Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng demonstrated how the Mystic Fate Array Node interacted with other nodes in the Purgatory Clan’s formation and explained how its responses depended on the order of attacks. He showed that attacking another node first still allowed progress, then used the Strange Measure Guiding Principle to reveal a new formation response.

• Cheng Buzheng had a squad attack the Mystic Fate Array Node and circled the more than sixty nodes that resonated in response.
• Cheng Buzheng explained that previous tests had changed the formation’s operating patterns, reducing the number of nodes affected by later attacks.
• Cheng Buzheng had the squad attack the same node again, showing that it no longer affected any other nodes and clarifying that the formation could still be broken through different sequences.
• Venerable Zongbao shifted the projection to marked point No. 7878, where Cheng Buzheng had a squad attack another node before striking the Mystic Fate Array Node.
• Cheng Buzheng identified the thirty-six nodes involved in the Strange Measure Guiding Principle, and the squad’s attacks caused all thirty-six to be struck, producing ripples and faint fluctuations across the formation barrier.
• The Spirit Transformation old monsters praised Venerable Peach Blossom after seeing the formation react, while Formation Masters felt slighted by the comparison.

Cheng Buzheng explained the Purgatory Clan’s array principles to the cultivators and demonstrated that an early Golden Core squad could destroy one of the formations under his remote command. With the test successful, the Spirit Transformation experts ended their meeting and Cheng Buzheng sent his Formation Masters to clear the remaining arrays.

• Cheng Buzheng explained the array’s operating patterns and principles, while withholding some details and acknowledging that he had not fully understood one transformation.
• Cheng Buzheng had Venerable Zong Bao switch the projection to marker point No. 96452 and remotely directed an early Golden Core squad against the formation.
• The Golden Core cultivators shattered the formation barrier, and its Purgatory Clan defenders died from backlash and the squad’s attacks.
• Venerable Zong Bao ended the projection, and the Spirit Transformation experts agreed to begin breaking the formations under their command.
• After the meeting ended, Cheng Buzheng ordered his Formation Masters to clear the remaining arrays and report any difficult problems to him.

Venerable Seeking the Dao organized the Formation Masters and allied squads to break the Purgatory fiends’ arrays along the Blood Baleful Mist, while Island-Moving Venerable worried about the risks and the teams’ uneven skill. The assault began with both successful breaches and deadly failures as the Formation Masters’ differing abilities became clear.

• Cheng Buzheng worried that breaking Purgatory formations on a large scale would draw the attention of the Purgatory Clan’s powerful figures.
• Venerable Seeking the Dao assured Island-Moving Venerable that he had mastered Venerable Peach Blossom’s explanation and could break the array, while Island-Moving Venerable asked Venerable Zongbao to monitor the effort.
• Venerable Seeking the Dao offered Formation Masters extra Contribution Points for taking command of more squads, but warned that each squad lost would cost them 200 points while each formation broken earned 500.
• The Formation Masters chose their squads, received Jade Talismans, and sent the allied forces into the Blood Baleful Mist with protective talismans.
• The squads reached the Purgatory fiends’ arrays, and remote commands led some to break through while calculation errors left others vulnerable to counterattacks and deaths.

The allied armies of the two races steadily broke the Purgatory Clan’s formations, with Venerable Seeking the Dao leading the fastest team and Cheng Buzheng guiding Formation Masters under his command. As the Purgatory Clan’s leaders convened to discuss the breaches, an accusation of an internal traitor prompted suspicion to fall on the priest who made it.

• Venerable Seeking the Dao’s squads dismantled more than three hundred formations in an hour, while Formation Masters at the other array positions made slower progress and suffered losses.
• Formation Masters under Demon Venerable Nether Sea received extra rewards, and their formation-breaking efforts accelerated.
• Cheng Buzheng corrected Formation Master Wu and others through voice transmissions, helping his side’s progress approach Island-Moving Venerable’s team.
• Cheng Buzheng wondered how the Purgatory Clan would respond as the allied armies broke formations on a large scale.
• A Divine Envoy claimed that someone in the Purgatory Clan had leaked its array inheritance and diagrams, and a priest backed the demand for an investigation.
• The Grand Divine Envoy, High Priest, and other officials scrutinized the priest, who feared they suspected him of being the traitor.

