Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng learned that the Heavenly Book page contained the Rebirth Art, a life-saving law secret art whose Dao Seed Realm requirement made it far beyond his current reach. He then examined the damaged Spirit Pearl and found traces of two former masters within its core.

• Cheng Buzheng read the Rebirth Art and learned it could grant a new life with a fresh body, but required comprehension of laws at the Dao Seed Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng stored the Heavenly Book page and saw the Rebirth Art listed among his unpracticed law secret arts.
• Cheng Buzheng considered the Rebirth Art a future safeguard and turned his attention to the pale golden Spirit Pearl.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the Spirit Pearl’s intricate Spirit Restrictions and concluded that its damaged patterns likely resulted from its use as a defensive treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed two former masters’ auras in the Spirit Pearl’s origin source, with the Fire-Eroding Venerable’s aura strongest.

Cheng Buzheng refined the Spirit Pearl, unsealed and planted the Spirit Eye Tree inside its space, and arranged a switch to control the tree’s Spirit Energy. He then planted the soul-type Spirit Medicines he had collected, leaving the Spirit Pearl space ready for further development.

• Cheng Buzheng finished refining the Spirit Pearl and discovered that it could be carried inside his body and provide the benefits of a fourth-tier Spirit Gathering Array.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Stone Ape Demon Venerable’s unsealing technique to restore the Spirit Eye Tree to its full size and planted it in the Spirit Pearl space.
• Cheng Buzheng connected the Spirit Eye Tree to the Spirit Vein and fashioned a jade cushion that served as a switch to control the surrounding Spirit Energy.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected the space’s Spirit Land and decided its current extent was sufficient for now.
• Cheng Buzheng planted the viable soul-type Spirit Medicines he had gathered over the years, leaving behind those that were dead, rootless, or required special conditions.

Cheng Buzheng finished admiring his Spirit Medicine and resumed comprehending the laws before the human and Demon Race forces assembled on the artificial island for their campaign against the Purgatory fiends. The Venerables imposed strict rules and promised rewards, then the island’s barrier fell and the massive armies took to the sky, ready to depart.

• Cheng Buzheng returned to the Quiet Room, stored the spatial Spirit Pearl in his dantian, and began comprehending the laws.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators and great demons hurried the human and Demon Race cultivators out of Stone City and organized them into camps outside it.
• The assembled cultivators discussed the Contribution Hall’s rewards, their chances of surviving the battle, and the plans and orders of their respective groups.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea and the other Venerables appeared before the armies; Nether Sea announced severe punishments for disobedience, while Island-Moving Venerable promised fair access to the Contribution Hall’s rewards.
• The Venerables’ formation barrier dispersed, and the human and Demon Race forces summoned their formations and weapons before rising into the sky to prepare for departure.

Island-Moving Venerable ordered the human and demon armies to advance on the Blood Baleful Mist, while Golden Core cultivators prepared defensive formations and fought off waves of Purgatory fiends. Fire Dragon True Lord rescued a besieged squad, then abruptly left after receiving a Jade Talisman, and the survivors resumed recovering inside their formation.

• Island-Moving Venerable gave the order to set off, and the allied armies spread out around the blood-red canopy while the venerables watched the Blood Baleful Mist.
• A Ten Thousand Immortals Sect Golden Core True Person told a group of Golden Core cultivators to await a decree before setting up their assigned formation, so they combined their own third-tier formations into a layered defensive array.
• Purgatory fiends poured from the Blood Baleful Mist and attacked the array; the cultivators fought back, and after an hour the outermost formation shattered while they retreated to the next layer.
• Thirty thousand li away, Fire Dragon True Lord destroyed the fiends besieging a squad of cultivators, then received a Jade Talisman and left to handle an urgent matter.
• The rescued Golden Core cultivators speculated that Fire Dragon True Lord had left to protect his Contribution Points, then returned to the formation to meditate and restore their Magic Power.

The Purgatory Clan attacked the allied forces of the two races, killing many cultivators before an Earth Origin Envoy fought off a Nascent Soul True Lord. Venerable Zongbao’s Heaven-Peering Mirror revealed the casualties and the Purgatory Clan’s positions as the Spirit Transformation Venerables waited for the encirclement to form and prepared to deploy the Great Array.

