Chapter Summaries

After completing several new [Blood Linglong], Cheng Buzheng used [Primordial Chaos Qi] to strengthen his Starry Sky Domain and body, advancing his cultivation toward the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm. Meanwhile, a Half-Step Supreme visited Fudao Hall and asked Master Grand Origin One to refine a Spirit Resonance Pill.

• Cheng Buzheng ended his artifact-refining retreat after more than two years and stored away three new versions of [Blood Linglong].
• Cheng Buzheng returned to his Cave Mansion, drew [Primordial Chaos Qi] from the [Chaos Giant Stone], and endured severe pain as it fused with his Starry Sky Domain.
• Cheng Buzheng recovered from the first fusion and cautiously absorbed smaller wisps, strengthening his body and further solidifying his domain.
• A Half-Step Supreme entered Fudao Hall and asked the white-haired Old Daoist Cheng Buzheng to summon Master Grand Origin One.
• The Half-Step Supreme presented a concealed alchemy formula, and Cheng Buzheng recognized it as likely being for the [Spirit Resonance Pill], which could temporarily enhance comprehension.

Cheng Buzheng, posing as Fudao Hall’s white-haired shopkeeper, accepted a Half-Step Supreme’s order to refine the rare Spirit Resonance Pill and negotiated the promised efficacy and payment. After the customer left, Cheng celebrated the lucrative order, then welcomed a Nascent Soul cultivator seeking a custom high-grade Magic Treasure.

• Cheng Buzheng told the blue-robed Half-Step Supreme that Grand Origin One could refine the Spirit Resonance Pill, but warned that the first batch might lose medicinal efficacy while the formula was tested.
• The Half-Step Supreme agreed to a guaranteed fifty percent efficacy and offered increasingly valuable rewards for higher results, including rare Spirit Materials, Innate Gang Sha, and Earthly Turbid Qi.
• Cheng decided to aim for sixty percent efficacy, accepted the customer’s Jade Slip and Storage Bag of Spirit Medicines, and gave him a Jade Talisman to receive notice when the pills were ready.
• After the Half-Step Supreme left, Cheng admired the generous order and called the customer a fat sheep.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord asked whether Grand Origin One could refine a high-grade Magic Treasure from his blueprint, and Cheng guaranteed compensation if the treasure failed to meet expectations.

At Fudao Hall, Cheng Buzheng accepted a Nascent Soul True Lord’s magic treasure order and discovered an opportunity to sell him a fourth-tier fire cultivation technique. He stored the order’s rare materials alongside the ingredients for the Spirit Resonance Pill, then returned to his rocking chair while his true body remained in seclusion.

• A Nascent Soul True Lord gave Cheng Buzheng a magic treasure diagram and its required Spirit Materials, and Cheng Buzheng promised to notify him when the treasure was ready.
• Cheng Buzheng asked whether the Nascent Soul True Lord belonged to a sect, then explained that Grand Origin One had instructed him to find rogue cultivators seeking cultivation techniques.
• The Nascent Soul True Lord learned that Grand Origin One might have complete fourth-tier techniques and left a Jade Slip asking to discuss their details after Grand Origin One emerged from seclusion.
• Cheng Buzheng inferred that the Nascent Soul True Lord wanted a fire-attribute technique and thought he could provide one for the right price.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized that the magic treasure order contained the Void-Rending Mystic Magnet Copper he needed and planned to replace it with another material without reducing the treasure’s power.
• Cheng Buzheng stored the magic treasure materials and Spirit Resonance Pill ingredients in separate tiers of the vault, then returned to the front hall.

The Supremes debated whether Venerable Guanping had betrayed the two races or been impersonated by a Purgatory priest, then agreed to postpone their assault until their injuries healed and summon their sealed forebears. They emerged before the cultivators at the Forbidden Ancient City ruins and modified the remaining Teleportation Array so the survivors could leave using Spirit Stones.

• Venerable Tianzhao, Island-Moving Venerable, and others agreed the Purgatory Race had likely avoided their ambush, but they debated whether Guanping had been a spy or an impostor behind the Forbidden Ancient City's destruction.
• Venerable Zongbao argued that Guanping had likely perished and that a Purgatory priest impersonated him, while Demon Venerable Xiaocheng clarified that Guanping's heart-demon oath concerned Xiaotian's death, not whether he was a spy.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea deferred judgment on Guanping, asked Venerable Zongbao to investigate, and proposed that the injured Supremes recover before launching a decisive attack on Purgatory Continent.
• Island-Moving Venerable urged the Supremes to awaken their self-sealed forebears, and they agreed to summon them so they could recover before the final battle.
• The Supremes appeared before the cultivators at the Forbidden Ancient City ruins, and Demon Venerable Nether Sea altered the remaining Teleportation Array to use Spirit Stones instead of a Spirit Vein.