The Purgatory Clan debated why their formations were being breached and chose to defend them with a massed army, forcing the allied human and demon forces to prepare for a decisive battle. Cheng Buzheng learned that the Purgatory Clan had blocked the formation-breaking effort, and the Spirit Transformation experts resolved to assemble a much larger force and stock up on Baleful-Repelling Blood Talismans.

• The High Priest cleared the Fifth Priest of suspicion, and the Purgatory Clan debated whether the enemy had deciphered its formations or relied on internal traitors.
• The Purgatory Clan rejected reporting to the Progenitor and chose to confront the allied armies inside the Blood Baleful Mist, using its terrain and formations to defend the barriers.
• The Purgatory Clan mobilized fiends to guard the formations, and Venerable Zongbao alerted the other Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Cheng Buzheng received a report that a Purgatory force had overwhelmed a formation-breaking squad, and the allied forces' progress at every position slowed.
• The Spirit Transformation experts agreed to begin the decisive battle, gather an army several times larger, and maintain supplies of Baleful-Repelling Blood Talismans.

The Immortal Alliance issued a strict conscription order for Golden Core forces while exempting rogue cultivators, and the news triggered panic and speculation across the Boundless Sea. The Cheng Immortal Clan sealed itself inside Hidden Immortal Island and prepared to summon Ancestor Changyuan before deciding how to respond.

• The Immortal Alliance ordered a million talismans sent to the front lines and required protected factions with Golden Core cultivators to join the war or face confiscation and forced transport.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators in Immortal Alliance City initially fled after hearing of the conscription, but a burly cultivator explained that rogue cultivators were exempt and warned that supplies would become scarce.
• The burly cultivator and the azure-robed middle-aged cultivator decided to travel inland to buy Spiritual Items before prices rose, while other cultivators began moving inland or launching Flying Boat trading businesses.
• The Cheng Immortal Clan learned that an Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul elder had arrived in Xuanfeng Immortal City and concluded that resisting or fleeing would be futile.
• The Cheng Clan Chief ordered the clan’s array sealed and its members confined, then headed to the Back Mountain Forbidden Area to summon Ancestor Changyuan.

Cheng Changyuan learned that the Immortal Alliance’s summons could not be avoided and decided to answer it to protect the Cheng Immortal Clan. He then entered the clan’s hidden treasure vault and contacted Cheng Buzheng through the Puppet that served as their only link.

• Cheng Daoxian visited Cheng Changyuan and reported that the Immortal Alliance had issued a mandatory decree and was punishing officials who tried to evade it.
• Cheng Changyuan told Cheng Daoxian to leave the matter to him, while Cheng Daoxian resolved to protect the clan’s bloodline and inheritance.
• Cheng Changyuan revealed that only he and Cheng Changqing knew the clan’s secret and that he intended to seek help from the clan’s founding ancestor.
• Cheng Changyuan passed through a concealed chamber and a decoy vault to reach the clan’s true inheritance vault.
• Cheng Changyuan bowed before the Puppet that connected the Hidden Immortal Island branch to Cheng Buzheng.

Cheng Buzheng’s Soul Puppet discussed the Immortal Alliance’s summons with Cheng Changyuan and offered him a choice between abandoning Hidden Immortal Island or joining the Forbidden Sea expedition with protection. Cheng Changyuan chose the expedition, then began passing the clan’s secret legacy to Cheng Daoxian in case calamity struck.

• Cheng Buzheng learned that Cheng Changyuan had summoned him over the Immortal Alliance’s order for the Hidden Immortal Island lineage.
• Cheng Buzheng warned that intervening to spare the clan could bring a purge later and offered either to have the conscription waived in exchange for surrendering Hidden Immortal Island or to grant Cheng Changyuan protection for the expedition.
• Cheng Changyuan chose to answer the summons and join the Eastern Expedition Allied Army, trusting Cheng Buzheng’s promise of a protective surprise.
• After receiving Cheng Buzheng’s guidance, Cheng Changyuan decided to preserve the clan’s secret legacy and summoned Cheng Daoxian.
• Cheng Changyuan disclosed the clan’s hidden history to Cheng Daoxian and imprinted the secrets into his Soul Seed.