• A Purgatory Earth Origin Envoy and his fiends ambushed a squad of Golden Core Mortal Cultivators, killing most of them.
• A Nascent Soul True Lord attacked with his Heaven-Suppressing Stele, but the Earth Origin Envoy used the Purgatory-Origin Demon Diagram to force him to flee by exploding his body and escaping as a Nascent Soul.
• The Earth Origin Envoy led his fiends back into the Blood Baleful Mist rather than risk being surrounded by the allied forces.
• Venerable Zongbao used the Heaven-Peering Mirror to show the Spirit Transformation Venerables the allied forces’ incomplete encirclement, lost contacts, and Purgatory Clan deployments.
• Venerable Zongbao estimated that the encirclement would take at most half a day to form, while Venerable Seeking the Dao confirmed that enough Array Flags were available.
• Venerable Peach Blossom and the other Venerables agreed to wait before filling the gaps, planning to intercept any Purgatory Clan powerhouses while Island-Moving Venerable and Venerable Seeking the Dao activated the Great Array.

The allied Spirit Transformation cultivators watched the Purgatory Clan’s forces mobilize and sent four legions to engage them while keeping four more in reserve. The Sixth Divine Envoy fought the Divine Sword Dao-Soldier Legion, and the Heaven-Peering Treasure Mirror showed four fierce battles underway.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea asked Venerable Zongbao whether she had detected the hidden Purgatory powerhouse, and she said she had found no trace of his aura.
• Demon Venerable Xuanba spotted four Purgatory Clan experts moving out, and the Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed to send their legions instead of joining the fighting themselves.
• Island-Moving Venerable ordered the Golden Flood Dragon Imperial Guard, Giant Spirit Dao Soldier Legion, Divine Sword Dao-Soldier Legion, and Sea-Controlling Demon Army to engage the four experts, with four other legions ready to assist.
• The Sixth Divine Envoy confronted the Divine Sword Dao-Soldier Legion, trading thunder-hammer blows with its divine sword as the formation endured and counterattacked.
• The Heaven-Peering Treasure Mirror displayed the four battles, showing the other legions fighting a Hell Priest, a Hell Divine Envoy, and a terrifying phantom.

The Spirit Transformation cultivators debated why the Purgatory Clan’s divine envoys and priests were willing to risk their cultivation, while Venerable Peach Blossom urged caution and advised waiting for the encirclement to be completed. The Divine Sword Dao-Soldier Legion was destroyed by the Sixth Divine Envoy before relief arrived, leaving the allied forces shaken as the remaining legions narrowly survived.

• The Spirit Transformation cultivators speculated that the Purgatory Clan’s fighters had been promised rewards by a mysterious powerhouse or compensation in law Spiritual Items.
• Venerable Peach Blossom argued that the Purgatory Clan was displaying resolve and testing the enemy while buying time, so the Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed to avoid intervening prematurely.
• The Sixth Divine Envoy struck the Divine Sword Dao-Soldier Legion with his Thunder Urn Hammers, leaving its golden sword formation cracked and on the verge of collapse.
• Venerable Zongbao ordered the Divine Sword Dao-Soldier Legion to retreat and sent a relief legion forward, but the Sixth Divine Envoy shattered the formation and killed nearly all its Dao-Soldiers.
• The Sixth Divine Envoy prepared to attack the surviving Dao-Soldiers, but a sweeping mass of black mist blocked his path as the Sea-Controlling Demon Army, Golden Flood Dragon Imperial Guard, and Giant Spirit Dao Soldier Legion arrived.

As the four relief legions began losing ground against the Purgatory Clan’s divine envoys and priests, the Spirit Transformation cultivators debated whether to rescue them. Venerable Peach Blossom argued for an immediate strike, and Island-Moving Venerable dispatched cultivators and allied forces to surround and engage the enemy.

• Demon Venerable Luosha urged Demon Venerable Nether Sea to intervene as the four legions fell into a disadvantage, but the Spirit Transformation cultivators disagreed over whether to wait or rescue them.
• Island-Moving Venerable asked Venerable Peach Blossom to choose, and Cheng Buzheng agreed to advocate a strike after Island-Moving Venerable promised him a damaged spirit treasure.
• Venerable Peach Blossom called for the cultivators to suppress the Purgatory Clan’s four powerhouses and preserve the relief legions, and most of the others accepted his proposal.
• Island-Moving Venerable assigned Spirit Transformation cultivators to confront or monitor specific divine envoys and priests, using coordinates shown on the Heaven-Peering Mirror.
• Island-Moving Venerable sent teams of Half-Venerable powerhouses and allied cultivators to guard positions around the green ring, and Venerable Zongbao displayed their locations on the Light Screen.

Island-Moving Venerable, Venerable Peach Blossom, and Demon Venerable Nether Sea discussed the hidden powerhouse in Purgatory Continent as Spirit Transformation cultivators rushed into battle against the Purgatory Clan. The Ninth Priest was surrounded, while the Grand Divine Envoy opened its eyes and produced a pale red crystal.