The two races evacuated the ruins of the Forbidden Ancient City while their Supreme powerhouses agreed to hide the ancient Teleportation Array for a future return to Purgatory Continent. In Immortal Alliance City, Cheng Buzheng continued refining his domain with Primordial Chaos Qi and tested the strength of his newly advanced Treasure Body.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea had Mortal Cultivators pay Spirit Stones to activate the Teleportation Array, and the two races departed in batches over the following month.
• Demon Venerable Xuanba asked when the Supreme powerhouses would leave, and Demon Venerable Nether Sea said they would wait half a year for younger cultivators returning from the Forbidden Sea.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable questioned what would happen to the Teleportation Array, and Demon Venerable Nether Sea proposed hiding it rather than letting the Purgatory Race reclaim it.
• Island-Moving Venerable backed Demon Venerable Nether Sea's plan, and Nether Sea promised the human venerables an innate Spiritual Item each if the array was discovered.
• Cheng Buzheng continued refining his domain with Nascent Soul essence and estimated that merging the Primordial Chaos Qi would take at least a year and a half.
• Cheng Buzheng tested his Treasure Body with sword gleams and found that its strength was comparable to boutique mid-grade Magic Treasures.

Cheng Buzheng began refining the Spirit Resonance Pill while news of the Forbidden Sea catastrophe spread through the Cultivation World. The Jade Slip reports left Chu Linger and Shangguan Qingyu grieving Dao Feng’s presumed death, while True Lord Mingxiang set out to verify news of Jiang Siling.

• Cheng Buzheng chose to refine the Spirit Resonance Pill first, hoping to earn the spirit materials needed for the Teleportation Guiding Jade, and began the pill-refining process.
• Returning cultivators spread news that many powerful humans and demons had died in the Forbidden Ancient City, including several Supreme powerhouses, and blamed Venerable Guanping for colluding with the Purgatory Race.
• An Immortal Alliance cultivator delivered the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s Jade Slip to Shangguan Qingyu, and she learned that Dao Feng had fallen and that their Cave Mansion would be reclaimed.
• Chu Linger comforted Shangguan Qingyu, but the two embraced and wept over Dao Feng’s presumed death.
• True Lord Mingxiang refused to believe the news about Jiang Siling and vanished from her hall to seek confirmation at Seal Boundary Ancient City.

White Cloud Sect’s Golden Core elders debated whether to accept North Azure Sect cultivators seeking refuge, while the North Azure Sect elders argued over their future after Ancestor Situ’s death. Cheng Changqing secretly planned to bring North Azure Sect under his own ancestor’s control, leaving the sect’s aging leader unaware of his betrayal.

• White Cloud Sect’s First Elder urged the elders to delay accepting North Azure Sect’s allegiance until their absent Ancestor Cheng returned, and the group agreed to keep the matter ambiguous.
• North Azure Sect’s Golden Core cultivators argued over joining White Cloud Sect, seeking another patron, or becoming rogue cultivators.
• An angry North Azure Sect elder silenced the debate and warned that he would die fighting if they discussed abandoning the sect within its halls.
• The old elder asked Cheng Changqing to protect North Azure Sect after his death, and Changqing promised to do so despite privately intending to break his word.
• Cheng Changqing recalled that he and Ancestor Cheng Liu planned to use his apparent loyalty to bring North Azure Sect under their ancestor’s control and conceal their relationship.

Cheng Buzheng completed a Spirit Resonance Pill commission and began refining a high-grade Magic Treasure using a co-refined substitute for a rare material. The Half-Step Venerable inspected the pill and hoped its remaining efficacy would help him break through to Supreme One.

