Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen entered the Ancient Scripture Tower and used the Barrier-Breaking Sacred Mark and Cang Xuan Ancestor’s jade plaque to reach a hidden chamber. There he discovered the Taiyi Azurewood Mark, an undying-body Source Art that required Yimu Qi to cultivate.

• Shen Taiyuan presented Sect Master Qing Yang’s token, and Elder Xuan admitted Mu Chen to the Ancient Scripture Tower.
• After Shen Taiyuan left, Peak Master Ling Jun asked Elder Xuan about Sacred Origin Peak’s seal and the Azure Xuan Sacred Seal, but Elder Xuan said he did not know its whereabouts.
• Mu Chen used the Barrier-Breaking Sacred Mark to judge the treasures in the tower and sensed a hidden space.
• Cang Xuan Ancestor’s jade plaque opened a passage to an ancient room containing four mid-grade Heaven Origin Arts and an ordinary-looking plant.
• Mu Chen identified the plant as the Taiyi Azurewood Mark, an undying-body Source Art that required him to absorb Yimu Qi.

Mu Chen obtained the Taiyi Azurewood Mark from the Ancient Scripture Tower and gave it to Yaoyao, who agreed to study it. He also asked her to upgrade Silver Soul so it could fight Divine Mansion Realm experts, leaving the puppet with her for now.

• Mu Chen chose the Taiyi Azurewood Mark and rejected Peak Master Ling Jun’s invitation to join Sword Come Peak.
• Elder Xuan confirmed the mark’s value, allowed Mu Chen to give it to someone within the Cang Xuan Sect, and required him to repay one unit of Heavenly Merit.
• Mu Chen gave the Taiyi Azurewood Mark to Yaoyao and explained why he thought it could help her.
• Mu Chen asked Yaoyao to enhance Silver Soul to face Divine Mansion Realm experts, and she took it to study.

Mu Chen secured a place in Li Qingchan’s Heaven Grade Mission team, despite the objections veteran Purple Sash Disciples might raise. As he prepared for the mission, his Origin Energy Stars reached fifteen thousand, and Shen Taiyuan hoped he would bring Heavenly Merit back to Sacred Origin Peak.

• Mu Chen found a Heaven Grade Mission and visited Li Qingchan with Yaoyao to ask for a slot on her team.
• Li Qingchan explained that Mu Chen would need to defeat any Purple Sash Disciple who challenged his place, and Mu Chen asked whether defeating Zhao Zhu would make him vice-captain.
• Yaoyao assured Li Qingchan that Mu Chen could defeat Zhao Zhu, then declined to join the mission so she could research Silver Soul and the Devouring Ancestral Symbol seal.
• Mu Chen’s Origin Energy Stars reached fifteen thousand over the next few days, though he planned to wait until twenty thousand before advancing to the Fifth Layer Heaven.
• Shen Taiyuan asked Mu Chen about joining the mission and expressed hope that he would earn Heavenly Merit for Sacred Origin Peak; Mu Chen said that was exactly why he was going.

Mu Chen went to the Mission Hall to join the Heaven Grade Mission, where Zhao Zhu questioned whether he qualified as a Purple Sash Disciple. After Mu Chen easily stopped Wang Lei’s attack, the group accepted his strength and prepared to depart.

• Mu Chen said goodbye to Yaoyao and headed to the Mission Hall.
• Zhao Zhu challenged Mu Chen’s qualification, but Li Qingchan backed him as the mission captain.
• Wang Lei agreed to test Mu Chen by striking him once with the Sword Thunder Palm.
• Mu Chen shattered Wang Lei’s lightning attack with a punch and remained unharmed.
• Zhao Zhu accepted the result and said one move was enough to settle Mu Chen’s qualification.

Mu Chen joined Li Qingchan’s Heaven Grade Mission party and traveled with them to Black Flame City, where they met disciples from the Hundred Flowers Immortal Palace and Zuoqiu Qingyu. The group’s conversation turned tense when a Holy Palace disciple challenged the story of Mu Chen slapping Zhao Pan.

