Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng raided the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s treasure hall, uncovering rare treasures that could transform the Cheng Immortal Clan’s fortunes. After identifying the legendary Myriad Spirits Venerable Seal, he suspected the Golden Flood Dragon Clan had destroyed the ancient Myriad Spirits Sect in revenge for imprisoning its members.

• Cheng Buzheng gathered the records from the treasure hall and used his Heavenly Luo Divine Eye and formation expertise to break the protective Restrictions.
• He identified a strange black-and-white ore as an ancient treasure and stored it separately for later investigation.
• He recognized a five-colored crystal as the legendary Five-Colored Spirit Crystal, a treasure that could help cultivators break through bottlenecks, and secured it for the Cheng Immortal Clan.
• Cheng Buzheng shattered the Restrictions on the hall’s hundreds of shelves and began inspecting the revealed Magic Treasures, pills, herbs, and other valuables.
• Cheng Buzheng identified an ancient seal as the genuine Myriad Spirits Venerable Seal, once the supreme treasure of the Myriad Spirits Sect.
• Cheng Buzheng recalled an old account of the Myriad Spirit Sect imprisoning Golden Flood Dragons and suspected the Golden Flood Dragon Clan had annihilated the sect in retaliation.

Cheng Buzheng uncovered powerful treasures in the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s vault, including lost relics that suggested the clan had slain their former owners. He then opened an ancient pill bottle and discovered that even a trace of its contents dramatically improved his Dharma body’s comprehension of laws.

• Cheng Buzheng found the Myriad Spirits Venerable Seal and concluded that the Golden Flood Dragon Clan had been deeply involved in the destruction of the Myriad Spirits Sect.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized a bronze mirror as the Nine Dragons Annihilation Mirror, the life-bound treasure of Nine Dragons Half-Venerable, and suspected the Golden Flood Dragon Clan had killed its former owner.
• Cheng Buzheng examined the vault’s other treasures, identifying the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and finding that many powerful artifacts had been made from Golden Flood Dragon remains or belonged to people the clan had slain.
• Cheng Buzheng inspected the sealed bottles and jars, then opened a jade bottle containing a five-colored Spirit Pill.
• Cheng Buzheng resealed the pill after its escaping fragrance sharply increased his Dharma body’s comprehension of the Law of Blood from billions of miles away.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that a bottle in the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s secret treasury held authentic Spirit Resonance Pills, which could improve Murong Wanwan’s chances of reaching the Spirit Transformation realm. He continued examining the ancient pills and recognized several rare or dangerous formulas, including a pill that could grant a thousand years of lifespan.

• Cheng Buzheng identified the first bottle’s pills as authentic Spirit Resonance Pills and realized they could give Murong Wanwan a better chance of comprehending laws and breaking through.
• Cheng Buzheng secured the Spirit Resonance Pills in his Storage Bag under several layers of Restrictions, then opened a Big-Bellied Round Bottle and examined its unusual pill.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the pill fused fire-aspect Earthly Turbid Qi and Innate Gang Sha into its origin, likely reflecting ancient cultivators’ use of abundant resources to save time.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized another pill as a Nine Mountains Pill, a body-tempering treasure with dangerous effects on cultivators using modern cultivation methods.
• Cheng Buzheng identified a Flying Dragon Pill, whose formula had been banned after the Golden Flood Dragon Clan purged the factions that developed it.
• Cheng Buzheng examined a Thousand-Year Lifespan Pill that could grant a thousand years of life even to cultivators who had exhausted the effects of other lifespan-increasing treasures.

Cheng Buzheng explored the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s stores and uncovered rare treasures, including a life-saving pill, vast quantities of breakthrough resources, and an unidentified sword-path spirit herb. He stored each item safely, still unable to determine the herb’s exact identity.

• Cheng Buzheng identified a Spirit Pill as an Earth Treasury Essence-Resolving Pill and stored it away.
• Cheng Buzheng opened a sealed white-jade jar, recognized its contents as exceptionally high-quality Purple Ding Gang Sha, and secured it.
• Cheng Buzheng inventoried more than one hundred and thirty-seven types of Innate Gang Sha and two hundred and nine portions of Earthly Turbid Qi in the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s collection.
• Cheng Buzheng examined a platinum-white spiritual grass sealed in crystal and concluded that it was a rare treasure related to the sword, though he could not identify it with certainty.
• Cheng Buzheng placed the spiritual grass in a cold-jade Jade Box, sealed it, and stored it in his Storage Bag.