• Cheng Buzheng finished refining two Spirit Resonance Pills, kept the smaller one, and left the pill with sixty percent efficacy for the white-haired Old Daoist to deliver.
• Cheng Buzheng retrieved artifact-refining materials and devised a substitute for Void-Rending Mystic Magnet Copper by combining Profound Origin Magnetic Gold, Void-Rending Spirit Copper, and Yin-Combining Broken Jade.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Small Plate to adjust the Magic Treasure construction diagram, then began co-refining the three Spirit Materials in the Dao One Spirit Cauldron before starting the treasure refinement.
• The white-haired Old Daoist welcomed the Half-Step Venerable and presented the Spirit Resonance Pill, explaining that it retained sixty percent of its efficacy.
• The Half-Step Venerable opened the bottle, experienced the pill fragrance’s effects, and hoped the pill would help him seize a chance to break through to Supreme One.

Cheng Buzheng sold a verified Spirit Resonance Pill to a Half-Step Supreme cultivator, then completed a commissioned Magic Treasure while deducing a fourth-tier cultivation technique. A Nascent Soul True Lord arrived to collect the weapon and tested it in Fudao Hall, binding its origin to himself.

• The Half-Step Supreme tested Cheng Buzheng’s Spirit Resonance Pill with several secret techniques, confirmed its purity and sixty-percent efficacy, and paid him with spiritual materials that included everything needed for a Teleportation Guiding Jade.
• Several months later, Cheng Buzheng completed a Magic Treasure in his Artifact Refining Chamber and began deducing a fourth-tier cultivation technique.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord visited Fudao Hall to collect his commissioned Magic Treasure and asked whether Master Grand Origin One had any fourth-tier fire-attribute cultivation techniques.
• Cheng Buzheng met the Nascent Soul True Lord in his Grand Origin One disguise and presented the refined battle spear.
• The Nascent Soul True Lord poured Magic Power into the spear to test it, causing its origin essence to become stained with his aura so that only he could make it his Life-Bound Magic Treasure.

Cheng Buzheng, disguised as Grand Origin One, delivered a powerful Magic Treasure to a Nascent Soul True Lord and sold him the ownership of a fire-attribute fourth-rank cultivation art. After the customer left, Cheng Buzheng returned to the Artifact Refining Chamber to refine more Blood Linglong artifacts.

• The Nascent Soul True Lord praised the Magic Treasure Cheng Buzheng had refined and paid the agreed reward, which Cheng Buzheng accepted without asking for more.
• The Nascent Soul True Lord asked whether Grand Origin One possessed fourth-rank cultivation methods, and Cheng Buzheng confirmed that he did.
• After learning the True Lord needed a fire-attribute method, Cheng Buzheng offered the fourth-rank mid-grade [Heavenly Fire Rising Dragon Art].
• The True Lord chose to purchase ownership of the cultivation art, verified that it suited him, and completed the transaction with Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng left the VIP room and returned to the rear hall to refine more Blood Linglong artifacts.

Demon Venerable Nether Sea removed the final Teleportation Array from the Forbidden Ancient City, prompting the Purgatory Race to begin its secret plan to revive its Progenitor. The High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy dispatched priests and divine envoys across the Forbidden Sea to gather sacrifices before the human and demon races could return.

• Island-Moving Venerable and the other Supremes teleported away, while Demon Venerable Nether Sea destroyed the Forbidden Ancient City’s remaining Teleportation Array and vanished with it.
• A Purgatory priest warned the High Priest that Demon Venerable Nether Sea had arrived to remove the array, making their preparations useless.
• The High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy announced the Progenitor Revival Plan and said the Forbidden Sea’s Desolate Beasts, marine creatures, stored life force, and expendable Purgatory members would provide sacrifices.
• The Purgatory priests and divine envoys accepted the plan after the High Priest assured them they would not be sacrificed, and the Grand Divine Envoy assigned them regions of the Forbidden Sea to search.
• The High Priest remained to protect Purgatory Continent as the Grand Divine Envoy coordinated the operation, and the assigned Purgatory forces departed in different directions.

Demon Venerable Nether Sea concealed a Teleportation Array in the Thunder Abyss and protected it with a formation, while Cheng Buzheng finished refining a new set of [Blood Linglong] and left to resume cultivation. On the way, Cheng Buzheng learned that the Forbidden Ancient City disaster had killed countless Nascent Soul experts and began hearing rumors about its cause.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea hid a Teleportation Array in a secluded Canyon in the Thunder Abyss, then shielded it inside the spatial interlayer with a formation meant to last five hundred years.
• Cheng Buzheng completed the new set of [Blood Linglong], put away his refining equipment, and left Fudao Hall to return to closed-door cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng noticed mourning streamers throughout Immortal Alliance City and overheard cultivators saying that many Nascent Soul True Lords and great demons had died in the Forbidden Ancient City.
• Cheng Buzheng heard that the disaster had shaken the Cultivation World and that the Forbidden Ancient City had been swallowed by the sea.
• Cheng Buzheng heard conflicting rumors blaming Venerable Guanping or a Purgatory Race powerhouse impersonating him for the calamity.

