Chapter Summaries

Chu Ming discovered how to defeat the Five Elements spirit bodies and rescued Ji Wujiang, Lie Kong Lei, and several others, while their crystals revealed a way to gather the Five Elements laws. As Fan Lian investigated the changed Langhuan Book World, the five crystals awakened the Mountains and Seas Painting Pool, and something in the murky space began calling to Chu Ming.

• Chu Ming saved Ji Wujiang and Lie Kong Lei by using elemental attacks to transform and then counter the Five Elements spirit bodies, obtaining earth- and water-colored crystals.
• Chu Ming guided Tantai Xiu and the others through the same method, rescuing the three princes of Tianmu Kingdom and Marquis Wuchang and gathering crystals containing the Five Elements laws.
• Fan Lian realized that sustained single-element attacks transformed the spirits and that countering their new element could defeat them, then learned Chu Ming had discovered the method.
• Fan Lian warned that the Langhuan Book World had changed and went to investigate while Xuyang and Di Ze rushed to save their subordinates from the remaining spirit bodies.
• The five elemental crystals formed a rotating ring in Chu Ming's Golden House, causing the Mountains and Seas Painting Pool to stir as something in the space called to him.

Chu Ming and the others faced a powerful Five Elements spirit beast, rival factions, and a battle over the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk. The disk gravitated toward Chu Ming, who nearly killed a Ninth-Realm perfected Quasi-Immortal, but the beast’s attack threw the battlefield into chaos and the disk escaped again.

• Chu Ming realized the growing summons came from within the void rift, as a massive Five Elements spirit beast emerged and fought Fang Lian, Xuyang, and Di Ze.
• Xian Gao and Ji Lin attacked the Nine Heavens Alliance’s Quasi-Immortals while the True Immortals battled the beast.
• The Five Elements Inverse Central Disk flew from the beast toward Chu Ming, and Ji Lin attacked him as it circled around him.
• A dragon roar interrupted Ji Lin’s strike, and Chu Ming used three rapid slashes to badly wound Zha Lin before Xian Gao joined the fight.
• The spirit beast broke free and attacked, killing Marquis Wuchang; the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk vanished and reappeared elsewhere as both factions raced to seize it.

Chu Ming and the True Immortals were trapped with the Five Elements spirit beast after a spatial collapse swept away everyone else. As the space continued shrinking and growing more stable, Xuyang and Di Ze agreed to join forces with Fang Tu to fight the beast.

• Chu Ming used the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation and the Qingfu Life-and-Death Pearl to destroy Xian Gao’s body, forcing Ji Lin to flee with Xian Gao’s Infant Seed.
• The Five Elements spirit beast tore through space, and the resulting distortion swept away Ji Wujiang, Lie Kong Lei, Heiqing, the Tianmu Kingdom princes, and the other combatants, leaving Chu Ming, Fang Tu, Xuyang, and Di Ze behind.
• The beast reappeared with ten heads, and Chu Ming recognized that it had swallowed the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk rather than advanced in rank.
• Fang Tu and Chu Ming evaded the beast’s attacks while Chu Ming restored the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation, then Fang Tu realized the space was shrinking and becoming more stable.
• Xuyang and Di Ze concluded that they were trapped in a prison-like space and agreed to join forces with Fang Tu to kill the Five Elements spirit beast.

Chu Ming and the three True Immortals escaped the collapsing Five Elements Maze after Chu Ming used the Five Elements’ mutual generation and restraint to defeat its spirit body. He discovered the Langhuan Heavenly Tome within the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk, but Xuyang and Di Ze turned on him, forcing him to flee into the Divine Talisman Cloud Sea, where an unexpected pressure also trapped Xuyang.

