Chapter Summaries

Mo Shang and Jinlin robbed unconscious cultivators near the Secret Realm exit, while Mo Shang helped Xiao Yan defeat a wealthy group led by a red-robed cultivator. After the red-robed man threatened them with the Heavenflame Sect, Mo Shang and Xiao Yan decided to target the sect as well.

• Mo Shang found Jinlin after Jinlin had knocked out three cultivators, then left without taking their belongings, so Jinlin stripped them himself.
• Xiao Yan attacked a red-robed cultivator and his companions with Destruction Fire Lotuses, but their defensive artifact held against his assault.
• Mo Shang appeared beside Xiao Yan and launched more fire lotuses, shattering the barrier and defeating the red-robed group.
• Mo Shang and Xiao Yan looted the group’s spirit artifacts, pills, and treasures, and Xiao Yan praised their bait-and-catch operation near the exit.
• The red-robed cultivator woke and threatened them with the Heavenflame Sect, prompting Mo Shang and Xiao Yan to decide to go after the sect.

Mo Shang and Xiao Yan bound the Heavenflame Sect disciples for ransom and reunited with their companions after exploring most of the Secret Realm. At the exit, elders from more than a dozen factions surrounded them and demanded an explanation, and Mo Shang told them to take their grievance up with his father.

• Mo Shang and Xiao Yan ignored the young man in red's threats, sealed the cultivation of him and his companions, and tied them up for ransom.
• Mo Shang and his group reached the meeting spot, where Jinlin, Gu Qingzhou, Guo Jingjing, and Chen Tian had gathered, and Mo Shang said they would leave the Secret Realm.
• Mo Shang and the others emerged into a valley surrounded by elders and senior figures from more than a dozen factions, including Immortal Realm and Dao Lord Realm experts.
• An elder accused the Falling Cloud Sect of attacking the factions' disciples, and Mo Shang argued that his group had acted in self-defense after being attacked first.
• The factions threatened to keep the group from leaving unless Mo Shang explained himself, and he taunted them and told them to take it up with his father.

Mo Shang summoned his father, Mo Yuntian, to confront the experts who had challenged him in Icefire Town. After the Heavenflame Sect master offered compensation and left, Mo Shang drank half a bottle of Heavenflame Divine Marrow and burst into flames.

• Mo Shang called on his father, and Mo Yuntian emerged from a shattered rift, terrifying the gathered experts.
• The experts recognized Mo Yuntian and fell silent, while Mo Shang began demanding answers from the various forces.
• Mo Shang confronted the Heavenflame Sect master over his disciples targeting Mo Shang and his friend, then demanded compensation.
• The Heavenflame Sect master offered a spirit flame and Heavenflame Divine Marrow, which Mo Shang accepted before letting the sect leave.
• Mo Shang drank half the bottle of Heavenflame Divine Marrow, and flames erupted around his body, forcing those nearby to retreat.

Mo Shang shared the Heavenflame Divine Marrow and a Spirit Flame with Xiao Yan before confronting the factions demanding an explanation. The factions instead offered him heaps of treasures, and Mo Shang’s conversation with Jinlin revealed Mo Yuntian’s fearsome reputation for violence.

• Mo Shang drank the Heavenflame Divine Marrow, which strengthened his Falling Star Flame, and gave the remaining marrow and a Spirit Flame to Xiao Yan.
• Mo Shang challenged the gathered factions to explain themselves and singled out the red-robed elder who had complained the loudest.
• The red-robed elder offered Mo Shang heavenly treasures, and Mo Shang accepted them and let him leave.
• The other factions scrambled to offer their own treasures, which Mo Shang collected.
• Jinlin asked Mo Yuntian about his strength, and Mo Shang explained that his father had been a ruthless killer when young.

Mo Shang returned to the Falling Cloud Sect with Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable, remnant souls of former Immortal Realm experts, and promised Liu Zhengyang that he had also brought back two geniuses. He left Chen Tian with the golden Secret Realm gate, and Liu Zhengyang hurried to welcome the newcomers despite losing another door.

