Chapter Summaries

Solitary Cold True Lord met Fairy Cold Moon, who confirmed his damaged soul origin and told him demonic cultivators were waiting to see him. At the Reception Hall, he negotiated aggressively with a Blood Seed Spirit Sect elder over soul-type Spirit Medicine and rare Spirit Materials, then left the elder seeking someone with authority to accept his price.

• Fairy Cold Moon visited Solitary Cold True Lord, inspected him covertly, and told him that several demonic cultivators were waiting in the Reception Hall.
• Solitary Cold True Lord went to the Reception Hall, where a maid guided him to meet an elder of the Blood Seed Spirit Sect.
• The Blood Seed Spirit Sect elder offered soul-type Spirit Medicine at a discount, and Solitary Cold True Lord pressed him for a lower price.
• Solitary Cold True Lord offered rare Spirit Materials in exchange for the Spirit Medicine but demanded to pay only ten percent of their market price.
• When the elder said he lacked authority to accept, Solitary Cold True Lord told him to find a decision-maker and went to meet his next guest.

Solitary Cold True Lord rewarded a maid after meeting demonic factions, then hurried back to his cave when the divine power sustaining his puppet began to fade. At the Immortal Alliance headquarters, Old Daoist Zeyi accepted his fellow disciples’ help, ordered an investigation into a leak that would expose a Shadow Sect spy, and gave his fellow disciples rare Spiritual Items before they departed.

• The demonic factions left without accepting Solitary Cold True Lord’s offer, and he gave the maid a bottle of cultivation-enhancing Spirit Pills.
• Solitary Cold True Lord sensed that the divine ability sustaining his puppet was fading and hurried back to Palace Complex No. 58.
• Old Daoist Zeyi’s fellow disciples told him they had bought Spirit Medicine for him at a low price, and he thanked them while concealing that he was not the real Zeyi.
• A Golden Core nephew-disciple brought Old Daoist Zeyi a list of suspicious cultivators, and Zeyi ordered him to investigate them with the sect’s support.
• Old Daoist Zeyi’s fellow disciples gave him Storage Bags of Spirit Medicine, and he distributed rare Spiritual Items among them in return.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators accepted the Spiritual Items and offered to help settle matters concerning Old Daoist Zeyi’s legacy.

Old Daoist Zeyi and the Soul Puppet posing as Solitary Cold True Lord completed exchanges for large quantities of Spirit Medicine and concealed their haul, while the real Solitary Cold True Lord discovered a radiant divine statue in the Secret Realm. True Lord Lei Zhong and the disciples of Venerable Zongbao also saw the phenomenon and set out toward it, with True Lord Mingxiang reluctantly agreeing to investigate.

• Old Daoist Zeyi inspected the million-plus stalks of soul-type Spirit Medicine he received and went to the rear hall after deciding the gifts he had given were worth repaying his debt.
• The Soul Puppet posing as Solitary Cold True Lord finished exchanging rare Spirit Materials for Spirit Medicine, barred visitors from its hall, and secretly sent the Storage Bags through the Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate to Old Daoist Zeyi.
• The real Solitary Cold True Lord spotted a towering divine statue radiating light in the Secret Realm and hurried toward it, suspecting it was the realm's core.
• True Lord Lei Zhong saw the distant radiance, ordered the cultivators under him to gather there, and headed toward the phenomenon.
• True Lord Mingxiang and the other disciples of Venerable Zongbao saw the divine light; after voicing concern about their missing Master's incarnation, Mingxiang agreed to go investigate with them.

Half-Venerable Blood Moon killed and consumed True Lord Meng Yu after failing to extract his sect’s divine ability, then hurried toward a burst of divine light. Cultivators from the three alliances gathered before a towering divine statue but held back from fighting over it, leaving its nature and the factions’ next move unresolved.

• Half-Venerable Blood Moon tortured True Lord Meng Yu for his divine ability, then erased his consciousness and swallowed his Nascent Soul when the distant divine light caught his attention.
• Half-Venerable Blood Moon flew toward the phenomenon, while cultivators across the Secret Realm—including Gongzhi Yang—converged on its source.
• The arriving cultivators saw a colossal statue surrounded by divine light and pressure, and the Sea Suppressing Alliance and Immortal Alliance groups agreed to wait for their leaders before acting.
• Several Devil Lords urged Gongzhi Yang to eliminate the other alliances and seize the statue, but Gongzhi Yang rejected the plan and told them their Half-Venerable’s arrival would improve their position.

