Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi learned that Maha Immeasurable required a Buddhist land to cultivate safely, then was summoned by the Void Temple’s Sky Vault Society Head. The new leader offered Zheng Yi a Wood God Dao Embryo to secure his help investigating resistance within the Divine Wood Universe Principality.

• Zheng Yi realized the Palm Buddha Country had been a test that transformed failed cultivators into Immortal Buddha Puppets, and he asked the Mechanical God to screen possible Buddhist cultivation sites.
• The Void Temple summoned Zheng Yi, and the Sky Vault Society Head revealed that he was one of the Temple’s hundred great giants and could see through Zheng Yi’s abilities and foundation.
• The Sky Vault Society Head explained that enemies and hidden opponents were obstructing his control of the Divine Wood Universe Principality, while several investigative teams had disappeared.
• Zheng Yi hesitated to accept the dangerous mission, but the Sky Vault Society Head presented a Wood God Dao Embryo that stirred Zheng Yi’s wood-element Source Power and the Three Realms Divine Tree.

Zheng Yi accepted Sky Vault Eye’s mission to attend the Divine Tree Conference in ten years and investigated the factional struggles within the Divine Wood Universe Principality. He fused the Wood God Dao Embryo into the Three Realms Divine Tree, transforming it toward a Devouring Divine Tree, then returned to the Void Temple when the deadline arrived.

• Sky Vault Eye offered Zheng Yi the Wood God Dao Embryo and extra points for completing the mission, and Zheng Yi accepted.
• After returning to the Void Temple, Zheng Yi realized he could not remember Sky Vault Eye’s appearance and had the Mechanical God gather intelligence about the Divine Wood Universe Principality.
• Zheng Yi learned that the Sky Vault Society controlled the principality and that some member nations resisted its new society head.
• The Three Realms Divine Tree broke free of its restraints, and Zheng Yi fed it the Wood God Dao Embryo, which fused into the tree and formed a new core.
• Zheng Yi spent the following years cultivating the Devouring Divine Tree and improving the Chaos Starlight Grotto-heaven before returning to the Void Temple for the Divine Tree Conference.

Zheng Yi met Sky Vault Eye in the Void Temple, received a warning about his dangerous mission in the Divine Wood Universe Principality, and was transported there with Michael. After arriving amid spatial turbulence, Zheng Yi was attacked by the territory’s earth-controlling master and sent Michael to confront it.

• Sky Vault Eye examined Zheng Yi, showed him the Divine Wood Universe Principality’s star map, and warned that outside forces restricted his help.
• Sky Vault Eye advised Zheng Yi to activate the Wood God Dao Embryo if he became uncertain, then sent him toward the principality.
• Zheng Yi traveled with Michael and Light Angel forces hidden in his Starlight Grotto-heaven, reflecting on Michael’s power as the first Seraphim.
• Zheng Yi emerged from a violent spatial passage in an unfamiliar region and complained that the mission’s dangers warranted higher payment.
• The territory’s master raised a giant hand of earth to attack Zheng Yi, who handed the fight to Michael.

Zheng Yi and Seraphim Michael fought off a powerful earth-wielding ambusher, with Michael’s Great Light Slash destroying the giant hand. Zheng Yi caught the hidden attacker as six or seven Chaos Hole Realm experts joined the ambush, and he ordered Michael to attack without restraint as the battle escalated.

• Seraphim Michael summoned his Sun Divine Power and severed the enormous earth-powered palm that attacked Zheng Yi.
• The attacker struck again with a transformed granite hand, but Michael unleashed Great Light Slash and shattered it.
• Zheng Yi realized the underground opponent was trying to flee, then used a silver giant hand to seize and drag out the yellow phantom.
• Several more assailants attacked Zheng Yi with different rule powers, revealing that six or seven Chaos Hole Realm experts had joined the ambush.
• Zheng Yi ordered Seraphim Michael to attack without restraint, and Michael’s light spread across the battlefield, binding the incoming rule attacks.

