Chapter Summaries

Chu Linger fled across the True Dragon Sea while Yuntai Half-Venerable pursued her, using a Teleportation Talisman, a Blood Soul Puppet, and concealment arts to stay ahead. She reached the Dead Sea searching for a wormhole, but Yuntai tracked her there, leaving Chu Linger fearing she would die trapped in its depths.

• Chu Linger escaped a Demon Race Half-Venerable with a Teleportation Talisman while Yuntai Half-Venerable presented his crystal horn token and continued the chase.
• Yuntai Half-Venerable caught a Blood Soul Puppet disguised with Chu Linger's aura, then used the puppet's vital aura and the sect's golden register to track her.
• Chu Linger recovered her meridians in a cave and left before Yuntai Half-Venerable arrived and detected her lingering traces.
• Chu Linger reached the Dead Sea and searched for a wormhole, but found none as her hidden warning revealed that someone had entered the area.
• Yuntai Half-Venerable tracked Chu Linger to the Dead Sea and entered it, while Chu Linger feared she would die there.

Chu Linger escaped through a collapsing wormhole to the Forbidden Sea, but Yuntai Half-Venerable followed her across it. Badly injured and unable to fight at full strength, she destroyed her jade ring to erase information about her uncle as Yuntai arrived and attacked.

• With her strength and treasures nearly exhausted, Chu Linger entered a wormhole to escape Yuntai Half-Venerable, enduring severe spatial damage to reach its far end.
• Yuntai Half-Venerable pursued her through the collapsing wormhole, sacrificing his defensive treasures to cross it.
• Yuntai emerged above the Forbidden Sea, used an arrowhead to track Chu Linger, and hurried after her.
• On Qiao Rock Island, Chu Linger began healing her shattered meridians, bones, and organs, but sensed Yuntai approaching before she could recover.
• Chu Linger destroyed her jade ring to erase information about her uncle, then faced Yuntai as he used a strange force and ordered her to freeze.

Cheng Buzheng answered Chu Linger’s desperate call and appeared before her, revealing a power that terrified Yuntai Half-Venerable. Yuntai surrendered his wealth to appease them, but Cheng Buzheng stopped him from leaving.

• Yuntai Half-Venerable trapped Chu Linger and demanded she hand over two techniques, while Cheng Buzheng received her farewell message through the paired Identity Token.
• Cheng Buzheng activated the Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate to reach Chu Linger, and Yuntai struck at her cracked Jade Ring as she prepared to destroy it.
• The Jade Ring shattered, releasing Cheng Buzheng from the gateway; Chu Linger warned him that Yuntai was a Half-Venerable, but Yuntai sensed Cheng Buzheng’s overwhelming power.
• Yuntai pleaded that he had only followed sect orders, offered Chu Linger his Storage Bag, and begged Cheng Buzheng to spare him for the sake of his sect’s ancestor.
• Cheng Buzheng gave Chu Linger a Spirit Pill and told her to accept Yuntai’s wealth; after she began healing, Yuntai asked to leave, and Cheng Buzheng questioned where he intended to go.

Cheng Buzheng killed Yuntai Half-Venerable, protected the injured Chu Linger on Qiao Rock Island, and learned she had entered the Forbidden Sea through a wormhole. He discovered that the passage might be a flaw in the grand formation separating the Forbidden Sea from the True Dragon Sea and began searching for it.

• Cheng Buzheng killed Yuntai Half-Venerable and burned his body with Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire.
• Chu Linger offered Yuntai Half-Venerable's Storage Bag to Cheng Buzheng, who told her to keep it for her cultivation.
• Chu Linger told Cheng Buzheng that she had reached the Forbidden Sea through a wormhole in the Dead Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng concealed Qiao Rock Island with a formation and left Chu Linger there to recover while he investigated the wormhole's location.
• Cheng Buzheng used Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to find a blood-red barrier and suspected the wormhole was a flaw in the formation dividing the two seas.
• Cheng Buzheng began searching the Dead Sea for the formation's flaw.

Cheng Buzheng found and learned to predict a moving weak point in the formation surrounding the Forbidden Sea, giving him a reliable way through it. Meanwhile, Venerable Daoyuan suspected that someone connected to Chu Linger was behind the deaths of two sect elders, as Cheng returned to Qiao Rock Island and found Chu Linger nearly recovered.

