Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng opened the final stone casket in the inheritance Abandoned Mansion and found the Primordial Demon Venerable’s array inheritance and the [Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Will Sutra]. He learned that Spirit Transformation cultivation depended on accumulating Magic Power, comprehending laws, and finding a method to forge a [Law Treasure Body], then modified the [Chaos Starry Sky Sutra] to use his Law Spirit Body to absorb Spirit Energy.

• Cheng Buzheng identified the damaged supreme Spirit Treasure as the [Primordial Extremes Diagram] and suspected it had been the Primordial Demon Venerable’s natal treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng studied and copied the final stone casket’s sealing Spirit Restriction before opening it.
• Cheng Buzheng opened the casket and found a golden Jade Slip containing the Primordial Demon Venerable’s array inheritance, including the Yin-Yang Three Forms Origin-Returning Array.
• Cheng Buzheng studied the array and gained a rudimentary understanding of applying law origin.
• Cheng Buzheng read the violet Jade Slip’s [Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Will Sutra] and learned about Law Spirit Bodies, Law Treasure Bodies, and Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng used [Master of Dharma Derivation] to alter the [Chaos Starry Sky Sutra], then tested its new method by spreading his Law fluctuations across a hundred thousand miles.

After refining the [Primordial Extremes Diagram], Cheng Buzheng uncovered a law Spiritual Item hidden beneath the Abandoned Mansion and accidentally destroyed it by probing it with divine sense. He salvaged a new lightning-law rune from the item’s remnants, but most of its potential was lost.

• Cheng Buzheng restored his magic power with the modified [Chaos Starry Sky Sutra] and refined the [Primordial Extremes Diagram], learning that it could recover its former strength by absorbing pure origin energy.
• Cheng Buzheng opened the hidden passage beneath the offering table in the Abandoned Mansion and followed it to a geocentric cavern.
• Cheng Buzheng found a purple raw stone emitting law fluctuations on an altar and dismantled the altar’s restriction using the Array Diagram of the [Yin-Yang Three Forms Origin-Returning Array].
• Cheng Buzheng sent his divine sense into the purple raw stone, shattering it and releasing three purple runes that became law particles in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Cheng Buzheng found that the Small Plate could not absorb the particles, so he comprehended their lightning-law essence as they faded.
• Cheng Buzheng comprehended 365 lightning-law particles, which gathered into a purple-rhyme-encircled rune, while the remaining particles dissipated.

Cheng Buzheng advanced his thunder law into the Rune Realm and learned that the Wild Origin Mountain Range’s calamities had weakened after he collected the purple primordial stone. He plundered the abandoned mansion, then tested the range and escape capabilities of Spatial Dharma Escape as he traveled away.

• Cheng Buzheng examined his cultivation panel and concluded that laws progressed from the Particle Realm to the Rune Realm, with his thunder law now in the latter stage.
• After Cheng Buzheng collected the purple primordial stone, the Wild Origin Mountain Range’s elemental fluctuations and tribulations weakened, allowing Foundation Establishment cultivators to survive the Blood Yin Divine Thunder and flee.
• News of the changed calamities spread, drawing treasure-seeking cultivators into the Wild Origin Mountain Range.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to the inner mansion, collected the array foundation pillars and treasures, and left the outer earth-vein foundations behind.
• Cheng Buzheng used Spatial Dharma Escape to travel far from the mansion, tested its range, and entered the turbulent currents of space using Space Walking.

Cheng Buzheng returned from the Abandoned Mansion, stored his gains, and reunited with Murong Wanwan, who asked whether the Creation Heaven-Mending Art could forge spiritual roots for their son. After realizing that laws might let him use the art in a new way, Cheng Buzheng agreed to test it, and the couple hurried to act before Cheng Ping'an's remaining lifespan ran out.