Changyuan brought Cheng Daoxian to the family’s true inheritance site and taught him how to enter and use the Seal Technique. Across the Boundless Sea, the alliance conscription drove Golden Core cultivators to flee and disrupted markets, while Nascent Soul cultivators remained; the chapter ends with the Yu Immortal Clan’s Ancestor sent to the front lines.

• Changyuan took Cheng Daoxian from the underground vault to the palace and taught him the entry method and Seal Technique.
• Golden Core cultivators abandoned factions across the Boundless Sea, prompting the three alliances to issue kill orders and hunt them.
• Cultivators at a Sea Suppressing Alliance Dao gathering wondered why Nascent Soul seniors had stayed while Golden Core cultivators fled.
• The alliances restricted high-grade resources, raided black markets, and sent Bu Feng True Person, revealed to be a Nascent Soul True Lord, to the front lines.
• Foundation Establishment clans debated seizing the Yu Immortal Clan’s remaining property but feared retaliation from its fugitive Golden Core Ancestor.
• A cultivator revealed that the alliance had captured the Yu Immortal Clan’s Ancestor and dispatched him to the front-line battlefield.

As the inland cultivation world descended into chaos, Cheng Buzheng, serving as a Supervision Envoy through one of his Dharma Bodies, was summoned to deal with the Crimson Sun Six Evil Ones attacking Green Ram Palace. He learned that the sect had no known secret beyond its injured Ancestor and a strange Thunder Valley, and prepared to investigate the attackers’ motives.

• Cultivators across the Boundless Sea speculated about the Alliance’s tracking methods and agreed to avoid discussing their theories outside their private gathering.
• The compulsory order worsened unrest inland, and Cheng Buzheng’s Dharma Body at White Cloud Sect regretted taking the Supervision Envoy post after repeated missions against Evil Cultivators.
• An Immortal Alliance undercover envoy reported that the Crimson Sun Six Evil Ones had entered Yue Kingdom and were attacking Green Ram Palace’s protective formation.
• Cheng Buzheng recalled that the six Golden Core Evil Cultivators had destroyed the Nascent Soul faction Five Elements Cult and suspected they had emerged to obtain something important from Green Ram Palace.
• The envoy explained how scouts identified the six and reported that Green Ram Palace’s Ancestor had suffered severe injuries five years earlier and that a year-round stormy Thunder Valley lay behind the sect.

Six black-robed Evil Cultivators besieged Green Ram Palace, forcing Green Ram Ancestor to choose between surrendering a treasure that could help him attain the Dao and letting the sect fall. He secured a quarter-hour truce and went to Thunder Valley, hoping reinforcements would arrive before he had to give up the treasure.

• Cheng Buzheng considered the suspected treasure battle and vanished from the throne hall.
• Six black-robed Evil Cultivators battered Green Ram Palace’s failing formation while Green Ram Ancestor and the Sect Master struggled to supply it with Spirit Stones.
• The Sect Master urged Green Ram Ancestor to surrender the treasure, and Green Ram Ancestor reluctantly threatened to destroy it unless the attackers stopped.
• The leader of the six Evil Cultivators agreed to a quarter-hour truce in exchange for the treasure, and Green Ram Ancestor left to retrieve it.
• Green Ram Ancestor reached Thunder Valley and hoped that a Nascent Soul senior or White Cloud Ancestor would arrive before the truce ended.

The Crimson Sun Six Evil Ones annihilated Green Ram Palace and fled, while Cheng Buzheng arrived afterward and used his eye technique to uncover their traces. He pursued them to a vast lake, leaving their confrontation yet to come.

• The black-robed leader discovered Green Ram True Person had tried to stall and ordered the six Evil Cultivators to attack Green Ram Palace’s weakened formation.
• The black-robed leader appeared before Ancestor Qingyang, severed his arm to seize the lightning-wreathed bottle, and killed him before taking his Golden Core and treasure bell.
• The six Evil Cultivators slaughtered everyone in Green Ram Palace, plundered its grounds, and escaped by Flying Boat into a vast lake.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived at the ruined sect, destroyed the Demonic Beasts feeding on the corpses, and used his eye technique to identify the attackers’ lingering auras.
• Cheng Buzheng sent a message to Green Ram Palace’s superior sect to handle the aftermath, then followed the six traces toward the vast lake.

