Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao escaped East Yue Continent after defeating the Nascent Soul cultivators pursuing him, while the Taiyue and Guyang Sects sought Deity Transformation help to kill him. He reached East Cloud Continent and returned to the War Merit Palace, but a Nascent Soul ninth-level cultivator detected his lingering aura and alerted the local cultivators to prepare an ambush.

• Wu Tao avoided the Taiyue Divine Sect and other Nascent Soul sects as he fled toward East Cloud Continent, while Qi Yue returned to the Taiyue Divine Sect and reported Gu Tianling’s death.
• Guard Fang told Qi Yue that Divine Monarch Tianyue was at a critical stage of cultivation and would not intervene, then heard Qi Yue explain Wu Tao’s strength and the deaths of Gu Tianling and Xiao Tiandao.
• Two Guyang Sect Nascent Soul ninth-level cultivators returned and told the sect master that Wu Tao had defeated their group, prompting the sect master to ask Tianyang Divine Monarch to pursue him.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch left the Guyang Sect to hunt Wu Tao, but Wu Tao had already reached East Cloud Continent and returned to the War Merit Palace to meet Wen Xingrui.
• A Nascent Soul ninth-level cultivator detected Wu Tao’s lingering aura at his departure point and sent transmission talismans summoning East Cloud Continent’s Nascent Soul cultivators to encircle him.

Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui were ambushed by Dongyun Continent cultivators but fought their way out, killing several opponents before fleeing toward Dongping Province. Tianyang Divine Monarch pursued them and appeared ahead, leaving the master and disciple to realize they had encountered a Deity Transformation Sovereign.

• Wu Tao met Wen Xingrui in the War Merit Palace, and they returned together to Dongyun Continent to rendezvous with Divine Monarch Kaiyang.
• Dongyun Continent cultivators ambushed Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui, but the pair used their magic treasures to resist the encirclement.
• Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui killed several cultivators, including Nascent Soul Level 9 opponents, then escaped as the survivors fled.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch arrived at the battlefield, learned which way the pair had gone, and pursued them toward Dongping Continent.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch evaded Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui's Divine Sense and waited ahead of them in the void.
• Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui spotted the middle-aged man hovering nearby and realized he was a Deity Transformation Sovereign.

Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui encountered Tianyang Divine Monarch, a Deity Transformation Sovereign, who imprisoned them, but Master Nail lent Wu Tao power so he could resist. Wu Tao sent Wen Xingrui to the War Merit Palace and battled Tianyang Divine Monarch, breaking his sun divine ability before being blasted back by the Sun-Radiance Treasure Mirror.

• Tianyang Divine Monarch imprisoned Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui and questioned them about their cultivation world, so Wen Xingrui told him they came from the Three Realms.
• Wu Tao called on the Coffin Nail, which lent him black light but warned that revealing itself would bring greater trouble.
• Wu Tao broke free of Tianyang Divine Monarch's imprisonment, blocked his attack, and sent Wen Xingrui tens of thousands of li away to return to the War Merit Palace.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch summoned a great sun with his Sun-Transforming Divine Ability Great Art, but Wu Tao shattered it with black-light-coated fists.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch used the Sun-Radiance Treasure Mirror to strike Wu Tao with a pillar of sunlight, blasting him back ten thousand li without injuring him.

With Master Nail lending him power, Wu Tao fought Tianyang Divine Monarch across Dongyun Continent and killed him after the Sovereign tried to flee. Wu Tao was left with Tianyang Divine Monarch’s treasure mirror, Storage Bag, and shattered defensive treasure.

• Wu Tao attacked Tianyang Divine Monarch with Shatter Star and black-light Flying Swords, destroying the Sovereign’s three suns and sacrificing eighteen fourth-rank Flying Swords.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch tried to summon three Deity Transformation Sovereigns for help, but Wu Tao’s black light devoured the message before it could reach them.
• Master Nail warned Wu Tao that he would lend power only to kill one Deity Transformation, so Wu Tao stopped Tianyang Divine Monarch from summoning reinforcements.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch pretended to keep fighting, then fled toward the central region of Dongyun Continent while Wu Tao pursued him with a storm of black arrows.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch’s golden-yellow barrier and fifth-tier Defensive Magic Robe withstood the arrow rain, but Wu Tao caught up and cut him apart with a giant black sword.
• Tianyang Divine Monarch vanished, leaving behind his Storage Bag, treasure mirror, and fragments of his golden-yellow protective barrier.

