Chapter Summaries

Chu Linger lured Bai Jun into the Wild Origin Mountain Range and used the abandoned mansion map to guide her through its calamities, hoping to wear down the Nascent Soul cultivator pursuing her. After Bai Jun escaped the Extinction Gale, Chu Linger led him toward another deadly hazard: an icy cloud raining azure hail.

• Chu Linger left Wild Origin Immortal City with Bai Jun secretly following her, and he deduced that the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion lay somewhere in the Wild Origin Mountain Range.
• A group of Rogue Cultivators noticed the absence of beasts and fled, but the Extinction Gale overtook and killed them.
• Bai Jun was caught in the Extinction Gale, lost his bronze treasure tower and Earth Sphere Dharma Pearl, and escaped by spending essence blood to open a gap in the gale.
• Chu Linger recognized Bai Jun despite his altered appearance and resolved to wear down his reserves before trying to kill him.
• Chu Linger consulted the abandoned mansion map and changed course; an icy-blue cloud formed over the canyon as Bai Jun approached, unleashing azure hail and a terrifying cold current.

Chu Linger escaped Bai Jun by luring him into the Wild Origin Mountain Range, where he spent the power in his Jade Talisman killing a Desolate Serpent. Bai Jun tracked her to the hidden entrance of the Primordial Demon Venerable’s Abandoned Mansion and sent a Blood Gold Mosquito inside.

• Bai Jun used the Jade Talisman’s power to break Chu Linger’s escape route, then pursued her as she fled deeper into the Wild Origin Mountain Range.
• Chu Linger lured Bai Jun to the Desolate Serpent’s lair, where he used the Jade Talisman to kill the beast before other Desolate Beasts arrived.
• Bai Jun collected the serpent’s most valuable Spirit Materials and fled, then used Chu Linger’s lingering aura to track her southwest.
• Chu Linger entered the concealed Abandoned Mansion beneath a cliff, but Bai Jun later found its hidden entrance by following the aura-tracking arrow.
• Bai Jun sent a Blood Gold Mosquito through the cliff face and received an image in his mind.

Bai Jun entered the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion’s outer barriers, survived an illusion trial, and reached an ancient stele that contained a test to condense a thousand divine ability runes within three days. Chu Linger ambushed him with a fused nine-colored formation and began drawing on the mansion’s grand formation, forcing Bai Jun to attack before it could overwhelm him.

• Bai Jun entered the cyan barrier, was trapped in an endless illusion by a square mirror, and escaped through his strong divine sense and unwavering Dao heart.
• Bai Jun used a spirit insect to scout the next passage, entered an azure-blue barrier, and found an ancient stele made of Heavenly Crystal Jade Wall.
• Bai Jun touched the stele and received a test requiring him to condense one thousand divine ability runes within three days.
• Chu Linger appeared and sealed Bai Jun’s retreat with nine linked arrays, then fused them into a nine-colored formation.
• Chu Linger used the fused formation to draw upon the Abandoned Mansion’s grand formation, and Bai Jun charged at it to try to break it first.

Chu Linger trapped Bai Jun in a powerful formation, but he poisoned her and disabled her before she could finish him. Murong Wanwan then appeared, rescued Chu Linger, and killed Bai Jun with a single sword strike.

• Chu Linger unleashed a freezing fusion formation against Bai Jun, while both cultivators spent treasures and Spirit Pills trying to outlast each other.
• Bai Jun secretly poisoned Chu Linger with Heaven-Blanketing Spirit-Reviving Incense, leaving her unable to move or maintain the formation.
• Bai Jun prepared to take Chu Linger's Storage Bag, but Murong Wanwan appeared and caught the helpless Chu Linger.
• Murong Wanwan's golden flame sword cut through Bai Jun's Sea-Calming Cauldron and pulverized him.
• Chu Linger thanked Murong Wanwan, who explained that she had secretly followed her at Uncle Cheng's request and had not intended to seize her opportunity.

Murong Wanwan reassured Chu Linger that the poison in her body would weaken over time, then refused to claim the ancient stele’s treasure and left the Abandoned Mansion with her. After Bai Jun’s death stirred the Return to Origin Immortal Sect and the White Immortal Clan, the Bai Family’s Ancestor traced a sign of the killer and vanished from the hall.

