Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng found the Changyang Immortal Clan’s inheritance vault nearly empty, then discovered its clan-protecting array concealed a secret barrier. After Ancestor Changyang noticed the disturbance and welcomed him, Cheng Buzheng requested the clan’s ancestor’s inheritance and notes on the Spirit Transformation realm; the chapter ended with Ancestor Changyang presenting the clan’s sealed Beast Skin.

• Cheng Buzheng searched the Changyang Immortal Clan’s inheritance underground palace and found mostly incomplete techniques and worthless formulas.
• Cheng Buzheng used his Dharma Eye to inspect the clan-protecting Great Array and pierced its defenses to glimpse the core barrier.
• Ancestor Changyang sensed the disturbance, entered the core barrier, and respectfully called for the hidden senior to meet him.
• Cheng Buzheng revealed himself in a new appearance, and Ancestor Changyang mistook his spatial ability for a possible connection to Dao Lord Langya’s inheritance.
• Cheng Buzheng asked to examine the clan ancestor’s inheritance, especially the notes on the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Ancestor Changyang revealed the clan’s inherited Jade Slips and Beast Skin, explaining that the Beast Skin was sealed against anyone below the Spirit Transformation realm.

Cheng Buzheng examined the Changyang Immortal Clan’s ancient beast hide and discovered that it contained a Spirit Transformation cultivation art and an incomplete method for forging a Law Treasure Body. The Changyang Ancestor revealed that Xianyang Great Power had once visited the clan and bestowed a secret art, leaving Cheng Buzheng intrigued by the opportunity and its connection to karma.

• Cheng Buzheng inspected the Jade Slips, finding cultivation arts, secret techniques, and three low-grade divine abilities, but nothing related to the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the beast hide, recognized it as the skin of a fifth-rank Desolate Beast, and broke through its protective membrane with his divine sense.
• Cheng Buzheng read the Changyang Rising Dragon Scripture and found Spirit Transformation techniques, including an incomplete method for forging a Law Treasure Body.
• The Changyang Ancestor said an ancient Spirit Transformation visitor had praised the Changyang ancestor’s talent and claimed he might have reached the Mahayana realm in another era.
• Cheng Buzheng asked whether the visitor had been a disciple of Dao Lord Langya, and the Changyang Ancestor identified him as Xianyang Great Power.
• The Changyang Ancestor explained that Xianyang Great Power had bestowed a secret art and advised the clan to lessen karma, then waited eagerly for Cheng Buzheng’s response.

Cheng Buzheng compensated the Changyang Ancestor with an escape-art divine ability, then learned an unrecordable divination secret art passed down from Xianyang Great Power. Impressed by the inheritance, he offered to fulfill the Changyang Ancestor’s request, which the Ancestor was about to state.

• Cheng Buzheng considered the Changyang Ancestor’s account of karmic ties and decided the Changyang Immortal Clan deserved compensation.
• Cheng Buzheng gave the Changyang Ancestor a newly deduced escape-art divine ability, and the Ancestor eagerly examined it.
• The Changyang Ancestor revealed that his clan orally preserved a calamity-evading method bestowed by Xianyang Great Power because it could not be recorded.
• The Changyang Ancestor recited the secret art, and Cheng Buzheng recognized it as a demanding divination technique that consumed lifespan or law origins.
• Cheng Buzheng offered to satisfy the Changyang Ancestor’s request as best he could, and the Ancestor prepared to state it.

Cheng Buzheng refused to take Changyang's gifted junior as a disciple but gave him a jade slip of formation knowledge, then completed the Supreme Unity Six-Line Divine Calculation and learned its limits. Unable to record the secret art or test it without a divination treasure, he considered preserving it for his descendants and studied the three treasures it described.

• Cheng Buzheng refused Ancestor Changyang's request to teach the clan's gifted junior and gave him a jade slip summarizing his formation studies.
• Cheng Buzheng finished refining the divine blood essence, discovered the Supreme Unity Six-Line Divine Calculation on his panel, and cultivated the secret art to completion.
• Cheng Buzheng tried to copy the secret art onto a jade slip, but a mysterious law fluctuation destroyed it.
• Cheng Buzheng deduced that the secret art's divinations cost lifespan or law origin and required a suitable medium for greater accuracy.
• Cheng Buzheng resolved to preserve the secret art in the future and learned that it described the Heaven's Fortune Copper Coin, Fate-Shifting Compass, and Luo River Turtle Shell.

