Chapter Summaries

Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping spotted a Qi Refining-looking figure in the Thunder Abyss and went to investigate, hoping it might have found a law Spiritual Item. They discovered it was a puppet, then began searching for the cultivator controlling it, unaware that Cheng Buzheng was inside it.

• Demon Venerable Xiaotian agreed to continue through the Thunder Abyss with Venerable Guanping, setting a limit on how much damage his Law Spirit Body could suffer.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian noticed a weak-looking cultivator in the forbidden area and told Venerable Guanping about it.
• Venerable Guanping suspected the figure might be the Nascent Soul junior he sought, and the two decided to approach it in case it had found a law Spiritual Item.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian used his bloodline divine eye to examine the figure and discovered it was a puppet inhabited by Cheng Buzheng, not a living cultivator.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping began searching for the puppet’s hidden controller, while Xiaotian also grew interested in how the puppet was controlled remotely despite the laws’ suppression.

Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping searched for the cultivator controlling the unusual puppet, then planned to seal it and extract its soul to find Cheng Buzheng. As they moved to capture his Soul Puppet near the lightning-blocked mountain range, Cheng Buzheng prepared to use his trump cards against them.

• Demon Venerable Xiaotian and Venerable Guanping searched together for the cultivator controlling the puppet but found no clues.
• Venerable Guanping proposed sealing the puppet and extracting its hidden sliver of soul, and Demon Venerable Xiaotian agreed.
• The two supreme powerhouses discussed how to trap the puppet and use a soul secret art to pursue its controller.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the immense lightning-veiled mountain range and began moving along it to search for a way across.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian arrived and made Cheng Buzheng's Soul Puppet difficult to control as they prepared to seal it.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized their plan and began using his trump cards, determined to make the two enemies suffer grievous losses.

Cheng Buzheng used a specially refined Lightning-Attracting Talisman to lure Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian into the Thunder Abyss’s divine lightning, nearly destroying their Law Spirit Bodies. The two escaped with only a fraction of their law particles remaining, while Cheng Buzheng wondered whether they had survived and lamented the loss of his Soul Puppet and talisman.

• Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppet activated a Lightning-Attracting Talisman, and Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian fled when they sensed the danger.
• The divine lightning destroyed the Soul Puppet and forced Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian to disperse their Law Spirit Bodies into law particles.
• The lightning laws eroded the two Supremes’ law particles to seven percent before the storm’s power finally faded.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian re-formed as wisps of colored smoke and fled without restoring their Law Spirit Bodies.
• Cheng Buzheng considered whether the two Supremes had died and recalled that the special talisman had been prepared to protect his Soul Puppets and belongings.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the trap had cost him a valuable Soul Puppet and talisman without bringing him any gain.

Cheng Buzheng sent another Soul Puppet into the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area while Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian escaped and searched the surrounding sea for him. After their search failed, Cheng continued exploring the Thunder Abyss and found a stretch of unusually stable space that might allow his divine movement art.

• Cheng Buzheng sent a new Soul Puppet toward the thunder curtain after losing several puppets on the way.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian escaped the Thunder Abyss with their Law Spirit Bodies severely weakened and debated whether to leave or search for the cultivator behind the puppets.
• Venerable Guanping and Demon Venerable Xiaotian searched the surrounding sea for more than half a year, found nothing, and separated when Purgatory Race Blood Demon Envoys appeared more frequently.
• Cheng Buzheng found no remains where the two supreme powerhouses had been struck by lightning and considered whether they had survived or been annihilated.
• Cheng Buzheng's Soul Puppet traveled more than a billion li through the Thunder Abyss and discovered a stretch of unusually stable space that might support Void Escape Travel.

Cheng Buzheng tested whether a Second-order Soul Puppet could cross the lightning canopy using the newly deduced Lightning-Body Fusion secret art. After both attempts failed, he prepared to risk his sole Third-order Soul Puppet, leaving the crossing and his journey beyond the chasm unresolved.

