Chapter Summaries

After testing his newly formed Law Spirit Body, Cheng Buzheng discovered that it could recover from devastating physical damage with minimal depletion. He cultivated and advanced several divine abilities, then left the chapter considering the power of his new incarnations and escape art.

• Cheng Buzheng cut off his arm and then let the Chaos Starlight restore it, confirming that his Law Spirit Body could regenerate with little loss.
• Cheng Buzheng allowed the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword to pulverize his body and reformed himself from Chaos Starlight, concluding that ordinary attacks posed little threat to his undying body.
• Cheng Buzheng cultivated the seventh-rank Cosmic Pole Escape and deduced its eighth- and ninth-rank forms, naming the transformed art Spatial Dharma Escape and its profundity Space Walking.
• Cheng Buzheng tried to deduce an ultimate form of Spatial Dharma Escape, but Small Plate did not respond; he then cultivated the ninth-rank art, consuming most of his divine sense before recovering.
• Cheng Buzheng advanced One Sword Tilts the Heavens into Sword Opens Heaven Gate, whose wondrous ability became Sword Breaks Myriad Laws.
• Cheng Buzheng advanced Myriad Transformation Dao Body into True Spirit Dharma Body, which created three powerful incarnations and gained the wondrous ability True Spirit Transfer.

Cheng Buzheng spent his resources to raise his remaining divine abilities to ninth rank, then cultivated them in a secluded room. He discovered that he could now cultivate any number of divine abilities, though [Heart Spirit World] still needed external objects to reach its full power.

• Cheng Buzheng deduced [True Spirit Dharma Body] into a power that let his true spirit enter an incarnation and turn it into his main body at peak strength.
• He advanced [Soul-Slaying Spirit-Extinguishing Sword] into [Soul-Massacring Sword], whose [Sword of Consciousness] could shatter a target’s true spirit.
• After spending his Spirit Stones and selling treasures across the three human alliances, Cheng Buzheng gathered 6299 Deduction Value and raised his remaining divine abilities to ninth rank.
• Cheng Buzheng cultivated his newly deduced abilities for nearly a month, leaving only [Heart Spirit World] incomplete because it required external objects to unleash its full power.
• Cheng Buzheng discovered that the former limits on how many divine abilities he could cultivate had vanished because his Sea of Consciousness could now bear them.

Cheng Buzheng completed his divine abilities, discovered that the Creation Small Plate could not deduce techniques combining law comprehension with mortal cultivation, and took control of the Secret Realm’s formations. After binding the Realm to his bloodline, he turned his attention to the intact Nine-Colored Great Array, which resisted his strike.

• Cheng Buzheng reviewed his new ninth-rank divine abilities and tried to deduce a cultivation method for Cheng Ping'an, but found that the Small Plate could not process deductions involving laws.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to inspect the Secret Realm and discovered that its Spirit Herb Gardens were gone, while a Nine-Colored Great Array stood at its center.
• Cheng Buzheng removed the hidden measures in the Secret Realm’s formations, then spent half a year taking control of them and rebuilt the array.
• Cheng Buzheng added a blood restriction that made the Secret Realm destroy anyone who entered without belonging to his bloodline.
• Cheng Buzheng struck the Nine-Colored Great Array, but it repelled his attack and drew his interest.

Cheng Buzheng deciphered the Nine-Colored Great Array, entered it, and discovered a colossal innate spiritual tree whose identity remained unknown. After testing its leaves and branches, he realized they could serve as extraordinary materials for refining powerful treasures.

• Cheng Buzheng tested the Nine-Colored Great Array, then used a powerful punch to reveal its Array Patterns and analyze them with [Master of Dharma Derivation].
• Cheng Buzheng opened a gateway through the formation, crafted an Identity Token, and entered the array.
• Cheng Buzheng discovered a towering ancient tree radiating innate Dao resonance, but could not identify its kind.
• Cheng Buzheng tested a leaf and found it could serve as the main material for a flying Magic Treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng tested a branch, found it tougher than a top-grade defensive Magic Treasure, and concluded it could help refine a heavy treasure or even a supreme Spirit Treasure.