• Mu Chen became the final member of Li Qingchan’s Heaven Grade Mission party after Zhao Zhu withdrew from challenging him.
• Li Qingchan led the ten disciples to Black Flame State, and they entered Black Fire City and gathered at a pavilion for Primordial Realm cultivators.
• Feng Ying greeted Li Qingchan and noticed Mu Chen’s strength, while Zhao Zhu reacted awkwardly when she mistook Mu Chen for a newly promoted Holy Son.
• Zuoqiu Qingyu appeared, embraced Mu Chen, and asked after Yaoyao before explaining that she, Mu Chen, and Green Vine came from the Vast Continent.
• Zuoqiu Qingyu told the group that Mu Chen had slapped the Holy Palace envoy Zhao Pan twice, prompting admiration from the Cang Xuan Sect disciples.
• A handsome Holy Palace disciple dismissed the story as baseless, challenging Mu Chen’s reputation.

Mu Chen joined the Cang Xuan Sect’s mission in Black Flame State, where he clashed with Holy Palace disciple Yang Xuan and earned Elder Wu’s recognition for his strength. He then went with Zuoqiu Qingyu to a trading fair and considered gambling on stones.

• Mu Chen taunted Yang Xuan about Zhao Pan, and Yang Xuan left after threatening to make him regret his words.
• Elder Wu sensed Mu Chen’s powerful Origin Energy foundation and assigned him a position near Li Qingchan and the other strong disciples.
• Zuoqiu Qingyu teased Mu Chen about Yaoyao and flirted with him before inviting him to the trading fair.
• Mu Chen and Zuoqiu Qingyu went downstairs together, drawing hostile looks from other disciples as she clung to his arm.
• Zuoqiu Qingyu led Mu Chen to a display of hot black stones and suggested they try gambling on stones.

Mu Chen challenged Su Duan to bet on Flame Stones, using his Flame Ancestral Symbol to pick stones with potent fire-element energy. He opened four thousand-year Flame Marrows and one ten-thousand-year Flame Marrow, leaving Su Duan stunned.

• Su Duan challenged Mu Chen to bet on Flame Stones, offering to pay the costs and proposing dinner with Zuoqiu Qingyu as his stake.
• Mu Chen accepted, and Zuoqiu Qingyu stayed by his side while the disciples watched and doubted his skill.
• Mu Chen used the Flame Ancestral Symbol to choose five Flame Stones, while Su Duan carefully selected his own five.
• Su Duan opened his stones and obtained Flame Marrow up to five-hundred-year grade, earning the crowd's praise.
• Mu Chen opened his five stones, producing four thousand-year Flame Marrows and one ten-thousand-year Flame Marrow, shocking Su Duan and everyone present.

Mu Chen won a Flame Stone gambling contest against Su Duan, uncovering four pieces of thousand-year Flame Marrow and a rare ten-thousand-year piece. After Zuoqiu Qingyu kissed him, Mu Chen made Su Duan pay for the items she chose in the trading hall.

• Mu Chen revealed four thousand-year Flame Marrows and a ten-thousand-year Flame Marrow, astonishing the trading hall.
• Su Duan accused Mu Chen of cheating, but Mu Chen pointed out that the Flame Cauldron Sect had failed to recognize the treasures, and Su Duan admitted defeat.
• Zuoqiu Qingyu kissed Mu Chen on the cheek to celebrate, making Su Duan jealous.
• Mu Chen reminded Su Duan of his promise to pay for anything he liked, then took Zuoqiu Qingyu shopping at Su Duan's expense.
• Bai Li praised Mu Chen's skill, and Li Qingchan agreed that he had created another miracle.