• Cheng Buzheng noticed the divine lightning had grown sparse and summoned a Second-order Soul Puppet to attempt crossing the canopy.
• Cheng Buzheng’s true body deduced the Lightning-Body Fusion secret art and adapted it for the Soul Puppet while continuing to cultivate.
• The Second-order Soul Puppet used the secret art to enter the lightning canopy, but divine lightning destroyed it before it reached the far side.
• Cheng Buzheng tried throwing a low-order Soul Puppet across during the Second-order Puppet’s crossing, but the repulsive force shattered the decoy too.
• Cheng Buzheng decided his only remaining option was to risk his sole Third-order Soul Puppet and bring all his Soul Puppets across in one final attempt.

Cheng Buzheng used his Third-order Soul Puppet to cross the Thunder Abyss’s lightning canopy and reach the Endless Barren Plain. After narrowly escaping a massive lightning eruption, he hid his Soul Puppets across the dangerous terrain.

• Cheng Buzheng formed a Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate and received his white-haired Third-order Soul Puppet through it.
• The white-haired Soul Puppet used the secret art Transform Body into Lightning to pass through the thunderous canopy, but the violent lightning damaged it.
• The Soul Puppet fled the canopy just before a ten-thousand-zhang divine lightning bolt erupted into a vast Thunder Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng sent out his palm-sized Soul Puppets and concealed them in areas with less crystallized ground.
• The white-haired Soul Puppet inspected its damage and hid itself.

Cheng Buzheng sent a low-order Soul Puppet toward the location of the Primordial Chaos Qi while Demon Venerable Xiaotian was intercepted by the Purgatory Clan’s Seventh Divine Envoy. Xiaotian escaped their blood world by sacrificing part of his Law Spirit Body, but a concealed Supreme struck him down and extinguished his consciousness.

• Cheng Buzheng sent a low-order Soul Puppet toward the Primordial Chaos Qi marked on Madam Yao’s map.
• The Seventh Divine Envoy trapped Demon Venerable Xiaotian in a blood-colored world and attacked him with a river of blood and Desolate Beasts.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian fought back with the Spirit Wind Law and confirmed that no other Purgatory divine envoy had joined the attack.
• Demon Venerable Xiaotian detonated part of his Law Spirit Body, blasted through the blood river, and escaped the blood-colored world.
• A concealed Supreme ambushed Demon Venerable Xiaotian with a law-infused giant hand, suppressing and extinguishing his consciousness.

The Sixth Priest and Seventh Divine Envoy captured the nearly extinguished Demon Venerable Xiaotian and returned to report. In the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area, Cheng Buzheng used a Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone to investigate the ancient aura linked to the Primordial Chaos Qi, while another young Mortal Cultivator examined the memories of a slain Purgatory Situ and discovered a Purgatory Demon Sword design.

• The Sixth Priest gathered Demon Venerable Xiaotian’s dimmed law particles, restored his body, and took him away with the Seventh Divine Envoy.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the map’s endpoint in the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area and recognized that its faint ancient aura resembled the aura of a Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone.
• Cheng Buzheng teleported the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone to the Soul Puppet at the site, but interrupted his investigation and fled when his secret art drew the attention of passing powerhouses.
• A young Mortal Cultivator arrived at the place Cheng Buzheng had fled from, then reflected on killing a weakened Purgatory Situ and learning of its formidable secret art through its memories.
• The young Mortal Cultivator searched the Purgatory Situ’s memories and found Purgatory Clan Spirit Restrictions, treasure designs, and the Purgatory Demon Sword structural diagram.

A young Mortal Cultivator reflected on the unforgeable Purgatory Demon Sword and his wish to help his former master reach the Nascent Soul Realm before flying away. Cheng Buzheng tested the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone in the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area, survived a devastating lightning strike, and followed its mysterious current as it grew increasingly excited.

• The young Mortal Cultivator considered trading his gains for a Spiritual Item to help the old man of the Metal Thunder Sect break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, then flew away.
• Cheng Buzheng found an ancient-origin current moving within the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone after bringing it into the core region of the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area.
• Cheng Buzheng traced the current across the crystallized land and turned back when it slowed near the edge of the ancient-origin region.
• A massive bolt of lightning destroyed one Soul Puppet, but the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone remained unharmed, and Cheng Buzheng retrieved it from a distance.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate to bring in his remaining Soul Puppets and stationed them throughout the region.
• Cheng Buzheng followed the current within the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone to narrow his search, and the current suddenly raced through its divine light.