Cheng Buzheng transplanted and protected the spirit plants in the Secret Realm, then began forging the Spirit Materials from its Trial Chambers into a city. The chapter ended with nine-colored Array Patterns spreading across the liquefied city walls.

• Cheng Buzheng took a branch from the Innate Spirit Tree for study but decided to leave the whole tree as a foundation for his lineage.
• Cheng Buzheng retrieved Murong Wanwan’s Storage Bag, planted the Ancient Flood Dragon Blood Spirit Tree, and transplanted and nourished the sprouting Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine.
• Cheng Buzheng bound the Innate Spirit Tree, Ancient Flood Dragon Blood Spirit Tree, and Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine to the Nine-Colored Great Array to protect them for future generations.
• Cheng Buzheng used Heaven-and-Earth Dominion and the World-Purifying Glazed Flame to refine the land and Trial Chambers into glazed rivers and clusters of five-colored liquid.
• Cheng Buzheng fused the refined materials into a square city wall and inscribed it with nine-colored Array Patterns.

Cheng Buzheng forged the defenses of a new Immortal City while his descendants and Murong Wanwan organized the relocation of the Cheng clan’s mortals. The migration continued toward the Boundless Sea, and Cheng Changqing’s branch chose Cloud Dream Mountain as its foundation.

• Cheng Buzheng completed the city’s four crystal walls, rested, and began forging the Immortal City’s defenses with the Nine-Colored Great Array and protections on its Innate Spirit Trees and Plants.
• Cheng Qingyang met Cheng Changqing as tens of thousands of carriages arrived, and explained that the Cheng clansmen were being resettled because the ancestral land was no longer safe.
• Cheng Changqing chose Cloud Dream Mountain for his branch, while Cheng Qingyang said Cheng Buzheng would later build its clan-protecting Great Array and treasure vault.
• Cheng Changqing’s branch moved its ordinary clansmen into the town, and Cheng Qingyang reminded him to arrange guards against bandits and Demonic Beasts.
• Murong Wanwan ordered the three Flying Boats to stop near a mortal city so the migrating clansmen could rest and replenish fresh water.
• Murong Wanwan’s people warned the mortals aboard the Flying Boats to maintain order during their journey to the Boundless Sea.

Murong Wanwan’s Soul Puppet led Cheng Ping’an’s family out of the Jin Kingdom, concealing the fact that Cheng Ping'an had no spiritual root as the clan traveled toward the Boundless Sea. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng completed a vast city and its array in the Secret Realm, then discovered that his ability to comprehend laws had greatly improved.

• Murong Wanwan’s Soul Puppet reassured Cheng Ping'an during the family’s journey, while Cheng Qingyao led the convoy and helped keep the clan members without spiritual roots unaware of their magical travel.
• Cheng Qingyao relayed Murong Wanwan’s order, and the young cultivators put the mortals to sleep before Murong Wanwan used a treasure map to transport the convoy.
• Cheng Buzheng finished a city spanning several thousand li, equipped it with a fifth-tier array, and connected its cultivation rooms to Spirit Vein nodes.
• Cheng Buzheng spent a month completing the city’s Spirit Vein network, then furnished his courtyard and slept to recover from his mental exhaustion.
• After meditating, Cheng Buzheng found the sea of laws more than three times clearer and realized that his speed of comprehending Chaos Law particles had also tripled.

Cheng Buzheng used soul-type Spirit Medicine and Master of Dharma Derivation to accelerate his comprehension of the Chaos Law, but the particles grew steadily harder to understand. After exhausting his supplies and driving prices up more than tenfold, he stopped buying Spirit Medicine and left further comprehension for later.

• Cheng Buzheng restored his depleted divine sense with soul-type Spirit Medicine and used Master of Dharma Derivation to speed up his comprehension of the Chaos Law.
• After a month, Cheng Buzheng had comprehended thirty-seven Chaos Law particles and noticed that the thirty-seventh took twice as long as the previous ones.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled to the Boundless Sea several times to buy Spirit Medicine, comprehending the Chaos Law up to eighty-five particles as his supplies dwindled.
• Cheng Buzheng spent a month gathering fewer than ten thousand more Spirit Medicines, which let him comprehend only one additional Chaos Law particle.
• Cheng Buzheng found that the market supply had dried up and prices had risen more than tenfold, so he decided to wait before buying more.

