Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng realized the High Priest’s unnatural calm might signal a hidden threat, but found no other presence in the void. Tempted by the formation and its source of enlightenment, he chose to study the active Great Array from concealment and search for a way to claim part of its authority.

• Cheng Buzheng watched the High Priest’s cautious probing and concluded that it had been a bluff, while Sha Minghong secretly threatened to reclaim what the High Priest had taken.
• The High Priest dismissed the unseen watcher, sat on the cushion, and entered deep enlightenment as the formation gathered scarlet points of light.
• Cheng Buzheng grew suspicious of the High Priest’s intense focus, searched the void for another hidden observer, and found no one.
• Cheng Buzheng weighed the risks of seizing the source of enlightenment and decided he first needed to weaken or steal authority from the Great Array.
• Cheng Buzheng produced a Jade Slip and used his Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to analyze the Great Array’s patterns, energy pathways, and nodes.

Cheng Buzheng recorded the Great Array’s visible Array Patterns and used the Small Plate to deduce its core Array Diagram, but the hidden Dao inscriptions remained undeciphered. His Dharma body began rehearsing the incomplete diagram’s Seal Techniques near the High Priest, preparing to seize part of the array’s authority.

• Cheng Buzheng’s avatar recorded the Great Array’s exposed Array Patterns in a Jade Slip after a day and night of work.
• Cheng Buzheng’s true body fed the recorded information into the Small Plate, which deduced the array’s macroscopic framework but failed to decipher the Dao inscriptions at its nodes.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the incomplete Array Diagram could still help him seize part of the Great Array’s core authority and prevent the High Priest from freely suppressing his Dharma body.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Dharma body practiced the Seal Techniques needed to reproduce the deduced Array Diagram while concealed near the High Priest and the array’s core.

Cheng Buzheng risked exposing his Dharma body to set a trap for the High Priest, then used the Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords to imprison him in a completed sword array. The High Priest was trapped but still resisted the array’s slow erosion, leaving Cheng Buzheng wary of delay.

• Cheng Buzheng finished mastering the core Array Diagram and sent his Dharma body toward the High Priest, accepting the risk that the Great Array might destroy it.
• The High Priest sensed Cheng Buzheng’s apparent location and prepared to strike, but disturbances at four other points revealed that he had been misled.
• Four Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords appeared around the High Priest and began forming a killing array as the Great Array’s golden pillars descended to disrupt them.
• Cheng Buzheng ignored the descending attack and completed the Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword Array, trapping the High Priest within a barrier of chaotic currents.
• The High Priest raged and struggled against the array, while Cheng Buzheng sensed that the High Priest’s powerful laws would take a long time to erode and resolved not to let the battle drag on.

Cheng Buzheng revealed himself and began using law imprints to seize control of the Great Array’s core before Sha Minghong’s High Priest could recover. Sha Minghong recognized him as a Nightmare Clan cultivator and watched anxiously as Cheng Buzheng sent a first imprint toward the array and formed a second.

• Cheng Buzheng appeared near the Great Array’s core, intending to seize control and suppress the High Priest.
• Sha Minghong identified the unfamiliar cultivator as the concealed Nightmare Clan brat and judged that the High Priest could survive his attacks with the Blood God True Body.
• Cheng Buzheng formed a golden law net, infused its imprint with his Divine Sense origin, and sent it toward the Great Array’s core.
• Cheng Buzheng immediately began forming a second golden law net with a different resonance from the first.

Cheng Buzheng struggled to seize control of the Chaos Great Array while the High Priest awakened his Blood God True Body and tried to break free. The formation was close to collapse, and Cheng Buzheng had reached only twenty percent authority as the chapter ended.

• Cheng Buzheng sent golden imprints toward the array core, and the High Priest sensed that his authority was being eroded.
• Trapped inside the Chaos Dao Tribulation Formation, the High Priest abandoned his plan to wait and used a forbidden seal to awaken his Blood God True Body.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed the High Priest's power surge and intensified his efforts to seize control before the formation broke.
• Cheng Buzheng reached ten percent authority, but discovered the High Priest held thirty percent.
• The unstable formation continued to restrain the High Priest as Cheng Buzheng raised his authority to twenty percent.

After the High Priest escaped Cheng Buzheng’s formation, he tried to use the Great Array to suppress Cheng Buzheng, but Cheng disrupted the attack with his twenty percent authority. The High Priest then unleashed Void Refinement Law Source, and Cheng Buzheng risked everything by activating the four [Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords] as the chapter ended with their sword array unfolding.