• Mo Shang persuaded Mo Yuntian to remove the Secret Realm's golden gate and gave it to Chen Tian for his Dual-Gate Style.
• Chen Tian enlarged the gate and tested it, then Mo Shang led everyone back to the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Mo Shang's arrival at the sect gates prompted the gatekeeping disciple to remark that he was now taking mighty experts' remnant souls as well as geniuses.
• Mo Shang kicked a door panel into Liu Zhengyang's main hall, and Liu Zhengyang eagerly offered to restore Fire Spirit Venerable and Ice Spirit Venerable's physical bodies.
• Mo Shang announced that he had brought back two geniuses, and Liu Zhengyang asked whether he had snatched them up by the roadside.

Liu Zhengyang welcomed Ye Qingrou and Jiang Zhiwei to the Falling Cloud Sect, where the Peak Masters competed to recruit them. Jiang Zhiwei chose Sword Peak and Ye Qingrou chose Water Spirit Peak, while Jiang was assigned to stay with Lu Sheng because Sword Peak had no vacant cave abodes.

• Mo Shang introduced Ye Qingrou and Jiang Zhiwei to Liu Zhengyang, who eagerly noted how Mo Shang had met them.
• The Peak Masters rushed into the hall and argued over who would recruit the newcomers.
• Jiang Zhiwei chose Sword Peak after learning Lu Sheng belonged to it, and Sword Thirteen welcomed her.
• Ye Qingrou chose Water Spirit Peak, and Qingyi took her there with Jinlin following behind.
• Liu Zhengyang teased Li Fan about finding romance, then told Jiang Zhiwei to stay with Lu Sheng because Sword Peak's cave abodes were rented out.

Lu Sheng showed Jiang Zhiwei around the sect while Mo Shang introduced Gu Ling to the remnant souls Yang Yan and Han Shuang, who would become his colleagues as supreme elders. Gu Ling agreed to rebuild their bodies, and Mo Shang sent his guards on paid leave, prompting Jinlin to ask for a guard job before learning he lacked the required cultivation.

• Lu Sheng left the main hall with Jiang Zhiwei to show her around the sect.
• Mo Shang introduced Gu Ling to the remnant souls Yang Yan and Han Shuang, who recognized one another and agreed they would serve together as supreme elders.
• Gu Ling agreed to rebuild Yang Yan and Han Shuang's bodies by refining two Super Myriad Dao Heaven-Mending Pills No. 2.
• Mo Shang collected the prepared supplies and gave his guards a month of paid leave, explaining that he did not need them to protect him.
• Jinlin asked to become Mo Shang's guard, but withdrew the idea when Mo Shang said guards needed to be in the Heavenly Connection Realm.

Gu Ling refined two ninth-grade pills, summoning a massive lightning tribulation that Mo Shang and Jinlin turned into a dance party. Li Fugui then sliced pieces from the tribulation clouds and began cooking them for the astonished crowd.

• Gu Ling refined more than ten thousand medicinal ingredients into two pills, and their emergence summoned tribulation clouds across a thousand-mile radius.
• Mo Shang and Jinlin danced in the square while tribulation lightning struck them, and Falling Cloud Sect disciples joined in.
• Li Fan said lightning tribulations could not harm him and joined the dance, promising to intensify the lightning.
• Li Fugui asked to use the tribulation clouds for cooking, then sliced chunks from them with his golden cleaver.
• Li Fugui set up a cooking stall and prepared red lightning tribulation as food after Mo Shang and Jinlin placed orders.

After the tribulation ended, Mo Shang and the others arranged for Yang Yan and Han Shuang to take their pills, then spent a quiet month at the Falling Cloud Sect. Bored and remembering his unused system draws, Mo Shang began considering traits for battle as Jiang Shuyu went to cook for him.

• Jinlin, Mo Shang, and Li Fan returned to the main hall after the lightning tribulation, and Gu Ling handed over the two finished pills.
• Mo Shang sent the pills to Yang Yan and Han Shuang and told Liu Zhengyang to guard them while they took the pills.
• Jinlin discovered that the main hall door was missing, and Liu Zhengyang replaced it with one of the spare doors he had prepared for Mo Shang.
• A month later, Mo Shang complained of boredom while relaxing with Jiang Shuyu and Yellow Immortal in the courtyard.
• Jiang Shuyu offered to cook for Mo Shang, and he remembered his thousand unused trait draws and considered which traits to equip.

