Chapter Summaries

Kong Chen and Jade Maiden attacked the Crimson Flame Sect’s Treasure Pavilion, announcing that they had come to punish the sect for joining the war against [Akatsuki]. They left Lin Lu and the sect’s gathered cultivators caught between Kong Chen’s expanding Purity Domain and Jade Maiden’s Spirit-Sealing Domain.

• Kong Chen and Jade Maiden arrived openly at the Treasure Pavilion, where Lin Yue recognized their [Akatsuki] cloaks and warned the Crimson Flame Sect.
• Kong Chen used Purity Domain to erase small life forms within three kilometers, while Jade Maiden sealed Lin Yue’s cultivation with Spirit Seal.
• Lin Lu and the sect’s cultivators arrived, and Jade Maiden told Lin Lu that they had come to take the Treasure Pavilion as punishment for the sect’s actions.
• Kong Chen revealed his zither and expanded Purity Domain to a ten-kilometer radius as Lin Lu attacked.
• Jade Maiden unleashed Spirit-Sealing Domain, sending handprints down on the gathered cultivators and beginning to seal their spiritual power and cultivation.

Jade Maiden looted the Crimson Flame Sect’s Treasure Pavilion while Kong Chen held off Lin Lu and the sect’s cultivators. They escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka, leaving the sect with heavy losses and Lin Lu determined to keep it out of the conflict with Akatsuki.

• Jade Maiden entered the Treasure Pavilion while Kong Chen used his Purity Domain and cherry blossom petals to block the Crimson Flame Sect’s cultivators.
• Lin Lu forced spells through Jade Maiden’s Spirit-Sealing Domain, but Kong Chen’s Purity Domain overwhelmed them and killed cultivators who charged inside.
• Jade Maiden returned after emptying the Treasure Pavilion, and Kong Chen unleashed the Red Cherry Karma Fire to cover their escape.
• Lin Lu retreated with the sect members, but Kong Chen and Jade Maiden escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka before he could pursue them.
• Lin Yue reported that the Treasure Pavilion had been emptied, and the Crimson Flame Sect tallied fifteen Void Refinement-stage and three Fusion-stage deaths.
• Lin Lu decided that the Crimson Flame Sect would not involve itself in the battle against Akatsuki again.

Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi investigated Prince Gong City’s hidden defenses, then used a Bu Clan token to enter the Immortal Allure Inn. Mu Yuyi chose two royal family members as targets and used the Tenseigan to turn them into puppets.

• Explosive Clay insects infiltrated the teleportation arrays while Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi discussed Prince Gong’s preparations and other hidden measures.
• Mu Yuyi led Luo Yuxi to the Immortal Allure Inn, where he identified two Integration Stage members of Prince Gong’s royal family by their violet-gold spiritual energy.
• Mu Yuyi presented a rare Bu Clan token, and the inn’s staff admitted the pair as honored guests.
• Mu Yuyi arranged to occupy the private room beside the two royal family members and asked the staff to leave them alone.
• Mu Yuyi sent two pale-blue spheres through the wall and into the men’s chests, intending to control them as puppets.

Mu Yuyi controlled two of Prince Gong’s sons and used their memories to uncover a sealed chamber beneath the manor. After opening it with their blood, he and Luo Yuxi found three ancient puppet-like creatures beginning to awaken.

• Mu Yuyi used the Tenseigan to control two of Prince Gong’s sons and read their memories.
• Mu Yuyi learned that three statues lay beneath the manor’s rear garden and that royal family members worshipped them once a year.
• Mu Yuyi took Luo Yuxi and the two puppets through a spatial passage into the sealed underground passage.
• Mu Yuyi ordered the royal descendants to spill their blood onto the formation by the dark red stone door, opening the entrance.
• Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi saw blood flow toward three hundred-meter-tall statues with human faces and beast bodies, revealing them as ancient refined puppets.

Mu Yuyi discovered that Prince Gong had hidden three powerful puppets beneath the manor and used the Tenseigan to take control of them. With the puppets in hand, he and Luo Yuxi left for the Treasure Pavilion, planning to use Prince Gong's sons to access its first four levels.

• Mu Yuyi identified the three blood-fed statues as Dacheng-stage puppets and explained how his Tenseigan could bypass their defenses.
• Mu Yuyi placed his ocular power into the human-faced lion puppet and took control of it.
• Mu Yuyi controlled the human-faced tiger and leopard puppets as well, explaining that his Dacheng-stage soul protected him from backlash.
• Mu Yuyi shrank all three puppets to palm size and took Prince Gong's unconscious sons with him through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi headed to the Treasure Pavilion, where they planned to loot the first four levels using the princes and force their way into the upper levels.

Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi robbed the lower floors of the Treasure Pavilion, then launched a citywide attack to cover their raid on its upper levels. The chapter ended with Mu Yuyi ordering three Grand Ascension Stage statues to break the seventh floor’s formations.

• Mu Yuyi used Yomotsu Hirasaka and the royal puppets’ blood to loot the first four floors of the Treasure Pavilion.
• Mu Yuyi warned Luo Yuxi that entering the fifth floor would alert Prince Gong, and she agreed to focus on collecting treasures during the battle.
• Mu Yuyi unleashed the Suffocation Domain across Prince Gong’s Manor and more than half of Prince Gong City, draining cultivators’ spiritual energy.
• Mu Yuyi detonated his clay insects and destroyed the city’s teleportation formations, isolating Prince Gong City.
• Mu Yuyi brought Luo Yuxi to the fifth floor, went up to the seventh, and summoned three Grand Ascension Stage statues to break the formations protecting its treasures.

Mu Yuyi looted Prince Gong's Manor's Treasure Pavilion and revealed that he had taken control of its three Mahayana-stage puppet statues. As the statues and a Tenseigan construct ravaged the manor and city, Mu Yuyi entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

• Mu Yuyi used Yomotsu Hirasaka and the three puppet statues to clear out the seventh- and sixth-level Treasure Pavilions while Luo Yuxi gathered treasures.
• Prince Gong's forces rushed to stop the intruder, but Mu Yuyi emerged and they recognized him as Azure Dragon's Jade Purity clone.
• Mu Yuyi's Suffocation Domain weakened the manor army's sword formation, and his Tenseigan repelled the attack.
• Mu Yuyi revealed that he had taken the three puppet statues, then ordered them to destroy Prince Gong's Manor.
• Mu Yuyi summoned a Tenseigan construct to wreck the surrounding city and activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode.

Mu Yuyi unleashed powerful Tenseigan attacks, destroying Prince Gong’s Manor and splitting Prince Gong City apart while the three Mahayana-stage statues rampaged through the city. After Luo Yuxi reported that the Treasure Pavilion was dealt with, Mu Yuyi called her to join him in casting a spell across the city.

• Mu Yuyi entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode and used Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to devastate buildings and overwhelm cultivators in its path.
• Tens of thousands of Prince Gong City’s defenders formed a combined attack against Mu Yuyi, but he used Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to escape their formation.
• Mu Yuyi’s golden strike split Prince Gong’s Manor and cut Prince Gong City from east to west.
• The three Mahayana-stage statues left the ruined manor and began destroying the city and killing cultivators who had not fled.
• Luo Yuxi told Mu Yuyi that the Treasure Pavilion matter was finished, and he opened a spatial passage for her to join him in casting the Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River.

Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi unleashed their combined Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River, devastating Prince Gong City with a vast supernatural storm. After Luo Yuxi ran low on spiritual energy, Mu Yuyi sent her and the three Mahayana-stage puppets away, then disappeared amid a final Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi joined their king-tier spells to cast Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River, darkening the sky over Prince Gong City with clouds, wind, and snow.
• Luo River Divine Water formed a dancing maiden as the spell's moonlight and wind tore through the city and its cultivators.
• A Great Sound Pavilion branch master recorded the destruction and speculated that the maiden was the legendary Goddess of the Luo River.
• Luo Yuxi told Mu Yuyi that her spiritual energy was nearly exhausted, so he ordered them to stop casting.
• Mu Yuyi opened a spatial passage and sent Luo Yuxi and the three Mahayana-stage puppets away, then unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and vanished.

Prince Gong and other Mahayana cultivators arrived to find Prince Gong City almost completely destroyed and watched footage showing Mu Yuyi’s overwhelming power. They realized [Akatsuki] was far stronger than they had assumed, while the full extent of Azure Dragon’s strength remained alarming.

• Prince Gong and dozens of Mahayana cultivators arrived to find Prince Gong City reduced to ruins and split by a vast ravine.
• Prince Gong ordered Lu Xuan to show the battle footage, and Lu Xuan recorded the cultivators’ names for the Great Sound Pavilion’s fees.
• The footage showed Mu Yuyi defeating his attackers and commanding Prince Gong’s three Mahayana statue puppets.
• Prince Duanzhong’s heir and the other cultivators realized Mu Yuyi was an early-stage Body Integration Three Pure Ones Clone, meaning Azure Dragon’s unified cultivation was even higher.
• The cultivators watched Mu Yuyi unleash Tenseigan Chakra Mode and cleave Prince Gong City in two, leaving them wary of [Akatsuki] and Azure Dragon.

After the scene of Prince Gong City’s destruction ended, Lu Xuan revealed that [Akatsuki] had launched simultaneous attacks across the continent. His intelligence described massacres, looting, and the destruction or crippling of several cultivation forces, leaving the gathered Great Ascension cultivators to face the scale of the threat.