• Fang Lian, Xuyang, and Di Ze joined forces against the Five Elements spirit body after Fang Lian secured an oath that they would not attack Chu Ming while escaping.
• As the maze collapsed, Chu Ming used water-attributed treasures to transform the Five Elements spirit body into a Wood Spirit Body, then struck it with fire; the group escaped through a small opening.
• Fang Lian explained the Langhuan Divine Guard Heritage and gave Chu Ming a jade slip about the Divine Talisman Cloud Sea, while Xuyang persuaded Di Ze to help him kill Chu Ming.
• Inside the Golden House, Chu Ming activated the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk with the Five Elements crystals and found the Langhuan Heavenly Tome, which contained the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Great Wilderness: Wilderness Classic.
• Xuyang attacked Chu Ming while Di Ze held Fang Lian back, so Chu Ming fled into the Divine Talisman Cloud Sea to buy time; Xuyang followed and discovered that its crushing pressure affected him as well.

Chu Ming escaped deeper into the Divine Guard Cloud Sea while True Immortal Xuyang pursued him, and he discovered that the sea punished excessive speed and guarded divine talisman fragments with lethal lightning. After Xuyang was injured and lost two immortal artifacts, he suspected that the sea concealed the Langhuan Divine General Heritage.

• Chu Ming discovered that the cloud sea destroyed anything moving beyond its speed limit, then used his teleportation anchors to evade True Immortal Xuyang.
• Fang Lian and Di Ze saw the Langhuan Divine Guard and Divine General inheritance steles appear in the cloud sea and rushed inside.
• Ji Lin, Xian Gao, Heiqing, and other survivors emerged from spatial cracks near the inheritance steles, guided out of a void by a treasure resembling the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk.
• Chu Ming realized the jade book from the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk was part of the Langhuan Heavenly Tome and continued searching for the answer hidden deeper in the Book Realm.
• Chu Ming tested a divine talisman fragment's lightning defenses, then let True Immortal Xuyang approach it; the lightning blinded and injured Xuyang and destroyed one of his immortal artifacts.
• True Immortal Xuyang lost a second immortal artifact when he attacked Chu Ming too quickly, then suspected the cloud sea's anomalies marked the Langhuan Divine General Heritage.

Chu Ming used the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to sever the golden thread protecting a Divine Talisman fragment, then collected more fragments that revealed both Langhuan Divine Guard and Divine General inheritances. As Chu Ming continued toward the nine Throne steles, Heiqing secretly breached the boundary and entered the cloud sea.

• True Immortal Xuyang returned to seize the Divine Talisman, but Chu Ming used the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to sever its golden thread, took the talisman, and escaped with [Golden House Teleportation].
• Chu Ming found another Divine Talisman fragment, brought it into the Golden House, and watched it merge with the first into a talisman that conveyed information about the Langhuan Divine General.
• Chu Ming collected more fragments across the cloud sea, while True Immortal Fang Lian, True Immortal Di Ze, and True Immortal Xuyang gathered fragments of their own; the others remained trapped inside the golden steles’ boundary.
• Heiqing used a Black Bead to pierce the cloud-sea restrictions and entered, causing his aura to disappear and prompting Ji Lin to investigate.
• After two days, Chu Ming had gathered twenty fragments that formed eleven talismans, including two that indicated the Divine General inheritance, and he continued searching toward another fragment.

Chu Ming reached the Langhuan inheritance grounds, where the five unusual fragments fused into a Langhuan Divine King Talisman and summoned him onward. After reuniting with Ji Wujiang, Lie Kong Lei, Tantai Xiu, and the others, he distributed divine talismans and set off to follow the guidance, leaving the group to divide the remaining gifts.

• True Immortal Fang Lian, True Immortal Xuyang, and Immortal Di Ze tried to fuse divine talisman fragments, while Heiqing succeeded first and was carried away by a guiding Golden Pillar.
• Chu Ming realized the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk had already fused his talismans, then reached the nine golden steles and was dragged into the inheritance grounds as five unusual fragments formed a Langhuan Divine King Talisman.
• The nine golden steles vanished, and Chu Ming discovered the summons was guiding him before locating Ji Wujiang, Lie Kong Lei, Tantai Xiu, and the others in the altered grounds.
• After learning that fused talismans could qualify for the inheritances, Chu Ming gave Tantai Xiu one Divine General Talisman and seven Divine Guard Talismans, then gave Ji Wujiang a Divine General Talisman and Lie Kong Lei a Divine Guard Talisman.
• Chu Ming left with Ji Wujiang and Lie Kong Lei to follow the summons, while Tantai Xiu kept his special talisman and passed the other seven in his gift to the Ink Sage.