Blood Moon Old Devil raced to the divine statue and tried to claim it, but its divine radiance blasted him away and left him gravely wounded. After he survived his followers’ attempt to steal his treasures, the statue changed, drawing the attention of all three alliances and Blood Moon Old Devil.

• Blood Moon Old Devil arrived first, ordered the Demon Alliance cultivators to hold off the other alliances, and used his Dark Moon Escape to slip through their formations toward the statue.
• The divine statue erupted with light, destroyed the formations, and hurled Blood Moon Old Devil a thousand miles away, nearly killing him.
• Gongzhi Yang left while the Devil Lords gathered around the wounded Blood Moon Old Devil, then caught their suspicions when he returned to the statue.
• The Devil Lords tried to take Blood Moon Old Devil’s Storage Bag, but he awoke, stopped them, and began recovering.
• The statue changed, and Blood Moon Old Devil silently reappeared nearby as the three alliances turned their attention to it.

The three alliances gathered before the secret realm’s white lotus inheritance, then entered its three thousand mysterious light gates, each leading to an unknown passage. After the other cultivators departed, a middle-aged powerhouse summoned the hidden venerables and their incarnations, revealing that powerful figures were still gathered in the realm.

• The divine statue’s voice announced that its inheritance would depend on the cultivators’ fate, and a giant white lotus formed beneath it.
• Ji Longzi, True Lord Mingxiang, and the other Sea Suppressing Alliance cultivators arrived and learned how Blood Moon Old Devil had nearly been killed.
• A Half-Venerable powerhouse from the Supreme Sacred Sect arrived in the Demon Alliance camp, while leaders from the factions continued to gather.
• Three thousand light gates appeared on the lotus petals, and the Half-Venerable Old Devils and then the other cultivators entered them; Gongzhi Yang and Solitary Cold True Lord chose gates after examining them.
• After the cultivators had entered the gates, a mysterious middle-aged man called on hidden figures to reveal themselves, and Venerable Zongbao’s incarnation and other venerables emerged.

Spirit Transformation incarnations debated whether to enter the White Lotus Gate of Light after the Island-Moving Venerable warned that the Secret Realm’s trials could destroy them. Gongzhi Yang chose the passage concealing a sea of flames and used a treasure pearl to shield himself as he entered.

• The Island-Moving Venerable warned the incarnations that the Secret Realm’s master had profound law comprehension and that their incarnations might perish inside the gate.
• Most revived Spirit Transformation old monsters declined to enter the White Lotus Gate of Light, while Venerable Daoyuan, Venerable Tianzhao, Venerable Zongbao, Blood Sea Demon Venerable, and others chose to pursue the opportunity.
• Gongzhi Yang used the source of laws with [Heavenly Luo Divine Eye] to see that the three passages led to a sea of fire, a thunder-filled route, and [Law-Devouring Blood Insects].
• Gongzhi Yang chose the first passage because his Storage Bag contained a treasure suited to the flames, and the other two passages vanished after he entered.
• Gongzhi Yang arrived in the law-infused sea of fire and used a treasure pearl to raise a curtain of crimson beads that shielded him from the flames.

Solitary Cold True Lord, True Lord Lei Zhong, Blood Moon Old Devil, Island-Moving Venerable, and Venerable Tianzhao faced different trials in the Secret Realm. Blood Moon Old Devil recovered from the forest’s attack and ventured back inside prepared, while Island-Moving Venerable charged into a Thunder Sea seeking a Law Treasure Body inheritance and Venerable Tianzhao fled a rain that eroded his Law Spirit Body.

• Solitary Cold True Lord used a bronze Dharma bowl to restrain and destroy a swarm of Golden Sand Mad Insects before continuing through the desert.
• True Lord Lei Zhong was forced by an invisible force to keep walking along an endless road.
• Blood Moon Old Devil was immobilized and drained by strange branches, but used black flames from his Jade Plate to escape and recover outside the forest.
• Blood Moon Old Devil returned to the forest with several Magic Treasures and destroyed the branches before proceeding deeper.
• Island-Moving Venerable identified the Thunder Sea’s power as likely originating from a Law Treasure Body and entered it to pursue the inheritance.
• Venerable Tianzhao sensed that ink-green rain was eroding his Law Spirit Body and fled the area.

Gongzhi Yang crossed the Purgatory Sea of Fire, chose a millstone-sized Heart Spirit Diamond from the Secret Realm’s rewards, and continued into another passage. Back in Ping'an City, Cheng Buzheng received the diamond and assessed his law loss and the progress of [Heart Spirit World] while refining an ancient pill furnace.