Cheng Buzheng tracked the Crimson Sun Six Evil Ones to an underwater palace and discovered that their leader was Five Elements True Lord, who had massacred his own sect to evade the Immortal Alliance’s summons. After Cheng revealed his Spirit Transformation power and subdued the group, Five Elements True Lord begged to become his servant.

• Cheng Buzheng arrived at a lake in Yue Kingdom and entered an underwater palace where six masked cultivators were discussing their stolen treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the leader as Five Elements True Lord and exposed that the other five Crimson Sun Six Evil Ones were Golden Core elders of the Five Elements Cult.
• Five Elements True Lord removed his bronze mask, revealed his true identity, and ordered the five elders to attack Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng effortlessly destroyed Five Elements True Lord’s attack and the elders’ formation, then pinned all six in place with his power.
• Five Elements True Lord realized Cheng Buzheng was a Spirit Transformation cultivator and begged for his life, offering his possessions and obedience.

Cheng Buzheng weighed whether to recruit Five Elements True Lord and his Golden Core followers as subordinates, but killed all six to avoid exposing his true identity and jeopardizing his place in the Immortal Alliance’s inner circle. He then began inspecting Five Elements True Lord’s Storage Bags and found sect inheritances, Spirit Stones, and cultivation resources.

• Five Elements True Lord and his five Golden Core juniors knelt and begged Cheng Buzheng to spare their lives and accept their service.
• Cheng Buzheng considered using them as subordinates but rejected the idea because acting under his true identity could expose his cultivation and threaten his access to Immortal Alliance secrets.
• Five Elements True Lord tried to flee, but Cheng Buzheng’s suppressive force crushed him and the five Golden Core cultivators, killing all six.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the Storage Bags and found Five Elements Cult and Green Ram Palace inheritances, Spirit Stone reserves, and various cultivation resources.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected several Storage Bags and turned his attention to the last one belonging to Five Elements True Lord.

Cheng Buzheng searched Five Elements True Lord’s Storage Bag and found the Five Elements Thunder Spirit Gang Sha, a rare treasure suited to his son Cheng Ping'an. As he continued hunting Evil Cultivators and studying the Five Elements Cult’s inheritances, the Human Alliance sent Nascent Soul elders inland to restore order.

• Cheng Buzheng examined Five Elements True Lord’s treasures and discovered the Five Elements Cult’s cultivation methods and many other inheritances.
• Cheng Buzheng found the Five Elements Thunder Spirit Gang Sha and realized it could help Cheng Ping'an pursue the Half-Venerable Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected the other Golden Core cultivators’ Storage Bags, dealt with traces in the underwater manor, and left with his spoils.
• Cheng Buzheng traveled throughout the Six Kingdoms Cultivation World, suppressing and killing Evil Cultivators until the region temporarily became safer.
• The Human Alliance dispatched Nascent Soul elders inland aboard a fast warship to stabilize the growing turmoil and protect supplies to the front lines.

An Immortal Alliance elder investigated reports that the Cultivation Worlds of the three nations surrounding Wind Snow Kingdom were collapsing into disorder and confirmed that True Lord Xin Kui had colluded with Evil Cultivators. The Alliance removed Xin Kui and appointed Heavenly Sound True Lord as Supervision Envoy, leaving him to launch a campaign against the Evil Cultivators.

• The Immortal Alliance elder received intelligence from both the Immortal Alliance and Demon Alliance branches, which warned that the three nations were on the brink of losing control.
• The elder secretly investigated and witnessed widespread robbery, a Golden Core faction under siege, and True Lord Xin Kui's disciples accepting Storage Bags from Evil Cultivators.
• After reporting his findings to headquarters, the elder ordered True Lord Xin Kui to report to the Immortal Alliance and rejected his appeals for help from Cloud Half-Venerable.
• The elder offered Heavenly Sound True Lord the Supervision Envoy post or service at the front lines, and Heavenly Sound accepted the appointment.
• Heavenly Sound gathered his sect's Foundation Establishment Realm and higher disciples and sent squads to attack the Evil Cultivators.

Black Robe True Lord arrived at Yin Corpse Valley to remove Yin Corpse Devil Master from his post as Supervision Envoy, provoking him into defying the Holy Alliance’s order. Black Robe True Lord defeated Yin Corpse Devil Master and his three Golden Armored Corpses, refined them into his blood banner, and prepared to report that he had punished a rebel.