Cheng Buzheng studied an incomplete Law Treasure Body forging method and cultivated with fourth-tier divine blood while his Primordial Soul Palace avatar searched the forbidden land for Spirit Transformation inheritances. After finding a Six-Tailed Heavenly Soul Banner, a law secret art, a Spirit Transformation Pill, and altered cultivation manuals, he stayed in the sect, where a theft of its Spirit Pills was discovered.

• Cheng Buzheng found he could not understand the principles behind the incomplete Law Treasure Body method, memorized it for Small Plate, and began refining fourth-tier divine blood.
• Cheng Buzheng's avatar in the Primordial Soul Palace studied demonic inheritances and decided to wait for a chance to inspect the sect's forbidden land.
• When a half-step Demon Venerable entered the forbidden land, Cheng Buzheng used his Dharma Eye to view an offering table holding twelve Jade Boxes.
• Cheng Buzheng identified a near-spirit-treasure Six-Tailed Heavenly Soul Banner, a ciphered law secret art, and a Spirit Transformation Pill among the boxes.
• Cheng Buzheng found the cultivation manuals were altered and full of hidden traps, then withdrew his Dharma Eye but remained in the Primordial Soul Palace.
• Half a year later, an enraged voice rang through the Primordial Soul Palace demanding to know who had stolen the sect's Spirit Pills.

Cheng Buzheng retrieved the Spirit Transformation Pill stolen from the Primordial Soul Palace, reconsidered his plans, and shifted from treasure hunting to infiltration. Meanwhile, Junior Brother Ze Yi sought a dangerous post in the Boundless Sea despite his damaged cultivation, and learned that the White Immortal Clan had been destroyed.

• Ten Thousand Souls Venerable failed to find the thief, and Devil Master Extreme Soul was captured and tortured until his Nascent Soul shattered.
• Cheng Buzheng retrieved and sealed the Spirit Transformation Pill, which he hoped would help his wife reach the Spirit Transformation realm.
• After judging the three Dharma bodies’ treasure-hunting gains too meager, Cheng Buzheng suspended that plan and ordered them to gather intelligence for an infiltration plan.
• Junior Brother Ze Yi asked Sect Master Lei for permission to take a post in the Boundless Sea, explaining that a Dao injury had damaged his foundation and left him little hope of advancing.
• Sect Master Lei warned Junior Brother Ze Yi to beware of Return to Origin Immortal Sect cultivators and revealed that their suspected enemy, the White Immortal Clan, had already been destroyed.
• Junior Brother Ze Yi reacted with disbelief and wondered whether a Spirit Transformation expert had killed Ancestor Bai.

Cheng Buzheng infiltrated the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect under Old Daoist Ze Yi’s identity and sent another incarnation to hunt in Blood Fiend territory. After capturing Gongzhi Yang and assuming his identity, he headed for Heavenly Demon City, while his Sea Suppressing Alliance incarnation continued searching for a suitable target.

• Cheng Buzheng’s transformed dharma body returned to the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect as Old Daoist Ze Yi, then led its cultivators toward Immortal Alliance City to begin infiltrating the Immortal Alliance.
• Cheng Buzheng’s blood-robed incarnation gathered intelligence and searched Blood Fiend Demon City for targets and spirit materials before leaving to wait for a Devil Lord.
• The blood-robed incarnation ambushed Gongzhi Yang, defeated his escape attempt, and suppressed him in a cage.
• Three days later, Cheng Buzheng appeared as Gongzhi Yang and headed toward Heavenly Demon City.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Sea Suppressing Alliance incarnation, disguised as a middle-aged man, arrived in Sea Suppressing Immortal City’s high-grade Cave Mansion district without finding an ideal target.

Cheng Buzheng chose Solitary Cold True Lord as a substitute and followed him from Sea Suppressing Immortal City so he could use his authority and resources to gather soul-type Spirit Medicine. Meanwhile, Gongzhi Yang ordered the collection of soul-type Spirit Medicine in Heavenly Demon City, where price gougers were swiftly punished.

