Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen's group reached Prison Demon City to prepare for the ruins, where Mu Chen confronted Qi Hao after Qi Hao tried to take a black jade token he had bought. Mu Chen overpowered Qi Hao and began crushing his throat, leaving his fate unresolved when someone pleaded for his life.

• Wei Canglan told Zhou Yuan that other Primordial Realm experts lived in the Black Abyss but kept to themselves, and Yaoyao said she could control the Black Poison King with a Source Rune after defeating him.
• Mu Chen's group entered Prison Demon City, where crowds had gathered to search the ruins and buy battle puppets.
• Mu Chen bought a cracked black jade token needed to enter the ruins for two thousand Source Crystals.
• Qi Hao offered more money for the token and threatened Mu Chen with the backing of King Qi's Mansion.
• Mu Chen used the Supreme Purity Sky-Roaming Steps to seize Qi Hao by the throat and began crushing his vertebrae.
• An unidentified person pleaded with Mu Chen to spare Young Master Qi Hao.

Zhou Yuan and his companions confronted the Black Poison King, who poisoned Qi Hao after Mu Chen accidentally tossed him at the king’s feet. Back at the inn, Qi Hao plotted revenge while Yaoyao examined a jade plaque linked to the War Puppet Sect’s ruins, and Su Youwei advanced to the middle stage of the Qi Nourishing Realm.

• Wei Canglan recognized the Black Poison King and prepared to fight, but Zhou Yuan told Mu Chen to release Qi Hao so he could handle him later.
• Mu Chen tossed Qi Hao toward the Black Poison King, and Qi Hao passed out after inhaling the king’s Miasma Demon Qi.
• The Black Poison King took Qi Hao away and warned Wei Canglan to meet him in the Black Abyss, while Yaoyao studied the jade plaque Mu Chen had found.
• The Black Poison King revived Qi Hao at the inn, where Qi Hao vowed to bury Zhou Yuan, Mu Chen, and Wei Canglan in the Black Abyss.
• Yaoyao suspected the jade plaque was connected to the War Puppet Sect’s ruins, and Su Youwei broke through to the middle stage of the Qi Nourishing Realm.

Mu Chen and his companions reached the War Puppet Sect ruins in search of the Jade Infant Fruit, which Zhou Yuan needed to save his mother. When Qi Hao tried to claim the fruit first, Mu Chen used the Space Ancestral Symbol to take the group across the lake to the island, leaving Qi Hao stunned.

• Su Youwei congratulated Mu Chen on his progress, and Yaoyao explained how a cultivator's Heaven Pass height reflected their foundation.
• Mu Chen and the others arrived at the War Puppet Sect ruins, where Yaoyao examined a war puppet and Wei Canglan described the sect's former army of one hundred thousand puppets.
• Zhou Yuan led the group toward the Jade Infant Fruit, and they found two fruits on a tree on an island in the middle of a lake.
• Qi Hao and the Black Poison King emerged from the mist, and Qi Hao vowed to take the fruit before Zhou Yuan could reach it.
• Mu Chen used the Power of Space to carry Zhou Yuan and the others across the damaged barrier to the island, shocking Qi Hao.

Zhou Yuan’s group reached the Fire Spirit Ear site, where Wei Canglan and Black Poison King clashed and the others fought over their own opponents. Qi Hao fled toward the Fire Spirit Ear as Tuntun transformed to face his Giant Python War Puppet, while Mu Chen effortlessly killed a Heaven Pass Realm opponent.

• Zhou Yuan’s group secured the Jade Infant Fruit after Qi Hao’s subordinates died trying to cross the lake, and Qi Hao left with Black Poison King for the Fire Spirit Ear.
• Zhou Yuan’s group and Qi Hao’s group met in a valley, where Wei Canglan and Black Poison King began fighting.
• Mu Chen, Yaoyao, Su Youwei, and Zhou Yuan chose opponents, with Zhou Yuan going after Qi Hao.
• Qi Hao summoned a Giant Python War Puppet, and Tuntun transformed into its battle form to fight it as Qi Hao ran toward the Fire Spirit Ear.
• Zhou Yuan chased Qi Hao, while Mu Chen killed a mid-stage Heaven Pass Realm opponent with one strike.

