Chapter Summaries

Mandala learned that Daluo Territory could not safely expand into the Northern Region while its hegemonic powers were backed by powerful superpowers. Meanwhile, Mu Chen agreed to accompany Jiu You to the Origin of Divine Beasts, where she hoped to complete her evolution into an Ancient Undying Bird.

• Mandala reviewed the strength of the Northern Region’s Purple Cloud Sect, Thunder Sound Mountain, and Golden Eagle Prefecture and resolved to plan carefully before acting.
• The Sleeping Emperor informed Mandala that someone from the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan had arrived.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You discussed their growing strength and the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan’s plan to summon her to the Origin of Divine Beasts.
• Jiu You asked Mu Chen to accompany her so she could seek the legacy of an Ancient Undying Bird and complete her evolution.
• Mu Chen suggested using Jiu Ming as an alias, but Jiu You told him it was her grandfather’s name, so he dropped the idea.

Elder Tian Que brought the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan’s delegation to meet Jiu You in the Daluo Golden Palace, where Liu Qing accused her of forming a Bloodline Link and threatened Mu Chen. Mandala crushed Liu Qing with her spiritual pressure, and Elder Tian Que apologized as the delegation realized the danger of offending the Luo Territory Lord.

• Elder Tian Que met the Luo Territory Lord and waited with the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan delegation for Jiu You to arrive.
• Jiu You entered with Mu Chen, and Elder Tian Que confirmed that she had evolved into a powerful Eighth Grade Sovereign.
• Liu Qing confronted Jiu You about the Bloodline Link on her nameplate and threatened to punish the person connected to her, glaring at Mu Chen.
• Mandala’s spiritual pressure pinned Liu Qing to the ground after he threatened Mu Chen.
• Elder Tian Que shielded Liu Qing, apologized to Mandala, and warned the young law enforcement officer about her power.

After sending Mu Chen and Jiu You off, Mandala rewarded Daluo Heaven’s trusted emperors with rare spirit pills. In the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, the elders debated severing Mu Chen and Jiu You’s Bloodline Link, but the Great Elder warned them of Mu Chen’s powerful connections, leaving the clan’s decision unresolved.

• Mandala gave the Heavenly Vulture Emperor and Spirit Pupil Emperor Sovereign Breaking Pills, then awarded Ancestor Wansheng, Netherworld Heavenly Sovereign, and the Demon Emperor Calamity Relief Pills.
• The elders of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan argued over whether to forcibly sever the Bloodline Link between Mu Chen and Jiu You, despite the debt Mu Chen had earned by saving her.
• The Great Elder told the council that Mu Chen was King Mu Feng’s only bloodline and that the Hundred Spirits Royal Clan backed Mu Spirit Academy.
• The Great Elder revealed that King of Hundred Spirits had reached Upper Earth Sovereign and that a mysterious Consort of Hundred Spirits had driven back three Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Jiang Feng fell silent at the warning, and the elders reconsidered provoking Mu Chen’s powerful allies.

Jiu You returned to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan with Mu Chen, whose claim to a spot in the Origin of Divine Beasts selection drew objections from the clan’s candidates. Clan Leader Tian Huang required Mu Chen to prove himself, and Jiang Ya challenged him as the chapter ended with their duel about to begin.

• Clan Leader Tian Huang instructed the elders to welcome the returning party with proper manners, while they understood that he meant to protect Mu Chen from their plan to sever the Bloodline Link.
• Qin Xuan complained to Jiang Ya about Mu Chen taking a place in the selection, and Jiang Ya agreed to challenge him first.
• Jiu You returned with Mu Chen and reunited with her father, Tian Huang, who scrutinized Mu Chen before acknowledging him.
• Tian Huang said Mu Chen had to defeat the candidates to earn a spot, and Jiang Ya stepped forward to challenge him.
• Mu Chen accepted Jiang Ya’s challenge, and the two faced each other on the plaza as the clan members made room.

Mu Chen defeated Jiang Ya with a single use of Tai Cang Divine Sound and was chosen to represent the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan in the Origin of Divine Beasts trial. After entering the Starry Sky with Jiu You, Mo Feng, and Mo Ling, he found Blood Spirit Mud and began refining it to strengthen his body.