Cheng Buzheng learned that the Forbidden Ancient City had been destroyed and that Chu Daofeng and Jiang Siling had died in the catastrophe. After sending messages to reassure the White Cloud Sect and promising to help Shangguan Qingyu if needed, he set out for the Sea Suppressing Alliance to see Jiang Siling one last time.

• Cheng Buzheng saw mourning silk throughout Immortal Alliance City and decided to send word to the White Cloud Sect to calm its cultivators.
• At the Spirit Message Hall, True Lord He told Cheng Buzheng that Hall Master Qi, Chu Daofeng, and many others had died in the Forbidden Ancient City.
• True Lord He gave Cheng Buzheng a Jade Slip from Shangguan Qingyu asking him to take in her and her daughter if they could no longer remain in the Return to Origin Immortal Sect, and Cheng Buzheng sent back a reply agreeing to help.
• Cheng Buzheng learned from a Jade Slip sent by True Lord Mingxiang that Jiang Siling had also died, and he vowed to make Guan Ping pay if Guan Ping had caused the slaughter.
• Cheng Buzheng changed his plans, left for the Sea Suppressing Alliance to see Jiang Siling one last time, and teleported away.

Cheng Buzheng arrived at the Luminous Immortal City to mourn Jiang Siling, whose remains had been lost in the Forbidden Ancient City upheaval. True Lord Mingxiang told him that the figure who destroyed the city was likely a Purgatory Race expert disguised as Venerable Guanping, while Cheng Buzheng remembered his history with Jiang Siling and her family.

• Cheng Buzheng arrived at the Back Mountain Forbidden Area and remembered drinking there with Jiang Fugui before paying his respects to the dead.
• True Lord Mingxiang greeted Cheng Buzheng, and they went to commemorate Jiang Siling with a relic pearl because her remains could not be recovered.
• True Lord Mingxiang told Cheng Buzheng that the two races had not determined who caused the Forbidden Ancient City catastrophe, but Venerable Guanping was likely not the culprit.
• True Lord Mingxiang revealed that Venerable Guanping had sworn a great heart-devil oath and that a Purgatory Race expert may have impersonated him.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the ancient hall, sensed Jiang Siling's aura in the relic pearl, and recalled moments from their shared past.

Cheng Buzheng stayed through Jiang Siling’s memorial ceremony, vowing to avenge her if he reached Spirit Transformation. After three months, True Lord Mingxiang entrusted him with Jiang Siling’s relic pearl and asked him to carry it to her abandoned mountain-village homeland, leaving Cheng Buzheng to set out with the promise and the relic.

• Cheng Buzheng paid respects to Jiang Siling’s relic pearl and silently vowed to avenge her after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• True Lord Mingxiang received mourners while Cheng Buzheng remained beside the memorial; cultivators seeking her favor eventually left.
• After three months, True Lord Mingxiang gave Cheng Buzheng Venerable Zongbao’s jade slip and asked him to avenge Jiang Siling if he broke through.
• Cheng Buzheng explained that Jiang Siling’s homeland was an abandoned village deep in the mountains and offered to lead the way.
• True Lord Mingxiang placed Jiang Siling’s relic pearl in a Spirit Wood box and entrusted it to Cheng Buzheng, who departed.

Cheng Buzheng returned from the Immortal Alliance’s sea territories to the Jin Kingdom and found Jiang Siling’s family graves in the village where he had once visited with Jiang Fugui. He built a new grave for Jiang Siling, then paid his respects to his old friends, sharing Spirit Wine with them as night fell.

• Cheng Buzheng traveled through several teleportation arrays, crossed the sea to the Jin Kingdom, and flew to the remote village he remembered from his time with Jiang Fugui.
• He found the village and the old courtyard nearly erased by time, but saw that Jiang Siling had restored the graves beneath the peach tree.
• Cheng Buzheng built an ornate coffin and a reinforced grave for Jiang Siling, placed a wooden box inside, and vowed to avenge her if he had the chance.
• He offered incense, candles, and Spirit Wine at the graves, telling Old Jiang about his Nascent Soul Perfection cultivation and offering Martial Uncle Jiang a single cup.
• Cheng Buzheng sat beside Jiang Fugui’s grave, drank Spirit Wine with him, and continued drinking until the wine was gone and night had fallen.