Zheng Yi and Seraphim Michael survived a coordinated ambush in Bi Cang Prefecture, where Chaos Hole Realm powers had devastated the world. Zheng Yi used Sky Vault Eye’s token to unsettle the attackers, and Michael’s counterattack killed a Chaos Hole Realm expert, leaving the surrounding forces wary.

• Seraphim Michael shielded Zheng Yi from the attackers’ opening barrage, while Zheng Yi observed the destruction wrought on Bi Cang Prefecture.
• The hostile forces denounced Zheng Yi as an invader and tried to rally others to kill him, but he revealed Sky Vault Eye’s Sky Vault Token and halted the laws around them.
• Zheng Yi ordered Michael to kill those who resisted, and Michael’s Light Slashes struck hidden enemies and brought more than a dozen figures down.
• The token made many opportunists hesitate, exposing divisions among the surrounding forces as they reassessed Zheng Yi and Michael.
• Michael formed a Holy Sword of Light and killed a Chaos Hole Realm expert who wielded earth power, shocking the remaining attackers.

Zheng Yi crushed the ambush in Bi Cang Prefecture, and a mysterious white hand restored the ruined world before he captured the fallen enemies. He then led Seraphim Michael’s Angels in a brutal purge of the prefecture’s upper echelon, leaving the remaining powers to confront the consequences.

• Zheng Yi counted down as he and his allies killed Chaos Hole experts, frightening the survivors into fleeing.
• A white hand emerged from Zheng Yi’s token, subdued the fleeing enemies, and restored Bi Cang Prefecture’s shattered landscape.
• Zheng Yi gathered the fallen experts into his Inner Grotto-heaven and joined Seraphim Michael’s forces in Bi Cang Prefecture.
• Zheng Yi and Seraphim Michael’s Angels spent nearly half a month capturing resisters and killing those who fought back.
• Zheng Yi ordered the captured upper echelon to be silent and had the defiant leaders killed, while their souls were sent to the Angel Reincarnation Pool.

After Zheng Yi seized control of Bi Cang Prefecture, he investigated a vast underground demonic altar and discovered a Magic Mirror that opened a passage to another world. The mirror’s suction grew powerful enough to lift Zheng Yi and draw everything nearby toward the portal.

• Seraphim Michael led the Angels in crushing resistance, and Zheng Yi brought Bi Cang Prefecture under his control.
• Zheng Yi received reports of an underground altar and sent Michael and local experts to confirm its location.
• Zheng Yi descended to the altar and found mountains of bones left by sacrifices to demons.
• Zheng Yi discovered a Magic Mirror above the altar and realized its ripples formed a passage to another world.
• The Magic Mirror rotated and unleashed a powerful suction that lifted Zheng Yi and pulled nearby objects toward the portal.

Zheng Yi explored a hidden plane connected to Bi Cang Prefecture and discovered that its demon-worshipping tribes were bred to produce powerful blood vitality and funnel sacrifices toward Soul Offering City. He watched a gigantic Soul Devouring Banner absorb countless sacrificed souls, and the chapter left him studying the immense artifact.

• Zheng Yi was pulled through the Magic Mirror portal and arrived at an altar among the demon-worshipping Brussels tribe, where he learned that sacrifices from Bi Cang Prefecture passed through the plane on their way to the abyss.
• Zheng Yi concealed himself from the Demon’s Eye by wrapping his true body in demonic energy and found that the Brussels people had powerful physiques but no genuine cultivation system.
• Zheng Yi explored the plane and discovered tens of thousands of tribes, whose sacrifices brought them surges of blood vitality while their cultivation knowledge remained deliberately undeveloped.
• Zheng Yi concluded that the tribes were a demonic breeding ground for powerful blood vitality and traced their sacrificial altars to the central Soul Offering City.
• Zheng Yi watched the Soul Devouring Banner descend over Soul Offering City and swallow the countless souls gathered there.