• Cheng Buzheng searched the formation for half a month, found its moving weak point, and spent another month deducing its path.
• Cheng Buzheng predicted where the wormhole would appear, confirmed that it connected to the outside world, and verified his calculations by opening it again.
• Venerable Daoyuan questioned the Nascent Soul elders about Yun Tai's disappearance and ordered an investigation into cultivators connected to Chu Linger, Chu Daofeng, and Shangguan Qingyu.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to Qiao Rock Island and found Chu Linger's injuries mostly healed.
• Cheng Buzheng retrieved the array flags, took Chu Linger with him, and left on an auspicious cloud.

Cheng Buzheng brought Chu Linger back to the White Cloud Sect to recover, then left for the Forbidden Sea after hearing that something had happened there. Investigating the empty sea, he found no Desolate Beasts or Purgatory Clan cultivators and was left shocked by what he discovered near the sea’s depths.

• Chu Linger declined Cheng Buzheng’s offer to stay at the sect, but he insisted she return with him and recover there.
• Cheng Buzheng used a wormhole to take Chu Linger to the White Cloud Sect, gave her an Identity Token, and left to investigate the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to the Forbidden Sea and found no Desolate Beasts within a million li.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled toward Purgatory Continent for three days, finding no Desolate Beasts or Purgatory Clan Mortal Cultivators and noticing the sea’s blood stench had grown stronger.
• As Cheng Buzheng neared the depths of the Forbidden Sea, he stopped in disbelief at what he saw.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that the blood-baleful mist surrounding Purgatory Continent had weakened and suspected the Purgatory Race’s Grand Divine Envoy was breaking through with the aid of a mysterious coffin. After a streak of scarlet light pursued him through spatial turbulence and overwhelmed his attacks, Cheng Buzheng prepared to counter it with his Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword.

• Cheng Buzheng saw that the blood-baleful mist had thinned and decided to investigate, suspecting that the Purgatory Race and the vanished Desolate Beasts were involved.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed overwhelming danger near Purgatory Continent and used his Dharma Eye to peer through the mist.
• The mysterious coffin absorbed the blood-baleful mist, shook violently, and sent a streak of scarlet light racing toward Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng fled through deeper spatial turbulence and used Reincarnation Metamorphosis to disguise his aura, but the blood light found him again.
• Cheng Buzheng unleashed his divine abilities against the blood light, learned that several could weaken it, and summoned the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword to continue the fight.

Cheng Buzheng’s Chaos Dao Tribulation Formation nearly ground away the Purgatory Progenitor’s blood light, but it exploded and left him gravely wounded. The Purgatory High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy tracked him as he hid in a cave and began treating his law-inflicted injuries.

• Cheng Buzheng drew spatial currents into his Chaos Dao Tribulation Formation and merged with it to suppress the blood light, which gradually weakened under the formation’s power.
• The Purgatory Progenitor awakened and ordered the High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy to capture Cheng Buzheng as blood food, so they followed a beacon toward him.
• The blood light suddenly erupted, shattered the formation, and tore open the spatial turbulence, while Cheng Buzheng survived with severe wounds and escaped.
• The High Priest used a secret art to follow the beacon’s trace, and he and the Grand Divine Envoy pursued Cheng Buzheng to keep the Progenitor’s resurrection secret.
• Cheng Buzheng hid in a Stone Cave and used his law-origin power to weaken the law radiance in his wounds and stop his bleeding.

Cheng Buzheng recovered from the Purgatory Progenitor’s attack while the Purgatory Clan’s Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest tracked him across the Forbidden Sea. After they found his trail and closed in, Cheng Buzheng sensed them and escaped into the void.

• The Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest lost Cheng Buzheng’s trail, searched in separate directions, and agreed to expand their search.
• Cheng Buzheng examined his injuries and discovered that healing them would take years, his Law of Wood insights had fallen to 22, and his natal spirit treasure needed a century to recover.
• Cheng Buzheng resolved to spread news of the Purgatory Clan’s power and make up for his losses, then set out toward the sea region containing the wormhole.
• The High Priest found Cheng Buzheng’s trail and summoned the Grand Divine Envoy, and together they tracked him to the island where he had rested.
• Cheng Buzheng detected the two pursuers approaching and, unwilling to fight while weakened, transformed into a ray of light and fled into the void.