Mu Chen and Zuoqiu Qingyu exchanged thousand-year Flame Marrow before the sects began competing for the Flame Marrow Vein in the Black Flame Mountain Range. As Mu Chen claimed his assigned territory and fought Heavenly Flame Lizards, Su Duan secretly tried to send more beasts his way, while Zuoqiu Qingyu noticed the scheme.

• Su Duan paid tens of millions of Source Crystals for the Flame Stones Mu Chen and Zuoqiu Qingyu had chosen, regretting his lost wager.
• Mu Chen gave Zuoqiu Qingyu two pieces of thousand-year Flame Marrow, one for her and one to take back to Green Vine, and Zuoqiu Qingyu teased him about their relationship.
• The sect disciples gathered at the volcano in the Black Flame Mountain Range and entered the underground Flame Marrow Vein, where the contest began without warning.
• Li Qingchan warned Mu Chen to watch out for Holy Palace disciples, and Mu Chen told her to be careful facing a Holy Palace Holy Son.
• Mu Chen planted his flag to claim his territory and cut down attacking Heavenly Flame Lizards with the Heavenly Abyss Blade, but its fifth pattern still needed more energy.
• Su Duan lured more Heavenly Flame Lizards toward Mu Chen to avenge his humiliation, and Zuoqiu Qingyu noticed the scheme but chose not to warn Mu Chen.

Mu Chen used the Space Ancestral Symbol to freeze a horde of Heavenly Flame Lizards and slaughtered them, allowing the Heavenly Abyss Blade to advance into a Heavenly Source Weapon. After Su Duan and his group fled, Mu Chen received an urgent report that Holy Palace members had entered the Cang Xuan Sect’s territory.

• Mu Chen sensed Su Duan approaching with over a thousand Heavenly Flame Lizards, then used Spatial Stasis to immobilize the horde.
• Mu Chen killed the frozen Heavenly Flame Lizards, and the Heavenly Abyss Blade’s fifth pattern lit up as it advanced into a Heavenly Source Weapon.
• Su Duan realized Mu Chen had benefited from the beast tide and fled with his group when Mu Chen turned toward them.
• Zuoqiu Qingyu watched Su Duan and his companions escape, while Mu Chen chose not to pursue them.
• Mu Chen received an urgent message that Holy Palace members had entered the area belonging to Senior Sister Li Qingchan and Senior Brother Zhao Zhu.

Mu Chen flew to help Bai Li and Qin Hai after Yang Xuan overwhelmed the Cang Xuan Sect disciples. He saved Bai Li from Yang Xuan’s lethal attack by using a Holy Palace disciple as a human shield, leaving Yang Xuan enraged and the confrontation unresolved.

• Li Qingchan asked Mu Chen to help Bai Li, and he flew toward their battlefield.
• Yang Xuan defeated Bai Li and Qin Hai, leaving them seriously wounded and unable to keep fighting.
• Mu Chen arrived just as Yang Xuan’s attack threatened Bai Li and blocked it with a Holy Palace disciple.
• Mu Chen taunted Yang Xuan by claiming he had spared the disciple, while Bai Li and the others laughed at the reversal.
• Yang Xuan turned his killing intent on Mu Chen as the gathered onlookers watched.

Mu Chen trapped Yang Xuan in Devour World and used its energy-draining effect to weaken him before banishing him into spatial turbulence. The others found no trace of Yang Xuan after Mu Chen emerged, concluding that he was dead.

• Yang Xuan unleashed Mysterious Bone Storm Needles, but Mu Chen destroyed them with the Power of Death and trapped him in Devour World.
• Yang Xuan used Vital Blood to unseal his heart and reach the Eighth Heaven, then covered himself in Demon Bone Armor and attacked Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen dodged Yang Xuan's strikes while Devour World drained his Source Qi.
• Mu Chen opened a spatial rift with Spatial Banishment and dragged Yang Xuan into spatial turbulence, where the astral winds minced him into a bloody mist.
• Little Marten praised Mu Chen's use of the Ancestral Symbols, and Mu Chen reappeared as the others concluded Yang Xuan was dead.