• Murong Wanwan examined Chu Linger and said the poison would gradually weaken, though its effects could not yet be perceived.
• Chu Linger offered Murong Wanwan the chance to attempt the ancient stele’s trial, but Murong Wanwan declined and left the treasure to her.
• Murong Wanwan and Chu Linger departed the barrier space as the Return to Origin Immortal Sect learned of Bai Jun’s death and debated how to investigate.
• The White Immortal Clan’s elders informed their Ancestor of Bai Jun’s death, prompting him to leave seclusion and travel to the Return to Origin Immortal Sect.
• The Bai Family’s Ancestor examined Bai Jun’s extinguished Soul Lamp, used his essence blood to reveal a trace, and vanished from the hall.

The Bai Family Ancestor repeatedly pursued Bai Jun’s murderer using a costly bloodline secret art, stopping to recover his essence blood whenever his strength failed. Meanwhile, Murong Wanwan returned to Cheng Family Village, and the chapter ended with Cheng Qingyao teaching the younger children how to judge a dangerous cultivation-world dilemma.

• The Bai Family Ancestor used Bai Jun’s Soul Lamp to search for his murderer, then paused his pursuit when the repeated loss of essence blood weakened him.
• After three years of recovery, the Bai Family Ancestor resumed the search and spent decades alternating between pursuit and recuperation.
• Chu Linger left for the Boundless Sea to seek an opportunity to advance, while Murong Wanwan returned to Cheng Family Village and disguised herself to rejoin her family unnoticed.
• In a hidden canyon, the children celebrated Cheng Qingyang’s breakthrough to Foundation Establishment and bickered until Cheng Qingyao stopped them.
• An old man questioned the children about choosing between two wounded cultivators, and Jinglin chose the offer of a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Cheng Qingyao explained that both cultivators might be lying and began describing how to handle the situation more safely.

Cheng Qingyang broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm while Cheng Qingyao managed the younger children at the family school. Murong Wanwan returned to the Canyon, reunited with her descendants, and allowed Qingyang to visit his mortal relatives in Cheng Family Village while keeping the truth about cultivation from them.

• Cheng Qingyao explained that the teachers were Mortal Cultivators from another branch of the Cheng Immortal Clan, then sent the arguing children away with threats of her whip.
• Two elders discussed Cheng Qingyang's breakthrough and arranged for a visiting cultivator to teach artifact refinement and Soul Puppet crafting.
• Cheng Qingyang emerged from seclusion after reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm and resolved to visit his father, grandfather, and grandmother in Cheng Family Village.
• Murong Wanwan arrived in the Canyon, rewarded the four elders, reunited with her descendants, and tested the younger children's progress.
• Murong Wanwan praised Cheng Qingyang's breakthrough and approved his visit, warning him not to reveal the existence of cultivators to his father and grandparents.

As Cheng Fan’s century-long mortal trial ended, he awoke on his deathbed and asked Murong Wanwan to explain the secrets he had uncovered about their family. Murong Wanwan began a carefully rehearsed deception to reassure him and preserve his chance to break through.

• Over the years, Murong Wanwan failed to give Cheng Ping'an a spiritual root, while Cheng Fan grew old after returning to Cheng Family Village and entering the mortal world.
• As Cheng Fan lay unconscious and near death, Murong Wanwan feared he would fail to pierce through his confusion before his lifespan ended.
• Cheng Fan awoke, sent their descendants from the room, and asked Murong Wanwan whether she was an immortal and whether Ping'an's wives and their descendants had entered the immortal path.
• Cheng Fan explained that his keen sense of smell and observations of his family had led him to suspect the truth, and he asked Murong Wanwan to let him die knowing it.
• Murong Wanwan chose not to reveal the truth and instead claimed she had once met an immortal who confirmed that neither Cheng Fan nor Cheng Ping'an had an immortal root.

Murong Wanwan revealed the truth about Ping An’s wives and helped Cheng Fan let go of his lifelong doubts as he lay dying. Cheng Buzheng seized the opening to awaken in a sea of laws, comprehended the Law of Wood and Law of Stars, but lost consciousness before he could form a particle of the Law of Chaos.