Wu Tao killed Tianyang Divine Monarch with Master Nail’s power, earned ten thousand war merits, and fled East Cloud Continent with Wen Xingrui. After the Coffin Nail withdrew its power, Wu Tao and his master hid in the War Merit Palace, where Wu Tao prepared to exchange his rewards and cultivate.

• Wu Tao collected Tianyang Divine Monarch’s Sunlight Treasure Mirror, Storage Bag, and golden fragments, then saw his war merits rise to 21,592 after the kill.
• Wu Tao returned to the War Merit Palace and met Tianmo Guquan, who recognized him and decided to avoid conflict with him in the future.
• Wu Tao told Wen Xingrui that he had killed Tianyang Divine Monarch, and the two escaped East Cloud Continent using Master Nail’s power.
• After the Coffin Nail withdrew its power near Dongsheng Continent, Wu Tao and Wen Xingrui entered the War Merit Palace to hide and cultivate.
• Wu Tao found he could not refine the Sun Brilliance Treasure Mirror or open Tianyang Divine Monarch’s Storage Bag, then went to exchange his war merits.
• The War Merit Palace Spirit praised Wu Tao’s achievement, warned him against arrogance, and said he was the 1,932nd Nascent Soul cultivator recorded to slay a Deity Transformation Sovereign.

Wu Tao bought an entry token and a guide to the Origin Spirit Secret Realm, then studied its dangers and began refining the golden spiritual-object fragments left from his battle with Tianyang Divine Monarch. A month later, he had assembled the fragments into a golden shell around himself, while East Cloud Continent’s three Deity Transformation Sovereigns remained unaware that Tianyang had died.

• Wu Tao exchanged twenty thousand war merits for an Origin Spirit Secret Realm token and another one thousand for the War Merit Palace Spirit’s guide, which promised he could gain two minor realms if he followed its advice.
• The War Merit Palace Spirit warned Wu Tao to avoid the secret realm’s depths, and after Wu Tao left, admitted he planned to use future visitors’ reports to improve and raise the guide’s price.
• Wu Tao read that the secret realm contained origin spirits, powerful Evil Spirits, dangerous regions, and possibly a fifth-rank origin spirit in its depths.
• Wu Tao tested the golden fragments from Tianyang Divine Monarch’s shattered defensive spiritual object and began refining them into an additional layer of protection.
• Three Deity Transformation Sovereigns from East Cloud Continent investigated the lingering auras at Tianyang’s battlefield but mistakenly concluded he had survived and returned to their Sects.
• After a month of refining the fragments, Wu Tao commanded them to merge, and they formed a giant golden egg around him.

Wu Tao entered the Origin Spirit Secret Realm to devour Origin Spirits and advance his Nascent Soul cultivation, raising his progress to 93% of the way to Nascent Soul Level 5 in two days. He found a Tier 7 Origin Spirit that could complete his breakthrough, but Xiang Ziheng challenged him for it.

• Wu Tao activated his entry token, entered the Origin Spirit Secret Realm, and identified his landing site as the relatively safe Eagle Mountain Region.
• Wu Tao searched beyond the Eagle Mountain Region, captured a hidden Tier 4 Origin Spirit, and refined it to gain 4% cultivation progress.
• Wu Tao used a guide to find areas rich in Origin Spirits and, over two days, refined enough to bring his cultivation progress to 93%.
• Wu Tao spotted a Tier 7 Mud Giant Origin Spirit and attacked, expecting to break through to Nascent Soul Level 5 after refining it.
• Xiang Ziheng attacked the Mud Giant with his own Flying Sword and angrily accused Wu Tao of trying to take his Origin Spirit.

Wu Tao defeated Xiang Ziheng while competing for a seventh-level Origin Spirit Earth Giant, then spared him in exchange for two ninth-level Origin Spirits and bound him with the Life-Strangling Lock. Wu Tao gave Xiang Ziheng a Transmission Talisman and five days to fulfill the deal.

• Xiang Ziheng interrupted Wu Tao's attempt to capture the seventh-level Origin Spirit Earth Giant and demanded that Wu Tao leave it to him.
• Wu Tao challenged Xiang Ziheng, overwhelmed him with magical treasures, and captured the Earth Giant as Xiang Ziheng tried to flee.
• Xiang Ziheng offered a fourth-level Origin Spirit and proposed capturing more Origin Spirits in exchange for his life.
• Wu Tao demanded two ninth-level Origin Spirits, accepted Xiang Ziheng's Life-Strangling Lock, and used it to control Xiang Ziheng's Nascent Soul.
• Wu Tao gave Xiang Ziheng a Transmission Talisman and ordered him to capture the promised Origin Spirits within five days.

