Chapter Summaries

Ao Yuan arrived at the heavenly pillar of light as Ye Han and Sword One began a deadly sword debate to sharpen their Sword Dao. Their battle remained evenly matched as the Immortal Alliance ship carrying Chu Daofeng approached, leaving the fighters locked in combat and the nature of the awaited innate Spiritual Item unknown.

• Ao Yuan arrived aboard the Golden Dragon Treasure Ship, and Sword One came to pay his respects.
• Ye Han challenged Sword One to another spar, and the Ancient Sword Sect's Nascent Soul Ancestor and Ao Yuan agreed to terms that offered rewards to the victor.
• Ye Han and Sword One fought with their full Sword Dao attainments, and Sword One briefly gained the upper hand before Ye Han caught up.
• Cheng Buzheng watched from concealment and judged that both fighters might break through if their sword insights continued to rise.
• Chu Daofeng and the Return to Origin Immortal Sect's Nascent Soul True Lords approached aboard an Immortal Alliance treasure ship and discussed the sword duel and the still-unfading sign of the innate Spiritual Item.

Ye Han lost to Sword One in their duel and died after his life-bound sword shattered, while the supreme beings secretly arranged for Demon Venerable Xuanba and Blood Sea Demon Venerable to investigate the heavenly sign. The two Supremes appeared in the sea region, driving away the gathered cultivators and demons as the investigation began.

• Chu Daofeng recognized Ye Han and sensed how much his strength had grown, while Cheng Buzheng watched from the void and realized Ye Han was about to lose.
• Sword One's sword light shattered Ye Han's life-bound sword, reducing Ye Han's cultivation to that of a mortal as he fell from the sky.
• The Ancient Sword Sect's Nascent Soul Ancestor caught Ye Han, heard his final apology, and carried his remains away; Chu Daofeng and Cheng Buzheng mourned him.
• The hidden supreme beings discussed how to investigate the heavenly sign and selected Demon Venerable Xuanba and Blood Sea Demon Venerable to approach it.
• Demon Venerable Xuanba and Blood Sea Demon Venerable appeared in the sea region, and their pressure forced the gathered human and Demon Race cultivators to flee.

Blood Sea Demon Venerable suppressed the hidden cultivators drawn to the heavenly omen while he and Demon Venerable Xuanba waited for a law Spiritual Item to emerge. When the Innate Ink Lotus rose from the sea and absorbed a colossal lotus of spirit energy, Cheng Buzheng secretly prepared to seize a chance as the two Supremes watched its gestation.

• Blood Sea Demon Venerable used his blood sea to expose and suppress dozens of concealed demons and human True Lords, draining their essence and adding their souls to the sea.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the area and confirmed he was the only hidden powerhouse left nearby.
• After half a month, Blood Sea Demon Venerable swept up cultivators who had secretly entered the sea region, while Cheng Buzheng watched without warning them.
• A colossal lotus formed from spirit energy as Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Xuanba agreed to rely on their own methods once the heavenly omen faded.
• The Innate Ink Lotus rose from the seabed, absorbed the colossal lotus, and continued to draw in spirit energy as Cheng Buzheng prepared in secret and the two Supremes waited for it to finish gestating.

Cheng Buzheng waited for the Innate Ink Lotus to become vulnerable while Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Xuanba fought over it. Two Purgatory Race Divine Envoys arrived, forcing the four Supreme powerhouses into battle, and Cheng Buzheng moved toward the untouched lotus amid the chaos.

• The pillar of light shattered, revealing the Innate Ink Lotus as a Law Spiritual Item, and Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Xuanba raced to claim it.
• Demon Venerable Xuanba and Blood Sea Demon Venerable hindered each other as they fought their way toward the lotus, while Cheng Buzheng stayed concealed and waited for an opening.
• The Seventh Divine Envoy and Ninth Divine Envoy arrived, revealed their Purgatory Race forms, and faced Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Xuanba.
• The four Supreme powerhouses began fighting while keeping clear of the Innate Ink Lotus, and Cheng Buzheng moved through the spatial interlayer toward the quiet area around it.