• Cheng Buzheng abandoned plans to target the Sea Suppressing Alliance’s core leaders and selected a solitary, notorious Nascent Soul cultivator as his target.
• Cheng Buzheng followed Solitary Cold True Lord through a teleportation array out of Sea Suppressing Immortal City and waited for him to return.
• Solitary Cold True Lord returned to headquarters and ordered a Golden Core deacon at the Spirit Sea Hall to exchange treasures and Spirit Sea Points for any soul-type Spirit Medicine.
• Solitary Cold True Lord took the deacon’s essence blood as leverage and promised him a chance to advance to the mid-stage Golden Core if he handled the mission well.
• Gongzhi Yang ordered the collection of soul-type Spirit Medicine in Heavenly Demon City, and law-enforcing demonic cultivators seized cultivators who raised prices and sealed their shops.

Cheng Buzheng collected and sorted millions of soul-type Spirit Medicines gathered by his three Dharma bodies, then continued cultivating in seclusion while keeping his identity hidden. As shortages drove up prices and frustrated low-level cultivators, upheaval began in the Forbidden Sea.

• Gongzhi Yang and Old Daoist Zeyi used their influence to issue high-ranking missions that gathered soul-type Spirit Medicine, draining their purses as supplies flowed in.
• Cheng Buzheng opened the Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate and transferred Storage Bags between himself and Solitary Cold True Lord, retrieving the first large harvest from the three Dharma bodies.
• Cheng Buzheng sorted millions of Spirit Medicines by grade and decided to wait until the Dharma bodies had gathered enough before ending their missions, fearing that another large-scale search would expose him.
• Cheng Buzheng refined a drop of fourth-rank divine blood during closed-door cultivation.
• Low-level cultivators complained that soul-related Spirit Pills had become scarce and expensive, while the Sea Suppressing Alliance's immortal clans remained a costly source.
• The chapter ended as a world-shaking upheaval began in the Forbidden Sea.

The Purgatory Race sacrificed millions of its own aging cultivators and poured its accumulated blood essence into a ritual to awaken its Progenitor. After a majestic phantom consumed the offerings, it entered the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill.

• Purgatory Clan cultivators slaughtered their elderly kin and sent their flesh and blood toward the Blood-Baleful Abyss as sacrifices.
• An aged Purgatory Mortal Cultivator tried to escape with a forbidden secret art, but a Nine Divine Envoy killed him and sent his essence into the abyss.
• The High Priest and Purgatory priests began the awakening ritual at the Blood Abyss while Purgatory Situ danced to form an altar.
• The Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill appeared and calmed the raging abyss as the priests' phantoms gathered above the altar.
• The divine envoys brought the sacrificed flesh mountains and the Purgatory Race's accumulated blood essence, which the majestic phantom consumed.
• The phantom opened its eyes, then obeyed the High Priest's command and entered the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill.

The Purgatory Race brought a mysterious black coffin out of the Blood Abyss and began a ritual to resurrect their Progenitor, using the Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill, sacrifices, and the continent’s blood mist. As heaven-and-earth backlash struck, the Purgatory Blood God Array absorbed the first divine thunderbolt, sacrificing a hundred Blood Gods to exhaust it.

• The Purgatory World-Extinguishing Divine Mill drew a mysterious black coffin from the Blood Abyss and set it atop its altar as the Blood Abyss shook.
• The High Priest asked the Grand Divine Envoy to evacuate and treat the unconscious Purgatory Situ, then began channeling the continent’s blood mist and sacrificial flesh into the coffin.
• The High Priest announced that the ritual would resurrect the Progenitor, while the Grand Divine Envoy ordered the Divine Envoys to form the Blood Sea Great Array.
• The priests and Divine Envoys merged their formations into the Purgatory Blood God Array to withstand the coming heaven-and-earth backlash.
• A Ninth Heaven divine thunderbolt struck the array, destroying a hundred reborn Blood Gods before its remaining power was exhausted.

The Purgatory Clan endured three waves of heavenly law lightning while sacrificing their power to protect the Progenitor’s resurrection. After three years of feeding the coffin, it began to tremble and absorb blood essence at a dramatically increased rate, leaving the clan expecting the Progenitor’s return.

• The Purgatory Blood God Great Array endured the third wave of law lightning, but many Divine Envoys and priests lost their cultivation realms, and the array nearly collapsed.
• The High Priest revealed Venerable Guanping as his incarnation and placed him into the array to replace a fallen Divine Envoy.
• When no further thunder came, the Grand Divine Envoy declared the calamity over and ordered the blood sacrifice to continue.
• For more than three years, the Purgatory Clan fed bodies and blood mist into the Progenitor Coffin while the Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest guarded the ritual.
• The Progenitor Coffin trembled and released a terrifying aura, but after the Purgatory Clan bowed to welcome the Progenitor, it gave no response.
• The coffin unleashed a powerful devouring force and began absorbing blood essence and blood mist far faster than before.