Cheng Buzheng decided to keep his Spirit Transformation cultivation secret while he waited for his family to arrive at the hidden city he had built. After Murong Wanwan brought their descendants, he welcomed them, entrusted Cheng Qingyang with managing the city, and showed his wife the home and its secret spirit garden.

• Cheng Buzheng rejected the idea of joining a major alliance, deciding to hide his recent breakthrough until he understood the dangers posed by other Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Murong Wanwan returned to the Secret Realm with Cheng Buzheng's descendants after settling the mortal members of the family elsewhere.
• Cheng Buzheng revealed himself to his descendants, answered their questions, and told Cheng Qingyang to manage the city while keeping up his cultivation.
• Cheng Qingyang led the family to unsealed courtyards in the city's eastern district, where they discovered cultivation rooms with dense Spirit Energy.
• Cheng Buzheng brought Murong Wanwan to their new home, gave her an Identity Token, and explained the city's hidden Nine-Colored Great Array and core Spirit Herb Garden.

Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan discussed protecting their family’s resources, caring for Cheng Ping'an, and a possible Spirit Transformation inheritance connected to Chu Linger. He then began moving the Secret Realm to a new spatial coordinate, while his descendants watched the disturbance from below.

• Murong Wanwan urged Cheng Buzheng to secure their lineage’s resources, and he agreed to handle the arrangements for the three lineages.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan decided to accompany Cheng Ping'an through his final stretch of life.
• Murong Wanwan revealed that Chu Linger might know of a Spirit Transformation Venerable’s abandoned mansion, and Cheng Buzheng planned to seek her out.
• Cheng Buzheng transplanted the Ancient Flood Dragon Blood Spirit Tree to an outer Spirit Herb Garden, where Cheng Qingyang and Cheng Qingyao explained its value to the younger generation.
• Cheng Buzheng activated the Secret Realm’s array to change its spatial coordinates, causing the realm to tremble as the Cheng Family Mortal Cultivators watched the sky glow.

Cheng Buzheng expended nearly all his magic power and divine sense to move the Secret Realm through spatial turbulence and anchor it to a spatial barrier, then began a slow recovery. Meanwhile, his family named their new city Ping'an City and completed the formation across its walls.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Secret Realm's formations to halt its passage through spatial turbulence and attach it to a spatial barrier.
• Cheng Buzheng consumed his stored Spirit Pills and cultivated for ten days to restore his depleted magic power, realizing he needed to resolve his cultivation technique problem.
• Murong Wanwan received and answered a Talisman from Cheng Qingyang while Cheng Family Mortal Cultivators debated names for their city.
• Cheng Buzheng's reply named the city Ping'an City, and Cheng Qingyang sent the younger family members to work on the family's construction projects.
• Cheng Qingyang inscribed Ping'an City above the city gate, completing the formation's previously blank section.

Cheng Buzheng refined two law-infused Protection Tokens for the Hidden Immortal Island and Cloud Dream Mountain branches, sacrificing two points of Chaos Law comprehension. He then traveled to the deserted island in the Boundless Sea and carefully dismantled its Teleportation Array for relocation.

• Cheng Buzheng tried to refine an Identity Token from rare metal with a Chaos Law particle, but the token exploded, so he used a branch from the innate spirit tree instead.
• Cheng Buzheng successfully refined two reusable Protection Tokens from the innate spirit tree branch, each infused with a Chaos Law particle and capable of releasing a powerful projection.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled from Ping'an City through the bloodline-testing Teleportation Array to the deserted island in the Boundless Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng used his Spirit Transformation cultivation and formation knowledge to dismantle the Teleportation Array piece by piece without damaging it.
• Cheng Buzheng put away the Soul Puppets guarding the underground plaza after completing the dismantling.

Cheng Buzheng stripped the deserted island of its treasures, then visited Hidden Immortal Island to divide the remaining wealth among the Cheng Family branches, reinforce the island, and give Cheng Changyuan a Protection Token. The chapter ends by revealing that the token would later help the Hidden Immortal Island branch escape an attack by a Spirit Transformation supreme.