Cheng Buzheng used the Void-Piercing Divine Crystal to enter the spatial interlayer and follow the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone’s guidance to the Primordial Chaos Qi. He reached the giant boulder that produced it, but a curtain of dangerous gray airflow blocked his way, leaving him to seek another method through.

• Cheng Buzheng decided to risk using the Void-Piercing Divine Crystal after sensing that the mysterious airflow was strongest near a patch of empty space.
• The white-haired Old Daoist received the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone and the Void-Piercing Divine Crystal, then opened a golden passage into the spatial interlayer.
• Following the golden runes through the spatial interlayer, the white-haired Old Daoist reached a vast gray world as a wisp of mysterious airflow left the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone and flew ahead.
• The white-haired Old Daoist entered the gray world and discovered that its airflow could dissolve his body, so he carefully avoided the growing currents as he traveled deeper.
• The white-haired Old Daoist found a giant dull-gray boulder behind a curtain of gray airflow and realized it was the vessel and source of the Primordial Chaos Qi.

Cheng Buzheng used his Soul Puppet to approach the Chaos Giant Stone, whose awakening unleashed devastating forces across the realm. After surviving the chaos waves with the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone, he cautiously tested the giant stone with a wisp of Magic Power and found that it did not react aggressively.

• Cheng Buzheng opened a gap in the [Primordial Chaos Qi] canopy and entered, where he sensed the Waste Stone’s opposing powers of origin and destruction.
• Cheng Buzheng retreated and used his Soul Puppet’s Magic Power to awaken the boulder, which unleashed waves that melted the void and swept across the realm.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone to shield the Soul Puppet from the waves, but the stone’s divine radiance dimmed and the puppet suffered severe damage.
• Cheng Buzheng weathered a flood of [Primordial Chaos Qi] as it converged on the awakened boulder, further weakening the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone.
• Cheng Buzheng approached the Chaos Giant Stone cautiously and sent a wisp of Magic Power toward it; the stone’s divine light flickered, then settled without further reaction.

Cheng Buzheng moved the Chaos Giant Stone out of the collapsing grey world and sent it, a cracked Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone, and his damaged Soul Puppet through the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate. Back in his underwater Cave Mansion, he discovered that the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone had turned into quicksand, leaving him unable to understand what had happened.

• Cheng Buzheng used his white-haired Old Daoist Soul Puppet to lift the Chaos Giant Stone, causing the grey world to crack and destabilize.
• The Chaos Giant Stone's chaotic divine light extinguished the Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone's divine light and cracked its surface when the stones came into contact.
• Cheng Buzheng stored the two stones in separate Storage Bags and sent them, along with the damaged Soul Puppet, through the Heart Spirit Teleportation Gate.
• The grey world collapsed into nothingness as spatial turbulence engulfed it, while Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body received the Storage Bags and Puppet in his underwater Cave Mansion.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the cracked Mysterious Yellow Wonder Stone and found it crumbling into quicksand, but could not determine the reason.

Cheng Buzheng secured the Chaos Giant Stone and sent his remaining Soul Puppets to search the Thunder Abyss, where they were all destroyed before he returned to sea. Meanwhile, the Sixth Priest and Seventh Divine Envoy returned to Purgatory Continent, reported their successful mission, and the Sixth Priest received the next portion of a supreme secret art as his reward.

• Cheng Buzheng stored the Chaos Giant Stone, then sent his remaining Soul Puppets deeper into the Thunder Abyss to seek more treasures, but they were destroyed without finding anything.
• Cheng Buzheng teleported his Thunder Abyss gains to his true body, received divine blood and other treasures, and left the Forbidden Sea.
• The Sixth Priest and Seventh Divine Envoy returned to Purgatory Continent and traveled to the Purgatory Divine Hall on Blood Sacred Mountain.
• The Seventh Divine Envoy reported that they had captured Demon Venerable Xiaotian, and the Sixth Priest added details of their mission.
• The High Priest rewarded the Sixth Priest with the next portion of [Progenitor's Divine Bestowal], which he accepted gratefully.