The High Priest explained that the Progenitor’s resurrection had succeeded, though its consciousness remained dormant, and said it would awaken within a hundred years. Ten years later, Cheng Buzheng emerged from seclusion after refining fourth-rank divine blood and checked his cultivation progress.

• The Grand Divine Envoy worried that the resurrection ritual had failed, but the High Priest explained that the coffin’s increased absorption showed the Progenitor’s instincts had revived while its consciousness remained asleep.
• The High Priest showed the Grand Divine Envoy a golden tome describing the Progenitor’s battle with Dao Lord Langya and its methods for surviving through self-sealing.
• The Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest discussed the lost Blood God Law Treasure Body inheritance and the danger posed by the human and demon races; the High Priest said the Progenitor would awaken within a hundred years.
• Over the next ten years, the black coffin absorbed the mountains of corpses and blood mist on Purgatory Continent, gradually thinning the mist.
• After ten years of secluded cultivation, Cheng Buzheng emerged from his Cloud Bed and inspected his cultivation panel after refining a drop of fourth-rank divine blood.

After ten years of secluded cultivation, Cheng Buzheng reviewed his progress and gathered the Spirit Medicines collected by his three Dharma Bodies. He refined a plan to profit from the overheated soul-type Spirit Medicine market, then prepared to deduce a wood-element divine ability that could increase Spirit Medicine’s age.

• Cheng Buzheng saw that his cultivation had reached 35% and decided to remain in seclusion until he reached the peak of the early Spirit Transformation realm.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate to retrieve Storage Bags holding Spirit Medicines collected by his three Dharma Bodies.
• Cheng Buzheng sorted the Spirit Medicines and decided to wait for cultivation efforts to increase supply before buying them in bulk at lower prices.
• Cheng Buzheng refined his market plan while Old Daoist Zeyi, Solitary Cold True Lord, and Gongzhi Yang prepared to protect their identities and handle the consequences.
• Cheng Buzheng prepared to deduce a wood-element divine ability that could increase the age of Spirit Medicine.

Cheng Buzheng derived two Treasure Arts before Murong Wanwan interrupted his seclusion, and he learned that their son Cheng Ping'an was preparing to break through to Foundation Establishment. After discovering that Murong Wanwan had secretly spent her Nascent Soul essence to speed Ping'an's cultivation, Cheng Buzheng reprimanded her and prepared to attend their son's breakthrough with her.

• Cheng Buzheng derived the [Spirit Enhancement Art] and a top-tier water-attribute Treasure Art while secluded in Ping'an City.
• Murong Wanwan entered Cheng Buzheng's chamber, and the couple spent half a month together before she remembered why she had come.
• Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng that Cheng Ping'an had reached the Perfection Realm of Qi Refinement and would attempt Foundation Establishment in just over a month.
• Cheng Buzheng suspected Cheng Ping'an had used wicked cultivation methods, and Murong Wanwan confessed that she had secretly infused his Spirit Pills with her Nascent Soul essence.
• Cheng Buzheng warned Murong Wanwan that spending her Nascent Soul origin consumed her own potential, then reassured her that Ping'an had time to reach Foundation Establishment and that he had prepared treasures for her future breakthrough.
• Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan dressed and prepared to visit Cheng Ping'an for his breakthrough.

Cheng Ping'an successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm while Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan stood guard outside. After celebrating with a family dinner, he refused Murong Wanwan’s suggestion to reconcile with his former wives, choosing instead to pursue higher realms.

• Cheng Buzheng gave Cheng Ping'an a jade slip detailing his Foundation Establishment breakthrough experience and promised to protect him during his attempt.
• After a month of preparation and half a month of breakthrough attempts, Cheng Ping'an emerged from the hall having successfully reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Murong Wanwan praised Cheng Ping'an and considered reuniting him with his former wives, while Cheng Buzheng gave him a Beauty-Preserving Pill.
• At a celebratory dinner, Murong Wanwan asked Cheng Ping'an to reconcile with his former wives, but he refused because he wanted to pursue higher realms.
• Cheng Ping'an said farewell after the dinner, and Cheng Buzheng returned to their room with Murong Wanwan.