Zheng Yi discovered that Soul Offering City’s believers were being sacrificed to power one hundred thousand Soul Devouring Banners, then seized the blood aura to advance his Myriad Manifestations Star Body. As the blood aura and Silver Star Power transformed his body, his breakthrough was still underway.

• Zheng Yi realized that the believers throughout Soul Offering City were flesh offerings, and their deaths activated one hundred thousand Soul Devouring Banners.
• Zheng Yi decided to absorb the banners’ power as a chance to break through his Myriad Manifestations Star Body.
• Zheng Yi summoned his Time, Life, and Star bodies, whose combined primordial powers shattered the blood-red barrier and gathered the scattered blood aura.
• Zheng Yi’s main body absorbed the concentrated blood aura, opening his acupoints and growing as the heat surged through him.
• Silver Star Power descended into Zheng Yi’s body, tempering the blood aura into blood talismans and beginning to transform his flesh and organs.

Zheng Yi refined one hundred thousand Soul Devouring Banners into his acupoints, transforming his Myriad Aspects Star Body into a Star Soul Body and reaching the Pseudo Realm Lord Realm. After sensing a path to a true breakthrough, he faced a Dragon Winged Demon that erupted from beneath Soul Honoring City.

• Zheng Yi broke through the middle stage of the Myriad Manifestations Star Body and formed Myriad Manifestations Star Armor.
• He absorbed the blood qi and souls stored in one hundred thousand Soul Devouring Banners, refining them into his acupoints and evolving into a Star Soul Body.
• Zheng Yi reached the limit of the Chaos Hole Realm, broke one of the chains barring his advancement, and realized he had reached the Pseudo Realm Lord Realm.
• He sensed that more power would be needed to break the remaining chains and enter the Realm Lord Realm.
• A Dragon Winged Demon burst from beneath Soul Honoring City, filling the area with demonic qi and surprising Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi faced thousands of Dragon Winged Demons whose gathered Demonic Qi formed an Abyss Demon Lord-like domain, forcing him to rely on the Yin Yang Taiji Diagram as his defenses came under pressure. With a terrifying entity taking shape and the demons closing in, he fled toward the Death Forbidden Zone and unleashed his full power to clear a path.

• Dragon Winged Demons burst from towns and tribes across the land and swarmed Zheng Yi, overwhelming him with their numbers and combined aura.
• Zheng Yi killed dozens of demons with a silver pillar of light, but their Demonic Qi gathered and formed a gigantic phantom with power like a Realm Lord.
• Zheng Yi defended himself with the Yin Yang Taiji Diagram, while the demons’ Demonic Qi continued to feed the phantom and make it more substantial.
• Realizing that he could neither keep fighting the endless demons nor let them exhaust his defenses, Zheng Yi fled toward the Death Forbidden Zone.
• Zheng Yi summoned his Starry Daoist Dharma form and unleashed a storm of starlight and sword qi to destroy the pursuing Dragon Winged Demons.

Zheng Yi escaped the Dragon Winged Demons by entering a hidden spatial region, where he discovered a vast Small World and traced its pure Demonic Qi toward a terrifying ancient source. He pressed deeper despite the demons guarding the boundary and found a landscape littered with the bones of powerful beings, suggesting he had reached an ancient battlefield.

• Zheng Yi unleashed his Life Force to break through the Dragon Winged Demons and fled toward a dangerous stretch of space.
• Zheng Yi broke through a spatial barrier and entered a lush Small World, where the pursuing Dragon Winged Demons could not follow.
• Zheng Yi continued deeper as the green landscape turned black and pure Demonic Qi returned, while the demons gathered beyond the barrier and battered it.
• Zheng Yi flew for three days and three nights toward the source of the Demonic Qi and sensed an illusory demonic dragon whose pressure surpassed the Realm Lord level.
• Zheng Yi advanced through distorted space and discovered scattered bones of powerful creatures, including many black demonic skeletons, leading him to suspect the area was an ancient battlefield.