Cheng Buzheng discovered several rare spirit medicines in the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s secret treasury, including the Cloud Brocade Umbrella Herb and a Phoenix Blood Vine Grass he intended for Wanwan. After collecting the remaining shelf treasures, he examined the treasury’s core Restrictions and found them weakened, leaving him ready to break through to the clan’s greatest hoard.

• Cheng Buzheng identified the Cloud Brocade Umbrella Herb as a medicine capable of restoring a cultivator’s body, soul, and lifespan, then resealed and stored it.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized a phoenix-marked medicine as Phoenix Blood Vine Grass rather than the genuine Blood Phoenix Grass and decided Wanwan might use it to improve her fire affinity and chances of reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Cheng Buzheng collected Glazed Iceheart Grass, Jade Pure Snow Lotus Grass, and the other remaining medicines from the shelf.
• Cheng Buzheng turned his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes on the vault’s dragon-shaped Restrictions and determined that the damaged Great Array had left them too weak to stop him.

Cheng Buzheng deciphered the Flood Dragon Pearl Sacrificial Method and considered adapting its principles for the Cheng Immortal Clan. He then discovered that the secret treasury’s starry river contained genuine law Spiritual Items and began searching its remaining treasures.

• Cheng Buzheng broke the restriction around a golden Flood Dragon phantom and obtained an ancient Jade Slip containing the Flood Dragon Pearl Sacrificial Method.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the method fused a law Spiritual Item with a Golden Flood Dragon’s pearl and sacrificed the user’s power to unleash the item’s laws.
• Cheng Buzheng considered combining the method with the Purgatory Clan’s Progenitor's Blessing to create a bloodline secret art for the Cheng Immortal Clan, but recognized that law Spiritual Items were too rare for widespread use.
• Cheng Buzheng considered using small amounts of law source for cultivation assistance as well as a final attack, potentially giving the clan another path to cultivate powerful protectors.
• Cheng Buzheng shattered another golden Flood Dragon phantom and discovered an emerald crystal that he identified as a Wood Law Spiritual Item.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the starry river was the secret treasury’s true core treasure and began examining its remaining Flood Dragon phantoms.

Cheng Buzheng broke open the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s starry treasury and claimed several Law Spiritual Items and a silver page containing the [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art]. After learning the art’s immense power and steep cost, he turned to examine the clan’s remaining inheritance Jade Slips.

• Cheng Buzheng shattered the golden Flood Dragon restrictions and drew out an azure pearl containing water laws.
• Cheng Buzheng emptied the remaining starry restrictions and discovered an earth-law ore, six Jade Slips, and a silver page among the treasures.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the mysterious-yellow ore as a Law Spiritual Item and recalled how a similar ore had led him to the [Primordial Chaos Qi].
• Cheng Buzheng refined the blank silver page with the [Ruyi Refinement Method] and revealed the [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art].
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the art could convert sacrificed resources into cultivation and Law comprehension, but wasted most of their energy.
• Cheng Buzheng stored the silver page and prepared to inspect the six inheritance Jade Slips.

Cheng Buzheng looted the secret treasuries of several peak clans, then headed toward the Sea Suppressing Alliance with a haul of rare treasures and a Silver Page Heavenly Book. A sudden spatial catastrophe engulfed him, and he realized his Storage Bag was in danger.

• Cheng Buzheng found the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s bloodline methods disappointing, erased all traces of his presence in its vault, and traveled to the Sea Serpent Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• Cheng Buzheng found little of value in the Sea Serpent Clan’s vault, then raided several other peak clans’ treasuries over the next day and night.
• Cheng Buzheng tallied his gains, including five law-based Spiritual Items and a Silver Page Heavenly Book, and planned to distribute or use the remaining treasures for his family and natal Spiritual Treasure.
• Cheng Buzheng encountered a vast collapse of space that flooded the spatial interlayer with destructive turbulence.
• Cheng Buzheng noticed the disaster threatening his Storage Bag and prepared to respond.