• Venerable Peach Blossom agreed to restrain the Purgatory Clan's Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest while Island-Moving Venerable stayed to control the formation.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea warned Island-Moving Venerable and Venerable Peach Blossom that a weakened powerhouse above Spirit Transformation might intervene if the Purgatory Clan suffered heavy losses.
• Cheng Buzheng resolved to risk everything to kill the hidden powerhouse while secretly seeking an escape route to the Spirit Realm for his family.
• Ten Thousand Souls Venerable arrived as the Demon Banner Dao-Soldier Great Array neared collapse and summoned an Eight-Armed Demon God to fight the Ninth Priest's phantom.
• The arriving Spirit Transformation cultivators surrounded the Ninth Priest and attacked, while the Grand Divine Envoy opened its eyes deep within the Blood Baleful Mist and revealed a pale red crystal.

The Purgatory Clan’s Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest sent reinforcements after their envoys and priests were ambushed, but human and demon experts intercepted them. The Grand Divine Envoy then left the Blood Baleful Mist to break the stalemate, while Cheng Buzheng waited outside and wondered when the High Priest would act.

• The Grand Divine Envoy detected two envoys in danger, sent out six more Divine Envoys, and the Second Divine Envoy and Third Divine Envoy also set out as the High Priest contacted the Grand Divine Envoy.
• Venerable Zongbao reported that the Purgatory Clan’s forces were moving, and Island-Moving Venerable told the others to proceed with the plan.
• A green-robed old monster blocked the First Divine Envoy, while Fire-Eroding Venerable held off a Purgatory Clan priest using [Progenitor's Blessing].
• The Grand Divine Envoy realized that human and demon experts were intercepting every dispatched force, discussed the situation with the High Priest, and decided to leave the Blood Baleful Mist himself.
• Venerable Peach Blossom waited outside the Blood Baleful Mist as Cheng Buzheng suspected the High Priest had gone to face Demon Venerable Nether Sea and reflected that the High Priest was more formidable than the Grand Divine Envoy.

Cheng Buzheng, appearing as Venerable Peach Blossom, delayed the Purgatory Clan's Grand Divine Envoy while other cultivators targeted the clan’s forces. When the Grand Divine Envoy escaped through a spatial art, Cheng pursued him into a spatial rift, and Venerable Zongbao became suspicious of Peach Blossom’s mastery of space.

• Venerable Zongbao warned Cheng Buzheng that the Purgatory Clan's Grand Divine Envoy was heading toward him, so Cheng prepared to intercept him.
• Cheng met the Grand Divine Envoy in the clouds and judged him to be a formidable mid-stage Spirit Transformation expert.
• The Grand Divine Envoy offered Cheng a future favor and a law Spiritual Item to let him pass, but Cheng feigned hesitation to stall for time.
• The Grand Divine Envoy escaped using Blood Prison Space, and Cheng detected the spatial traces and pursued him through a rift.
• Venerable Zongbao, Island-Moving Venerable, and Venerable Seeking the Dao saw Cheng enter the rift, while Zongbao privately suspected that Peach Blossom’s command of space was unusual.

Venerable Zongbao used the Heaven-Peering Mirror to discover that Venerable Peach Blossom was Solitary Cold True Lord in disguise and secretly planned to obtain his spatial techniques. Unaware of her discovery, Cheng Buzheng attacked the Purgatory Clan Grand Divine Envoy and pursued him after they escaped the spatial turbulence.

• Venerable Zongbao connected Venerable Peach Blossom's spatial abilities to Solitary Cold True Lord and secretly used the Heaven-Peering Mirror to confirm her suspicion.
• Venerable Zongbao decided to conceal what she had learned and later use the promise of ascension to the Spirit Realm to persuade Venerable Peach Blossom to share his techniques.
• Cheng Buzheng accelerated through the spatial turbulence, struck the Grand Divine Envoy with sword lights, and caused the surrounding space to collapse around him.
• The Grand Divine Envoy was swept through the collapsing space into the Forbidden Sea, and Cheng Buzheng followed him through the closing rift.
• The Grand Divine Envoy hurried away to rescue his subordinates, but Cheng Buzheng gave chase and called for him to stop and talk.

The Seventh Divine Envoy self-destructed his Law Origin to break free of the Spirit Transformation cultivators’ siege, devastating them before escaping as a dim blood-colored light. Island-Moving Venerable redirected reinforcements, while Venerable Daoyuan’s group secretly planned an ambush for the besieged Purgatory Clan priest and concealed a transmission to their incoming allies.