The Sixth Priest received a secret art from the High Priest and cast the unconscious Demon Venerable Xiaotian into the Purgatory Blood Abyss. On Spirit Sky Island, the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan’s elders debated whether to awaken the Twelfth World Ancestor after Spirit Sky Ancestor’s identity token went dark, then agreed to wait for news.

• The High Priest granted the Sixth Priest the middle volumes of [Progenitor's Divine Bestowal], while the Seventh Divine Envoy chose a supreme secret art instead of a secret-vault token.
• The High Priest ordered the Sixth Priest to throw Demon Venerable Xiaotian into the Purgatory Blood Abyss and told the priests and Divine Envoys not to leave Purgatory Continent without urgent cause.
• The Seventh Divine Envoy privately invited the Sixth Priest to his hall, and the Sixth Priest agreed to meet him after completing his mission.
• The Sixth Priest carried the unconscious Demon Venerable Xiaotian to the Purgatory Blood Abyss and cast him into it before departing.
• On Spirit Sky Island, the Spirit Sky Great Elder argued that Spirit Sky Ancestor might have met with trouble, while a half-step Demon Venerable clan elder urged him not to awaken the Twelfth World Ancestor prematurely.
• The Spirit Sky Great Elder and the clan elder agreed to wait for the junior returning from the Forbidden Sea to bring news.

The Spirit Sky Tiger Clan learned that Ancestor Xiaotian’s life tablet had shattered and began gathering forces to investigate his death while keeping the news secret. Elsewhere, Cheng Buzheng’s avatar was stopped by a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator demanding divine blood, who hinted that his master would enforce the demand.

• A great demon reported to the Grand Elder and clan elder that Ancestor Xiaotian’s life tablet had shattered, and they ordered him to guard the Life Tablet Hall and keep the news secret.
• The Grand Elder and clan elder decided to investigate which Supreme powerhouses had attacked Xiaotian before waking the Twelve Ancient Ancestors, and agreed to act if Purgatory powerhouses were responsible.
• The Grand Elder and clan elder rang the bell six times, summoning tens of thousands of Great Demons, then led the clan’s core forces toward Sealed Realm Ancient City to gather information at the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng’s avatar encountered a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator who demanded a drop of fourth-rank divine blood, despite Cheng Buzheng’s displayed Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation.
• When Cheng Buzheng questioned the demand, the cultivator said his master might make things difficult for him and bowed toward the southeast.

Cheng Buzheng suspected that a Nascent Soul cultivator was using a forged Supreme’s pressure to extort his divine blood, then recognized the name Venerable An Lan as his own alias. He exposed the deception and caught the fleeing swindler, who had used pressure talismans to fake the threat.

• An unfamiliar Supreme’s pressure swept over the sea, and the Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator demanded divine blood under the threat of his supposed master, prompting Cheng Buzheng to reluctantly agree.
• The cultivator named his master Venerable An Lan, and Cheng Buzheng realized that An Lan was his own alias from the Langya Secret Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng grew suspicious and used his eye technique to investigate the southeast, while the impostor fled with an escape divine ability.
• The impostor revealed in his thoughts that he had used pressure talismans to fake a Supreme’s presence and regretted losing the chance to obtain the divine blood.
• Cheng Buzheng caught up with the fleeing cultivator and confronted him about abandoning his supposed master, whose pressure had been only a trick.

Cheng Buzheng captured and interrogated a Nascent Soul True Lord who had been deceiving cultivators with a Pressure Talisman, learning how the talisman worked and taking his divine blood and belongings. Meanwhile, the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan investigated the death of its Ancestor and debated whether to awaken the Twelfth Ancestor, fearing both a loss of power and the loss of access to purified divine blood.