Cheng Buzheng was pursued by the Purgatory Clan’s High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy while a warship from the Return to Origin Immortal Sect threatened White Cloud Sect. He escaped through a Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate, leaving the pursuers to search for him as the sect faced pressure to produce its Ancestor.

• The High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy chased Cheng Buzheng through spatial turbulence, and he suspected that a terrifying Purgatory Clan being was connected to the vanished Desolate Beasts.
• A Return to Origin Immortal Sect warship arrived at White Cloud Sect, and its cultivators demanded to see the sect’s Ancestor.
• A star-and-moon-robed cultivator struck White Cloud Sect’s protection formation with the [Void-Rending Origin Sword], shaking it and alarming the sect’s cultivators.
• Cheng Changqing told the Return to Origin Immortal Sect cultivators that the Ancestor was in closed-door meditation, while Chu Linger recognized the Heavenly Sword Warship and worried that she and her martial uncle had been exposed.
• After learning of the danger at White Cloud Sect, Cheng Buzheng collapsed space to hinder his pursuers and opened the Heart Spirit Heavenly Gate, spending more Law Origin to escape.
• The High Priest identified signs of teleportation in the void, and he and the Grand Divine Envoy began searching nearby after their beacon lost its response.

Cheng Buzheng confronted the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s emissaries at White Cloud Sect, where his supposed master, Venerable Peach Blossom, overwhelmed and imprisoned them. Cheng Buzheng negotiated compensation and revealed to Chu Linger that Peach Blossom was a disguise, leaving the emissaries sealed while they awaited their sect’s response.

• Cheng Buzheng challenged the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s Nascent Soul Cultivators when they demanded he accompany them, and their Heavenly Sword Warship prepared to attack.
• Venerable Peach Blossom appeared, seized the warship and the cultivators’ Magic Treasures, then sealed the emissaries and left Cheng Buzheng to handle them.
• Cheng Buzheng negotiated a ransom of soul-type Spirit Medicine and allowed the sealed cultivators enough Magic Power to activate a Jade Talisman and summon help.
• Cheng Buzheng confined the emissaries in the hall and told Chu Linger to stay hidden until the dispute was resolved.
• Cheng Buzheng explained that Venerable Peach Blossom was a clone and a disguise meant to shield his true identity while he dealt with the Return to Origin Immortal Sect.

Cheng Buzheng used Chaos law power to erase the Dao injuries covering his body, sacrificing much of his cultivation in the law. When Venerable Daoyuan arrived to meet Venerable Peach Blossom, he revealed the Human and Demon Races’ plan to conquer Purgatory Continent and open the ascension passage, but pressed Cheng Buzheng to disclose his true identity before sharing details.

• Cheng Buzheng found that Wood law power was too costly to heal his Dao injuries, so he spent three months using Chaos law power to remove them, reducing his Chaos Law comprehension to the threshold of the second realm.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed Venerable Daoyuan approaching the White Cloud Sect and appeared outside its protective formation as Venerable Peach Blossom.
• Venerable Daoyuan recognized Venerable Peach Blossom as the person who had detained a sect elder and was shocked by his mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng claimed he was an ancient cultivator who had slept for ages and sought justice for his disciple, while Venerable Daoyuan explained the Two Races Alliance’s plan to defeat the Purgatory Race and use its bloody Baleful Intent mist to open the ascension passage.
• Cheng Buzheng asked Venerable Daoyuan for the alliance’s materials, but Venerable Daoyuan offered them only if Cheng Buzheng revealed his true identity.

Venerable Daoyuan explained why the human and demon races distrusted outsiders, and Cheng Buzheng swore a demon-heart oath before joining the Return to Origin Immortal Sect as a senior. After exchanging Dao insights and learning more about cultivation, Cheng Buzheng accepted compensation for the sect elder’s offense, while Venerable Daoyuan decided to keep the detained juniors confined a little longer.