• The High Priest emerged from the shattered Great Array as the four [Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords] returned to Cheng Buzheng, and he immediately targeted Cheng with the array’s suppression power.
• Cheng Buzheng used his twenty percent authority over the Great Array to disrupt the High Priest’s attempt to crush him.
• The High Priest suspected Cheng possessed the complete Array Diagram, abandoned the array attack, and unleashed a powerful Blood Sea Flood Dragon formed from Law Source.
• Cheng Buzheng resolved to fight back and ordered the four [Chaos Dao Tribulation Swords] into position, forming a vast sword Dao Array Diagram.

Cheng Buzheng tried to seize control of the Great Array while using the Four Symbols Sword Array to hold off the High Priest, but the High Priest detected and purged his intrusion. Cheng Buzheng escaped into a spatial interlayer and resolved to stall until the High Priest’s temporary power ended, while the High Priest failed to locate him.

• Cheng Buzheng secretly sent an imprint toward the Great Array’s core as the Four Symbols Sword Array clashed with the blood-colored Flood Dragon.
• The High Priest detected Cheng Buzheng’s attempt, activated the array’s highest authority, and erased the imprint while locking him out.
• Cheng Buzheng abandoned his attempt to seize the array, vanished into a spatial interlayer, and the Four Symbols Sword Array collapsed as its four swords escaped into spatial fissures.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to harass the High Priest until his temporary blessing ended, then challenge him with the complete [Chaos Dao Tribulation Sword].
• The High Priest swept the spatial interlayer with his divine sense, but failed to find Cheng Buzheng and grew furious.

Cheng Buzheng evaded the High Priest’s detection, but noticed the cost of the High Priest’s secret art and realized the supposed Spirit Transformation cultivator was actually a genuine Void Refinement Realm expert. He began reassessing how such a powerful cultivator could exist in the Lower Realm.

• The High Priest searched the area with a Blood-Pattern Sacrificial Diagram but failed to detect Cheng Buzheng, who remained concealed by the Nirvana Heart Sutra.
• Sha Minghong concluded that the hidden cultivator was likely the Nightmare Clan’s elusive junior and accepted that the High Priest might not secure the Law Origin.
• The High Priest decided to end his enhanced secret art, fearing Cheng Buzheng could seize control of the Forbidden Sea’s Great Array while he was trapped.
• Cheng Buzheng observed the High Priest’s power fall but remain beyond the peak of Spirit Transformation, and inferred that the High Priest’s earlier cultivation level had been a disguise.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the High Priest as a genuine Void Refinement Realm cultivator and wondered how he had reached that realm in the resource-starved Lower Realm.

Cheng Buzheng reasoned that the Purgatory Clan High Priest must possess the complete method for forging a Law Treasure Body, the likely key to breaking through to Void Refinement in the lower realm. Though the High Priest urged him to negotiate, Cheng Buzheng decided to answer through a paper effigy while hiding his true body elsewhere in the void.

• Cheng Buzheng concluded that scarce resources made a law-comprehension breakthrough to Void Refinement virtually impossible in the lower realm, so the High Priest must have the Purgatory Clan’s complete Law Treasure Body inheritance.
• The High Priest called out to the hidden Cheng Buzheng and proposed that they negotiate an arrangement beneficial to both of them.
• Cheng Buzheng weighed the vast difference in their strength and recognized that he could not seize the opportunity by force, even with control of the Forbidden Sea’s great array.
• Cheng Buzheng released a Nascent Soul Realm paper effigy and secretly shifted his true body to another void node.
• The paper effigy answered the High Priest as if Cheng Buzheng had agreed to speak, while its echoing voice concealed the location of its source.

The High Priest suspected Cheng Buzheng’s paper effigy was a decoy and held back his attack, then offered compensation to make him leave. Cheng Buzheng exposed the High Priest’s schemes and demanded a share of the law-source opportunity, prompting the High Priest to attack the decoy with a devastating blood dragon.

• The High Priest detected Cheng Buzheng’s paper effigy but suspected it was a trap, while Cheng Buzheng watched from hiding in the void’s interlayer.
• The High Priest proposed compensating Cheng Buzheng if he withdrew from the conflict.
• Cheng Buzheng rejected the offer, exposed the High Priest’s role in the races’ war and the Island-Moving Venerable’s death, and threatened to obstruct him for millennia.
• The High Priest realized Cheng Buzheng wanted the refined source of laws and chose to guard the opportunity rather than share it.
• The High Priest unleashed a massive blood dragon that shattered space and struck the locked patch of void.

The High Priest failed to find Cheng Buzheng after destroying the apparent hiding place, so he chose negotiation rather than wasting more power. Cheng Buzheng answered through a paper puppet, rejected the High Priest’s offer by demanding the Path Pivot Cushion, then proposed taking a second cushion tied to Island-Moving Venerable’s hidden trick.