Wu Tao broke through to Nascent Soul Level 5 after forcing Xiang Ziheng to capture two Level 9 Origin Spirits in exchange for his life. While hunting again, Wu Tao pursued an Eighth Rank Origin Spirit but found that a Xuyang Sect cultivator had caught it first.

• Wu Tao returned Xiang Ziheng's Flying Sword and gave him five days to deliver two Level 9 Origin Spirits before he would remove the Life-Strangling Lock.
• After Xiang Ziheng left to seek Origin Spirits, Wu Tao set up a Tier 4 defensive array and refined a Seventh Rank Origin Spirit, breaking through to Nascent Soul Level 5 and increasing his divine sense to 12,400 li.
• Wu Tao refined a Tier 4 Origin Spirit, then left to hunt for more Origin Spirits.
• Xiang Ziheng contacted four fellow Xuyang Sect cultivators and hurried toward the nearest ally to arrange a trade for Origin Spirits.
• Wu Tao discovered and chased an Eighth Rank Origin Spirit disguised as a tree, but another cultivator trapped it first.
• Wu Tao recognized the other cultivator's fire-red robe as matching Xiang Ziheng's and asked whether he belonged to the Xuyang Sect.

Wu Tao defeated Liu Hai, claimed the Eighth Rank Origin Spirit, and forced him to submit to a Life-Strangling Lock and capture two Level 9 Origin Spirits alongside Xiang Ziheng. As Wu Tao prepared to refine the Eighth Rank Origin Spirit, several Evil Spirits attacked his defensive array.

• Wu Tao overwhelmed Liu Hai with his eighteen fourth-tier magic treasures and superior Divine Sense, then captured the Eighth Rank Origin Spirit while pursuing him.
• Xiang Ziheng arrived and negotiated for Liu Hai’s life, revealing that Liu Hai also had a Life-Strangling Lock and agreeing that he and Liu Hai would deliver two Level 9 Origin Spirits within five days.
• Liu Hai surrendered his Life-Strangling Lock, and Wu Tao controlled him before leaving Xiang Ziheng and Liu Hai to hunt Origin Spirits.
• Wu Tao set up a Tier 4 Defensive Array and prepared to refine the Eighth Rank Origin Spirit.
• Several Evil Spirits attacked Wu Tao’s array, interrupting his preparations.

Wu Tao annihilated four Evil Spirits and continued searching the Origin Spirit Secret Realm, while Xiang Ziheng captured a Level 9 Origin Spirit to pay off his debt to Wu Tao. Three Blood Sect cultivators tried to seize it, and Wu Tao arrived as Xiang Ziheng was being besieged.

• Wu Tao put away his defensive formation, destroyed two Level 9 and two Level 8 Evil Spirits, then refined a Level 8 Origin Spirit and increased his cultivation progress.
• Wu Tao recalled that he had killed a Guihai Sect Nascent Soul Level Eight cultivator who attacked him over an Origin Spirit, then resumed searching.
• Xiang Ziheng trapped and captured a Level 9 Origin Spirit, hoping to collect another one and remove the Life-Strangling Lock.
• Three Blood Sect Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivators demanded Xiang Ziheng's Origin Spirit, so he fled and activated the communication talisman Wu Tao had given him.
• Wu Tao received Xiang Ziheng's message and arrived to find him besieged by the three Blood Sect cultivators, with the captured Level 9 Origin Spirit in his hand.

Wu Tao defeated three Blood Sect Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivators and forced them to work for him by using their Life-Strangling Locks. The three agreed to gather nine Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivators to take revenge, but first planned to remove their locks.

• Wu Tao arrived while Xiang Ziheng was being attacked and demanded another two Level 9 Origin Spirits in exchange for saving him.
• Wu Tao overwhelmed the Blood Sect cultivator surnamed Huang with his Magic Treasures, trapped him, and then captured the other two cultivators after they tried to flee.
• Xiang Ziheng gave Wu Tao a Level 9 Origin Spirit, and Wu Tao agreed to remove Xiang Ziheng's Life-Strangling Lock in exchange for keeping it.
• Wu Tao used Life-Strangling Locks to control all three Blood Sect cultivators and ordered each to deliver two Level 9 Origin Spirits within five days.
• The three Blood Sect cultivators discussed gathering nine Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivators to retaliate after finding a way to remove their Life-Strangling Locks.