Chu Ming found the Langhuan Divine King’s inheritance and began its trials, while the others were scattered through a gray expanse. There, Duke Anguo saved Tantai Yu and sacrificed himself to trap Xian Gao, leaving Tantai Yu to escape with a Divine Guard Talisman.

• Ink Sage gave the remaining Divine Guard Talismans to Tantai Xiao, Tantai Yu, and Duke Anguo, then followed Chu Ming into a hidden space despite lacking a talisman.
• Chu Ming entered a gray realm, used the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to reveal spatial rifts, and followed the God King Divine Talisman to a palace and throne where the Langhuan Divine King’s inheritance began.
• The others were scattered across the gray space; Di Ze attacked his surroundings, and white mist eventually spread through the realm.
• Xian Gao emerged from the white mist and attacked Tantai Yu, but Duke Anguo intervened and sent Tantai Yu away with his Divine Guard Talisman.
• Duke Anguo revealed his identity as Xuanyuan Chong and used black qi made from national qi and the resentment of countless people to invade Xian Gao’s Infant Seed, sacrificing himself to take the quasi-immortal down with him.

Chu Ming received the Langhuan Divine King Heritage, but heaven-and-earth laws forced it to seal away its highest teachings. He advanced to the Quasi-Immortal realm with a sixfold divine palace and began optimizing his secret arts before turning to the martial path.

• The Ink Sage refined Duke Anguo's talisman and was taken by the inheritance's golden light, while Di Ze attacked the fleeing Martial Sage and Tantai Yu and blasted Old Man Shi and Granny Yin away.
• Chu Ming learned the Langhuan Divine King's history and the realms beyond True Immortals, but the Divine King Heritage sealed itself inside the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to avoid heaven-and-earth laws.
• Chu Ming absorbed the inheritance he had already received, advanced [Book Intent Painting Realm] to Primordial Immortal Palace, and discovered that his Golden House Space could draw energy from chaos to restore Golden House Power.
• Chu Ming used the Divine King Heritage to refine [Mountain-Sea Divine] into [Langhuan Divine], broke through to the Quasi-Immortal realm, and formed a divine palace six times the size of an ordinary one.
• Chu Ming judged that he needed greater power to kill Xuyang, then optimized his law-based secret arts and began improving the Langhuan Void Realm Sky Diagram before turning to the martial path.

Chu Ming deduced the Ninth Realm of martial arts but could not find the key to breaking through, then discovered the Langhuan Divine Hall was an immortal artifact that could transform and resist his attacks. The Langhuan Heavenly Tome drew Chu Ming and other inheritance seekers into repeated reincarnations, while the survivors of Tianmu Kingdom’s party waited in hiding and the expelled sages resolved to honor Chu Ming as their First Sage.

• Chu Ming left the Golden House Space and discovered that the Langhuan Divine Hall had entered the chaotic space beyond his sea of consciousness and was an immortal artifact.
• Chu Ming tested the hall with the Darkgold Calamity-Extinguishing Blade and Qingfu Life-and-Death Pearl, but neither attack disturbed it, so he considered using it to protect himself from True Immortal Xuyang.
• The Langhuan Heavenly Tome opened, drawing Chu Ming, Fang Lian, Xuyang, Ji Wujiang, Tantai Xiu, the Ninth Prince, Heiqing, and others into repeated reincarnations; several inheritance seekers gained major cultivation breakthroughs.
• Martial Sage, Granny Yin, and the gravely wounded Old Man Shi hid in the clouds after their party suffered devastating losses, and Martial Sage pinned his hopes on Chu Ming and Fang Lian.
• Ink Sage, Painting Sage, and Tantai Xiao were expelled after failing their reincarnation trials, but confirmed they had obtained Divine Guard Heritage through Chu Ming’s prepared talismans.
• Ink Sage and Painting Sage resolved to name Chu Ming Tianmu Kingdom’s First Sage if they survived, then joined Tantai Xiao in studying their heritage as more figures were expelled from the Heavenly Tome.