• Venerable Daoyuan recounted how the Purgatory Race ambushed the two races, damaged their Venerables, and destroyed Forbidden Ancient City, leaving them convinced that a traitor had exposed their plans.
• Cheng Buzheng assured Venerable Daoyuan of his loyalty and swore a demon-heart oath, then accepted an Identity Token that made him a senior representing the Return to Origin Immortal Sect.
• Cheng Buzheng and Venerable Daoyuan exchanged Dao insights for half a month, learning about the requirements for advancing through the Spirit Transformation realm and the difficulty of comprehending laws.
• Venerable Daoyuan gave Cheng Buzheng a Storage Bag of Spirit Medicines as compensation for his elder’s offense, and Cheng Buzheng accepted it.
• Venerable Daoyuan refused to release the detained juniors immediately, saying they should learn a lesson, while Cheng Buzheng replied that his disciple’s sect had treated them well.

Cheng Buzheng used the identity of Venerable Peach Blossom to settle the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s dispute with the White Cloud Sect and warned Venerable Daoyuan about a powerful Purgatory Clan fighter and the thinning Blood Baleful Mist. After Daoyuan departed, Cheng Buzheng checked his cultivation panel and went to tell Linger the trouble was over.

• Cheng Buzheng and Venerable Daoyuan discussed the Purgatory Clan, the Law Treasure Body, and the possibility of the human race wiping out the Demon Venerables.
• Cheng Buzheng told Venerable Daoyuan that the Blood Baleful Mist had thinned and that a Purgatory Clan powerhouse had nearly killed him with a single strike.
• Venerable Daoyuan heard Cheng Buzheng’s account, freed the detained Nascent Soul elders, and declared Venerable Peach Blossom an ancestor of the Return to Origin Immortal Sect.
• Daoyuan ordered the elders not to blame the White Cloud Sect or Chu Linger for Grand Elder Yun Tai’s death and warned them not to spread rumors about Peach Blossom.
• After Daoyuan left, Cheng Buzheng reviewed his panel, noted his progress in comprehending law runes, and went to tell Linger the trouble had been resolved.

Cheng Buzheng settled Chu Linger in the Green Wood Branch Sect, then learned that the ascension passage lay in Thunder Abyss and that the two races’ plan faced a hidden powerhouse among the Purgatory Clan. After Cheng Buzheng returned to secluded cultivation, Venerable Daoyuan warned the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators, leaving them alarmed and unsure how to proceed.

• Cheng Buzheng told Chu Linger the crisis was over, welcomed her into the White Cloud Sect, and assigned her to the Green Wood Branch Sect.
• Cheng Buzheng examined Venerable Daoyuan’s ransom and dossier, learning that the ascension passage lay deep within Thunder Abyss and that its law lightning could erode a cultivator’s law origin.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to wait and see whether the two races’ plan succeeded, left his Identity Token with a Soul Puppet, and returned to secluded cultivation in Ping'an City.
• Venerable Daoyuan told the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators about the terrifying Purgatory Clan powerhouse and vouched for Venerable Peach Blossom’s warning.
• Venerable Daoyuan confirmed that sect records supported Venerable Peach Blossom’s account of a random wormhole connecting to the Forbidden Sea, leaving the assembled cultivators deeply troubled.

After learning that a mysterious Purgatory Clan powerhouse had nearly killed Venerable Peach Blossom from afar and that the Blood Baleful mist was thinning, the human and demon factions gathered at Seal Boundary Ancient City to reconsider their plans. Island-Moving Venerable and Demon Venerable Nether Sea presided over a divided council, where many urged an early move while others resisted.

• The Return to Origin Immortal Sect warned the major human sects, and Venerable Tianzhao and the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect elders debated whether the report was credible and whether to test the threat with the Heaven-Peering Mirror.
• Island-Moving Venerable and Demon Venerable Nether Sea considered the danger posed by the Purgatory Clan and summoned the human and demon leaders to Seal Boundary Ancient City.
• Venerables and Demon Venerables arrived at Seal Boundary Ancient City, prompting stationed cultivators to speculate about the gathering.
• Island-Moving Venerable opened the Alliance Venerable Hall council by asking whether the alliance should act ahead of schedule.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable and Zong Bao opposed rushing, but Venerable Daoyuan argued that the thinning Blood Baleful mist threatened the road to ascension, and many leaders supported moving sooner.