• Jiang Ya fused with his Nine Nether Flame Sparrow form and attacked Mu Chen, but Mu Chen’s Imperial Suppression knocked him unconscious.
• The Great Elder declared Mu Chen the winner, and Qin Xuan conceded; Mu Chen, Jiu You, Mo Feng, and Mo Ling were selected for the trial.
• Jiu You took Mu Chen around the Nine Nether World, and three days later Tian Huang and the Elder Council opened a spatial passage to the Starry Sky.
• The four companions entered the Origin of Divine Beasts and landed on a meteorite, where Jiu You found Blood Spirit Mud and divided it among them.
• Mu Chen swallowed his portion and used the Great Pagoda Art to refine it, further tempering his body.

Mu Chen used his powerful Spirit Soul to find a massive meteorite containing a rare Blood Spirit Mud Embryo near the Origin of Divine Beasts. The embryo escaped when he shattered the meteorite, and Mo Feng identified it as a treasure comparable in value to a Low-grade Sacred Object.

• Mu Chen and his companions gathered Blood Spirit Mud and a small amount of Blood Spirit Mud Essence while traveling through the meteorite field.
• Jiu You warned the group to search carefully for the largest Blood Spirit Mud deposit as they neared the Origin of Divine Beasts.
• Mu Chen used his Spirit Soul and Mind's Eye to locate a vast red-glowing meteorite and draw it toward the group.
• Jiu You kissed Mu Chen to celebrate their discovery, while Mo Feng kept his eager sister Mo Ling from joining them.
• Mu Chen destroyed the meteorite with Vajra Futu Hand, revealing a sentient Blood Spirit Mud Embryo that fled into the darkness.
• Mo Feng recognized the embryo as an exceptionally rare body-tempering treasure worth as much as a Low-grade Sacred Object.

Mu Chen and Jiu You captured a Blood Spirit Mud Embryo, then forced Lu Sui’s Thunder Crow Clan squad to pay them for provoking Jiu You. After dividing the spoils, Mu Chen summoned the Futu Ancient Pagoda to process the embryo, leaving Mo Feng wondering whether Mu Chen belonged to a major branch of the Buddha Realm.

• Jiu You stopped the Blood Spirit Mud Embryo from escaping as Lu Sui and three Thunder Crow Clan members arrived.
• Lu Sui demanded half the treasure, but he tried to leave after seeing that Mu Chen and Jiu You were both Eighth Grade Sovereigns.
• Mu Chen used Nether Heart Demon Lightning to overwhelm Lu Sui and demanded two million drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid as compensation for frightening Jiu You.
• Lu Sui and his clansmen pooled their savings and divine artifacts to pay Mu Chen’s demand, then fled.
• Mu Chen and his companions divided the spoils, and Mu Chen summoned the Futu Ancient Pagoda as a possible way to refine the Blood Spirit Mud Embryo.
• Mo Feng recognized the pagoda and wondered whether Mu Chen came from one of the Buddha Realm’s three Main Branches.

Mu Chen refined the Blood Spirit Mud Embryo into flawless Blood Spirit Pills, strengthened his Dragon-Phoenix Body, and traveled with Jiu You and the Mo siblings to the Origin of Divine Beasts. After Jiu You proposed seeking the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda, Mu Chen questioned whether its trials could help him, since his physical strength was already formidable.

• Mu Chen used the Futu Pagoda to refine the Blood Spirit Mud Embryo into more than fourteen hundred flawless Blood Spirit Pills.
• The Mo siblings and Jiu You each took two hundred pills, leaving Mu Chen a thousand to refine.
• As Mu Chen absorbed the pills, his Dragon Phoenix Ancient Scripture advanced and an ancient pressure from his Dragon-Phoenix Body startled the Mo siblings.
• Mu Chen, Jiu You, and the Mo siblings entered the Origin of Divine Beasts and saw the vast palm crater and four peaks formed from the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Turtle's limbs.
• Jiu You consulted the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan's map and proposed that they head to the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda, while Mu Chen doubted it would benefit him.

Mu Chen and Jiu You arrived at Great Wilderness City, where powerful divine beast clans gathered around the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda. Jiu You revealed that she had evolved into a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow, surprising the gathered clans.