• Murong Wanwan explained that Ping An’s wives had borne children with immortal roots before leaving, and Cheng Fan accepted her account and asked to hear about cultivators.
• As Cheng Fan’s life faded, Murong Wanwan sent the family away from his room and guarded him while he faced death without fear.
• Cheng Buzheng’s true-self consciousness awakened in a dreamlike sea of laws, where he found a green particle that kept out of reach.
• Cheng Buzheng summoned his Chaos Star River, used it to connect with the green particle, and absorbed a particle of the Law of Wood.
• Cheng Buzheng comprehended and absorbed a particle of the Law of Stars, then tried to grasp the much harder Law of Chaos particle.
• Cheng Buzheng’s mental strength ran out before the Law of Chaos particle formed, and his consciousness vanished from the sea of laws.

Cheng Buzheng recovered his true consciousness after a century of mortal life and began undoing the seals on his Nascent Soul, while considering how to face his son Ping'an. Ancestor Bai tracked him to Cheng Family Village, and Murong Wanwan confronted the approaching Half-Step Venerable to protect her husband.

• Ancestor Bai used his essence blood and the Lotus Treasure Lamp to locate the trail of Bai Jun's killer, then flew toward Jin Kingdom.
• Cheng Buzheng awakened within his Sea of Consciousness, recalled his mortal transformation and family, and began breaking the seals around his Nascent Soul.
• Murong Wanwan spotted Ancestor Bai approaching Cheng Family Village and warned Cheng Ping'an and the others to stay away from the room.
• Murong Wanwan left Cheng Buzheng's bedside and appeared in the sky a hundred li from the village to intercept Ancestor Bai.
• The Soul Lamp's blood flame identified Murong Wanwan, and Ancestor Bai accused her of killing his descendant.

Murong Wanwan lured the Bai Family Ancestor away from Cheng Family Village and fought to stall him in the mountains, revealing several powerful abilities and treasures. Though she repeatedly escaped his attacks and ambushed him, the Half-Step Venerable survived her soul strike and remained on guard.

• Murong Wanwan used Cosmic Pole Escape to flee from the Bai Family Ancestor, drawing him away from Cheng Family Village while he boosted his speed with a blood-consuming secret art.
• Murong Wanwan led the Bai Family Ancestor into the mountains and endured his Three Treasures Ruyi attack with her Calamity-Crossing Dharma Robe and a phoenix shield, which shattered under the blow.
• Murong Wanwan vanished from the Bai Family Ancestor's domain and attacked him through a spatial rift, but he blocked her sword strike with the Three Treasures Ruyi.
• Murong Wanwan launched an invisible soul attack that pierced several of the Bai Family Ancestor's defenses before he stopped it with layered soul-defense treasures.

Murong Wanwan stalled Old Monster Bai while Cheng Buzheng broke free of his seal and learned that his wife and descendants were in danger. As Wanwan fled with Bai in pursuit, Cheng Buzheng prepared to confront the threat near Cheng Family Village.

• Murong Wanwan kept Old Monster Bai occupied in the mountains so her descendants could evacuate, while Bai waited for her Magic Power to run low.
• Cheng Buzheng removed the final chain sealing his Nascent Soul and regained the power of a Half-Step Venerable, though he left the rest of his bodily seal intact.
• Cheng Buzheng learned from Cheng Qingyang that Murong Wanwan had arranged an urgent evacuation, then discovered her descendants had fled the canyon in haste.
• Cheng Buzheng activated his Soul Puppet to contact Murong Wanwan, learned Old Monster Bai was pursuing her, and urged her to escape.
• Murong Wanwan fled openly toward the clouds rather than using Cosmic Pole Escape, and Old Monster Bai pursued her with a blood escape technique.
• Cheng Buzheng walked outside with Cheng Qingyang and watched the approaching horizon with cold intent.

Cheng Buzheng sent his Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword to kill Ancestor Bai, who had been pursuing Murong Wanwan, then prepared to undo the seal on his dantian. The Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s Half-Step Venerables blamed the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect and agreed to conceal Bai’s death until Ancestor Daoyuan emerged.