Wu Tao refined Origin Spirits and raised his Nascent Soul cultivation close to Level Six while collecting more from captured cultivators. After accepting a partial payment from the Blood Sect cultivators, he set out to find a place to break through, unaware they had planned and abandoned an ambush.

• Wu Tao refined Origin Spirits, captured four more, and received a second Level 9 Origin Spirit from Xiang Ziheng before removing Xiang Ziheng’s Life-Strangling Lock as promised.
• Wu Tao found and captured an underground Level 9 Origin Spirit, then refined it together with Xiang Ziheng’s offering to raise his cultivation progress.
• Wu Tao’s progress reached 87% of Nascent Soul Level Five, and the Blood Sect cultivators contacted him to arrange payment for their freedom.
• The Blood Sect cultivators abandoned their ambush plan when Wu Tao refused to come to them, then drew lots to decide who would withhold one Level 9 Origin Spirit.
• Wu Tao accepted Origin Spirits from the three controlled Blood Sect cultivators, released the Life-Strangling Locks on Huang and Qian, and prepared to break through to Nascent Soul Level Six.

Wu Tao broke through to Nascent Soul Level 6 and continued cultivating in the Origin Spirit Secret Realm, while the Blood Sect’s nine Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivators prepared a trap to capture him. On the eighth day, they lured him with a message claiming Su was under attack and had found a Level 9 Origin Spirit.

• Wu Tao refined a Level 9 Origin Spirit and a Level 6 Origin Spirit, breaking through to Nascent Soul Level 6 and raising his divine sense to 13,400 li.
• Wu Tao refined his remaining Origin Spirits, reached 18% progress at Nascent Soul Level 6, and continued searching the secret realm; by the eighth day, his progress had reached 23%.
• Huang persuaded the Blood Sect cultivators to use Su as bait, promising to use a Spirit-Severing Lock to protect him from Wu Tao’s Life-Strangling Lock.
• The Blood Sect’s nine cultivators set up a concealed Blood Path Great Array, with four disguised cultivators attacking Su and four others hiding around the array.
• Su activated Wu Tao’s message talisman, claiming he had found a Level 9 Origin Spirit and needed rescue from four Nascent Soul Level 9 pursuers.

Wu Tao discovered that the Blood Sect cultivators had staged a siege to lure him into a trap, but he chose to enter their Blood Path Great Array anyway. The array rose around him as the four hidden cultivators attacked, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Wu Tao captured a Tier 5 Origin Spirit and received messages that Su was besieged over a Level 9 Origin Spirit while Liu Hai had gathered enough Origin Spirits.
• Wu Tao rushed toward Su and sensed Huang, Qian, and two other Blood Sect cultivators hiding nearby with a Blood Path Great Array prepared.
• Wu Tao realized the apparent siege was a trap designed to kill or capture him and watched while Su continued acting injured.
• Wu Tao decided to face the Blood Sect cultivators, entered their range, and asked Su for the Level 9 Origin Spirit.
• Su showed Wu Tao the Origin Spirit, then four blood pillars surrounded Wu Tao as the Blood Sect cultivators abandoned Su and attacked him.

Wu Tao let the Blood Sect’s ambush trap him, then revealed that he had been using the nine Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivators to capture Origin Spirits for him. He defeated them, captured six, and killed the Su-surnamed cultivator, leaving the Huang-surnamed and Qian-surnamed cultivators surrounded.

• The Su-surnamed cultivator revealed that the Blood Sect had neutralized his Life-Strangling Lock and urged Wu Tao to surrender as eight cultivators and a formation surrounded him.
• Wu Tao pretended to test the Life-Strangling Lock, then refused to surrender and challenged the Blood Sect cultivators to attack him.
• Wu Tao fought off the seven attackers and the formation, forcing the Su-surnamed cultivator to join the battle.
• Wu Tao went on the offensive, captured four Blood Sect cultivators, then used his speed to capture two more as the survivors tried to flee.
• Wu Tao killed the Su-surnamed cultivator with Shatter Star and trapped the Huang-surnamed and Qian-surnamed cultivators, while six captives remained bound behind him.

Wu Tao subdued the Blood Sect cultivators who had ambushed him and forced them to gather Origin Spirits under the threat of the Life-Strangling Locks. After killing one as a test, he sent the remaining seven to collect fourteen Level 9 Origin Spirits while Liu Hai waited nearby.