• The Seventh Divine Envoy detonated most of his Law Origin, destroying the pursuing Spirit Transformation cultivators’ Law Spirit Bodies and escaping in a blood-colored streak.
• Demon Venerable Luosha and the surviving cultivators discussed their losses and concluded that the Seventh Divine Envoy had been gravely weakened.
• Island-Moving Venerable ordered the six survivors to split into two groups and reinforce Venerable Daoyuan and Venerable Sky Inheritance, while Venerable Zongbao relayed the warning about the self-detonation technique.
• After receiving the warning, Venerable Daoyuan and the other cultivators slowed their assault on the Purgatory Clan priest and secretly planned to coordinate with the incoming reinforcements to trap him.
• The cultivators concealed one of their number as they sent a message to the reinforcements, keeping the Purgatory Clan priest unaware of their plan.

Venerable Daoyuan and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators drove the Eighth Priest into a desperate self-detonation, but he escaped toward an unexpected direction. Demon Venerable Luosha intercepted the weakened Ninth Divine Envoy, who was ultimately surrounded again and left with almost no Law Origin.

• Venerable Daoyuan and five other Spirit Transformation cultivators intensified their attack on the Eighth Priest, who self-detonated most of his Law Origin to destroy their Law Spirit Bodies and escape.
• The Eighth Priest sensed danger on routes back to his main camp, changed direction, and fled away from it as the other cultivators re-formed and tried to contact Ten Thousand Souls and the others.
• Demon Venerable Luosha intercepted the weakened Ninth Divine Envoy, who self-detonated his remaining Law Origin as Luosha used the Green Lotus to suppress him.
• The Ninth Divine Envoy trapped Luosha in a Blood Prison Space, but the Luosha inside it proved to be an illusion, and the real Luosha blocked his escape.
• Demon Venerable Xiaocheng and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators arrived and surrounded the Ninth Divine Envoy, leaving him despairing with less than a tenth of his peak Law Origin.

Demon Venerable Luosha and the other Spirit Transformation old monsters killed the Ninth Divine Envoy and negotiated how to divide his spoils, while Blood Sea Demon Venerable’s group drove off a Purgatory Clan priest at the cost of law origin. Cheng Buzheng kept the Purgatory Clan’s Grand Divine Envoy occupied until the Purgatory Clan retreated, then received orders to return before the Great Array activated.

• Demon Venerable Luosha and the other Spirit Transformation old monsters repeatedly shattered the weakened Ninth Divine Envoy until Luosha’s Nine-Extinction Primordial Spirit Needles pierced His vital points and killed Him.
• Two more Spirit Transformation old monsters arrived, and Demon Venerable Xuanba agreed that they could each take one of twenty shares of the Ninth Divine Envoy’s spoils, along with copies of any manuals and cultivation techniques.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable and six other Spirit Transformation old monsters survived a Purgatory Clan priest’s law-origin self-destruction, but the priest escaped after they suffered losses.
• Venerable Peach Blossom, who was Cheng Buzheng, continued evading the Grand Divine Envoy rather than spending precious Law Origin to fight Him directly.
• After discovering that a light within His crystal had gone dark, the Grand Divine Envoy threatened Cheng Buzheng and flew toward the blood-colored mist.
• Venerable Zongbao told Cheng Buzheng that the Purgatory Clan had retreated and the Great Array was about to activate, so he turned back toward his assigned position.

Venerable Zongbao recalled the Spirit Transformation cultivators to their assigned positions while Island-Moving Venerable and Venerable Seeking the Dao prepared the Cosmic Direct-Reverse Heavenly River Great Array. The array began to unfold, filling the surrounding void with dark-blue mist and terrifying cold as the group waited for everyone to return before activating it.

• Demon Venerable Luosha and the other old Spirit Transformation monsters discussed the treasures taken from the Ninth Divine Envoy and the possibility of trading Spirit Realm Quotas for the Purgatory Clan's self-detonation secret art.
• Venerable Zongbao sent orders for the cultivators to return to their designated locations, and Demon Venerable Luosha, Demon Venerable Xuanba, and other groups set out.
• The Purgatory Clan's reinforcements withdrew toward their main camp while the two clans' cultivators followed them cautiously until Venerable Zongbao redirected them.
• Island-Moving Venerable watched the cultivators' positions through the Heaven-Peering Mirror as Venerable Seeking the Dao prepared his array disk and placed giant Array Flags in the void.
• Venerable Seeking the Dao unfolded the Cosmic Direct-Reverse Heavenly River Great Array, drawing in Spirit Energy and spreading dark-blue mist, intricate patterns, and extreme cold across the area.
• Island-Moving Venerable observed that the array had not yet been activated and continued waiting for the remaining Spirit Transformation cultivators to reach their positions.