• Cheng Buzheng used [Space Walking] to cross from the Great Zhou Dynasty to Gourd Valley and teleport back to Ping'an City.
• Cheng Buzheng stored the Abandoned Mansion's treasures and inscribed the [Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Will Sutra] and Primordial Demon Venerable's array inheritance into the inheritance chamber, sealing their most advanced parts.
• Murong Wanwan asked Cheng Buzheng about his journey and told him that Cheng Qingyang had raised the possibility of using the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] to forge spiritual roots.
• Cheng Buzheng realized he might be able to activate the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] with the power of laws and confirmed that laws could drive the secret art.
• Murong Wanwan took Cheng Buzheng out of the courtyard to test the secret art, and he set aside his other plans because Cheng Ping'an had only a little over thirty years of lifespan remaining.

Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan visited their aged son, Cheng Ping'an, and Cheng Buzheng began using the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] to reshape his spiritual roots. His Chaos Law comprehension proved insufficient, so the chapter left him preparing to use a different law instead.

• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan traveled to Cheng Ping'an's town and spent the afternoon exploring it together.
• Cheng Buzheng used the [Dream-Entering Art] to put Cheng Ping'an into a deep sleep while Murong Wanwan watched over him.
• Cheng Buzheng began the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art], sacrificing his Chaos Law comprehension as he formed a thread of Chaos Law.
• Cheng Buzheng discovered that his Chaos Law comprehension was insufficient to complete the secret art and withdrew most of the condensed law particles.
• Cheng Buzheng checked his law panel and considered using another law to continue the attempt.

Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Heaven-Mending Art to forge a Thunder Spirit Root for Cheng Ping'an, enduring the backlash for eighty-one days until the new root stabilized. He emerged exhausted after telling Murong Wanwan that Ping'an would be able to cultivate, and Cheng Ping'an then awakened in a weakened state.

• Cheng Buzheng converted his Thunder Law comprehension into a sphere of lightning and sent it into Cheng Ping'an's spirit root space, where it grew into a Thunder Spirit Root.
• Cheng Buzheng shielded Cheng Ping'an's spirit root space with Chaos Law origin power as the Thunder Spirit Root's lightning threatened to destroy it.
• Murong Wanwan kept visitors away and worried while Cheng Buzheng continued protecting the spirit root space for eighty-one days.
• Cheng Buzheng withdrew his protection once the Thunder Spirit Root stabilized, ended Cheng Ping'an's Dream-Entering Art, and told Murong Wanwan that Ping'an would be able to cultivate.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected his panel and found that forging the spirit root had erased his Thunder Law insights and reduced his Chaos Law comprehension.
• Cheng Ping'an awakened after nearly three months without food or water, extremely weak despite Cheng Buzheng having sustained him with vitality.

Cheng Ping'an learned that his parents were cultivators and that Cheng Buzheng had risked a great deal to create a spirit root for him. After Cheng Ping'an began clan training in Ping'an City, Cheng Buzheng refined his magic treasure while two Cheng family cultivators traveled from the Secret Realm to the Great Zhou Dynasty.

• Murong Wanwan told Cheng Ping'an the truth about his parents and explained that Cheng Buzheng was recovering after creating his spirit root.
• After Cheng Buzheng recovered, he left the town with Murong Wanwan and Cheng Ping'an, and the family reported his death to conceal their departure.
• In Ping'an City, Cheng Buzheng explained to Cheng Qingyang the dangerous requirements and immense cost of creating a spirit root, then instructed him to guide Cheng Ping'an through clan procedures.
• Murong Wanwan taught Cheng Ping'an the clan traditions, cultivation basics, and Soul Seed secret art while Cheng Buzheng began refining the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword with the Innate Creation Pearl.
• Cheng Jingfei and Cheng Jingshu emerged from a hidden Teleportation Array in the Great Zhou Dynasty and discussed Cheng Buzheng's relocation of the array and his other feats.

Cheng Buzheng refined the Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords with the Innate Creation Pearl, bringing them close to the realm of Unity of Person and Treasure and allowing them to amplify the power of laws threefold. Meanwhile, Venerable Daoyuan learned that Martial Nephew Bai had been killed, and his sect elders blamed the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect, leaving their next move undecided.