Cheng Buzheng was swept into a violent spatial current but protected his Storage Bag and chose to drift rather than damage his law origin trying to escape. Elsewhere, Zhao Old Devil defeated a middle-aged demonic cultivator, who detonated himself and destabilized his own Spirit Vein, leaving Zhao Old Devil facing an impending eruption.

• Cheng Buzheng was swallowed by a spatial current, but his divine ability and Magic Power kept his Storage Bag intact.
• Cheng Buzheng judged that resisting the current would risk his law origin, so he let himself drift while searching for coordinates and watching for danger.
• Zhao Old Devil overwhelmed the wounded middle-aged demonic cultivator and prepared a killing strike with his demonic saber.
• The middle-aged demonic cultivator burned his life and divine-soul foundation, then self-destructed to take Zhao Old Devil with him.
• Zhao Old Devil survived the blast but discovered that the destroyed mountain peak’s uncontrolled Spirit Vein was erupting into a chain reaction.

After witnessing the destruction of a Spirit Vein, Cheng Buzheng considered intervening in the Cultivation World's chaos as a Rogue Cultivator, but postponed his decision. More than a month later, Sha Minghong seized the Dragon Tomb Secret Realm's keys from its Golden Flood Dragon Clan guards and began opening the way inside.

• Cheng Buzheng emerged from the spatial turbulence into the ruined basin and saw that the Spirit Vein's destruction had devastated the region.
• Cheng Buzheng weighed using his Spirit Transformation strength to impose rules as a Rogue Cultivator, balancing the benefits against the risks to White Cloud Sect and his clan.
• Cheng Buzheng decided to deliberate further and vanished from the basin.
• More than a month later, Sha Minghong appeared outside the Dragon Tomb Secret Realm and dragged two Golden Flood Dragon Clan Half-Venerables from their cave.
• Sha Minghong searched the elders' souls, took their two dragon-shaped command talismans, and killed them with his blood-red chains.
• Sha Minghong fused the talismans and activated a dark-gold vortex at the Canyon's center before stepping toward it.

Sha Minghong discovered that the Dragon Tomb Treasure Vault had been emptied and concluded that an unknown Spirit Transformation cultivator had stolen its treasures. A year later, as the Cultivation World descended further into chaos, Cheng Buzheng's avatar returned to Ping'an City and handed the main body the silver page and its other gains.

• Sha Minghong found the Dragon Tomb Treasure Vault bare and reasoned that a hidden Spirit Transformation cultivator had overcome the Secret Realm's defenses and erased the guards' memories.
• Sha Minghong dismissed the Nightmare Clan cultivator and the clan traitor as suspects because both were occupied in the Forbidden Sea, then vowed to find the unknown thief.
• Sha Minghong worried that the missing treasure would provoke his clan elders and expeditionary army, but stabilized them by suppressing unrest and redistributing benefits.
• Over the following year, the Cultivation World grew more chaotic, while the Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan's army conquered rival clans but repeatedly found their inheritance vaults empty.
• Cheng Buzheng's avatar returned from the True Dragon Sea to Ping'an City and handed the main body its gains, including the silver page from the Golden Flood Dragon Clan's Treasure Vault.

Cheng Buzheng deciphered and fully mastered the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art through his own effort, condensing its origin rune and binding it to his divine soul. After recovering, he returned to studying Dao Wen and discovered that his cultivation progress had reached 79.7% of the Spirit Transformation Realm mid stage.

• Cheng Buzheng continued investigating the incomplete Law Treasure Body method while his dharma incarnations guarded the White Cloud Sect and studied the Blood Law.
• Cheng Buzheng used the Ruyi Refinement Method to reveal and study the silver Dao Wen from the Golden Flood Dragon Clan's Dragon Tomb Secret Realm.
• After more than a year of study, Cheng Buzheng mastered the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art and condensed its origin rune without using the Creation Small Plate.
• Cheng Buzheng absorbed the origin rune into his Sea of Consciousness, then rested for a month to recover his mental strength.
• Cheng Buzheng resumed deciphering Dao Wen and inspected his panel, which showed his Spirit Transformation Realm cultivation at 79.7% and the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art among his Law Secret Arts.