Zheng Yi entered the ancient Demon Temple, fought its remaining demon guards, and discovered the source of his Soul Devouring Banners. He absorbed the temple’s Evil Soul Banner into his own, advancing his banners into a gigantic Hundred Thousand Evil Soul Banner.

• Zheng Yi examined the demon bones outside the temple and used the power of light to destroy the demonic aura within one.
• Zheng Yi recognized the colossal temple as a demon sanctuary and considered whether it belonged to a race descended from the Ancient Demons.
• Zheng Yi passed through the temple’s Sky Forbidden Domain and fought the surviving demon guards, defeating them all.
• Zheng Yi found an enormous Evil Soul Banner and received information explaining how to advance his Hundred Thousand Soul Devouring Banners.
• Zheng Yi drew in demonic energy and merged the Evil Soul Banner with his own banners, forming a gigantic Hundred Thousand Evil Soul Banner.
• Zheng Yi summoned the scripture from the center of the hall.

Zheng Yi uncovered the Ancient Demon Contract and learned that the temple held the head of Ancient Demon "Grotto," whose followers had built a vast scheme to restore it. He resisted Grotto’s attempt to enslave him, shattered its illusion, and heard its offer to trade the Demon Summoning Scripture for a passage out of its sealed prison.

• Zheng Yi read the ancient scripture and learned that Ancient Demon "Grotto" had been dismembered and sealed, while its followers sought to reunite its body through sacrifices.
• Grotto drew Zheng Yi into an illusion and tried to make him surrender everything and sign the Ancient Demon Contract.
• Zheng Yi ignited his faith and resisted Grotto’s influence, then broke the illusion with his Taiji domain.
• Zheng Yi realized he had nearly signed the contract and confirmed that the temple and its surroundings had been part of Grotto’s scheme.
• Grotto offered Zheng Yi the Demon Summoning Scripture in exchange for opening a passage out of the sealed space-time.

Zheng Yi resisted the ancient devil "Cavern"’s attempts to manipulate him and forced it to hand over the Demon Summoning Scripture. After cleansing its hidden influence and absorbing the inheritance, he broke through the hall’s ceiling and rose into the air.

• The ancient devil "Cavern" tried to persuade Zheng Yi to open a passage and free it, while Zheng Yi realized the Eye of Heavenly Dao had watched his ordeal.
• Zheng Yi agreed to cooperate only if "Cavern" gave him the Demon Summoning Scripture first.
• The ancient devil "Cavern" reluctantly sent Zheng Yi the scripture, but its hidden devilish energy carried a trap meant to corrupt his will.
• Zheng Yi burned away the scripture’s concealed influence with Faith Power and absorbed its vast inheritance, suffering blood from his seven apertures.
• After "Cavern" demanded that Zheng Yi open the passage, Zheng Yi surged upward and smashed through the ceiling of the ancient devil’s sacred hall.

Zheng Yi broke the seal and released the ancient demon Grotto, but the Sky Vault Eye appeared and subdued the demon before destroying the sealed world. The Sky Vault Eye praised Zheng Yi and began examining him in an illusory space.

• Zheng Yi tore open the sky and freed the ancient demon Grotto from its seal.
• Grotto tried to devour Zheng Yi, but a tremendous force descended and compressed the demon into its revealed form.
• The Sky Vault Eye seized Grotto, explaining that it had lured him out to prevent another disaster and learn from his ancient demonic remnant.
• The Sky Vault Eye took Zheng Yi away as the sealed world shattered into nothingness.
• In an illusory space, the Sky Vault Eye praised Zheng Yi and swept its will over him, causing white light to appear between his brows.