• Two Cheng family members discussed cultivation plans, avoided traveling through the Jin Kingdom or to the Boundless Sea, and decided to place their Soul Puppets in town while cultivating in Gourd Valley.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Innate Creation Pearl to refine his four Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords, bringing them close to Unity of Person and Treasure before the pearl vanished.
• Cheng Buzheng discovered that his natal spirit treasure could now amplify the power of laws threefold, then began purifying fourth-rank divine blood with a Blood Linglong Grand Array.
• Venerable Daoyuan ended his discussion of the Dao with two fellow Spirit Transformation Venerables and went to check on Wan Tong's recovery.
• Venerable Daoyuan questioned several Half-Step Venerables about Martial Nephew Bai's death, and they claimed the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect was the likely culprit while admitting they had waited for his orders.

Venerable Daoyuan asked Venerable Wantong to use soul laws to trace the killer of Old Monster Bai, but the ritual failed to locate them. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng finished purifying his fourth-tier divine blood in the Secret Realm and left his quiet chamber.

• Venerable Daoyuan questioned the old monsters and learned that Old Monster Bai's Soul Lamp was the only remaining clue to his death.
• Venerable Wantong agreed to search for the killer with soul laws, limiting himself to three attempts so his strength would not decline.
• Venerable Wantong used Old Monster Bai's Soul Lamp in a ritual, but could not trace the killer, who might be concealed by a treasure, formation, Secret Realm, unusual environment, or advanced law comprehension.
• Venerable Daoyuan and Venerable Wantong set aside the search for now and discussed preparations for the human and demon alliance.
• After several years, Cheng Buzheng purified all his fourth-tier divine blood with the Blood Linglong Array and collected it in his Cosmic Thumb Ring.
• Cheng Buzheng dismissed the array, cleared the quiet chamber, and headed outside.

Cheng Buzheng paused his cultivation to review the Cheng Immortal Clan genealogy and ordered changes meant to protect his descendants and preserve the clan across generations. Cheng Qingyang understood the reasoning and accepted the new restrictions.

• After several peaceful months, Cheng Buzheng prepared to refine fourth-rank divine blood and accumulate Magic Power.
• Cheng Qingyang visited Cheng Buzheng with the revised Cheng Immortal Clan genealogy, which he had worked on with Cheng Ping'an.
• Cheng Buzheng reviewed the genealogy and ordered a ban on Dao companions among clan members within five degrees of mourning kinship.
• Cheng Buzheng ordered the clan to keep its ties to the Cloud Dream Mountain and Hidden Immortal Island branches secret and to add the restriction to the Soul Seed rules.
• Cheng Qingyang understood that the secrecy would help the three branches survive independently if one faced calamity, and accepted Cheng Buzheng's orders.

Cheng Buzheng instructed Cheng Qingyang on the Soul Puppet method, then agreed to travel for Desolate Beast spirit blood to help Ping'an prepare for Foundation Establishment. He arrived in Red Leaf Immortal City and hunted a fourth-rank Desolate Beast, leaving its gathered blood suspended in the air.

• Cheng Buzheng added rules to the clan register, requiring mastery of the Soul Puppet method and barring entry to the secret grounds before successfully cultivating the Soul Seed art.
• Murong Wanwan asked Cheng Buzheng to obtain Desolate Beast spirit blood because the clan's supply was running low and Ping'an needed two Blood Crystal Pool sessions before attempting Foundation Establishment.
• Cheng Buzheng left Ping'an City, traveled through the Sea Suppressing Alliance, and arrived at Red Leaf Immortal City.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to survey the region, then spatially traveled to a fourth-rank Desolate Beast.
• Cheng Buzheng suppressed and killed the Desolate Beast with the Primordial Extremes Diagram and gathered its blood into a river in the air.

Cheng Buzheng used the Primordial Extremes Diagram to grind a fourth-rank Desolate Beast into hundreds of streams of vitality, which he refined into a pill for future cultivation. After spotting a disguised great demon, he intercepted it and refused to heed its warning about the Two Clans Pact, leaving the two on the verge of battle.