As the Langhuan Book World collapsed, Chu Ming emerged from endless reincarnations in the Langhuan Heavenly Tome and killed Ji Lin with a single page. The books and pages then surged toward the three battling True Immortals, leaving the battle's outcome unknown.

• Lie Kong Lei failed to catch Heiqing after he abducted the Golden Roc's father, while Ji Wujiang and Tantai Xiu considered the benefits of their inheritances.
• True Immortal Xuyang gained the upper hand against Fang Lian, then allied with Immortal Di Ze to attack him.
• The Langhuan Heavenly Tome appeared as the Book World's mist cleared, and Xuyang, Fang Lian, and Di Ze fought over it while Chu Ming remained trapped in repeated reincarnations.
• As the Book World shattered, Ji Lin attacked the injured group, and Painting Sage used his natal scroll to restrain him.
• Chu Ming awakened, sliced Ji Lin apart with a page from the Heavenly Tome, and sent the falling books and pages rushing toward the three True Immortals.

After three years trapped in a gray space with the Langhuan Heavenly Tome, Chu Ming deduced new cultivation methods and used the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to break free. He emerged into a world filled with black-qi beasts, while his allies still searched for him and the Western Continent faced strange beasts pouring from black holes.

• Chu Ming was swallowed by the Langhuan Heavenly Tome as the Book Realm collapsed and survived Xuyang and Di Ze’s attacks by being transported to a gray space.
• Fang Lian escaped with the survivors, while Ji Wujiang, Tantai Xiu, and Lie Kong Lei continued to hope that Chu Ming was alive; Xuyang and Di Ze escaped with the Langhuan Divine General Heritage.
• Ink Sage and Tantai Xiao rebuilt Tianmu Kingdom’s defenses, then discovered black holes above the Ancient Immortal Kingdom and Divine Martial Kingdom as black-qi beasts began emerging across the Western Continent.
• Over three years, Chu Ming deduced cultivation methods through True Immortal Immortality, raised his Golden Steel Indestructible True Intent to the seventh level, and refined half of the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk.
• Chu Ming used repeated strikes from the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to open a rift in the gray space and stepped into another world.
• Chu Ming killed a black-qi beast that attacked him, and the beast’s black qi surged toward him.

Chu Ming arrived in the far west of Canggan Central Continent and discovered that black-qi strange beasts had begun appearing there. After rescuing members of the Thunder New Moon Tribe, he learned that the beasts had massacred a major city and could reach the strength of third-step True Immortals.

• Black qi took root in Chu Ming’s Primordial Qi divine talisman, strengthening his attacks, while he found that it also surrounded the Langhuan Divine Hall in the chaotic space.
• Chu Ming emerged in Thunder New Moon Forest, where he killed two black-mist strange beasts and rescued Leishuo Suo and Leishuo Xuan.
• Leishuo Suo and Leishuo Xuan led Chu Ming to their tribe, where he met the chieftain, Leishuo Yue.
• Leishuo Yue told Chu Ming that strange beasts had appeared three years earlier and that a hundred of them had destroyed Tide Sound City, killing ten million people.
• Leishuo Yue explained that the beasts’ eyes, hooves, and back patterns indicated their strength, including a three-patterned beast comparable to a third-step True Immortal.

Chu Ming escorted Leishuo Yue and the Thunder New Moon Tribe toward Leishuo City, killing beasts and bandits along the way. At the crowded city gates, he sensed that one of the Brownwood Tribesmen was an aberrant beast.

• Leishuo Yue offered Chu Ming five-thousand-year Thunder New Moon Purplewood in exchange for protecting a small group of his tribe on the journey to Leishuo City, and Chu Ming accepted.
• Chu Ming incorporated the purplewood into the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation, strengthening it, while experimenting with connecting the formation to the Langhuan Divine Hall.
• Chu Ming and the tribespeople set out for Leishuo City, and he swiftly killed attacking Black Demon Spotted Doves and evil beasts in the Thunder New Moon Forest.
• When Duancheng Wen and Duancheng Pu tried to rob the group and seize Leishuo Xuan, Chu Ming killed them instantly and took their spatial treasures.
• After nearly two days of travel, the group reached Leishuo City and found a long entry queue, while Wu Wanshan escorted the Azure Sparrow Tribe past it.
• Chu Ming sensed an aberrant beast among three Brownwood Tribesmen waiting at the back of the queue.