Zhou Yuan returned with the Fire Spirit Ear after defeating Qi Hao and secured Wei Canglan’s allegiance while forcing the Black Poison King into submission. The group discovered a hidden underground space that might contain intact war puppets, and they began excavating as King Qi’s Mansion prepared to move against them.

• Yaoyao revealed a Fourth-grade Origin Pattern, while Tuntun overwhelmed the Giant Python War Puppet and Wei Canglan struck the distracted Black Poison King.
• Zhou Yuan returned after killing Qi Hao and refused to let Wei Canglan kill the Black Poison King until the coming battles were over.
• The Black Poison King chose to live longer, and Yaoyao placed a Soul Locking Mother-Child Pattern on him to prevent betrayal.
• Mu Chen sensed a hidden space beneath the area where the Fire Spirit Ear had been found, and Yaoyao agreed that it might contain preserved war puppets.
• Zhou Yuan ordered Lu Tieshan and the others to dig, and they uncovered an Origin Pattern barrier dozens of meters underground.

Zhou Yuan, Mu Chen, and Yaoyao entered the War Puppet Sect’s underground ruins and discovered the Holy Clan had destroyed the sect with heavenly punishment. The revelation confirmed the Holy Clan was Yaoyao’s enemy, while Grandpa Hei’s fate remained uncertain.

• Yaoyao used Mu Chen’s jade tablet and an Origin Pattern to open the barrier, and Mu Chen opened the bronze gate to the underground palace.
• The group found a vast store of dormant war puppets, which Zhou Yuan hoped could strengthen Great Zhou after they were activated.
• Mu Chen opened a jade box and showed the group a record of the War Puppet Sect’s destruction by a Holy Clan figure.
• The Holy Clan figure declared the region a land of sin and annihilated all life within eighty thousand li with heavenly lightning.
• Yaoyao concluded that the Holy Clan was her enemy and vowed not to forgive them if they harmed Grandpa Hei.

Mu Chen and the others examined the War Puppet Sect’s relics and learned more about the Holy Clan’s ancient destruction. Mu Chen claimed a soul-driven silver armor, while Su Youwei received the Yang Ming Sword, and the group prepared to move on with their new weapons.

• Zhou Yuan asked about the ancient figure’s power, and Yaoyao explained that the War Puppet Sect’s ruins survived because they lay outside the center of the Holy Clan’s heavenly punishment.
• The Yang Ming Sword flew into Su Youwei and chose her as its master because her Qi Mansion had Yin Yang attributes.
• Yaoyao identified the third treasure as a silver sphere inscribed with source patterns, and Zhou Yuan gave Mu Chen the chance to test it.
• Mu Chen’s blood awakened the silver sphere, which formed a battle armor and bonded with him.
• Mu Chen put on the armor and found that it strengthened his defense and combat power without limiting his movement.
• Yaoyao explained that the armor was driven by Soul Power, and Mu Chen later dismissed it back into a silver sphere.

Mu Chen named the battle puppet Silver Soul and chose the Great Sun Lightning Body as his next cultivation technique. After King Qi declared independence and war on Great Zhou, Zhou Yuan prepared for battle with Mu Chen and his companions ready to help.

• Yaoyao named the silver battle puppet Silver Soul, and Mu Chen absorbed it into his Qi Mansion.
• Mu Chen asked Little Marten for a body-tempering technique and received the Great Sun Lightning Body, which he planned to cultivate using the Lightning Ancestral Symbol.
• Qi Yuan learned that his son had died and the Fire Spirit Ear had been taken, then decided to leave with Great Wu Dynasty support.
• Mu Chen and the others returned to Great Zhou City and learned that Qi Yuan had founded the Great Qi Dynasty and declared war on Great Zhou.
• Mu Chen offered Zhou Yuan his group's help, and Zhou Yuan went to the royal palace while Mu Chen's group headed to Youwei's home.