• Cheng Buzheng sensed danger approaching and sent the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword toward Ancestor Bai while Cheng Qingyang watched.
• Ancestor Bai sensed a threat, raised his Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror, and layered on defensive measures as he continued pursuing Murong Wanwan.
• The Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword shattered Ancestor Bai’s defenses and killed him, and Murong Wanwan recognized Cheng Buzheng’s aura in the sword.
• Cheng Buzheng told Cheng Qingyang the crisis had passed and regretted using too much force to recover spoils; Cheng Qingyang contacted the clan members in hiding while Cheng Buzheng returned to his room to undo his dantian seal.
• The Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s Half-Step Venerables debated who killed Ancestor Bai, then blamed the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect and agreed to suppress the matter until Ancestor Daoyuan emerged.

Cheng Buzheng undid the seal on his dantian and began restoring his sealed body, while Murong Wanwan agreed to relocate Cheng Ping'an’s family and stayed behind to guard her husband. After regaining his youthful appearance, Cheng Buzheng tried to devise a way to create Spiritual Roots for Cheng Ping'an, but his first attempt failed, so he began testing another method.

• Cheng Buzheng completely undid the seal on his dantian and started undoing the seal on his physical body.
• Cheng Ping'an asked Murong Wanwan to move the family away from Cheng Family Village, and she agreed while staying behind with Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Ping'an’s family left the village, while Cheng Qingyang remained to help guard the elders and assist with the villagers’ later relocation.
• Cheng Buzheng fully released his bodily seal, regained his youthful appearance, and inspected the changes to his panel.
• Cheng Buzheng deduced a martial-arts cultivation method to help Cheng Ping'an gain Spiritual Roots, but it could not absorb Spirit Energy, so he began trying a body-tempering method.

Cheng Buzheng failed to deduce a cultivation method that would let mortals cultivate, but concluded that mastering law power after reaching Spirit Transformation might make it possible. He and Murong Wanwan traveled to the Secret Realm, where she guarded him as he began preparing for his breakthrough by comprehending a chaos-colored law particle.

• Cheng Buzheng tried deducing body-refinement and numerous other cultivation methods, but found that all viable results still required spiritual roots.
• Cheng Buzheng suspected the laws of the world prevented mortals from cultivating and decided to revisit the problem after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng that Cheng Ping'an had departed and that Cheng Family Village would be relocated; Cheng Buzheng agreed with the plan and said he was ready to break through.
• Cheng Buzheng chose the Secret Realm for his breakthrough, and Murong Wanwan agreed to guard him there.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan traveled to the Secret Realm, where Cheng Buzheng arranged barriers around its treasures and entered seclusion as Murong Wanwan watched over him.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the Sea of Laws and began comprehending a chaos-colored law particle beside the Chaos Star River.

Cheng Buzheng exhausted himself comprehending the Chaos Law Particle, recovered, and eventually grasped its complete essence. Meanwhile, Island-Moving Venerable awakened Stone Ancestor and began discussing the metal law with him, while other Ten Thousand Immortals Sect ancestors continued preparing for the conflict with the Purgatory Race.

• Cheng Buzheng depleted his mental strength while comprehending the Chaos Law Particle, then slept for seven days and recovered with a Nourishing Spirit Mystic Pill.
• Cheng Buzheng repeatedly rested and resumed comprehending the particle until he grasped its complete essence.
• Island-Moving Venerable met Stone Ancestor, explained the sect’s recent changes, and invited him to become his Martial Brother.
• Stone Ancestor told Island-Moving Venerable that self-sealing had eroded his strength but left him with three metal law particles.
• Island-Moving Venerable said three ancestors had exhausted their lifespans and two others were exchanging insights before returning to seclusion.
• Island-Moving Venerable and Stone Ancestor revealed their metal law particles and began discussing the Dao together.

Cheng Buzheng advanced through a major transformation toward Spirit Transformation, merging law-infused Chaos Star Rivers into his body while drawing in vast amounts of Spirit Energy. His breakthrough overwhelmed the Secret Realm’s formation, and Murong Wanwan guarded him as the realm began to suffer severe damage.