Mu Chen killed Yang Xuan and helped the Cang Xuan Sect defeat the Holy Palace in their territorial conflict. The Cang Xuan Sect captured the core region, and Wang Li threatened Mu Chen and Li Qingchan before leaving.

• Li Qingchan stopped Wang Li from attacking Mu Chen, while Zhao Zhu held Cao Jinzhu back.
• Mu Chen healed Bai Li and Qin Hai, then revealed that he had already raided the Holy Palace's territory.
• Bai Li and Qin Hai attacked the stunned Holy Palace disciples, and the Cang Xuan Sect captured them and the entire core region.
• Wang Li and Cao Jinzhu fought Li Qingchan before the conflict ended, then Wang Li threatened Mu Chen and Li Qingchan over Xuan Yuan Cave Heaven.
• Li Qingchan praised Mu Chen and promised him the greatest credit for the victory.

Mu Chen earned the greatest contribution in the Flame Marrow Vein mission, receiving two portions of Heavenly Merit after helping the Cang Xuan Sect defeat the Holy Palace. Back at the sect, he told Yaoyao about the mission and learned that upgrading Silver Soul was proving difficult.

• Mu Chen spoke with Li Qingchan and Zuoqiu Qingyu after the battle, and Zuoqiu Qingyu asked about his strength and Zhou Yuan's.
• Elder Wu awarded Mu Chen the greatest contribution and two portions of Heavenly Merit, while Zhao Zhu and the others accepted the decision.
• Mu Chen exchanged his rewards after returning to the Cang Xuan Sect, and news of his achievements spread through the sect.
• Mu Chen returned to his cave dwelling and told Yaoyao about the mission and his reward.
• Yaoyao explained that she had been studying how to upgrade Silver Soul, and Mu Chen later went to find Elder Xuan to repay his debt.

Mu Chen gave Elder Xuan the Heavenly Merit he owed and spent another portion asking him to gather ingredients for Peach Blossom Brew. He then joined Zhou Yuan, Yaoyao, and Tuntun on a trip to the Water Fire Dragon Forging Platform, where Yaoyao discussed upgrading Silver Soul.

• Mu Chen gave Elder Xuan a portion of Heavenly Merit and asked him to gather the ingredients for Peach Blossom Brew; Elder Xuan agreed to have them ready after the Chief Disciple competition.
• Elder Xuan offered to take Mu Chen to the Water Fire Dragon Forging Platform to improve his physical body, and Mu Chen accepted.
• Zhou Yuan showed Yaoyao the Dragon Suppressing Wood he had obtained on a mission with Chu Qing, explaining that he had earned only half a portion of Heavenly Merit.
• Zhou Yuan said he would wait until he became Chief Disciple before asking Sect Master Qing Yang for help finding materials.
• Mu Chen, Yaoyao, and Tuntun headed to the ancient hall, where Yaoyao said Silver Soul needed rare source materials for an upgrade and Mu Chen offered to obtain them.

Mu Chen trained on the Water Fire Dragon Forging Platform, using the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to refine its energy and strengthen both his body and cultivation. He reached eighteen thousand Origin Energy Stars while Yaoyao watched, troubled by the possibility that her awakening power would eventually make her forget him.

• Elder Xuan brought Mu Chen, Yaoyao, and Tuntun to the Water Fire Dragon Forging Platform and explained how its eighteen levels tempered the body with Water and Fire Qi.
• Mu Chen began cultivating on the third level, enduring freezing and scorching torrents while his body was tempered and healed by his white life aura.
• Yaoyao watched Mu Chen and wondered whether he would make her remember him if she forgot him in the future.
• Mu Chen activated the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and discovered that refining Water and Fire Qi strengthened his body while increasing his Origin Energy Stars.
• After half a day, Mu Chen reached eighteen thousand Origin Energy Stars, and Elder Xuan and Little Marten recognized the power of his cultivation method.