• Jiu You told Mu Chen that the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda could withstand powerful opponents, and Mu Chen hoped to reach the fifth level of the Dragon Phoenix Scripture.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You's group arrived at the pagoda alongside squads from several powerful divine beast clans, including the Demon Elephant and Rhino Demon Clans.
• Lu Sui recognized Mu Chen from their earlier encounter, but Mu Chen greeted him while Lu Sui turned away.
• Liu Qing taunted Jiu You over her transformation, and Jiu You responded by revealing her Eighth Grade Sovereign strength.
• Jiu You manifested the phantom of a Nine Nether Underworld Sparrow, stunning Liu Qing and the gathered clans.

Mu Chen stepped in when Zong Teng challenged Jiu You, and revealed himself to be an Eighth Grade Sovereign by crushing the Heavenly Peng prodigy’s opening attack. The crowd was left wondering who the unknown Mu Chen was as the confrontation continued.

• Zong Teng arrived to aid Liu Qing and challenged Jiu You, revealing that he too was an Eighth Grade Sovereign.
• Mu Chen stopped Jiu You from fighting and volunteered to face Zong Teng.
• Zong Teng attacked with Heavenly Peng Kill, transforming alongside a golden roc phantom.
• Mu Chen used the Samsara Death Seal to crush the roc phantom and force Zong Teng back.
• Zong Teng recognized Mu Chen as an Eighth Grade Sovereign, shocking the gathered clans.

Mu Chen overpowered Zong Teng with his Dragon-Phoenix Body, ancient Speech Spirit art, Dragon Phoenix Golden Armor, and flames. Zong Teng survived by using the Fire Sealing Seal, but exhausted the two trump cards his clan had provided.

• Zong Teng attacked Mu Chen with Roc Shadow Divine Fist, but Mu Chen shattered the golden fist-shadows with his Dragon-Phoenix Body.
• Zong Teng teleported toward Mu Chen, but Mu Chen used an ancient Speech Spirit art to trap him in space.
• Zong Teng broke free with a Golden Feather Sword, but Mu Chen's Dragon Phoenix Golden Armor suppressed the weapon.
• Mu Chen's Nine Nether Underworld Fire and Undying Flame engulfed Zong Teng, who transformed into a golden Roc but could not extinguish the Undying Flame.
• Zong Teng released a Fire Sealing Seal that drew in most of the Undying Flame, saving him but consuming the scroll and exhausting his clan's two trump cards.

Mu Chen defeated Zong Teng, then led the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan to claim four Reception Stone Platforms as the factions fought for entry to the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda. The victors entered its first floor, a scorching desert where they began tempering their bodies.

• Mu Chen defeated Zong Teng but spared him after Jiu You urged him to stop, and he gave Mo Ling the Golden Feather Sword.
• Ten Reception Stone Platforms rose from the ground, and Mu Chen led his team to claim four of them.
• Han Shan and other prodigies challenged one another for the remaining platforms, which went to Zong Teng, Han Shan, Crane Fairy, Chen Zhan, Lu Jia, and Xu Kun.
• The ten victors entered the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda through spatial passages.
• On the first floor, the prodigies endured the scorching desert heat and sat down to cultivate and temper their bodies.

Mu Chen endured the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda’s trials, using the Undying Heaven Derivation Method and Undying Sacred Flame to strengthen his body until the Dragon Phoenix Scripture reached its fifth level. He caught up with the other prodigies at the fourth level, where Xu Kun attempted the Strength Stele trial.

• Mu Chen cycled between injury, healing, and strengthening with the Dragon Phoenix Scripture, the Undying Sacred Flame, and Lin Jing’s Undying Heaven Derivation Method.
• After four days, Jiu You led the Mo Siblings onward while Mu Chen remained alone on the first level.
• Half a month later, Mu Chen reached the third level, absorbed the remaining Thunder Marrow, and broke through the lightning barrier after advancing the Dragon Phoenix Scripture to its fifth level.
• Jiu You, Zong Teng, Han Shan, Xu Kun, and Crane Fairy stood at the fourth level before a Strength Stele that required six Bronze Ancient Lamps to be lit.
• Xu Kun struck the Strength Stele with his physical strength, but the red smoke faded before reaching the sixth lamp, and he lowered his head in disappointment.

Mu Chen reached the Ancient Plaza and lit all nine Bronze Lamps on the Strength Stele, earning a vast mass of the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Beast’s essence before heading to the fifth level. Jiu You lit eight lamps and followed, while Han Shan passed with six and Zong Teng began his trial.