• The High Priest realized the void vortex had been a decoy and concluded that Cheng Buzheng’s concealment made direct attacks and pursuit useless.
• The High Priest decided to negotiate for control of the pure law origin and offered to discuss compensation, while Cheng Buzheng prepared one of his remaining paper figures as a speaking proxy.
• Cheng Buzheng’s paper puppet demanded the Path Pivot Cushion, and the High Priest refused because it was the array’s foundational core, offering the supreme Formation Artifact instead.
• The High Priest secretly traced the puppet’s voice to a spatial node, but the aura dispersed as another decoy, so he refrained from attacking it.
• Cheng Buzheng said he understood the High Priest could not surrender the Dao opportunity and demanded the other cushion, the one Island-Moving had left with a hidden trick.

Cheng Buzheng pressed the Purgatory Clan’s High Priest for further concessions in exchange for repairing the cushion, ultimately demanding the Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River. The High Priest accepted despite his anger and heartache, leaving Cheng Buzheng with the supreme Formation Artifact as the deal’s final price.

• The High Priest agreed to hand over control of the crimson runes formed from the Purgatory Clan’s Divine Envoys and priests.
• Cheng Buzheng reconsidered asking for Law Spiritual Items and instead decided to demand the Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River.
• The High Priest warned that this would be Cheng Buzheng’s final demand and threatened to destroy the deal if he pushed further.
• Cheng Buzheng demanded Island-Moving Venerable’s Formation Artifact, claiming he would return it to the Venerable’s descendants.
• The High Priest struggled with the loss of the treasure but agreed to Cheng Buzheng’s demand.

Cheng Buzheng completed a Heart Demon Great Oath transaction with the High Priest, receiving the genuine Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River and a Jade Slip containing the scarlet-rune control method. After discovering the runes imprisoned sacrificed Purgatory Clan experts, he tested the method and successfully seized control, then faced the task of finding where Island-Moving Venerable had tampered with the cushion.

• Cheng Buzheng and the High Priest agreed to the transaction details and each swore a Heart Demon Great Oath.
• The High Priest sent Cheng Buzheng the blood-colored Jade Slip and the Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River, then began guarding himself inside a golden light cocoon.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected the river and confirmed it was the genuine Formation Artifact once held by Island-Moving Venerable.
• Cheng Buzheng read the Jade Slip and learned that the scarlet runes imprisoned the flesh, souls, and Dao foundations of sacrificed Purgatory Clan experts.
• Cheng Buzheng used the recorded method on the cushion, awakened its scarlet runes, and successfully brought them under his control.
• Cheng Buzheng turned to the next challenge: finding where Island-Moving Venerable had tampered with the cushion.

Cheng Buzheng used the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye to inspect the silent cushion and its invisible passage for a hidden contingency left by Island-Moving Venerable. He found no alteration in either passage, concluded the problem was likely in the cushion, and began examining its Array Patterns.

• Cheng Buzheng suspected Island-Moving Venerable had tampered with the cushion or its invisible passage, then raised a golden barrier to guard against the High Priest while he investigated.
• The High Priest noticed Cheng Buzheng's use of the Great Array and dismissed his attempt to repair it as futile before returning to his own cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng activated the Heavenly Luo Divine Eye and painstakingly searched the invisible passage beneath his cushion for an unnatural trace.
• After finding the passage identical to the corresponding structure in the incomplete Array Diagram, Cheng Buzheng compared it with the High Priest's passage and found both were identical.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the problem likely lay in the cushion, then saw crimson runes of a different structure within its Array Patterns.

Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Small Plate to analyze the invisible passage and the cushion, hoping to uncover the Island-Moving Venerable’s hidden tampering. The deductions revealed no usable flaw, leaving him convinced the alteration lay within the Upper Realm Dao Wen that he could not decipher.

• Cheng Buzheng failed to find an irregularity in the array patterns and compared the cushion before him with the High Priest’s, finding them identical.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Small Plate to optimize the invisible passage’s array blueprint, then studied the changes for evidence of a hidden back door.
• Cheng Buzheng submitted the cushion’s construction diagram to the Small Plate and tested each optimized array pattern, but found only improvements to its efficiency and pressure resistance.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the Island-Moving Venerable’s tampering was likely hidden within the Upper Realm Dao Wen, which the Small Plate could not analyze and he could not decipher.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that Island-Moving Venerable had hidden forged Dao Wen in the array diagrams and the array-foundation cushion. After removing the false marks, he restored the cushion’s connection to Blood Law Origin and comprehended the first strand of the Great Dao of Blood.