Cheng Buzheng reviewed his progress in the Law of Blood and his plans to complete a Law Treasure Body method before ascending, then tested the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art on Violet Radiance Spirit Sand. The art rapidly converted the item into cultivation progress but wasted nearly forty percent of its essence, leaving Cheng Buzheng impressed by its power and wary of its cost.

• Cheng Buzheng concluded that he could likely perfect the second realm of the Law of Blood but could not reach its third realm in the short time remaining.
• Cheng Buzheng resolved to decipher the incomplete Law Treasure Body method and use the Small Plate and pure law essence to deduce a method suited to himself.
• Cheng Buzheng set aside law Spiritual Items for reshaping his spiritual roots, supporting Murong Wan, and potentially helping talented Cheng Family descendants.
• Cheng Buzheng used Violet Radiance Spirit Sand to test the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art, which converted its essence into Spirit Transformation Magic Power and raised his cultivation progress from 79.71% to 79.80%.
• Cheng Buzheng estimated that nearly forty percent of the Spiritual Item's essence had been lost, but recognized that the art could rapidly turn stored resources into cultivation or battle power.

Cheng Buzheng discovered that the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art converted mineral essence far more efficiently than Spirit Medicine, then spent half a year cultivating in seclusion. Meanwhile, his dharma body and the Purgatory Clan High Priest reached the final stage of comprehending the Blood Law as the Progenitor’s remaining origin ran dry, beginning their ultimate contest.

• Cheng Buzheng tested the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art on a Crystal Orchid and found it yielded far less cultivation progress than Violet Radiance Spirit Sand.
• Cheng Buzheng considered testing other materials and treasure fragments but abandoned further research because rare resources were scarce.
• Cheng Buzheng resumed studying Dao Wen in his secret chamber and remained in seclusion for half a year.
• In the Forbidden Sea, a golden spirit fish and a pursuing monster were annihilated after entering the lethal force field beneath the dividing line.
• Cheng Buzheng’s dharma body and the Purgatory Clan High Priest absorbed the last of the Purgatory Clan Progenitor’s Blood Law origin.
• With the origin exhausted, Cheng Buzheng’s dharma body and the High Priest focused their wills on the final comprehension and began their ultimate contest.

Cheng Buzheng perfected his Blood Law in the Second Realm and assessed the difficult paths to breaking through its bottleneck, deciding to focus on deciphering a method for forging Laws instead. His dharma body emerged from meditation in the Forbidden Sea and nearly attacked the High Priest, but the High Priest also completed his retreat, leaving the two facing one another.

• Cheng Buzheng completed his Blood Law at the perfected level of the Second Realm and recognized that his progress toward the Third Realm had slowed sharply.
• Cheng Buzheng considered four possible ways to break through the Law bottleneck, then chose to postpone the attempt and prioritize deciphering the incomplete method of forging Laws.
• Cheng Buzheng's dharma body awakened inside its golden Light Cocoon in the Forbidden Sea, dismissed the formation's protective barrier, and emerged.
• Cheng Buzheng's dharma body considered using the Great Array to ambush the High Priest while he remained in seclusion, but the High Priest's Light Cocoon began to stir.
• The High Priest emerged from his Light Cocoon, and he and Cheng Buzheng's dharma body faced each other across the sea.

Cheng Buzheng and the Purgatory Clan High Priest avoided a fight and bargained over control of the Great Array governing the Forbidden Sea. The High Priest offered his complete Law Treasure Body method to tempt Cheng Buzheng, who was visibly shaken, while the High Priest secretly planned to exploit the time it would take him to understand it.

• The High Priest judged Cheng Buzheng too dangerous to fight without certainty and proposed that they withdraw rather than battle.
• Cheng Buzheng agreed to avoid fighting, weighing the cost of exhausting his law origin against the benefits of staying alive.
• The High Priest offered three high-quality law Spiritual Items for Cheng Buzheng's array authority, but Cheng Buzheng refused and warned that he would not entrust his life to the High Priest.
• The High Priest asked about the flaws in lower-realm cultivation foundations, prompting Cheng Buzheng to suspect he possessed a Law Treasure Body forging method.
• The High Priest confirmed that he possessed the complete, unabridged method, while secretly counting on its ancient script to keep Cheng Buzheng occupied for centuries.