Cheng Buzheng tried to steal the Innate Ink Lotus while Supreme powerhouses and Purgatory Race forces fought over it, but the Grand Divine Envoy discovered his hiding place and the battle escalated. As more Supremes joined the conflict, Cheng Buzheng suspected the Lotus was at the center of a larger scheme and prepared to leave.

• Cheng Buzheng reached the tranquil stretch of void and reached for the Innate Ink Lotus, but the Purgatory Race Grand Divine Envoy detected him with a secret art.
• The Grand Divine Envoy sent the other Divine Envoys to reinforce the Seventh Divine Envoy and Ninth Divine Envoy against Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Xuanba.
• The blood-robed priest began using the Purgatory Race's supreme secret art, forcing Cheng Buzheng to withdraw his hand and wait for another chance.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea and Island-Moving Venerable agreed to aid Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Demon Venerable Xuanba, then led the hidden Supremes into battle.
• Cheng Buzheng saw more than a dozen Supreme powerhouses arrive, suspected both sides were plotting around the Innate Ink Lotus, and decided to leave.

Cheng Buzheng’s incarnation was lured into touching the Innate Ink Lotus, where a Purgatory expert’s trap poisoned him and forced him to self-destruct. His true spirit returned to his main body, completing it and greatly improving his comprehension, which he used to rapidly deduce spells and techniques.

• Island-Moving Venerable and the other human and demon Supremes turned the battle against the Purgatory divine envoys, but the Grand Divine Envoy recalled the Purgatory fighters and triggered a trap around the Innate Ink Lotus.
• Cheng Buzheng’s incarnation touched the Innate Ink Lotus, lost his hand to its power, and was overwhelmed by poison spreading through his body, dantian, and Sea of Consciousness.
• Cheng Buzheng’s incarnation self-destructed to protect the wisp of his main body’s true spirit, and the true spirit returned to Cheng Buzheng in the Immortal Alliance Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng found that his completed true spirit had greatly increased his comprehension and used Celestial Cycle Divination to improve his spells and cultivation techniques.
• Cheng Buzheng discovered that he could quickly deduce techniques to the peak Second-Order level, while evolving higher-tier techniques would take decades, and he decided not to create another incarnation soon.

Cheng Buzheng confirmed that the mysterious poison from his destroyed incarnation had not contaminated his true body, then continued cultivating. In the Forbidden Sea, the human and demon Supremes were trapped inside the poison-law space unleashed by the Innate Ink Lotus and prepared for the Purgatory Race’s next attack.

• Cheng Buzheng searched his body with several detection secret arts and found no trace of the mysterious poison before resuming Spirit Pill refinement and cultivation.
• The Innate Ink Lotus released its poison-law power across the Forbidden Sea, killing marine creatures and corroding the void as the human and demon Supremes raised their law defenses.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea explained that magic power could not resist the poison and that the Supremes might escape only when the lotus’s law power ran out.
• Venerable Guanping proposed that the Supremes gather together to share the burden of resisting the poison, and they formed a Law Light Screen around themselves.
• Demon Venerable Myriad Souls demanded to know the identity of the human junior who had taken the lotus, but Venerable Guanping kept his suspicions to himself.
• Venerable Daoyuan and the others urged the Supremes to focus on the Purgatory Race’s forces outside as they discussed the lotus and their prospects of escaping.

The Supreme experts of the human and demon races endured months of poison-law erosion inside the Innate Ink Lotus until Venerable Guanping’s Law Light Screen collapsed, forcing them to spend more power purging the poison. With Demon Venerable Nether Sea’s law Spiritual Item breaking through the law space, the Grand Divine Envoy launched the Purgatory Race’s backup plan, leaving the Supremes facing a new attack.

• The Grand Divine Envoy rejected the Fourth Priest and Seventh Divine Envoy’s proposal to attack the unguarded Forbidden Ancient City and insisted that they wait.
• Venerable Guanping exhausted his Law Spirit Body, let his Law Light Screen collapse, and vanished, exposing the other Supremes to the black mist.
• The Supremes expelled the poison-law power but suffered heavy losses to their Law Spirit Bodies, while their trust in one another collapsed.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea revealed that sacrificing a law Spiritual Item could break the law space, and the others agreed to compensate him with shares of divine blood.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea unleashed his green, water-droplet-shaped law Spiritual Item, whose tide pushed back the weakened black lotus.
• The Grand Divine Envoy recognized the unexpected green light, ordered the Purgatory Race to use its backup plan, and led the Divine Envoys and Fourth Priest out.