• Cheng Buzheng confirmed that the panel recorded laws only after he fully comprehended their particles, then transformed the three law particles in his Sea of Consciousness into countless law-infused Chaos Star Rivers.
• Cheng Buzheng sent the tiny Chaos Star Rivers into his body, consuming most of his Magic Power as his physical transformation began.
• Murong Wanwan recognized the sandalwood fragrance as a sign of Cheng Buzheng’s impending breakthrough and struggled to control the fourth-tier formation against his devouring force.
• Murong Wanwan stabilized the formation, retrieved the treasures from the other formation barriers, and watched Spirit Energy from across the Secret Realm flood into Cheng Buzheng.
• The fourth-tier formation collapsed, sending its rosy light into Cheng Buzheng and causing Murong Wanwan to suffer its backlash.
• Murong Wanwan guarded the Teleportation Arrays to keep the younger generation from disturbing Cheng Buzheng, while his uncontrolled devouring force caused extensive destruction in the Secret Realm.

Cheng Buzheng consumed a Dao Integration Pill to break through into the Spirit Transformation realm, triggering a massive surge of Spirit Energy that devoured nearly every Spirit Herb Garden in the Secret Realm. His enhanced True Spirit then allowed him to comprehend a particle of the Law of Chaos in just over two days.

• The devouring ripples destroyed the outer, middle, and inner Spirit Herb Gardens, turning their spirit herbs into Spirit Energy that poured into the vortex above Cheng Buzheng.
• Murong Wanwan watched anxiously as Cheng Buzheng, nearing the end of his breakthrough, swallowed the Dao Integration Pill.
• The pill’s power helped Cheng Buzheng’s miniature Chaos Star Rivers shatter the final barrier and fuse completely with his Treasure Body.
• Cheng Buzheng broke into the Spirit Transformation realm as an azure dragon of Spirit Energy surged from the vortex into him.
• The dormant power of the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine Fruit strengthened Cheng Buzheng’s origin True Spirit threefold, and he comprehended a complete particle of the Law of Chaos in just over two days.

Cheng Buzheng used the power of heaven and earth to comprehend sixteen Chaos Law particles and strengthen his Law Spirit Body, then discovered that his cultivation technique could not be deduced without naturally occurring law particles. After replenishing his depleted energy with Spirit Stones, he concluded that comprehending laws was likely the main path of cultivation in the Spirit Transformation realm.

• Cheng Buzheng comprehended Chaos Law particles at an accelerated pace while Murong Wanwan guarded him, and the empowerment of heaven and earth ended after a month.
• Cheng Buzheng fused sixteen Chaos Law particles into his body, expanding his dantian and Sea of Consciousness while leaving his Law Spirit Body desperately short of Spirit Energy.
• Cheng Buzheng tried to deduce the Chaos Starry Sky Sutra but realized the Small Plate could not use ordinary Deduction Value to derive mysteries of laws, and his personally imprinted law particle could not serve as its material.
• Cheng Buzheng replenished his Law Spirit Body with more than a hundred million Spirit Stones, which filled his depleted dantian with magic power.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that Spirit Transformation cultivation primarily depended on comprehending laws, which strengthened his Law Spirit Body and enabled his magic power to transform.

After breaking through to the Spirit Transformation realm, Cheng Buzheng reunited with Murong Wanwan, planned to make the Secret Realm a home for their descendants, and examined his transformed body and abilities. He returned to the Secret Realm to test whether his new Law Spirit Body could be severed, but even his empowered sword strike could not injure it.

• Murong Wanwan joyfully embraced Cheng Buzheng after he confirmed his breakthrough and asked how they would use the Secret Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng told Murong Wanwan he would reserve the Secret Realm for their descendants and establish three lineages side by side; she agreed to bring the younger generation there.
• Murong Wanwan hinted that she knew of a Spirit Transformation cultivation technique and promised to explain after Cheng Buzheng stabilized his cultivation, then teleported to the Jin Kingdom.
• Cheng Buzheng examined his expanded Sea of Consciousness, strengthened divine sense, Law Spirit Body, and the illusory avatar formed from his law power.
• After testing the avatar's limited range and costly damage, Cheng Buzheng returned to the Secret Realm and tried to cut off his arm, but his sword strike failed to harm his Law Spirit Body.