At the council in Seal Boundary Ancient City, the human and demon experts debated the hidden expert in Purgatory Continent and decided to send six Half-Venerables to investigate. They agreed to power Venerable Zongbao’s Realm Pearl with Law Origin so the Heaven-Peering Mirror could probe the law-filled mist, then began preparing treasures to protect the team.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea urged the council to uncover the identity of the powerful hidden expert before deciding how to proceed against the Purgatory Race.
• Venerable Daoyuan proposed that the human and demon races investigate for themselves rather than rely on Venerable Peach Blossom’s account, and Demon Venerable Nether Sea agreed.
• The council chose three Half-Venerables from each race to investigate the Forbidden Sea and agreed they would need special treasures to examine the blood-baleful mist.
• Venerable Zongbao revealed the Realm Pearl, which could enhance the Heaven-Peering Mirror, and said its full power required 108 Law Origin particles.
• After Island-Moving Venerable examined the Realm Pearl, Demon Venerable Nether Sea and Island-Moving Venerable approved sharing the Law Origin cost among the Spirit Transformation experts.
• Demon Venerable Xiaocheng offered three high-grade Teleportation Talismans from the Cloudsoar Tiger Clan, and another clan also offered three for the six investigators.

Cheng Buzheng received Venerable Daoyuan’s summons to Seal Boundary Ancient City and divined repeated disasters from the Purgatory Clan, so he sent a Dharma body instead of his true body. Venerable Peach Blossom arrived at the gathering of human and demon powerhouses, where he began meeting the other venerables.

• Cheng Buzheng received Venerable Daoyuan’s message and divined nine times, each result warning of overwhelming danger from the Purgatory Clan.
• Cheng Buzheng waited three days, split off a Dharma body, disguised it as the aged Venerable Peach Blossom, and sent it toward Seal Boundary Ancient City.
• Venerable Peach Blossom traveled through the teleportation arrays and reached the Alliance Venerables Hall, where human Spirit Transformation Venerables and Demon Venerables were gathered.
• Venerable Daoyuan warmly introduced Venerable Peach Blossom to Island-Moving Venerable and Demon Venerable Nether Sea.

Cheng Buzheng attended a gathering of human Venerables and Demon Venerables, learned how dire the Cultivation World's shortage of high-level resources had become, and helped prepare a mission to investigate the Forbidden Sea. When he discovered that his former benefactor True Lord Mingxiang was among the six Half-Venerables chosen for the dangerous expedition, he began searching for a way to protect her.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea asked Venerable Peach Blossom about his former cultivation, and Cheng Buzheng said he had once neared the peak of the mid Spirit Transformation stage.
• Venerable Daoyuan introduced Cheng Buzheng to the gathered human and demon powerhouses, who discussed their lack of law Spiritual Items and other resources.
• Island-Moving Venerable and Demon Venerable Nether Sea chaired the meeting, announced the plan to send six Half-Venerables into the Forbidden Sea, and promised to cover Cheng Buzheng's share of the Law Origin needed to activate the Realm Pearl.
• The assembled powerhouses infused the Realm Pearl with Law Origin, and Island-Moving Venerable summoned the six selected Half-Venerables after the pearl was prepared.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized True Lord Mingxiang among the six and realized she had recently been raised to Half-Venerable so she could control the Sea Suppressing Alliance's treasures.
• The factions gave the six Half-Venerables protective treasures and supplies, while Cheng Buzheng privately considered how he could help True Lord Mingxiang survive.

Cheng Buzheng secretly gave True Lord Mingxiang a life-saving secret art before Demon Venerable Nether Sea led her and five other Half-Venerables to the Forbidden Sea. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng settled into the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s base, and Island-Moving Venerable visited to propose exchanging insights by comprehending each other’s laws under a heart demon oath.

• Cheng Buzheng secretly taught True Lord Mingxiang a life-preserving secret art and warned her to stay away from Purgatory Continent.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea led True Lord Mingxiang and the other five Half-Venerables from Seal Boundary Ancient City to a hidden Teleportation Array and made them swear to keep its location secret.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea transported the six Half-Venerables through a spatial interstice and sent them into the Forbidden Sea to investigate while he waited for their return.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived at the Return to Origin Immortal Sect’s base and received visits from human Spirit Transformation cultivators and Demon Venerables seeking his insights into laws.
• Island-Moving Venerable visited Cheng Buzheng and proposed that they comprehend each other’s laws after making a great heart demon oath.