As Great Zhou City faced the Great Qi Dynasty’s declaration of war, Mu Chen and Yaoyao decided to help Zhou Yuan by strengthening Mu Chen through lightning tempering. The chapter ended with Yaoyao sending repeated bolts down on Mu Chen as he cultivated in the Black Forest Mountain Range.

• An old man secretly watched Mu Chen’s group, noticed Su Youwei’s Yin Yang Qi Mansion, and planned to invite her away from Great Zhou City.
• Mu Chen and Yaoyao agreed that they would help Zhou Yuan because he could not yet defeat the enemy on his own.
• Mu Chen asked Yaoyao to strike him with lightning so he could temper his body, and she took him to the Black Forest Mountain Range.
• Yaoyao summoned a thundercloud and struck Mu Chen with lightning while he circulated the Great Sun Lightning Body to refine its power.
• After Mu Chen felt the first bolt strengthen his body, he urged Yaoyao to continue, and her further strikes sent Source Beasts fleeing through the range.

Mu Chen completed several days of lightning body tempering and returned to Great Zhou City with Yaoyao, where Zhou Yuan reported that King Qi’s army was approaching. The ten-day deadline arrived, and King Qi surrounded the city, leaving the battle to begin.

• Mu Chen endured days of lightning tempering, opened thirty-three of the Great Sun Lightning Body’s forty-four meridians, and discussed his progress with Yaoyao.
• Mu Chen and Yaoyao returned to Great Zhou City, where Zhou Yuan said his strength could contend with experts around the middle stage of the Heaven Pass Realm.
• Yaoyao explained that Zhou Yuan could advance the Ancestral Dragon Scripture toward ninth-grade Qiankun Saint Dragon Qi by recovering his Saint Dragon Destiny.
• Zhou Yuan told Mu Chen that King Qi’s army would reach the city walls by the next day, and Mu Chen said Great Wu would be constrained if Zhou Yuan joined the Six Saints Sect.
• Su Youwei offered to help in the battle with the Yang Ming Sword, but Mu Chen warned that using the Heavenly Source Weapon would injure her.
• The ten-day deadline arrived, and King Qi led his army to surround Great Zhou City.

Mu Chen and the royal family faced Qi Yuan’s army outside Great Zhou City, where seven Primordial Realm experts threatened to overwhelm their defenders. Mu Chen trapped Zhao Tianlun inside Devour World, leaving him to weaken as the battle began.

• Qi Yuan revealed six Primordial Realm reinforcements from Great Wu, and Mu Chen taunted the former Great Zhou ministers who had betrayed the royal family.
• Zhao Tianlun attacked Mu Chen, but Mu Chen used the Ancestral Symbol’s Devouring Qi to absorb the strike and revealed strength beyond his apparent cultivation.
• The seven enemy Primordial Realm experts moved to attack the city gates as Zhou Qing and his allies unleashed their strength; Zhou Yuan led late-stage Heaven Pass Realm experts to hold one enemy back.
• Mu Chen, Yaoyao, and Tuntun displayed power comparable to Primordial Realm experts, surprising Qi Yuan with the royal family’s strength.
• Mu Chen activated Devour World and trapped Zhao Tianlun in darkness, where his Source Qi began to dissipate and be absorbed.

Mu Chen and Su Youwei killed Zhao Tianlun and Lin Nian, turning the battle at Great Zhou City in the imperial side’s favor. After the group returned home, they found a stranger waiting there.

• Mu Chen trapped Zhao Tianlun in Devour World while Su Youwei arrived to help Zhou Yuan fight Lin Nian.
• Su Youwei used the Yang Ming Sword to kill Lin Nian with a single strike, though the effort left her exhausted.
• Mu Chen emerged from Devour World holding Zhao Tianlun’s corpse, and the deaths of both Primordial Realm experts lifted the imperial side’s morale.
• Mu Chen replenished Su Youwei’s Source Qi, then left with her, Yaoyao, and Tuntun after thanking Zhou Yuan.
• The group returned home and discovered a stranger there.