• Cheng Buzheng used [Soul-Slaying Ruinbreaking Sword] to stop the Nascent Soul True Lord from escaping or self-detonating, then shattered his dantian and sealed him.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the captive's soul, learning that he had used a Pressure Talisman to imitate Supreme pressure and extort fourth-rank divine blood; the captive's body was destroyed afterward.
• Cheng Buzheng obtained the Pressure Talisman's crafting method, took the captive's dozen or so drops of fourth-rank divine blood, and set aside his other belongings to trade for Spirit Stones.
• Cheng Buzheng continued toward the Forbidden Ancient City as the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan's investigators confirmed that no group of Supremes had acted together and that Demon Venerable Nether Sea had stayed in the city.
• The Spirit Sky Grand Elder told the Spirit Sky Clan elder that the evidence was verified, and the elder considered whether the Purgatory Clan had killed the Ancestor and whether to awaken the Twelfth Ancestor.

The Spirit Sky clan's Great Elder and clan elder decided to awaken the Twelfth Ancestor after weighing the clan's losses and the threat to its future. They freed Demon Venerable Xiaocheng from his icy seal, and he demanded to know whether the clan faced extinction.

• The clan elder urged the Great Elder to summon the Twelfth Forefather, citing the clan's history of surviving calamities and its many half-step Demon Venerable experts.
• The Spirit Sky Grand Elder agreed that the clan could not endure its losses from the assault on the Purgatory Race and joined the clan elder in heading to the forbidden grounds.
• The two elders used matching fragments of a Jade Plate to enter the protected formation and pass through the clan's hidden halls to the Twelfth Ancestor's sealed chamber.
• The elders opened the secret chamber, where Demon Venerable Xiaocheng emerged from a massive block of top-grade ice spirit stone.
• Demon Venerable Xiaocheng sensed the elders' Spirit Sky Tiger Clan bloodlines and angrily demanded to know whether the clan faced the threat of annihilation.

Demon Venerable Xiaocheng emerged from seclusion after learning of Xiaotian’s death, but the reported method of ascension and Xiaotian’s spirit materials eased his anger. The Spirit Sky Tiger Clan announced Xiaocheng’s return and vowed to investigate the death, while Cheng Buzheng reached the Forbidden Ancient City.

• The Spirit Sky Grand Elder and clan elder told Demon Venerable Xiaocheng about Xiaotian’s death and the method of ascension, which the human and demon Supremes believed was feasible.
• The clan elder explained the three ascension methods and said Xiaotian had been gathering materials for the third; the Grand Elder gave Xiaocheng the token to the secret treasury holding those materials.
• Demon Venerable Xiaocheng promised to pursue Xiaotian’s killers, protect the clan’s share of divine blood, and announce his emergence while seeking information about the death.
• The Spirit Sky Tiger Clan’s announcements alarmed the Cultivation World and prompted many factions to reconsider their assumptions about the hidden strength of peak clans and sects.
• Cheng Buzheng continued toward the Forbidden Ancient City, collected more fourth-rank divine blood from Purgatory Blood Demon patrols, and switched to a war chariot near the city before approaching it.

Cheng Buzheng arrived at the Forbidden Ancient City and joined the long queue outside the Divine Blood Hall, worrying that the Spirit Materials needed for his new [Blood Linglong] might already be gone. While waiting, he heard that Demon Venerable Xiaotian had fallen and that Demon Venerable Xiaocheng had emerged; he suspected Venerable Guanping was still alive and began planning to investigate before sending him a gift.

• Cheng Buzheng passed the city gate inspection and headed toward the Divine Blood Hall, where he joined a queue of cultivators and demons waiting to trade.
• Seeing the crowds, Cheng Buzheng worried that the rare Spirit Materials required to refine the new [Blood Linglong] might have been exchanged away.
• Cheng Buzheng overheard cultivators say that Demon Venerable Xiaotian had fallen and that the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan now had another Demon Venerable named Xiaocheng.
• The cultivators discussed the Spirit Sky Tiger Clan's reward for clues about Xiaotian's death, including miraculous Spirit Pills and Innate Gang Sha.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that Xiaotian might have died beneath the divine thunder he had summoned, while Venerable Guanping was probably still alive.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to investigate the matter before preparing a retaliatory gift for Venerable Guanping.