Island-Moving Venerable assigned the arriving Spirit Transformation cultivators and allied troops to positions guarding the array that would gather the Blood Baleful Mist. At his assigned position, Cheng Buzheng learned that Demon Venerable Luosha’s group had killed the Ninth Divine Envoy and gained valuable treasures, while his fellow sect members promised to seek compensation for the trouble he had faced.

• Island-Moving Venerable welcomed the returning Spirit Transformation cultivators and assigned Venerable Bixuan, Venerable Bright Blade, and the others to guard designated positions with allied forces.
• Island-Moving Venerable, Venerable Zongbao, and Venerable Seeking the Dao remained together to guard the Great Array.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived at his assigned position and told Venerable Daoyuan and the Return to Origin Immortal Sect cultivators that he had fought a Grand Divine Envoy of the Purgatory Clan.
• Venerable Daoyuan and the others told Cheng Buzheng that Demon Venerable Luosha and his allies had killed the Ninth Divine Envoy and seized a downgraded Spirit Treasure and several Spirit Medicine Kings.
• Fire-Eroding Venerable and the Stone Ape Demon Venerable arrived, agreed that Demon Venerable Luosha’s group should compensate Cheng Buzheng, and joined the others in supporting him.

Cheng Buzheng organized the Spirit Transformation cultivators and their armies into rotating defensive posts while Island-Moving Venerable and Venerable Zongbao activated the array. The Heaven-and-Earth Forward-Reverse Grand Array unleashed a vast river of freezing currents across the void, and the chapter ended with Golden Core cultivators guarding an array flag beneath its protection.

• Cheng Buzheng proposed a flexible rotation system for the defensive nodes, and the gathered Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed.
• Cheng Buzheng assigned Stone Ape Demon Venerable to Node No. 20 and Fire-Eroding Venerable to Node No. 35 as forces assembled at their designated positions.
• Island-Moving Venerable told Venerable Zongbao to activate the array flags, and Venerable Zongbao transmitted the order through the Heaven-Peering Mirror.
• Golden Core cultivators activated their array flags, spreading blue ice mist across the void.
• Venerable Seeking the Dao activated the grand array, unleashing a vast river of deep-blue frigid currents that expanded across the void.
• An array flag returned to a group of Golden Core cultivators, who raised a protective screen and prepared to guard it against the Purgatory fiends.

The Purgatory Clan leaders debated whether to attack the allied human and demon forces as the [Cosmic Direct-Reverse Heavenly River Great Array] spread across Purgatory Continent. The High Priest rejected a full assault, but the Grand Divine Envoy secretly ordered lower-ranking fiends to kill the flag bearers; the array’s defenders then unleashed a storm of ice arrows against them.

• The Grand Divine Envoy urged the Purgatory Clan to attack before the array finished forming, but priests argued that its expanded coverage would weaken it and that the Blood Baleful Mist would protect them.
• The High Priest refused to approve an attack, prioritizing the Progenitor’s safety, and the Grand Divine Envoy ended the meeting and sent everyone back to their posts.
• After the others departed, the Grand Divine Envoy ordered the Purgatory fiends along the mist’s borders to kill every flag bearer of the two races.
• Venerable Zongbao spotted the fiends rushing toward the allied forces’ array flags and warned Island-Moving Venerable that they could disrupt the encirclement.
• Island-Moving Venerable entrusted the threat to Venerable Seeking the Dao, who activated the array’s flags to summon a vast storm of crystalline ice arrows that froze the charging fiends.

Cheng Buzheng slaughtered the Purgatory fiends attacking the allied forces while the Cosmic Direct-Reverse Heavenly River Great Array took shape around Purgatory Continent. Island-Moving Venerable activated the Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River and Wild Cauldron, leaving the continent enclosed within a vast sphere of five-colored water.

• Cheng Buzheng questioned why the Purgatory Clan's powerful members had not intervened, then killed thousands of attacking fiends with sword qi and collected their storage artifacts.
• Cheng Buzheng ordered the allied armies to raise their flags and activate the array as the dark-blue heavenly river spread around the blood-colored canopy.
• Venerable Seeking the Dao yielded control of the completed array to Island-Moving Venerable, who brought out the Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River.
• Island-Moving Venerable merged the river with the array and reversed its power, drawing in spiritual energy until the Five-Colored Heavenly River enveloped Purgatory Continent and the Blood Baleful Mist.
• At Island-Moving Venerable's command, Venerable Zongbao produced the Wild Cauldron, which Island-Moving Venerable covered in five-colored patterns before it vanished.