The Sky Vault Eye rewarded Zheng Yi with a token granting him entry to the Wood God Mountain Divine Wood Garden and transported him to a city near Wood God Mountain. After the city’s defenses recognized the token, local factions learned an outsider had received the rare opportunity and began searching for him, leaving Zheng Yi aware that trouble was approaching.

• The Sky Vault Eye gave Zheng Yi a wooden token for entering the Wood God Mountain Divine Wood Garden as compensation for his dangerous mission.
• Zheng Yi suppressed the Devouring Divine Tree when it tried to absorb the token’s powerful wood-element energy.
• The Sky Vault Eye transported Zheng Yi across vast distances to a forest city near Wood God Mountain, where dense plant essence stirred the Devouring Divine Tree.
• The city’s defenses scanned Zheng Yi and withdrew after recognizing his Sky Vault Society token.
• News of the token spread through the city, prompting local factions to dispatch people to find Zheng Yi and resent the outsider’s rare opportunity.
• Zheng Yi realized someone was following him and accepted that the opportunity would bring conflict, but he refused to retreat.

Zheng Yi fought off the Divine Wood Kingdom’s young aristocrats who tried to seize his Sky Vault Token, then headed for Wood God Mountain. When Realm Lord-level pursuers attacked, Sky Vault Eye intervened and suppressed them, revealing itself above the scene.

• Zheng Yi waited at an inn, where young masters from several clans confronted him and demanded his Sky Vault Token.
• Zheng Yi crushed the guards’ attack and sent the young masters flying before leaving for Wood God Mountain.
• Several Realm Lord-level experts pursued Zheng Yi and attacked him with a vine-shaped strike.
• A gigantic finger descended from the clouds and suppressed the Realm Lords in a deep underground prison.
• Sky Vault Eye appeared in the sky, and the gathered experts knelt and paid their respects.

After the Sky Vault Eye punished Realm Lords who defied his order, Zheng Yi traveled safely to Wood God Mountain to claim his reward. There, he met Li Ji of the Li Family, reaffirmed that he would not interfere in the principality’s affairs, and entered the mountain’s divine-tree groves while restraining the Devouring Divine Tree.

• The Sky Vault Eye forbade Realm Lords from interfering and punished those who had attacked Zheng Yi, causing the great families to retreat.
• Zheng Yi traveled to Wood God Mountain without obstruction and marveled at the Heavenly Jianmu’s immense pressure.
• Li Ji of the Li Family approached Zheng Yi to probe his intentions, and Zheng Yi said his transaction with the Sky Vault Society was over and he had come only for his reward.
• Li Ji departed, assuring Zheng Yi that no one would disturb him for now, while Zheng Yi recognized that the family feared the Sky Vault Eye more than him.
• Zheng Yi entered Wood God Mountain’s groves, where the Devouring Divine Tree stirred at the sight of powerful divine trees, but he suppressed its urge to devour them.
• Zheng Yi continued through the groves and saw cultivators receiving inheritances from the divine trees.

Zheng Yi entered the Divine Wood Garden, where the immense Heavenly Jianmu sensed the power of his Devouring Divine Tree and bestowed an inheritance upon him. The chapter ended as his Wood God Dao Embryo connected with Jianmu and awakened a trace of its will.

• Zheng Yi climbed Wood God Mountain, marveling at its rare Divine Woods and hoping to reach the summit.
• A formation imprisoned Zheng Yi, scanned the token he carried, and transported him into the mist-filled Divine Wood Garden.
• Zheng Yi recognized Jianmu’s colossal trunk and stopped nearby, wary of proceeding without his token’s protection.
• Zheng Yi summoned the Devouring Divine Tree and Chaos Black Dragon Cauldron to absorb the garden’s wood-element Source Power and batter his cultivation barriers.
• The disturbance drew Jianmu’s attention, and a white light brought Zheng Yi an inheritance as his Wood God Dao Embryo connected with Jianmu and awakened a trace of its will.