• Gongzhi Yang reached the three treasure spheres and used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to reveal their contents.
• Gongzhi Yang chose the Heart Spirit Diamond, ignored the exit gate, sent his Storage Bag through a gateway to his true body, and entered the middle passage.
• Cheng Buzheng retrieved the Storage Bag in the Artifact Refining Chamber and expected the Heart Spirit Diamond to help perfect [Heart Spirit World].
• Cheng Buzheng checked his cultivation panel, noted that [Chaos Law] had fallen to 31 and [Heart Spirit World] stood at 35% progress, and considered how quickly he could restore his law comprehension.
• Cheng Buzheng continued tempering an ancient pill furnace with Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire, which gradually raised its temperature despite leaving it unchanged in appearance.

Cheng Buzheng tempered an ancient pill furnace to extract its Primordial Shou Mountain Copper, then hurried toward the schoolhouse before being diverted back into the Secret Realm. There, cultivators chose among hidden treasures: Solitary Cold True Lord claimed Five Elements Gang Sha, True Lord Mingxiang left with Treasure Cauldron Pills, and Blood Moon Old Devil’s prized treasure crumbled to ash.

• Cheng Buzheng heated the ancient pill furnace with Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire to extract its Primordial Shou Mountain Copper, secured the chamber, and set off to teach the clan’s juniors.
• Solitary Cold True Lord entered another trial chamber, used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to inspect its choices, and selected Five Elements Gang Sha, which he sealed and sent through a gate.
• True Lord Mingxiang chose the middle treasure by tossing her Identity Token, identified the pills as Treasure Cauldron Pills, and left the Secret Realm with them rather than risk continuing.
• Blood Moon Old Devil entered the trial determined to claim a treasure and chose the left sphere, but the blood-colored lotus inside withered into ash.

Cultivators pursuing the Secret Realm’s inheritance suffered deadly trials, while Venerable Zongbao’s avatar and Blood Moon Old Devil perished. After six months without anyone obtaining the greatest opportunity, rumors about [Mind-Nourishing Flower] drove [Thought-Severing Powder] prices higher across the Immortal Cities.

• Blood Moon Old Devil found the [Heavenly Blood Treasure Lotus] gone, chose the right passage, and froze to death in a snowy world.
• Island-Moving Venerable and Divine Baleful Venerable entered passages seeking the Secret Realm’s true inheritance, while Venerable Zongbao’s avatar was destroyed by a Blood Storm.
• Venerable Zongbao’s true body reflected on the loss of her avatar and resolved to uncover Solitary Cold True Lord’s identity as she waited outside the Secret Realm.
• Over six months, Gongzhi Yang, Solitary Cold True Lord, and the other cultivators crossed several worlds and gathered Spiritual Items, but none secured the greatest opportunity; more cultivators died or gave up.
• Qi Refining Realm cultivators argued over whether [Thought-Severing Powder] prices would fall, and news that factions were buying [Mind-Nourishing Flower] sent prices soaring again as those factions entered the market.

Cheng Buzheng successfully refined Primordial Shou Mountain Copper and began cultivating Heart Spirit World while planning to forge the Heaven's Fortune Copper Coins and wrap up the Harvest Plan. His Soul Puppets then moved to buy soul-type Spirit Medicine in bulk and sell the Thought-Severing Powder, though the young owner of the Primordial Sea Shop worried about the scarce Mind-Nourishing Flower.

• Cheng Buzheng separated Primordial Shou Mountain Copper from the other Spirit Materials, then let it cool while recovering his strength.
• Cheng Buzheng determined that the copper could make nine Heaven's Fortune Copper Coins, delegated the search for eight missing Spirit Materials to Old Daoist Zeyi, and decided to finish the Harvest Plan.
• Cheng Buzheng summoned the Heart Spirit Diamond and used it to cultivate the divine ability Heart Spirit World toward completion.
• The young owner of the Primordial Sea Shop ordered his staff to buy soul-type Spirit Medicine quickly, explaining that the bulk purchase was an assessment that could secure his position as young clan chief.
• The young owner told the shopkeeper to sell all the Thought-Severing Powder, saying he was going all in despite his unease over the scarcity of the Mind-Nourishing Flower.

Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppets sold or subleased shops and secretly bought up soul-related Spirit Medicines before their prices rebounded. After retrieving the resources, his incarnation altered Old Daoist Zeyi’s memories and sent him away, while Cheng Buzheng perfected [Heart Spirit World] and opened the [Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate].