• Wu Tao rejected the Blood Sect cultivators’ pleas for mercy until Huang revealed that Su’s Storage Bag contained their only Spirit-Severing Lock.
• Wu Tao took Life-Strangling Locks from the eight surviving Blood Sect cultivators, controlled their Nascent Souls, and ordered them to deliver fourteen Level 9 Origin Spirits within three days.
• Liu Hai arrived with the Origin Spirits he had captured and saw Wu Tao holding the Blood Sect cultivators captive.
• Wu Tao searched the eight cultivators’ Storage Bags, took useful resources, and released them to search for Origin Spirits.
• Wu Tao activated one Life-Strangling Lock and killed a Blood Sect cultivator, then told the remaining seven to collect fourteen Level 9 Origin Spirits or face death.
• Wu Tao took the dead cultivator’s Storage Bag and Magic Robe as the seven survivors flew off to gather Origin Spirits.

Wu Tao collected Origin Spirits from Liu Hai and the Blood Sect, then refined them to break through to Nascent Soul Level Seven. The chapter left him searching the Origin Spirit Secret Realm, where he found Xiang Ziheng fighting a Level 9 Origin Spirit.

• Wu Tao refined the Fourth-Order Advanced Blood Path Trapping Array’s Formation Disk, accepted Origin Spirits from Liu Hai, and removed Liu Hai’s Life-Strangling Lock without taking it back.
• Wu Tao refined his Origin Spirits and the Blood Sect’s daily tribute, raising his sixth-layer progress to 88% before continuing his search.
• Wu Tao captured a Level 9 Origin Spirit and several others, then refined them to break through to Nascent Soul Level Seven and raise his divine sense to 14,400 li.
• Wu Tao continued searching the Origin Spirit Secret Realm and sensed Xiang Ziheng fighting a Level 9 Origin Spirit inside a fourth-rank Trapping and Killing Formation.

Wu Tao and Xiang Ziheng encountered an Evil Spirit Tide drawn to a Source of Origin Spirit and rushed after it to seize the rare resources. Wu Tao reached the lake at the tide’s center and captured a newly born pure Origin Spirit, while the battle grew chaotic and a Nascent Soul cultivator was devoured.

• Wu Tao helped Xiang Ziheng subdue a Level 9 Origin Spirit, then both sensed a tremor and identified an approaching Evil Spirit Tide.
• Wu Tao and Xiang Ziheng learned that the tide was rushing toward a Source of Origin Spirit, and the Blood Sect’s seven Nascent Soul cultivators headed there to seek Origin Spirits and repay their debt to Wu Tao.
• Wu Tao agreed to venture into the tide with Xiang Ziheng, while Liu Hai joined Xiang Ziheng and later followed with him behind Wu Tao.
• The Evil Spirit Tide stopped at a round lake where newly born Origin Spirits emerged, and Wu Tao broke through the evil spirits to reach its center.
• Wu Tao captured a newly born pure Origin Spirit comparable to a seventh-level Origin Spirit, while evil spirits and Nascent Soul cultivators fought around the lake and one cultivator was devoured.

Wu Tao and the cultivators from nine Ninth-Rank Sects fought through the Evil Spirit Tide for pure Origin Spirits, then clashed with weaker sects over access to the lake’s center. The chapter ended as a powerful Level 9 evil spirit began transforming into a Level 10 evil spirit.

• Wu Tao resisted repeated attacks from Level 9 Evil Spirits while capturing pure Origin Spirits, as several Nascent Soul cultivators died and others considered retreating.
• The nine Ninth-Rank Sects agreed to hunt the strongest Level 9 Evil Spirits before they could transform, and they welcomed Wu Tao after he introduced himself as Li Mo.
• Wu Tao and the sect cultivators killed more than a dozen strengthened Level 9 Evil Spirits, easing the pressure on cultivators at the tide’s outer edge.
• Weaker sect cultivators moved into the lake’s center to capture pure Origin Spirits, prompting the nine great sects to send people to drive them away and sparking conflict among human cultivators.
• A Nascent Soul Level 9 cultivator denounced the Heavenly Absolute Sect before its cultivators killed him, while Wu Tao continued collecting pure Origin Spirits and the Blood Sect’s seven cultivators stayed at the perimeter.
• A powerful Level 9 evil spirit began transforming into a Level 10 evil spirit, alarming the human cultivators in the Evil Spirit Tide.