Chu Ming helped Leishuo City survive the first attack by the strange beasts, but discovered that its teleportation node had been contaminated. As the city prepared to face a three-striped beast, Chu Ming focused on strengthening his formation, while Hua Zhan and the city lords considered seeking his aid.

• Three Brownwood clansmen revealed themselves as strange beasts and attacked the queue, Wu Wanshan, and the Green Sparrow clan chief; Chu Ming led the Thunder New Moon Tribe toward Leishuo City amid the ensuing chaos.
• At the city gate, Chu Ming used the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation and the Green Fu Life-Extinguishing Pearl to kill two one-striped beasts, then helped the refugees get inside as a three-striped beast arrived and attacked the city.
• Hua Zhan told Chu Ming that strange beasts had contaminated Leishuo City's teleportation node, and the city came under attack while he found the node was surrounded by corrosive black aura.
• Chu Ming declined to join the Leishuo Guard and searched for another way to travel, while Hua Zhan told the city lords that Hong Jun might be powerful enough to help them fight the beasts.
• Hua Zhan and Gu Chang went to find Chu Ming as he examined how the strange beasts' black qi was affecting the Langhuan Divine Hall and his talisman inscription, hoping to enhance the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation.

Chu Ming controlled the strange beast essence blood and used it to connect the Langhuan Divine Talisman Pattern to the Langhuan Divine Hall, greatly strengthening the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation. After joining Leishuo City’s leaders, he learned the teleportation node could be repaired and agreed to help defeat the aberrant beasts.

• Chu Ming dissected strange beast corpses, refined their essence blood, and used Rampaging Whale essence blood and purifying power to bring the black blood under his control.
• Chu Ming brought the controlled essence blood into the Langhuan Divine Hall and drew black mist to it, linking the Langhuan Divine Talisman Pattern with the divine hall and empowering the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation.
• Hua Zhan and Gu Chang found Chu Ming in the outer city and invited him to join the effort to suppress the aberrant beasts; Chu Ming agreed after hearing that Leishuo City’s spatial teleportation node could be repaired.
• City Lord Xu Zhang showed Chu Ming a jade slip describing how contaminated spatial nodes could be repaired, and Chu Ming confirmed that its method was plausible.
• Hua Zhan explained that Leishuo City faced more than two hundred aberrant beasts, including one three-marked beast and six two-marked beasts, and Xu Zhang asked Chu Ming to help defeat the six two-marked beasts with the other second-step True Immortals.

Chu Ming helped Leishuo City survive an assault by aberrant beasts by revealing how to destroy their black-mist cores, then secretly killed the three-striped beast as it fled. Afterward, he experimented with fusing beast essence into quasi-immortal artifacts, while Leishuo City's leaders counted the heavy losses and promised to repair his teleportation node.

• Aberrant beasts attacked all four gates of Leishuo City, and their regenerative power overwhelmed the defenders until Chu Ming told Hua Zhan to target the black-mist cores; Hua Zhan killed a two-striped beast and shared the method.
• Gu Chang and the other city lords killed more two-striped beasts, while Hua Zhan and Yu Feng cleared beasts from the city; Chu Ming saved Leishuo Suo and Leishuo Xuan and gathered beast corpses for study.
• The city lords drove the three-striped beast into scattering streams of black qi, and Chu Ming tracked down and killed the stream containing its core, then concealed his success when Xu Zhang asked what he had found.
• After the beasts retreated, Chu Ming's attempts to fuse their essence into quasi-immortal artifacts destroyed the Geng Metal Demon-Sealing Bow and Netherwater Chongli Pearl, but gave him data for further simulations.
• Xu Zhang and the other city lords reviewed Leishuo City's casualties and discussed Hua Zhan's injuries; Xu Zhang reaffirmed that the teleportation node would be repaired for Chu Ming.