Mo Shang borrowed Jiang Shuyu’s luck to draw two powerful golden traits, then used one alongside his immortality traits to reach peak True Dharma Realm. Jiang Shuyu immediately revealed that she could also break through to peak True Dharma Realm, leaving Mo Shang stunned by the scale of her power.

• After a thousand disappointing draws, Mo Shang embraced and kissed Jiang Shuyu, then drew twice and received the purple-gold traits Fatal Strike and Dao Sacrifice.
• The next morning, Mo Shang saw that Fatal Strike boosted his attack power at the cost of death, while Dao Sacrifice raised his cultivation by one major realm at the cost of his body and Dao.
• Mo Shang equipped both traits and activated Dao Sacrifice, reaching peak True Dharma Realm while his other traits protected him from the costs.
• Jiang Shuyu emerged from the bedroom and rapidly advanced from peak Question Dao Realm to peak True Dharma Realm, shocking Mo Shang.

Mo Shang learned that his temporary breakthrough to the True Dharma Realm could secure a path to the Dao Lord Realm, especially with his [Undying] trait. When a powerful stranger attacked the Falling Cloud Sect, gatekeeper disciple Wang Yao shattered the man’s seal with one punch, and Mo Shang recognized him as another cheater.

• Jiang Shuyu explained that forced breakthroughs beyond the Question Dao Realm raised Dao comprehension, potentially letting Mo Shang reach the Dao Lord Realm if he survived.
• Mo Shang realized his [Undying] trait made that future seem assured and wondered whether Li Fan could benefit from forced breakthroughs too.
• A peak Heavenly Connection Realm middle-aged man attacked the Falling Cloud Sect’s gatekeeper, Wang Yao, who destroyed the man’s enormous seal with one punch.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu arrived, and Mo Shang scolded Wang Yao for claiming that Mo Shang killed people as soon as he woke up.
• Mo Shang recognized that Wang Yao, despite having Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation, had to be cheating.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu fought an Azure Mist Sect elder who threatened the Falling Cloud Sect, while Wang Yao left at noon rather than work overtime. Mo Shang struck the elder with the Star Tower, revealing a ninth-grade spirit artifact and leaving the elder wary of his identity.

• The Azure Mist Sect elder demanded that the Falling Cloud Sect hand over Jiang Zhiwei, and Mo Shang offered Wang Yao a hundred million to attack him.
• Wang Yao checked the time, clocked out at noon, and left for the dining hall despite Mo Shang's offer of overtime pay.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu revealed their peak True Dharma Realm cultivation and attacked the peak Heavenly Connection Realm elder with their killing moves.
• Liu Zhengyang and Gu Ling arrived at the mountain gate, witnessed the clash, and praised Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu's strength.
• The elder unleashed Wind's Ultimate Dao, Hundred Annihilating Slashes, but Mo Shang used the Star Tower to knock him back and make him spit blood.
• The elder recognized the Star Tower as a ninth-grade spirit artifact and asked who Mo Shang was.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu manifested powerful Dharma bodies to face the Azure Mist Sect elder, but his Sever the Years saber strike overwhelmed them and damaged the Star Tower. Yang Yan and Han Shuang arrived to catch them and took over the fight.

• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu summoned towering Dharma bodies, impressing Gu Ling and Liu Zhengyang and alarming the Azure Mist Sect elder.
• The elder decided Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu were too dangerous to let live and unleashed his peak Heavenly Connection Realm power with Sever the Years.
• The saber strike split both Dharma bodies and slammed into the Star Tower, sending Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu flying toward the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Yang Yan and Han Shuang emerged from the Falling Cloud Sect, caught Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu, and offered to fight the elder themselves.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu were unharmed, but the Star Tower's radiance had dimmed; Han Shuang told them to leave the rest to her and Yang Yan.