The human and demon Supremes escaped the Grand Divine Envoy’s Blood Prison Space after Island-Moving Venerable used [Law-Gathering Unity] to combine their powers. Half a year later, Cheng Buzheng prepared to leave his Immortal City while Murong Wanwan secretly struggled to master a secret art using the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone.

• The Grand Divine Envoy trapped the human and demon Supremes in Blood Prison Space after the law space collapsed.
• Island-Moving Venerable formed a five-colored bead with the Supremes’ law power and used it to tear open the Blood Prison Space, allowing them to escape in different directions.
• The Grand Divine Envoy warned the Fourth Priest not to question why the Supremes were not pursuing the Forbidden Ancient City.
• Six months later, Cheng Buzheng finished refining a Spirit Pill, sent a Sound Transmission Talisman toward the chamber across from his, and began clearing traces before leaving the Immortal City.
• Murong Wanwan’s attempt to practice a secret art failed, and she decided to keep working on it alone rather than ask Cheng Buzheng for guidance.

Murong Wanwan received Cheng Buzheng’s invitation, skipped cleaning the secret chamber, and reunited with him, leading to several months together before they negotiated how often to spend time with each other. After they tidied up, disguised themselves, and returned their rental token, they headed for the Teleportation Hall to return to Immortal Alliance City.

• Murong Wanwan received Cheng Buzheng’s Sound Transmission Talisman and went straight to his secret chamber without cleaning her own.
• Murong Wanwan and Cheng Buzheng spent several months together on the Cloud Bed.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan agreed to meet once every three years, with their current stay not counting toward the interval.
• Murong Wanwan cleaned her secret chamber while Cheng Buzheng cleaned his, changed his appearance to that of an old monk, and helped her disguise herself as an ordinary Golden Core cultivator.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan returned their rental token and boarded the Teleportation Array at the Teleportation Hall.

Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan traveled back to their Cave Mansion, where he comforted her for the indignities of maintaining a disguise and they spent time together. Afterward, Cheng Buzheng began cultivating in the Cave Mansion’s dense Spirit Energy, though his progress was limited by his detoxification and drug-resistance period.

• A Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator speculated that Murong Wanwan’s low cultivation might conceal a physique valuable to a Nascent Soul Ancestor, while a Golden Core True Person warned him against prying.
• Cheng Buzheng and the disguised Murong Wanwan left the teleportation hall and waited in line to travel to Immortal Alliance City.
• After arriving at their Cave Mansion, Cheng Buzheng apologized for making Murong Wanwan disguise herself, then took her to the Quiet Room.
• Murong Wanwan reflected on Cheng Buzheng’s generosity and devotion, and felt her small grievances were worth enduring.
• After half a year together, Cheng Buzheng cleaned the Quiet Room and began cultivating with the Nascent Soul Breathing Technique and Celestial Cycle Cultivation Diagram.
• Cheng Buzheng’s cultivation progress remained limited because his true body was in a detoxification and drug-resistance period.

Murong Wanwan failed to master a secret art as she secretly pursued her wish to give Cheng Buzheng an heir. Meanwhile, the Purgatory Race’s High Priest triggered a scheme against Forbidden Ancient City, leaving its formation badly damaged and its defenders fleeing.

• Murong Wanwan used Cheng Buzheng’s life seeds and Spirit Materials to attempt the secret art, but the formation she constructed collapsed.
• Murong Wanwan vowed to keep trying to conceive an heir without telling Cheng Buzheng until it was too late for him to object.
• The Purgatory Race’s High Priest ordered the priests to begin their attack after concluding that the human and demon powerhouses would not return to Forbidden Ancient City.
• The High Priest’s scheme made cultivators and demons across the city lose their reason and fly toward the formation, where they self-detonated in vast numbers.
• The explosions weakened Forbidden Ancient City’s protective formation as guards, array wardens, and other survivors fled or used teleportation arrays to escape.

A mysterious figure in the Forbidden Ancient City weakened its ancient formation while cultivators and demons fled in panic, killing one another in the rush to escape. Chu Daofeng’s group chose to hide in Return to Origin Hall, while Madam Yao sought out Fellow Daoist Xu, hoping his World-Piercing Talisman could get them out.