• Cheng Buzheng collected the Soul Puppets, Spiritual Items, and Soul-Restricting Stones from the deserted island, filling hundreds of Storage Bags.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled to Hidden Immortal Island, where Cheng Changyuan welcomed him and led him to the clan treasury.
• Cheng Buzheng allotted one-third of the remaining Spiritual Items to Cheng Changyuan's branch, expanded the treasury, and upgraded the Island Protection Array.
• Cheng Buzheng gave Cheng Changyuan a blue Protection Token before leaving Hidden Immortal Island.
• Cheng Changyuan learned that Cheng Buzheng had reached Spirit Transformation and recognized the Protection Token's power to repel formidable enemies.
• Years later, when a Spirit Transformation supreme attacked Hidden Immortal Island, the branch used the Protection Token to hold off the enemy and escape through the Teleportation Array.

Cheng Buzheng met Chu Linger, learned the location of the Abandoned Mansion, and promised to help avenge her mother if she still wanted revenge after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm. He then built and tested a concealed Teleportation Array in the Treasure Sun Sea Region, linking it to Ping'an City in the Secret Realm.

• Cheng Buzheng told Chu Linger that he had reached the Spirit Transformation realm and explained his need for a cultivation method and Murong Wanwan's clue.
• Chu Linger revealed where the Abandoned Mansion was and asked Cheng Buzheng to help her destroy the White Immortal Clan; he told her to return after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm and promised to provide a breakthrough treasure.
• Chu Linger asked Cheng Buzheng about her cultivation, then left Immortal Alliance City, while Cheng Buzheng traveled to the Treasure Sun Sea Region.
• Cheng Buzheng carved out a hidden chamber within an undersea mountain, connected a Teleportation Array to the earth vein, and sealed the chamber with Soul-Restricting Stone.
• Cheng Buzheng tested the array with a Soul Puppet and confirmed that it reached the Teleportation Hall in Ping'an City in the Secret Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng placed a Jade Stele beside the array forbidding future generations from opening a passage, then used the array to leave the hidden chamber.

Cheng Buzheng returned to Cloud Dream Mountain, strengthened the Cheng family’s resources and defenses, then flew to the Great Zhou Dynasty to investigate a strange canyon near Cheng Ping'an’s home. As white mist suddenly engulfed the canyon despite his earlier search finding no anomaly, Cheng Buzheng was left stunned.

• Cheng Buzheng dismantled the Teleportation Array at the Jin Kingdom border and traveled to Cloud Dream Mountain, where he answered Cheng Changqing’s cultivation questions.
• Cheng Buzheng expanded the Cloud Dream Mountain treasure vault, added treasures and an inheritance Jade Stele, and upgraded the clan-protecting Great Array.
• After Cheng Buzheng left, Cheng Changqing realized that his Ancestor had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm and resolved to learn his cautious ways.
• Cheng Buzheng flew to the Great Zhou Dynasty, spotted Cheng Ping'an living with his family, and noticed that a patch of white mist had concealed a gourd-shaped canyon nearby.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the canyon with Divine Sense, found only mundane features, and considered it a future home for Cheng Ping'an’s descendants.
• White mist abruptly rose and covered the canyon, and Cheng Buzheng was dumbfounded when his Divine Sense spread through it.

Cheng Buzheng discovered an Innate Creation Pearl buried hundreds of thousands of zhang beneath Gourd Valley and took it. He then prepared Gourd Valley as a mortal stronghold for his branch, established a hidden teleportation array nearby, and finished organizing Ping'an City's treasury.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to trace the strange aura beneath Gourd Valley and found an Innate Creation Pearl deep underground.
• Cheng Buzheng took the pearl, concluded that its white mist had accompanied its birth, and sent Gourd Valley's location and his plans to his wife's Soul Puppet.
• Cheng Buzheng chose a cliff three hundred li from Gourd Valley, cleared its face, and carved a hidden chamber inside a boulder for a Teleportation Array.
• A month later, Cheng Buzheng tested the array by sending a puppet to Ping'an City's Teleportation Hall, then returned to Ping'an City himself.
• Cheng Buzheng expanded the city's treasury with the remaining Soul-Restricting Stone, sorted its last Spiritual Items, and placed a Cheng Immortal Clan inheritance stele in the final storehouse.