Cheng Buzheng returned to Immortal Alliance City after burying Jiang Siling and said farewell to her family’s graves. After reuniting with Murong Wanwan and resuming cultivation, he increased how much Primordial Chaos Qi his domain could hold and then went to Fudao Hall in his Grand Origin One identity.

• Cheng Buzheng bid farewell at Jiang Siling’s grave, revealed his perfected Nascent Soul cultivation, and promised to avenge her.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to Immortal Alliance City by teleportation and went to his cave mansion disguised as Old Monk Fayang.
• Murong Wanwan confronted Cheng Buzheng, and he dropped his disguise before entering the Quiet Room with her.
• Cheng Buzheng cultivated with the Chaos Waste Stone and found that his refined Star River Domain could bear an undivided strand of Primordial Chaos Qi.
• After several years of cultivation, Cheng Buzheng reached his domain’s current capacity limit and left for Fudao Hall.
• Murong Wanwan failed to master her secret art again but judged that she was close, while Cheng Buzheng entered Fudao Hall disguised as Grand Origin One.

White Cloud Sect elders planned to absorb North Azure Sect’s Golden Core cultivators, encouraged by the belief that Ancestor Cheng might be approaching the Nascent Soul Late Stage. More than twenty years later, White Cloud Sect dominated Jin Kingdom’s resources, and two of its Foundation Establishment cultivators headed toward North Azure Sect’s mountain range while discussing an old, unsolved killing and Ancestor Cheng’s possible breakthrough.

• White Cloud Sect’s elders agreed to recruit North Azure Sect’s Golden Core cultivators after the First Elder revealed that Ancestor Cheng might be pursuing a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Over twenty years, White Cloud Sect grew to several dozen Golden Core cultivators and occupied nearly all of North Azure Sect’s external resource sites.
• Martial Brother Yu told Junior Brother Zong that White Cloud Sect’s elders did not know who killed a North Azure Sect Golden Core True Person thirteen years earlier, though the sect had been blamed.
• Martial Brother Yu said Ancestor Cheng might still be in the Boundless Sea pursuing a breakthrough and predicted that he could return within ten years.
• Martial Brother Yu and Junior Brother Zong set out to explore the North Azure Sect Mountain Range for spirit materials and herbs.

Cheng Buzheng finished refining the [Void-Piercing Divine Crystal] and returned to his cave mansion, where Murong Wanwan had just mastered a secret art meant to continue her husband's bloodline. Her first attempt to use it failed, and she resolved to practice before trying again.

• Cheng Buzheng completed the [Void-Piercing Divine Crystal] and gathered the Teleportation Guiding Jade he had refined for Fudao Hall.
• Cheng Buzheng disguised himself as Old Monk Fayang and returned to his cave mansion, where Murong Wanwan greeted him eagerly.
• Murong Wanwan completed the secret art and sensed that it could produce the mysterious life force needed to continue Cheng Buzheng's bloodline.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan spent a year together in the quiet chamber before Murong Wanwan left to attempt the secret technique.
• Murong Wanwan's first attempt failed because the force of life was too vigorous, so she vowed to master the technique before trying again.
• Cheng Buzheng cleaned up the quiet chamber, activated its formation, and resumed his cultivation.

Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall to accelerate his absorption and refinement of Primordial Chaos Qi, strengthening his body to the level of a high-grade Magic Treasure. After consuming two walls to absorb the Qi and a third to refine his domain, he estimated that reaching the Half-Step Venerable realm would take a little over a year.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall to increase his Primordial Chaos Qi absorption efficiency more than tenfold, and his physical body broke through to the strength of a high-grade Magic Treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng tested his new body by striking his defensive formation and withstanding his sword light, which left only a white mark when he used twenty percent of One Sword Tilts the Heavens.
• The Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall cracked and lost its power after accelerating his absorption, so Cheng Buzheng replaced it with another and continued cultivating.
• Cheng Buzheng used a third Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall to accelerate refinement of the Primordial Chaos Qi in his Starry Sky Domain and estimated that reaching the Half-Step Venerable realm would take a little over a year.
• After half a month, the third Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall cracked and exhausted its essence, ending Cheng Buzheng's accelerated refinement.