• The blurry figure in the blood-red pillar issued a decree that made the damaged formation’s blood-red and five-colored lights clash as its Array Patterns appeared.
• Cultivators and demons raced for the city gates and Teleportation Array plaza, trampling or killing weaker fugitives as they fought for escape routes.
• Chu Daofeng and his companions saw the formation’s changes and decided to hide in Return to Origin Hall, reaching it aboard his concealed Earth Dragon Boat.
• Madam Yao judged that she could not safely reach the gates or teleportation plaza and decided to seek Fellow Daoist Xu and his World-Piercing Talisman.

Madam Yao found Xu Changkong’s Cave Mansion abandoned and fled to seek another way to survive. In the Forbidden Ancient City, a blurry figure unleashed an illusory Blood Sea that trapped the city and consumed its inhabitants, while the survivors mistook the figure for Blood Sea Demon Venerable.

• Madam Yao searched Xu Changkong’s empty Cave Mansion, realized he had left, and hurried away to seek survival.
• Jiang Siling and Fairy Kong saw the Forbidden Ancient City descending into chaos and led the Female Cultivators toward the Sovereign Dark Market.
• The blurry figure sealed the city gates and teleportation plaza, then spread an illusory Blood Sea across the Forbidden Ancient City.
• The Blood Sea drained the life and essence from hundreds of thousands of Golden Core Mortal Cultivators and little demons, while even Nascent Soul True Lords and great demons began to fall.
• A dying great demon cursed the figure as Blood Sea Demon Venerable, and the figure responded with a mysterious laugh.

As the illusory blood sea overwhelmed the Forbidden Ancient City, cultivators fled the Divine Blood Hall while others waited behind failing formations. Chu Daofeng and the survivors in Return to Origin Hall faced certain death until a Half-Step Venerable sacrificed himself to shield them, while Sovereign Dark Market’s defenders raised another barrier as its formation broke.

• Divine Blood Hall’s Half-Step Supremes gathered the treasure inventories and led cultivators of the two races through teleportation arrays to escape the spreading blood sea.
• The blood sea breached the Divine Blood Hall’s formation and destroyed weaker defenses across the Forbidden Ancient City, killing their occupants.
• Inside Return to Origin Hall, Chu Daofeng and the other cultivators learned that the blood sea’s power surpassed ordinary Magic Power and that only the Supremes could decisively stop it.
• As the hall’s defenses failed, a nearly spent Half-Step Venerable burned his remaining lifespan, transformed his body into a curtain of flesh and blood, and shielded the cultivators.
• At Sovereign Dark Market, Jiang Siling and Madam Yao asked about an escape route, but a Half-Step Demon Venerable said there was no teleportation array leading outside the city.
• When Sovereign Dark Market’s formation shattered, a Half-Step Supreme raised a resplendent barrier against the incoming blood sea.

The illusory sea of blood overwhelmed Return to Origin Hall, killing Chu Daofeng and the other cultivators trapped inside. As the disaster continued in Forbidden Ancient City, Ancestor Xuanyang and Demon Venerable Yuanhai awakened and headed toward the crisis.

• The Return to Origin Immortal Sect learned that its cultivators, including a Half-Step Supreme, had died in Forbidden Ancient City, but it could not contact anyone there.
• Venerable Daoyuan received news of the deaths but stayed behind to restore his depleted law Spirit Body, while the Golden Flood Dragon Clan confirmed that Prince Ao Yuan was safe.
• The illusory sea of blood corroded Chu Daofeng and the cultivators in Return to Origin Hall; Chu Daofeng died thinking of Shangguan Qingyu and Ling'er.
• Ling'er and Shangguan Qingyu both felt a sudden sense of dread and feared that something had happened to Chu Daofeng.
• Two Half-Step Supremes opened the secret chamber and awakened Ancestor Xuanyang, who questioned them about the catastrophe before ordering them to lead him onward.
• Two Half-Step Demon Venerables awakened Demon Venerable Yuanhai, who sensed the blood sea engulfing Forbidden Ancient City and immediately vanished.