• Black Robe True Lord berated and struck two Golden Core devil cultivators before ordering them to announce his arrival at Yin Corpse Valley.
• Yin Corpse Devil Master met Black Robe True Lord, endured his taunts, and demanded an edict when told the Holy Alliance had dismissed him as Supervision Envoy.
• Black Robe True Lord used a recording of Yin Corpse Devil Master refusing the order to accuse him of defying the Holy Alliance.
• Yin Corpse Devil Master summoned three Golden Armored Corpses to fight, but Black Robe True Lord’s Yin-Yang Blood God suppressed them and captured him.
• Black Robe True Lord refined Yin Corpse Devil Master and the three corpses into his blood banner, then told his followers how to report the incident.

Cheng Changyuan arrived in Stone City with a vast wave of reinforcements and learned they would report in before choosing among four coalition armies. After warning Zhong Shu away from the Western Expedition Army, Cheng Changyuan headed to register, committed to choosing the Eastern Expedition Army as his Ancestor had advised.

• Alliance envoys appointed new Supervision Envoys, eased unrest in the inland cultivation nations, and sent sect elders and cultivators to reinforce the front lines.
• Cheng Changyuan arrived in Stone City with the reinforcements and saw the immense gathering of Golden Core cultivators and Nascent Soul True Lords.
• A Nascent Soul Demon Lord escorted the newcomers toward the registration hall as cultivators discussed choosing among the four coalition armies.
• An Old Daoist claimed the Western Expedition Army had more Spirit Transformation seniors, concealing that it was the most dangerous army and had only early-stage Spirit Transformation commanders.
• Cheng Changyuan advised Zhong Shu not to choose the Western Expedition Army and said he favored the Eastern Expedition Army; Zhong Shu decided to follow his lead.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators entered the registration hall directly while Cheng Changyuan and the other Golden Core cultivators joined the long queues.

Cheng Changyuan and True Person Zhong Shu explored Stone City and discussed the value of rare treasures, while Cheng Buzheng sent Cheng Changyuan a promised gift from the Forbidden Sea. The chapter ended with Cheng Changyuan accepting the Storage Bag after cautiously verifying that the visitor was his Ancestor.

• Cheng Changyuan and True Person Zhong Shu returned from exploring Stone City and discussed the valuable treasures they had seen at the stalls.
• Venerable Peach Blossom, revealed to be Cheng Buzheng, sent a Storage Bag streaking through the Forbidden Sea and warned a group of cultivators not to intercept such powerful messages.
• Cheng Changyuan sensed the Storage Bag arrive at his Cave Mansion and used a Three-Tribulation Soul Puppet to investigate it while keeping his true body on guard.
• Cheng Buzheng appeared as a phantom from the Storage Bag and called for Cheng Changyuan to come out.
• Cheng Changyuan verified that Cheng Buzheng was his Ancestor, defended his caution by citing the clan precepts, and accepted the promised treasures.

Cheng Buzheng equipped Cheng Changyuan with powerful treasures for the battlefield and explained their uses, including three Divine Ability Jade Talismans and a fixed-point teleportation treasure. He revealed that the talismans’ divine abilities were recorded in the clan’s ancient stele for Cheng Changyuan to access after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, then his phantom faded after finishing his advice.

• Cheng Changyuan examined the Storage Bag and asked Cheng Buzheng to explain the three Jade Talismans inside.
• Cheng Buzheng explained that the talismans held defensive, escape, and offensive divine abilities, and that their power could threaten even powerful cultivators.
• Cheng Changyuan asked Cheng Buzheng to pass down the three divine abilities, and Cheng Buzheng said they were already recorded in the ancient stele and would become accessible at the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Cheng Buzheng explained how he devised Divine Ability Jade Talismans and described the rare materials, array formations, and cultivation requirements needed to make and use them.
• Cheng Buzheng explained that the black-and-white crystal was a one-use Teleportation Guiding Jade pair that could teleport its user to the placed yin fish across up to ten million li.
• Cheng Buzheng finished explaining the treasures and their cautions, then his phantom faded as Cheng Changyuan bowed and saw him off.