Cheng Buzheng sorted his treasures into the family vault, then uncovered the hidden formation behind the Wild Origin Mountain Range's deadly calamities and headed toward the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion. Meanwhile, Cheng Qingyang entered the treasure vault's transmission chamber and was drawn into an ancient stele, where a star-filled vision awaited him.

• Cheng Buzheng inventoried his Storage Bag and placed many treasures, inherited arts, and cultivation records into their designated family repositories.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived above the Wild Origin Mountain Range and used his All-Heaven Divine Ability to reveal a massive formation buried beneath it.
• Cheng Buzheng found that the formation caused the mountain range's wind, thunder, and ice calamities, and suspected the Primordial Demon Venerable had laid it.
• Cheng Buzheng studied the concealed array patterns, then transformed into Chaos Starlight and flew toward the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion.
• Cheng Qingyang entered the expanded treasure vault, collected several Gilded Puppets, and found an ancient stele in the final storeroom.
• Cheng Qingyang was drawn into the stele and found himself amid a star-filled vision.

Cheng Qingyang learned of the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] and asked Murong Wanwan whether it could restore spiritual roots, prompting her to seek Cheng Buzheng’s judgment when he returned. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng entered the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion’s trials and began using his Master of Dharma Derivation to meet the inheritance stele’s challenge.

• Cheng Qingyang discovered that the inheritance stele’s [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] could mend tangible and intangible things, then went to ask Murong Wanwan about it.
• Murong Wanwan claimed the art was profound, and Cheng Qingyang proposed using it to restore spiritual roots, including one for his father, Cheng Ping'an.
• Cheng Qingyang asked Murong Wanwan to reserve him a chance to gain a spiritual root if the method worked, and she said she could not promise it.
• After Cheng Qingyang left, Murong Wanwan worried about the art’s true power and resolved to ask Cheng Buzheng when he returned.
• Cheng Buzheng entered the Primordial Demon Abandoned Mansion, defeated the apparitions of enemies from his past, and passed into the next trial.
• Cheng Buzheng found a stele requiring him to condense one thousand divine ability runes within three days, then activated Master of Dharma Derivation.

Cheng Buzheng entered a trial with three light gates and suspected it tested fortune, but discovered that the gates were traps and that the real challenge was tied to array talent. After his three True Spirit Dharma Bodies perished while scouting the gates, he found hidden connections between the gates and the formation and began activating a technique to unite their origins.

• Cheng Buzheng entered the blood-colored space and found three light gates, which he suspected offered a test of luck or access to the Primordial Demon Venerable’s inheritance.
• Cheng Buzheng tried using Law clones and then True Spirit Dharma Bodies to test the gates, but the formation blocked his clones and its barriers prevented him from sending multiple bodies through at once.
• Cheng Buzheng used Illusory World Art to evade the formation’s detection and sent Dharma Bodies through the first two gates, where storms and hail infused with thunder law destroyed them.
• Cheng Buzheng sent his final Dharma Body through the third gate, where blood lightning destroyed it, confirming that all three gates were false passages.
• Cheng Buzheng suspected the trial tested array talent, examined the hidden Array Patterns and runes, and activated Three Origins Return to One, causing the gates and formation patterns to glow.

Cheng Buzheng entered the Abandoned Mansion’s hidden cave and discovered its core formation, then opened a Cosmic Thumb Ring containing vast stores of preserved materials and pills. After claiming the ring, he tested and took control of an ancient Taiji diagram, but had not yet learned to unleash its full power.

• Cheng Buzheng passed through the merged light gate and used Dharma Eyes to inspect the cave’s concealed formation patterns and sealed stone caskets.
• Cheng Buzheng opened the first stone casket, found a Cosmic Thumb Ring, and confirmed that its seals and contents had survived the passage of time.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected the ring’s Jade Boxes, finding thousands of rare formation materials and many third- and fourth-rank Spirit Pills, including pills that could help Golden Core cultivators break through to Nascent Soul.
• Cheng Buzheng refined the ownerless Cosmic Thumb Ring, transferred his belongings into it, and set aside his emptied storage items for Ping'an City’s treasure vault.
• Cheng Buzheng tested the strange Taiji diagram from the second stone casket, branded its core Restrictions with his divine sense, and gained preliminary control of the treasure.