The Purgatory Race High Priest, disguised as Venerable Guanping, destroyed the formation protecting the Forbidden Ancient City and trapped its defenders in a deadly gray-mist domain. A few cultivators escaped, but many—including Madam Yao and Jiang Siling—perished, while the High Priest prepared to attack the two Supremes inside the mist.

• Venerable Guanping revealed himself as the Purgatory Race High Priest’s incarnation and unleashed a Blood Dragon against the ancient formation.
• The Blood Dragon shattered the Forbidden Ancient City’s formation, destroying the Hidden Information Pavilion and killing Hidden One and many other cultivators.
• The High Priest summoned Purgatory Race priests, whose gray mist trapped Demon Venerable Yuanhai, Venerable Xuanyang, and most of the surviving defenders.
• Jiang Siling and Madam Yao failed to escape the mist and died as their Nascent Soul essence faded.
• The High Priest entered the gray-mist domain, located the two Supremes and other trapped cultivators, and commanded the mist to turn.

Venerable Guanping ordered the Purgatory Priests to destroy the Forbidden Ancient City, extract its Spirit Vein, and preserve one Teleportation Array. When experts of the human and Demon races returned, they found the city gone and the remaining array unusable without a Supreme to modify it.

• Venerable Guanping regretted spending the Purgatory Clan’s sole Heaven-Deceiving Talisman and revealed that he had arranged Demon Venerable Xiaotian’s death, though Cheng Buzheng had disrupted his plans.
• The Purgatory Priests shattered the Forbidden Ancient City, collected its Spiritual Items and Teleportation Arrays, and left one array standing as Venerable Guanping extracted the Spirit Vein.
• Venerable Guanping rejected proposals to tamper with or conceal the remaining array, then ordered the priests to return and warn the clan about possible attacks on its younger members.
• Returning experts from the human and Demon races discovered that Forbidden Island had been reduced to a tiny fragment with one Teleportation Array remaining.
• Ao Yuan asked array experts to inspect the array, but they said only a Supreme could safely alter its patterns to make it work without the original Spirit Vein.
• Ao Yuan and Sha Minghong separately contacted their Ancestors while more experts arrived at the ruined site.

Cheng Buzheng reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Late Stage and postponed his breakthrough so he could handle several unfinished matters. Back in Immortal Alliance City as Grand Origin One, he helped Crimson Fire True Lord decipher a magic treasure diagram and heard of a deadly upheaval in Forbidden Ancient City.

• Cheng Buzheng reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage peak, decided to stabilize his cultivation before breaking through, and listed the treasures and artifacts he still needed to refine or repair.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to Fudao Hall in his Grand Origin One identity, reopened the shop, and welcomed Crimson Fire True Lord.
• Cheng Buzheng deciphered the hidden nodes in Crimson Fire True Lord's magic treasure construction diagram and explained them to him.
• Crimson Fire True Lord reported that a mysterious powerhouse had slaughtered people in Forbidden Ancient City and that its Teleportation Array could no longer connect to other cities.
• Crimson Fire True Lord asked about Fudao Hall's old shopkeeper and left after Cheng Buzheng refused to give him the old man, who was actually one of Cheng Buzheng's Soul Puppets.

Cheng Buzheng chose to repair his Third-order Soul Puppet so it could gather rare materials for a Teleportation Guiding Jade, then began dismantling his old [Blood Linglong] for reusable Spirit Materials. With the repaired puppet back in service, he posted a high-priority notice seeking the Teleportation Guiding Jade’s ingredients and reopened Fudao Hall.

• Cheng Buzheng considered reforging his Life-Bound Magic Treasure and making a new [Blood Linglong], but decided to repair the Third-order Soul Puppet and prioritize the Teleportation Guiding Jade instead.
• Cheng Buzheng used the [Dao One Spirit Cauldron] and Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire to repair the Soul Puppet in half a month.
• Cheng Buzheng began melting down the original [Blood Linglong] to recover its Spirit Materials for future use.
• The repaired white-haired Old Daoist left the Artifact Refining Chamber and posted a high-priority notice at Fudao Hall seeking [Void Pearls], [Extreme Origin Magnetic Crystals], [Cosmic Sun Stones], and [Cosmic Yin Wood].
• Cheng Buzheng reopened Fudao Hall for business.