After Murong Wanwan drove Cheng Buzheng away, he stopped wondering why she was angry and used his Small Plate to deduce the ninth-rank [Heavenly River Art]. He mastered it and tested its destructive, healing, and ultimate powers inside an illusion, ending with its torrent destroying the simulated world.

• Cheng Buzheng wondered why Murong Wanwan had sent him away, then decided to resume cultivation and deduce two divine abilities.
• Cheng Buzheng spent 526 Deduction Value to develop the water-attribute [Heavenly River Art] into a ninth-rank divine ability.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the [Heavenly River Pearl] could heal cultivators over a wide area and enhance their combat strength.
• Cheng Buzheng mastered the [Heavenly River Art] in less than half a day and used the [Illusory World Art] to create a world for testing it.
• Cheng Buzheng unleashed the art’s swordlike assault, healing pearls, and immense heavenly river torrent, which destroyed the illusion.

Cheng Buzheng spent his accumulated Deduction Value refining the [Azure Emperor Overlord Art] into a ninth-rank divine ability, then tested its powers in an ancient forest. He discovered that it could devastate or nourish plants but could not increase their age, leaving him satisfied with its combat and restorative effects but disappointed as a way to improve spirit plants.

• Cheng Buzheng converted High-grade Spirit Stones into Deduction Value and repeatedly refined the [Spirit Enhancement Art], but its final version reversed its earlier beneficial effects.
• Cheng Buzheng cultivated the ninth-rank [Azure Emperor Overlord Art] and considered combining his five ninth-rank elemental divine abilities, but postponed the idea because he lacked resources.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled from [Ping'an City] to an ancient forest and tested the [Azure Emperor Overlord Art], using its green energy to wither one tree and restore others.
• Cheng Buzheng injected green energy into an ancient tree and a Spirit Herb Seed, but neither gained years or exceeded its natural capacity, so he abandoned the idea of accelerating spirit-plant growth.
• Cheng Buzheng accepted that the art's life-nourishing power was useful and its withering attack was formidable, though he lacked a wood spirit root among his three spirit roots.

Cheng Buzheng realized he could not perfect his Wood and Water divine abilities without reshaping his Spiritual Roots, then returned to secluded cultivation. Ten years later, his grandson Cheng Qingyang reached the Golden Core Realm, while Gongzhi Yang investigated forces manipulating the soul-type Spirit Medicine market.

• Cheng Buzheng concluded that he needed to reshape his Wood and Water Spiritual Roots before he could fully master the related divine abilities, then returned to seclusion in Ping'an City.
• Over the next ten years, Cheng Ping'an advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, while soul-type Spirit Medicine prices began rising again after years of decline.
• Cheng Qingyang broke through to the Golden Core Realm amid a Phoenix phenomenon, and Murong Wanwan explained that it indicated exceptional potential for the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Cheng Qingyang emerged from seclusion half a year later, but Cheng Buzheng remained unaware of his grandson's breakthrough because of his powerful formation.
• Gongzhi Yang received a report that numerous demonic forces and clans were manipulating soul-type Spirit Medicine prices, and he concluded they were trying to shift their cultivation costs onto other cultivators.

Gongzhi Yang and Cheng Buzheng continued preparations for the Harvest Plan as shops controlled by Cheng Buzheng’s incarnations spread through the three alliances. Blood Sea Demon Venerable ordered Gongzhi Yang to gather exhausted Nascent Soul cultivators for a dangerous assignment, while a Ten Thousand Immortals Sect expert confronted Old Daoist Zeyi with a similar order.

• Gongzhi Yang arranged for shops across the three alliances to be controlled by Cheng Buzheng’s incarnations, while Cheng Buzheng sold rare Spirit Materials to fund the costly plan.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable ordered Gongzhi Yang to select Nascent Soul cultivators whose potential was exhausted but whose combat strength remained adequate, promising a breakthrough opportunity and execution for those who refused.
• Gongzhi Yang inferred that the Demon Venerables intended to use the cultivators as pathfinders in a dangerous Secret Realm or Abandoned Mansion, then passed the order to the Demon Alliance’s upper ranks.
• The Demon Alliance’s deputy leaders agreed to enforce the order after receiving instructions from their own Ancestors.
• A Ten Thousand Immortals Sect Half-Step Venerable confronted Old Daoist Zeyi at the Immortal Alliance headquarters and demanded that he accept an order or face punishment.