• The Great Ascension cultivators discussed Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi’s combined spell as Prince Gong silently surveyed the ruins and suffered a small injury.
• Lu Xuan received secret intelligence and warned the gathering that major events had occurred across the continent at the same time.
• Lu Xuan reported that Zero Burial and White Tiger destroyed Spirit Crane City, while Azure Dragon’s protectors annihilated Cloud Dream Sect and the Fang Clan.
• Lu Xuan reported that Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise destroyed Thunder City, and that Santai’s envoys poisoned and looted Mystic Frost Peak.
• Lu Xuan reported that Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper devastated Peerless Valley after killing Liu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan reported that Kong Chen and Jade Maiden looted the Crimson Flame Sect after their abilities left Lin Lu and the sect unable to stop them.

After [Akatsuki] destroyed eight factions without losing anyone, Prince Gong explained that Azure Dragon's spatial ability had enabled the attacks and escapes. Zero Burial then warned every faction involved in the planned campaign that [Akatsuki] would destroy them unless they withdrew, leaving the gathered cultivators fleeing and the operation remembered as the Underworld Cataclysm.

• Prince Gong identified Azure Dragon's spatial ability as the key to [Akatsuki]'s simultaneous attacks, infiltration, and escapes.
• Lu Xuan reported that Zero Burial had sent a warning to all cultivation forces through Great Sound Pavilion's intelligence network.
• Zero Burial threatened to destroy every faction involved in the planned operation before they could open the realm passage, but offered to let past actions go if they stopped.
• Great Ascension cultivators from third-tier forces and some second-tier elders left Prince Gong City in fear of [Akatsuki]'s retaliation.
• Great Sound Pavilion spread the name Yomotsu Hirasaka for Azure Dragon's spatial ability, and the operation became known as the Underworld Cataclysm.

After Akatsuki’s devastating raids made it a recognized second-tier faction and drove most opponents to retreat, the Central River Imperial Family’s Tribulation Transcendence princes entered the fight. The chapter ended with three of the Nine Princes pledging to hunt Akatsuki, with a full imperial pursuit looming if they failed.

• The Great Sound Pavilion classified Akatsuki as a second-tier cultivation faction after weighing its members’ abilities, Mahayana-level assets, and wealth.
• Following Akatsuki’s declaration and raids, factions across the cultivation world withdrew or took ambiguous positions, while powerful sects such as the Origin Sect and Three Pure Ones Sect obstructed the imperial family.
• Akatsuki destroyed three third-tier factions in less than the time it took to burn an incense stick, then nearly wiped out a second-tier faction with the Thunder Breathing Beast and three Mahayana puppet statues.
• After the attack on the second-tier faction, Prince Jin declared that he would intervene if Akatsuki continued its bloodshed.
• Prince Cheng and Prince An joined Prince Jin in declaring that they would pursue and kill Akatsuki, raising the prospect of a full-scale imperial pursuit.

Akatsuki halted its operations in Central River after Tribulation Transcendence cultivators prepared to intervene. Lin Chuan planned to travel to West Creek to seek Origin Grass and ask powerful sects to delay the Central River Imperial Family’s realm passage.

• Meng Jingxian condemned the Tribulation Transcendence cultivators for preparing to attack Fusion cultivators, and Southern Dipper asked whether Akatsuki should continue its operations.
• Lin Chuan and Bu Lianshi decided to stop the operations because Tribulation Transcendence cultivators could suppress Yomotsu Hirasaka and make their actions too dangerous.
• Qin Lang warned that Akatsuki had not significantly delayed the stronger factions from opening a realm passage to the Southern Bright Continent.
• Lin Chuan said he would try to open a spatial passage to West Creek within a few days and ask the Three Pure Ones Sect, the Origin Sect, and other first-tier forces to buy time.
• Lin Chuan planned to seek Origin Grass and the West Creek Continent’s companion immortal artifact, the Breaking Talisman.

Lin Chuan recruited Mars and Lin Chen to disrupt the major factions by giving them pills that could temporarily increase their power. He then teleported to the Jade Purity Sect, where Shangguan Hong and four Mahayana cultivators awaited him.

• Lin Chuan met Mars in the forest and gave her two pills in exchange for delaying the major factions’ opening of the realm passage.
• Lin Chuan gave pills to Lin Chen, who accepted them to help him cause more trouble for the Lin Clan.
• Lin Chuan chose to visit the Jade Purity Sect and contacted Shangguan Dieche for a spatial coordinate.
• Lin Chuan teleported into a hall at the Jade Purity Sect and found himself surrounded by Shangguan Hong, a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator, and four Mahayana cultivators.

Lin Chuan met with the leaders of the Three Pure Ones Sect and revealed the Primordial Chaos Pearl and the pills behind [Akatsuki]’s strength. The sect leaders questioned his offer to help their lineage, and Lin Chuan invited them to test the pills.

