rules and discussed who would split off a Law Avatar first.
• Cheng Buzheng chose a field of crystalline boulders as a safer place to hide his Soul Puppets near the Thunder Abyss Core Layer.
• Cheng Buzheng activated the Teleportation Guiding Jade to bring over a Soul Puppet and a gray Storage Bag, and the jade crumbled after completing the teleportation.
• Cheng Buzheng concealed his Soul Puppets among the crystalline boulders, then entered the core layer, where successive lightning strikes destroyed his puppets as he learned its patterns.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian entered the core layer less than a hundred thousand li from Cheng Buzheng and noticed a figure ahead surrounded by faint ripples.

Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping found a Five-Colored Spirit Cloud, which Xiaotian collected, but a massive bolt of law lightning struck them moments later. Though they survived, their law Spirit Bodies were severely depleted, and Guanping persuaded Xiaotian to continue deeper into the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area.

• Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping sent their law avatars ahead through the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area, following a route that brought them closer to Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppet.
• The two supreme powerhouses detected a Wind Spirit Law aura, and Xiaotian collected the Five-Colored Spirit Cloud while Guanping watched.
• A hundred-thousand-zhang bolt of law lightning engulfed Xiaotian, Guanping, and their avatars, destroying their law incarnations and leaving both powerhouses severely weakened.
• Xiaotian considered retreating, but Guanping argued that they had already paid a great price and might find more law Spiritual Items ahead.
• Xiaotian’s reluctance to retreat faded, and the two prepared to continue deeper into the forbidden area.