• The owner of Primordial Sea Shop advised the shopkeeper to sell [Thought-Severing Powder] and find a tenant who would pay Spirit Stones before the shop was vacated.
• The young owner of Jade Dew Studio announced he would close the shop to travel with his master, rewarding the shopkeeper and attendants and arranging to sublease the premises.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppets subleased shops and used the remaining shops to secretly buy soul-related Spirit Medicines, while Old Daoist Zeyi guarded the acquisitions from cultivators who tried to seize them.
• As the market prices rebounded, Old Daoist Zeyi gathered the Spirit Medicines and Soul Puppets and brought them to the seabed, where Cheng Buzheng’s incarnation altered the real Old Daoist Zeyi’s memories, gave him a [Lifespan Fruit], and returned his belongings.
• The real Old Daoist Zeyi woke with altered memories and left, while Cheng Buzheng’s incarnation concluded that the Immortal Alliance’s loose ends had been handled.
• Cheng Buzheng perfected [Heart Spirit World], inspected its divine-ability panel, and summoned the [Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate], from which a figure stepped out.

Cheng Buzheng reunited with his Dharma Body, then refined the nine Heaven's Fortune Copper Coins and tested them with Supreme Unity Six-Line Divine Calculation. The divination showed that the main materials needed for the Fate-Shifting Compass were in the Spirit Realm, leaving him to consider the Luo River Turtle Shell instead.

• Old Daoist Zeyi returned to Cheng Buzheng with the missing portion of his true spirit and the auxiliary materials for refining the Heaven's Fortune Copper Coin.
• Cheng Buzheng went to the Earth Fire Hall and spent a month refining nine Heaven's Fortune Copper Coins, which joined together and formed a linked set.
• After bathing and burning incense, Cheng Buzheng used the copper coins with Supreme Unity Six-Line Divine Calculation to search for materials for the Fate-Shifting Compass.
• The divination repeatedly listed locations in the Spirit Realm, and Cheng Buzheng concluded that the Cultivation World lacked the compass's main materials.
• Cheng Buzheng found that the calculation had consumed three points of Chaos Law origin and decided to focus his hopes on the Luo River Turtle Shell.

Cheng Buzheng divined the location of a possible material for the [Luo River Turtle Shell] and weighed the dangers of pursuing Demon Venerable Xuanba. Meanwhile, Gongzhi Yang’s dharma body crossed a deadly blizzard passage in the Secret Realm and discovered an unusual lotus light gate.

• Cheng Buzheng repeatedly divined the [Turbid Mystic Sea Region, Ancient Awakening Secret Realm] and considered whether the result might point to Demon Venerable Xuanba’s natal turtle shell.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to wait for the human and demon races’ counteroffensive against the Forbidden Sea before divining again, and planned to use a Soul Puppet so Gongzhi Yang’s dharma body could remain on watch.
• Cheng Buzheng noted that the divination had consumed two points of Chaos Law and stored the [Heaven's Fortune Copper Coins] without calculating the dharma bodies’ situation.
• Gongzhi Yang struggled through the Secret Realm’s blizzard passage and finally reached a lotus light gate.
• Gongzhi Yang noticed that the gate differed from the others: its patterns were more intricate, and four runic characters floated above its illusory plaque.

Gongzhi Yang recognized the secret realm as likely being the Ancient Awakening Secret Realm and cautiously investigated the Ancient Awakening Immortal Hall while hidden behind the lotus gate. As the Star River Great Array began opening the hall, he realized the concealed Spirit Transformation cultivators were unaware that its defenses could unleash an even greater counterattack.

• Gongzhi Yang suspected the secret realm was the Ancient Awakening Secret Realm from his divination and sent Soul Puppets to investigate its history.
• Gongzhi Yang disguised himself, used his divine eye to inspect the hall beyond the lotus gate, and spotted Divine Baleful Venerable, Island-Moving Venerable, Venerable Tianzhao, and other hidden cultivators.
• Divine Baleful Venerable struck the starlight barrier and was blasted apart, losing roughly thirty percent of the law-origin in his avatar before reviving.
• The Star River Great Array stopped the star river and dimmed the barrier, leading Divine Baleful Venerable and the hidden cultivators to believe the hall was opening because of his secret technique.
• Gongzhi Yang determined that the array itself had triggered the change and inferred that the hall would open when the star river reached the ground, while attacks could provoke the array and its guardian statues.