• Lin Chuan told Jade Purity Sect’s elders that [Akatsuki] would retaliate against those who attacked it, then waited for the other sects’ leaders to arrive.
• Lin Xuan arrived with Supreme Purity Sect’s elders and Lin Ru, followed by Lu Chen and High Purity Sect’s delegation, including Lu Mu.
• Lin Chuan revealed that he had inherited the Dao Immortal’s Dao Scripture and technique, then displayed the Primordial Chaos Pearl, astonishing Jade Purity Sect’s cultivators.
• Lin Chuan said he had come to strengthen the Three Pure Ones Sect, though he would not return the pearl because the Dao Ancestor had passed it to him.
• Lin Chuan produced pills that he said temporarily increased any cultivator’s strength by at least thirty percent without side effects, and offered to let the leaders test them.

Lin Chuan demonstrated that his pills could increase cultivators’ strength by awakening the chakra in their bodies and turning it into Sage Chakra. After Lin Ru confirmed the pills worked, Lin Chuan offered them to the sects in exchange for help stopping the Central River Imperial Family from opening the realm passage.

• Lin Chuan explained the pills’ benefits and assured Lin Xuan, Shangguan Hong, and Lu Chen that they had no side effects.
• Lin Ru volunteered to test a pill, and Lin Xuan agreed to protect him while he did so.
• Lin Ru took the pill, discovered hidden chakra within his body, and reported that his strength had risen by more than twenty percent.
• Lin Chuan explained that the pill let cultivators use chakra to form Sage Chakra by combining it with spiritual energy.
• Shangguan Hong asked what Lin Chuan wanted in return, and Lin Chuan requested help delaying the Central River Imperial Family’s attempt to open the realm passage.
• Lin Chuan offered each sect fifty pills and warned that he could take them back at any time.

Lin Chuan persuaded the Three Pure Ones Sect’s three branches to accept pills that increased cultivation in exchange for delaying the opening of the realm passage. He distributed the pills and left with the sects tempted by their power and increasingly caught in his influence.

• Shangguan Hong agreed to Lin Chuan’s request after Lin Chuan promised more pills in the future.
• The Supreme Purity Sect Master urged Lin Xuan to accept, and Lin Xuan and Lu Chen agreed after weighing the risks of falling behind the other sects.
• Lin Chuan gave each of the three sects fifty pills after they agreed to delay the realm passage’s opening.
• The Supreme Purity Sect Master planned to distribute the pills, but Lin Xuan told him to keep ten in reserve.
• Lin Chuan gave Shangguan Dieche ten additional pills before leaving the Jade Purity Sect.

Lin Chuan exploited the Origin Sect's factional conflict to secure Zhang Lin's support in exchange for pills, while arranging alliances and preparing to leave for the West Creek Continent. After a month of cultivation in the Cosmic Light Hall, he reached the late stage of Body Fusion and set out to seek the Origin Grass.

• Lin Chuan met Zhang Lin and Mu Li, gave Zhang Lin a hundred pills, and gained his promise to delay the Central River Imperial Family's attempt to open a realm passage to the Southern Bright Continent.
• Lin Chuan reassured Mu Li that he planned to travel to the West Creek Continent after breaking through, and Mu Li offered to accompany him if needed.
• Lin Chuan contacted Zhongchuan Yue, Princess Youhua, Xiao Kai, Bu Zhi, Shi Shuiqing, and others to strengthen [Akatsuki]'s arrangements on the Central River Continent.
• Lin Chuan and the other members of [Akatsuki] went into hiding and used the Cosmic Light Hall to cultivate.
• One month later, Lin Chuan reached the late stage of Body Fusion and announced that he was heading to the West Creek Continent.

After breaking through to the late Fusion stage, Lin Chuan used Yomotsu Hirasaka to lead the [Akatsuki] organization from the Central River Continent to the West Creek Continent. The crossing drew powerful figures to the site, where Prince An summoned Prince Jin and Prince Cheng to investigate.

• Lin Chuan broke through to the late Fusion stage and told the [Akatsuki] members he would soon open a passage to the West Creek Continent.
• After stabilizing his cultivation for three days, Lin Chuan used the Flying Thunder God Formula on Mu Bai's Profound Immortal skeleton to locate the West Creek Continent.
• Lin Chuan activated Yomotsu Hirasaka, overcoming the distance and barrier of laws between the continents as his immortal qi chakra rapidly drained.
• Lin Chuan sent himself and the [Akatsuki] members across to the West Creek Continent in a burst of silver light, while nearby cultivators were caught in the spatial disturbance.
• Prince An arrived at the site, sensed traces of another continent, and summoned Prince Jin and Prince Cheng.