After breaking through to the Primordial Realm Fifth Layer Heaven, Mu Chen entered the Cang Xuan Sect’s Chief Disciple competition to qualify to enter Sacred Origin Peak’s sealed main peak. The competition began with Mu Chen facing the prospect of battling Yuan Hong, while the sect leaders and Saint Sons watched.

• Mu Chen reached the Primordial Realm Fifth Layer Heaven with 41,300 Origin Energy Stars, astonishing Elder Xuan with a foundation comparable to those of the Top Ten Saint Sons.
• At the end of the year, Mu Chen and Yaoyao left for the Chief Disciple competition, which Mu Chen needed to win to enter Sacred Origin Peak’s sealed main peak.
• Zhou Tai told Mu Chen that he and the others would hold back the opposing disciples while Mu Chen dealt with Yuan Hong, and Mu Chen agreed.
• Chu Qing judged Mu Chen the likely winner, while Kong Sheng backed Yuan Hong; Chu Qing bet on Mu Chen and wagered 100,000 Origin Jade against accepting Kong Sheng’s challenge.
• The competition began, and Mu Chen used a spatial Source Art to cross the distance to Chief Disciple Peak ahead of the other participants.

Mu Chen faced Yuan Hong for the Chief Seat battle and easily knocked him away with a kick. Yuan Hong revealed his Origin Energy Manifestation: Stars, but Mu Chen answered with a far stronger manifestation, leaving Yuan Hong and Lu Hong shocked.

• Mu Chen sat on the Chief Seat and waited for Yuan Hong, while Kong Sheng called him arrogant and Chu Qing said he seemed confident.
• Yuan Hong charged at Mu Chen, but Mu Chen kicked him across the plaza and demonstrated his formidable physical strength.
• Yuan Hong rose and released Origin Energy Manifestation: Stars, displaying more than ten thousand Origin Energy Stars.
• Mu Chen revealed his own Origin Energy Manifestation: Stars, with more than forty thousand stars that overwhelmed Yuan Hong's Source Qi.
• Yuan Hong and Lu Hong were stunned when Mu Chen's Origin Energy foundation proved stronger despite his lower cultivation realm.

Mu Chen revealed an astonishing Origin Energy foundation and dominated Yuan Hong in their chief disciple competition. Yuan Hong resorted to the self-damaging Sword Feeding Art, but Mu Chen knocked him unconscious and ended the fight.

• Chu Qing and the other spectators realized Mu Chen's Origin Energy foundation far exceeded Yuan Hong's and rivaled that of the Top Ten Saint Sons.
• Mu Chen struck Yuan Hong with a massive Origin Energy hand, repeatedly knocking him into the same crater as he got back up.
• Yuan Hong unleashed the Sword Feeding Art, sacrificing his flesh and blood to strengthen his sword-like Origin Energy.
• Mu Chen charged in and punched Yuan Hong through the abdomen, leaving him unconscious and unable to rise.

Mu Chen defeated Yuan Hong and became Sacred Origin Peak’s Chief Disciple, while Zhou Yuan also secured a Chief Disciple position on Cang Xuan Peak. The seven Chief Disciples gathered to receive their rewards, leaving the other six astonished by how little Mu Chen’s clothes showed of his battle.

• Mu Chen defeated Yuan Hong, ending the contest for Sacred Origin Peak’s Chief Disciple.
• Sect Master Qing Yang announced Mu Chen as Sacred Origin Peak’s Chief Disciple, and Peak Master Ling Jun faced the loss of one-fifth of Sword Come Peak’s cultivation resources.
• The contests on the other six peaks concluded, with Zhou Yuan named Chief Disciple of Cang Xuan Peak after using the Resentful Dragon Poison.
• Sect Master Qing Yang called the seven Chief Disciples forward to receive their rewards.
• The other six Chief Disciples noticed that only Mu Chen’s hem was slightly dirty, despite his victory over Yuan Hong.