A powerful gray-robed old man from Hunyuan Heaven offered to take Su Youwei away so she could develop her rare talent. After a month to decide, Su Youwei chose to leave, while Great Zhou secured a victory over King Qi's rebellion and Zhou Yuan later visited Mu Chen and the others.

• The gray-robed old man revealed that he had come to recruit Su Youwei because of her rare Yin Yang Qi Mansion and offered to take her to Hunyuan Heaven.
• Su Youwei asked whether Mu Chen could come with her, but Mu Chen declined and urged her to pursue the opportunity; the old man agreed to return in one month.
• Su Youwei decided she would leave with the old man so she could grow strong enough to stand beside Mu Chen in the future.
• Great Zhou defeated King Qi's rebellion, though many expected the Great Wu Dynasty to attack once it was free to act.
• One month later, Zhou Yuan brought gifts to thank Mu Chen and the others and felt the gray-robed old man's dangerous presence.

Lu Xuangang told Zhou Yuan about the Sacred Land formed from a fallen Saint’s blood, where he could compete against Wu Huang for a chance to grow stronger. Su Youwei left with Lu Xuangang for Hunyuan Heaven after promising Mu Chen they would compare realms when they met again.

• Lu Xuangang prepared to take Su Youwei away, and Mu Chen embraced her before she left.
• Lu Xuangang revealed that a Sacred Land lay on the Vast Continent and explained that its Saint blood could help someone forge a Saint Foundation.
• Lu Xuangang warned Zhou Yuan that Wu Huang would compete for the Sacred Land and had nearly reached the Primordial Realm, and Zhou Yuan vowed to fight him.
• Lu Xuangang cautioned Mu Chen not to touch any contingencies left by the Saint, then introduced himself as a resident of Hunyuan Heaven.
• Su Youwei kissed Mu Chen on the cheek, and they promised to see whose realm was higher when they met again.
• Lu Xuangang carried Su Youwei and her grandfather away, telling Mu Chen he hoped to see him in Hunyuan Heaven.

Zhou Yuan prepared to leave Great Zhou and traveled toward the Sacred Land with Mu Chen and Yaoyao, while Wu Yao and Wu Huang discussed his growing reputation. During the journey, Yaoyao helped Zhou Yuan discover the first profundity of his Heaven-Piercing Black Python Qi.

• Zhou Yuan decided to leave Great Zhou in three days and travel with Mu Chen and Yaoyao.
• Wu Yao discussed Zhou Yuan’s rise with Wu Huang, who dismissed him as a crippled dragon, while Wu Yao believed he might soon contend with him.
• After leaving Great Zhou, Mu Chen demonstrated his Bronze Lightning Body by killing a second-grade Source Beast with a punch.
• Yaoyao had Mu Chen strike Zhou Yuan to help him sense how his Heaven-Piercing Black Python Qi merged with his body.
• Zhou Yuan formed green Mystic Python Scales on his arms, and Yaoyao explained that they were the first profundity of his Source Qi.

Zhou Yuan prepared for his eventual battle with Wu Huang while traveling with Mu Chen and Yaoyao toward the Sacred Land. In the ancient city, Green Vine recognized Tuntun’s extraordinary bloodline and tried to buy him, but Mu Chen refused and called Tuntun family.

• Mu Chen and Yaoyao advised Zhou Yuan to reach the Heaven Pass Realm, advance his spirit, and study Third-grade Origin Patterns before fighting Wu Huang.
• The group traveled to an ancient city controlled by the Gu Family and visited its Treasure Pavilion, where Yaoyao examined Origin Pattern artifacts.
• Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan left Yaoyao in the shop and walked through the city with Tuntun, while Mu Chen stopped at snack stalls to feed him.
• Mu Chen confronted Green Vine, the young princess of the Myriad Beast Dynasty, after she followed him while staring at Tuntun.
• Green Vine offered to pay anything for Tuntun, but Mu Chen refused, saying Tuntun was family; Zhou Yuan then arrived and saw them talking.