Chu Ming refined three true immortal artifacts and prepared to leave Leishuo City, but Xu Zhang and Gu Chang tried to seize the Three Ink Artifacts and trapped him and Hua Zhan in a lightning formation. Chu Ming killed Gu Chang and faced Xu Zhang, who recognized him as the man Palace Lord Lan Hua wanted dead and attacked with the city-protecting formation.

• Gu Chang and Xu Zhang suspected Chu Ming had concealed a powerful treasure and planned to take it when he left Leishuo City.
• Chu Ming refined the Green Fu Life-Extinguishing Pearl, the Darkgold Calamity-Extinguishing Blade, and the Heavenly Martial Darkgold Armor into true immortal artifacts, then studied a three-pattern strange beast's essence blood for insight into destruction.
• After Hua Zhan told Chu Ming the teleportation node was repaired, Xu Zhang and Gu Chang demanded the Three Ink Artifacts in exchange for removing its restriction.
• Hua Zhan tried to compensate Chu Ming with her Red Snow spear and entered the teleportation node with him, while Chu Ming secretly placed a spatial anchor.
• Xu Zhang and Gu Chang activated the Nine Luminaries Killing Formation of the Langhuan Divine Mark, trapping Chu Ming and Hua Zhan, but Chu Ming escaped the lightning and killed Gu Chang with the Green Fu Life-Extinguishing Pearl.
• Xu Zhang recognized Chu Ming as the man Palace Lord Lan Hua wanted dead and empowered himself with Leishuo City's grand protective formation before attacking.

Chu Ming killed Xu Zhang and Gu Chang in Leishuo City, then fled with Hua Zhan as the Black and White Divine Palace and other powers learned he was alive and sought him. Three days later, at Taihang City’s teleportation node, Chu Ming encountered Xuyang and Di Ze’s forces and refused Xi Linyun’s demand to reveal his aura.

• Chu Ming used the Five Elements Inverse Central Disk to destroy Xu Zhang’s body and remnant soul, then gave Hua Zhan a pill and accepted her offer to follow him.
• Palace Lord Lan Hua learned that Chu Ming had killed Xu Zhang and ordered Xuding to have Xuyang capture him alive; Xuyang also recruited Di Ze to help pursue Chu Ming.
• The Nine Heavens Alliance learned Chu Ming had survived and killed Xu Zhang, and Immortal Yu Heng sent Fang Lian and Yu Zhao to try to save him.
• After reaching Taihang City, Chu Ming refined the strange beast essence blood, strengthened his True Intent of Destruction, and prepared to travel with Hua Zhan to the Devouring Prosperity Kingdom.
• Xuyang, Xusheng, and Di Ze arrived in Taihang City, where Xi Linyun canceled the teleportation and demanded that travelers release their auras for inspection.
• Chu Ming recognized Xuyang and Di Ze, tried to leave with Hua Zhan, and refused Xi Linyun’s order to reveal his aura.

Chu Ming fought his way through Taihang City, killed Xuyang and other powerful True Immortals, and learned that the Riftspace Clan patriarch had been captured by Heiqing, a disciple of Youye Hall Lord. He joined the Nine Heavens Alliance, then learned that Old Shi had died and Silver Autumn could no longer cultivate.

• Chu Ming killed Xi Linyun and three other second-step True Immortals at Taihang City's teleportation node, drawing the city's experts and Xuyang into battle.
• Chu Ming used the Golden Script Divine Dragon to withstand the attacks of Xuyang, Fan Lin, Fan Chang, and their forces until Fang Lian and Yu Zhao arrived.
• Yu Zhao held off Fan Lin and Fan Chang while Chu Ming killed Xuyang with the Divine King Vault Diagram and Star Moon Fall.
• Chu Ming and Yu Zhao defeated Taihang City's defenders, and Chu Ming killed Di Ze after learning that Heiqing had captured the Riftspace Clan patriarch and become Youye Hall Lord's personal disciple.
• Chu Ming gave Di Ze's Mustard Seed Space to Fang Lian and agreed to join the Nine Heavens Alliance.
• Fang Lian told Chu Ming that Tantai Xiu, Ji Wujiang, and Lie Kong Lei had joined the Nine Realm Heaven Realm Lord, while Silver Autumn could no longer cultivate and Old Shi had died.