• Cheng Buzheng collected the Desolate Beast's blood with the Yuanru Bottle and stored its body in the Primordial Extremes Diagram.
• The Diagram's millstone ground the beast down over seven days, producing more than seven hundred strands of vitality that Cheng Buzheng condensed into a sealed Vitality Pill.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to search for fourth-rank Desolate Beasts and spotted a figure crossing the sea of clouds.
• Cheng Buzheng intercepted a gaunt Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator and revealed that he knew the stranger was a disguised great demon.
• The great demon invoked the Two Clans Pact, but Cheng Buzheng dismissed it, prompting the demon to unleash its aura and threaten to attack.

Cheng Buzheng hunted Desolate Beasts and shapeshifting great demons across the Sea Suppressing Alliance’s Inner Seas, collecting vital energy, spirit blood, and Origin Energy Pills. After more than a year of hunting, he gathered enough resources and returned to Treasure Sun Immortal City, then set out using Spatial Dharma Escape.

• Cheng Buzheng caught and killed a shapeshifting great demon that had fled from him, then decided to focus his hunting on Desolate Beasts.
• After finding few fourth-tier Desolate Beasts left in one sea region, Cheng Buzheng slaughtered a group of more than a hundred third-tier Desolate Beasts and moved on to another Inner Sea.
• Over more than a year, Cheng Buzheng hunted more than three hundred fourth-tier Desolate Beasts, several thousand third-tier Desolate Beasts, and several great demons that had taken human form.
• Cheng Buzheng filled the Yuanru Bottle with spirit blood and accumulated more than three hundred Origin Energy Pills, deciding he had gathered enough resources to return.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to Treasure Sun Immortal City and used Spatial Dharma Escape to depart.

Cheng Buzheng returned to Ping'an City after harvesting Desolate Beasts, while cultivators across the Sea Suppressing Alliance discovered that their intended prey had already been slain. Back in seclusion, he considered how to forge a law Treasure Body, sent out three disguised True Spirit Dharma Bodies, and opened a sealed jade bottle.

• Cheng Buzheng returned through a hidden Teleportation Array and stored the harvested Desolate Beast blood in a protected storehouse.
• A six-person Golden Core expedition found the Golden-Furred Desolate Bulls missing and inferred that a powerful senior had killed them.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator discovered that Cheng Buzheng had slain the rare desolate-scaled sea elephant he needed for his secret art.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to his courtyard, left his wife a Jade Slip, and entered a Quiet Room to consider his cultivation plans.
• Cheng Buzheng devised a possible method for forging a law Treasure Body, sent out three disguised True Spirit Dharma Bodies, and opened a sealed Long-necked Jade Bottle.

Cheng Buzheng began secluded cultivation with his purified fourth-tier divine blood while Jiang Gui joined a circle of Foundation Establishment cultivators in Ten Thousand Immortals City by claiming he could make ancient Teleportation Talismans. After Jiang Gui vanished, Wang Changlin revealed the matter to his Golden Core brother-in-law, who brought the news to his Nascent Soul master.

• Cheng Buzheng swallowed a drop of purified fourth-tier divine blood and began secluded cultivation.
• Qingxu introduced Jiang Gui to the Foundation Establishment cultivators, who welcomed him after learning he could craft Teleportation Talismans.
• Jiang Gui grew acquainted with the circle, visited Wang Changlin’s cave mansion, and then disappeared, leaving his cave empty.
• Qingxu and the others investigated Jiang Gui’s disappearance but found no clues and concluded he had likely died.
• Wang Changlin told his Golden Core brother-in-law about Jiang Gui and the Teleportation Talisman method, prompting the brother-in-law to report it to his Nascent Soul master.

Cheng Buzheng used the [Illusory World Art] to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect by impersonating Xuanming True Lord, whom he secretly sealed instead of killing. After spending a month preparing, he reached the Scripture Repository to begin the real stage of his plan and encountered another powerful Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Cheng Buzheng's Dharma Body knocked out Xuanming True Lord and transformed into his likeness, after using Wang Changlin and his connections to get close to the sect elder.
• Cheng Buzheng sealed Xuanming True Lord, his sixth disciple, and Wang Changlin's sister, while the real Wang Changlin remained sealed with altered memories.
• Cheng Buzheng searched Xuanming True Lord's memories, took and sorted items from his Storage Bag, and waited a month in the Cave Mansion.
• Cheng Buzheng left the Cave Mansion and entered the Scripture Repository, passing a formation artifact that checked his soul fluctuations.
• Cheng Buzheng reached the top floor and opened a quiet room, where he saw an aged but powerful Nascent Soul True Lord.