Cheng Buzheng rejected the High Priest’s offer to exchange the Forbidden Sea Great Array’s authority for a complete Law Treasure Body method, even after the High Priest pledged a Heart Demon Great Oath. Suspecting hidden dangers in the unusually generous terms, Cheng Buzheng ended negotiations, leaving the High Priest’s schemes thwarted and his killing intent suppressed.

• Cheng Buzheng resisted his desire for the Law Treasure Body method because surrendering array authority could put his ascension and life in the High Priest’s hands.
• Cheng Buzheng told the High Priest he could not agree to the exchange because the Great Array’s authority was essential to his Immortal Path.
• The High Priest offered to make a Heart Demon Great Oath promising not to obstruct Cheng Buzheng’s ascension, and renewed his offer of the Blood God Body method.
• Cheng Buzheng questioned why the High Priest would pay such a high price and suspected the offer concealed a secret or a hidden trap.
• Cheng Buzheng refused to gamble with his Dao path and declared the negotiations over, while the High Priest suppressed his killing intent.

Cheng Buzheng and the High Priest agreed to bind themselves with a Heart Demon Great Oath that prohibited either from secretly increasing control over the Great Array. Both concealed plans to gain the upper hand, and after the oath was sworn, they agreed to shut down the array before parting.

• The High Priest proposed a Heart Demon Great Oath to prevent either side from secretly raising their authority over the Great Array, and Cheng Buzheng accepted after reviewing the contract.
• The High Priest secretly relied on a rare treasure that could conceal or evade the oath’s backlash, while Cheng Buzheng believed the revised terms were safe.
• The High Priest and Cheng Buzheng swore the oath, which bound Cheng Buzheng’s true body in Ping'an City as well as his Dharma body in the Forbidden Sea.
• The High Priest prepared to leave for Purgatory Continent, but Cheng Buzheng asked him to help shut down the Great Array so the Forbidden Sea’s passageways would reopen.
• The High Priest agreed, secretly welcoming the chance to infiltrate the dormant array and erode Cheng Buzheng’s control.

Cheng Buzheng suspected the High Priest had hidden motives after they jointly deactivated the Great Array, so he devised a dormant Soul Puppet alarm to detect any attempt to seize control of it. After searching the Forbidden Sea for a sensitive array node, he prepared the Puppet to hide inside it.

• Cheng Buzheng and the High Priest used their array authority to deactivate the Great Array, then Cheng Buzheng left while the High Priest vowed to kill him once he gained full control.
• While traveling through the spatial turbulence layer, Cheng Buzheng questioned the High Priest’s quick agreement and devised a concealed Soul Puppet that would alert him to abnormal array activity.
• Cheng Buzheng returned to the Forbidden Sea and searched for a node near the High Priest’s authority where changes in the array would be detected quickly.
• Cheng Buzheng found a concealed conversion node with a stable inner space and manifested its exterior using his array authority.
• Cheng Buzheng brought out a small wooden Puppet and inscribed it with spatially isolating patterns, preparing it for its role as an alarm.

Cheng Buzheng secretly placed a concealed Soul Puppet inside a spatial node to monitor it, then left the Forbidden Sea. Believing the mysterious cultivator had departed, the High Priest gathered the surviving Temple experts, announced the deaths of the Divine Envoys and Priests, and ordered preparations for the Guiding Array while postponing his attempt to seize the array’s remaining authority.

• Cheng Buzheng sent a specially made Soul Puppet into the spatial node, where it concealed itself and linked to the surviving array patterns and central Dao Wen.
• Cheng Buzheng erased the visible point of light and returned toward the sea as the hidden Soul Puppet began its surveillance.
• The High Priest decided to wait before increasing his authority over the grand array, fearing the mysterious Spirit Transformation Mortal Cultivator might still be nearby.
• The High Priest summoned the Temple’s surviving experts and revealed that the other Divine Envoys, Priests, and Grand Divine Envoy had fallen in the battle.
• The High Priest promised to lead the Purgatory Clan against the human and demon races after his breakthrough, and ordered the experts to gather Spirit Materials for the Guiding Array and prepare sacrifices.