• Cheng Buzheng spotted that the Dao Wen in the Small Plate’s construction diagram lacked the natural resonance of true Dao Wen and suspected Island-Moving Venerable had planted a trap.
• Cheng Buzheng tested his suspicion by forming an array, whose lively response confirmed that the apparent Dao Wen were false additions.
• Cheng Buzheng’s avatar used seal techniques to reveal and destroy the forged Dao Wen on the array-foundation cushion, leaving its true Array Patterns unharmed.
• The cushion regained its ability to connect to and refine vast quantities of Blood Law Origin, which surged back into it.
• Cheng Buzheng sat on the cushion, comprehended the foundational rhythm of the Great Dao of Blood, and awakened a new true intent of the Dao.

Cheng Buzheng’s Dharma body activated the hidden cushion and began rapidly comprehending the Blood Law, astonishing Sha Minghong and the High Priest. Bound by his Heart Demon Great Oath, the High Priest could not interfere and instead competed with Cheng Buzheng to absorb the cushion’s insights, while Cheng Buzheng’s true body watched his Blood Law progress and hoped to reach the Rune Realm.

• Sha Minghong realized Cheng Buzheng had uncovered the hidden method in the formation and was astonished when Cheng Buzheng entered the Law Particle Realm in moments.
• The High Priest sensed Cheng Buzheng’s newly awakened Blood Law and recognized that he had repaired and activated the cushion’s hidden passage.
• The High Priest suppressed his desire to kill Cheng Buzheng because the Heart Demon Great Oath would destroy his Dao foundation if he interfered.
• The High Priest and Cheng Buzheng’s Dharma body focused on absorbing the cushion’s insights, racing to deepen their comprehension of the laws.
• Cheng Buzheng’s true body watched the Blood Law value on his panel rise and hoped his Dharma body would soon reach the Rune Realm.

Cheng Buzheng struggled to advance his Chaos Law and continued deciphering ancient Dao Wen while recovering his mental strength. Sha Minghong decided to pursue a Half-Venerable breakthrough and searched for a suitable foundation, rejecting one cultivation method as too limited.

• Cheng Buzheng attempted to comprehend the Chaos Law but found that advancing into its second Rune Realm made progress vastly harder in the resource-poor world.
• Cheng Buzheng alternated between recovering his mental strength, probing the source of Laws, and deciphering the ancient Dao Wen.
• Sha Minghong watched two golden-lit figures in a secret mirror, then dismissed the mirror and resolved to prioritize breaking through to the Half-Venerable Realm.
• Sha Minghong reflected that his destroyed Law Treasure Body offered a chance to rebuild his foundation and considered rare innate treasures, but judged them nearly impossible to obtain in this world.
• Sha Minghong reviewed methods for combining Innate Gang Sha and Earthly Turbid Qi and rejected the Heavenly Thunder God-Burning Art as an unbalanced foundation with limited potential.

Sha Minghong chose the Myriad Phenomena All-Encompassing Method as his path toward a supreme Dao foundation and ordered the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan to search the True Dragon Sea for its ingredients and lost Spirit Realm Heavenly Books. He went to the clan’s forbidden ground, where a guardian elder barred his way, and declared that he would enter regardless.

• Sha Minghong recalled that the Myriad Phenomena All-Encompassing Method could rival Innate Origin Qi if he gathered 365 unique kinds each of Innate Gang Sha and Earthly Turbid Qi.
• Sha Minghong resolved to search the True Dragon Sea and mobilize the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan to uncover the required materials and lost Heavenly Books.
• Sha Minghong traveled to the clan’s supreme forbidden ground, where dark-purple formations crushed the sea beasts gathering at its entrance.
• A white-bearded clan elder appeared and demanded that Sha Minghong present the Ancestor’s decree before entering.
• Sha Minghong refused to turn back and challenged the elder to stop him.

Sha Minghong confronted five Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan elders guarding their forbidden inheritance ground and revealed power far beyond their expectations. After erasing their combined attack, he trapped them in a scarlet blood-curse cage, where an elder began lecturing him.

• The white-bearded clan elder attacked Sha Minghong with demonic pressure, but Sha Minghong remained unmoved and called for the hidden elders to show themselves.
• Four more clan elders emerged and warned Sha Minghong that ancestral precepts barred him from entering the forbidden ground without the Demon Venerable's decree.
• Sha Minghong challenged the elders to attack, and all five Half-Venerable elders unleashed a combined assault that he extinguished with a single word.
• The elders assumed Sha Minghong had relied on a temporary secret treasure, but he emerged unharmed and promised to return their attack.
• Sha Minghong summoned a scarlet blood-curse cage that trapped all five elders before they could react.
• An elder inside the cage dismissed it as a mere barrier and began lecturing Sha Minghong about respecting stronger foes.