Mu Chen, Zhou Yuan, Yaoyao, and Green Vine crossed paths with Gu Ling, who paid for Yaoyao’s purchases and invited them to the Gu Family’s Soul Refining Tower. Green Vine failed to persuade Tuntun to leave Yaoyao, and the group agreed to travel together and visit the tower, where they suspected Gu Ling had ulterior motives.

• Green Vine followed Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan to the Treasure Pavilion, hoping to buy Tuntun, and Mu Chen told her she could ask Yaoyao and Tuntun directly.
• Mu Chen and Zhou Yuan found Gu Ling paying for Yaoyao’s purchases; Yaoyao ignored him, and Gu Ling offered the group four tokens to the Soul Refining Tower.
• Yaoyao allowed Green Vine to try persuading Tuntun, but Tuntun rejected her attempts and mocked her.
• Mu Chen revealed that Green Vine was the little princess of the Myriad Beast Dynasty, and Green Vine invited the others to travel with her to the Sacred Land.
• The group accepted Green Vine’s invitation and agreed to visit the Soul Refining Tower the next day, suspecting the Gu Family had an ulterior motive.

Mu Chen and his companions discovered that the Gu Family’s Soul Refining Tower used Spirit Refining Mist to secretly devour souls, so Mu Chen seized its core crystal and fought the family’s defenders. They defeated the Gu Family’s elders, leaving the Soul Refining Crystal in Mu Chen’s hands and the tower’s secret exposed.

• Mu Chen, Green Vine, and Yaoyao recognized that the Soul Refining Tower’s mist contained Spirit Refining Mist altered with a soul-devouring power.
• Mu Chen devoured and purified the mist, prompting Gu Ling and the others to enter the tower.
• Mu Chen used the Space Ancestral Symbol to reach the core, took the Soul Refining Crystal, and killed Gu Ling with a punch.
• Yaoyao fought the Gu Family’s two elders while Zhou Yuan and Tuntun pressured them, and Green Vine had Xiaohan freeze one elder.
• With the mist gone, the Gu Family’s elders lost their advantage and were overwhelmed by Mu Chen’s companions.

Mu Chen and Yaoyao escaped the Soul Devouring Tower with its treasure after Mu Chen destroyed the tower and Yaoyao devastated the Gu Family’s forces. They left the ancient city and landed safely in the mountains, while the Gu Family looked to Gu Ling for revenge.

• Mu Chen and Yaoyao took a black crystal sphere from the Soul Devouring Tower, and Yaoyao warned the awakened visitors to flee before their souls were devoured.
• Mu Chen slapped Gu Qiu from a distance after Gu Qiu insulted Yaoyao, then Gu Qiu summoned the Gu Family’s experts with a whistle.
• Yaoyao and the others departed on Tuntun and Xiaohan while Mu Chen used the Great Desolation Prison Finger to demolish the Soul Devouring Tower.
• Mu Chen teleported onto Tuntun and accidentally put his hands on Yaoyao’s legs, prompting her to order him to take them away.
• Yaoyao blasted Gu Qiu with more than a dozen Fourth-grade Origin Patterns, leaving him gravely injured as he called for Gu Ling.
• Mu Chen and the others left the ancient city and landed deep in the mountains, beyond immediate pursuit.

Mu Chen used the Saint Soul Crystal to refine and distribute soul origin, then broke through to the Actual Realm. After his breakthrough, Yaoyao agreed to teach him Fourth-grade Origin Patterns and took the sealed black sphere to study.

• Mu Chen extracted twelve drops of soul origin from the Saint Soul Crystal and distributed them among Yaoyao, Green Vine, Zhou Yuan, and himself.
• Mu Chen gave the Saint Soul Crystal to Zhou Yuan, who expected it to help him advance before facing Wu Huang.
• Mu Chen used the soul origin and Spirit Refining Mist to break through to the Actual Realm.
• Yaoyao offered Mu Chen Fourth-grade Origin Pattern scrolls and agreed to teach him when they reached the next city.
• Mu Chen gave Yaoyao the black sphere that sealed the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, and she put it in her Universe Bag to study.