Cheng Buzheng used Xuanming True Lord’s identity to inspect the Scripture Repository’s top floor, discovering a hidden Half-Step Supreme powerhouse while searching its shelves with the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye. He quietly examined the sect’s restricted records and found information about the Soul-Sensing Heavenly Treasure Stone, though the chapter ended before its full refinement method was revealed.

• Cheng Buzheng waited until True Lord Siyun left, then used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to see through the room’s walls and formation patterns.
• He discovered a white-robed old man hidden in a spatial layer and judged him to be a powerful Half-Step Supreme, possibly the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect’s concealed Spirit Transformation seed.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the top floor and found no other hidden measures, then focused on the restricted bookshelves and the array-protected Secret Chamber.
• He used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to read the Jade Slips and other records without opening their restrictions or alerting the hidden old man.
• Cheng Buzheng gained alchemy knowledge and Magic Treasure construction methods, and became interested in the refinement records for the Soul-Sensing Heavenly Treasure Stone.

Cheng Buzheng copied the Scripture Repository’s public inheritances, then carefully probed its guarded secret chamber and read a complete Spirit Transformation cultivation technique. He learned more about Law Treasure Bodies and continued searching the chamber’s other techniques, but still had not found the forging method.

• Cheng Buzheng recorded the hall’s inheritances and prepared another Dharma body to copy the thousands of Jade Slips as a safeguard.
• Cheng Buzheng cautiously used his divine eye to inspect the secret chamber, briefly alerting the white-robed old man, who searched the repository but dismissed his suspicions.
• Three days later, Cheng Buzheng probed the secret chamber again without attracting notice and examined the complete fifth-tier [Crimson Flame Heart Sutra].
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the technique’s Spirit Transformation scriptures explained wielding the Law of Fire and described the advantages of a [Law Treasure Body], but did not give its forging method.
• Cheng Buzheng continued examining the secret chamber’s Spirit Transformation techniques, which contained methods for wielding the Five Element Laws but no method for forging a [Law Treasure Body].

Cheng Buzheng examined the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect’s inherited techniques and discovered that its ancient stele contained the legendary [Time Folding Art]. After learning that it could greatly extend lifespan but required sacrificing vast amounts of law origin, he decided to memorize it and postpone cultivating it while focusing on reaching the Spirit Realm.

• Cheng Buzheng examined the sect’s cultivation techniques and concluded that the Scripture Repository likely held no method for forging a Law Treasure Body.
• Cheng Buzheng memorized the stele’s twelve divine abilities and found the [Time Folding Art] among its secret arts.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the [Time Folding Art] as the legendary secret art that had once sparked a devastating war across the Cultivation World.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the art could multiply lifespan by up to 6.6 times but required Spirit Transformation cultivators to damage enormous amounts of law origin.
• Cheng Buzheng decided not to cultivate the art for now, committed it to memory, and resolved to prioritize ascending to the Spirit Realm.

Cheng Buzheng’s avatar infiltrated the Changyang Immortal Clan as Changyang Zhongxuan and gained access to its inheritance underground palace. The chapter ended with him preparing to explore the clan’s inherited treasures.

• Cheng Buzheng’s true body noticed a change to the Law Secret Arts listed on his panel.
• Xuanming True Lord awoke after Cheng Buzheng’s impersonation and theft, suspected fellow sect cultivators, then decided not to investigate further.
• Changyang Zhongxuan returned to Changyang Island and reported his agreements to the Ancestor.
• The Changyang Ancestor granted Changyang Zhongxuan a secret movement art and authorized him to enter the inheritance underground palace.
• Cheng Buzheng revealed that Changyang Zhongxuan was his avatar, disguised with the Reincarnation Embryo Transformation Art to pass the clan’s bloodline inspection.