The Old Daoist searched Sea Suppressing Immortal City’s bookshops and found an ancient travelogue that identified the Turbid Mystic Sea Region. Gongzhi Yang connected the account to the Secret Realm and resolved to pursue its opportunity, just as the inheritance’s powerful divine-sense phantom called the hidden cultivators out.

• The Primordial Sea Shop proprietor disguised himself as an Old Daoist and searched bookshops for information about the Turbid Mystic Sea Region, while his Soul Puppets searched elsewhere in the city.
• The Old Daoist found a travelogue describing a dark sea region in the East Sea, where its author discovered Earthly Turbid Qi and later called the place the Turbid Mystic Sea Region.
• Gongzhi Yang concluded that the Secret Realm was almost certainly in the Turbid Mystic Sea Region and decided he had to fight for its opportunity despite the Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered nearby.
• A galaxy descended into the palace and formed a powerful phantom, which demanded that everyone hiding in the Secret Realm come out to face the Venerable’s inheritance.
• Divine Baleful Demon Venerable suspected the phantom’s divine sense had gained sentience, while Island-Moving Venerable watched from the shadows with a thoughtful expression.

Gongzhi Yang and Solitary Cold True Lord entered the secret realm, where the ancient presence identified itself as Heavy Tower. Island-Moving Venerable recognized the two newcomers as disguised Demon Race cultivators, and Gongzhi Yang used the accusation and the old monsters’ past plundering to secure an invitation to the inheritance, though Baleful Intent Old Devil demanded they reveal their true faces.

• Starlight Illusion forced the hidden Spirit Transformation cultivators out of hiding, and the Divine Baleful Venerable angrily realized they had watched him waste Law Origin.
• Island-Moving Venerable asked the phantom’s name, and it called itself Gu Jue in the past and Heavy Tower now.
• Heavy Tower invited Gongzhi Yang and Solitary Cold True Lord inside, and Island-Moving Venerable identified them as Demon Race cultivators.
• Gongzhi Yang and Solitary Cold True Lord denied the accusation before acknowledging their Demon Race identities and accusing the human cultivators of plundering Demon Race territory.
• Island-Moving Venerable offered them a place in the inheritance, and Gongzhi Yang accepted while Baleful Intent Old Devil demanded they reveal their true faces.

Chonglou Old Monster offered the gathered cultivators treasures from Gu Jue’s inheritance hall in exchange for a body with perfectly balanced Five Spiritual Roots, revealing that such roots were prized in the upper realm. The old monsters eyed the treasures and doubted his intentions, while Gongzhi Yang spotted the Spirit Materials he needed and considered seizing them before the hall was sealed.

• Chonglou Old Monster claimed the inheritance hall’s treasures but allowed each visitor to choose three, provided they supplied him with a body possessing exceptional spiritual roots.
• Island-Moving Venerable questioned Chonglou Old Monster’s offer, and Chonglou Old Monster opened the hall to reveal jade slips, magic treasures, and Spirit Materials.
• Gongzhi Yang and Solitary Cold True Lord spotted an ancient turtle shell that could help refine the Luo River Turtle Shell, while Gongzhi Yang also considered taking other treasures for his wife’s advancement.
• Chonglou Old Monster shut the hall doors and activated two powerful array puppets, stopping Gongzhi Yang from rushing inside.
• Divine Baleful Old Devil and Blood Sea Demon Venerable negotiated for more treasure, and Chonglou Old Monster clarified that he wanted a body with balanced Five Spiritual Roots and offered five treasures per person.

Gongzhi Yang considered the laws and Spiritual Roots he needed to cultivate as the Spirit Transformation cultivators negotiated with the sentient divine sense. The divine sense then trapped their avatars in a star array, and the cultivators counterattacked with a combined secret art as two blood-eyed divine beasts appeared.

• Gongzhi Yang concluded that he needed to comprehend the Five Elements laws and reshape his Spiritual Roots, while hoping to obtain the Profound Water Heavenly Crystal.
• The sentient divine sense offered five treasures and priority of choice to whoever brought it a physical body, while later claimants would receive three treasures.
• The Spirit Transformation cultivators objected to swearing an oath that would prevent them from scheming against the divine sense, which activated the star array and began suppressing their avatars.
• Island-Moving Venerable and the other human cultivators formed a combined array and unleashed a pillar of law-light against the star array.
• The sentient divine sense dismissed their attack and summoned two blood-eyed divine beasts amid the starlight.