• Mu Chen arrived at the plaza, and Jiu You explained that Mo Feng and the others had withdrawn while she remained to protect their clansmen.
• Mu Chen struck the Strength Stele and lit all nine Bronze Lamps, receiving and refining a great mass of the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Beast’s essence.
• Mu Chen told his companions to catch up and ascended toward the fifth level of the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda.
• Jiu You used the Pseudo-Dragon Phoenix Body and Dragon Phoenix Scripture to light eight lamps, then ascended to the next level.
• Han Shan fused with his manifested rhinoceros body, charged the stele, and lit six lamps.
• Zong Teng began his trial by manifesting a golden roc and swooping toward the Strength Stele.

Mu Chen and Jiu You faced Blood War King’s trial on the Ancient Body-Refining Pagoda’s fifth level, where Mu Chen used the Heavenly Sovereign Hand Bone to defeat him. Blood War King reappeared after the strike and approved of Mu Chen, while Jiu You prepared to defend him.

• Blood War King demanded that Mu Chen and Jiu You withstand one punch to pass, and Han Shan and Zong Teng chose to leave the level.
• Mu Chen asked Jiu You to lend him all her strength, and she transferred her power through their Bloodline Link as he gathered a million drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• Mu Chen entered the Great Heart Demon State and used the Heavenly Marrow Jade-Breaking Hand to pierce Blood War King’s chest and disperse his attack.
• The attack drained Mu Chen, and Jiu You caught him and gave him spirit pills to help him recover.
• Blood War King reappeared as an immortal guardian, praised Mu Chen, and revealed that he had recognized Jiu You’s disguised aura.
• Jiu You summoned a black-flame sword and shielded Mu Chen when Blood War King returned.

Mu Chen and Jiu You passed the Blood War King's trial and received the Self-Sacrifice Demon Fist, then left Great Wilderness City. In the wilderness, Han Shan approached them to propose exploring a Spirit Treasury linked to an Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast.

• The Blood War King praised Mu Chen's confidence, granted him the mastered Self-Sacrifice Demon Fist, and gave Jiu You its cultivation method before disappearing.
• Han Shan and Zong Teng were ejected from the pagoda and told the gathered prodigies that the fifth-floor trial required taking a punch from the Blood War King.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You emerged alive, reunited with Mo Feng and his sister, and left Great Wilderness City with them.
• Han Shan and three Rhino Demon Clan members followed the group and asked Mu Chen to work with them to explore a Spirit Treasury.
• Han Shan explained that his allies had found traces of a long-dead Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast, which may have had a Sacred Artifact gestating within its body.

Han Shan agreed to help Mu Chen and Jiu You ambush the Sky Wolf and Golden Lion Clans in exchange for a share of the Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast's Spirit Treasury. As the Rhino Demon and Nine Nether Sparrow forces entered the Myriad Beast Tomb, they overheard the enemy clans plotting against Han Shan, and he exposed himself at the end.

• Han Shan offered the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan half of the Rhino Demon Clan's share, and Mu Chen agreed on the condition that they eliminate the Sky Wolf and Golden Lion Clans first.
• Han Shan led Mu Chen, Jiu You, and their forces into the Myriad Beast Tomb, using Death-Repelling Fire to ward off miasma and detect Beast Spirits.
• Huo Yang's Sky Wolf squad met Jin Lie's Golden Lion squad at a forest clearing, where they waited for the Rhino Demon Clan.
• Jin Qingtian emerged from hiding and proposed that the Sky Wolf and Golden Lion Clans eliminate the Rhino Demon Clan and divide the treasure between themselves.
• Han Shan called out the two clans for plotting against his people, and both enemy forces turned toward the sound of his approach.

Mu Chen and his allies attacked the Golden Twin Heroes and their clans after discovering their plot. Mu Chen killed Jin Qingtian and Jin Lie with the Blood War King's Self-Sacrifice Demon Fist, while the battle between the other clans continued.

• Mu Chen ordered the Rhino Demon and Nine Nether Sparrow clans to attack, and Han Shan led the Rhino Demon fighters against the Golden Lion Clan.
• Mu Chen and Jiu You charged Huo Yang as the Mo siblings attacked members of the Sky Wolf Clan.
• Mu Chen summoned the Mandala Divine Flower and fought Jin Qingtian and Jin Lie as they transformed into Nine-Headed Golden Lions.
• The Golden Twin Heroes combined their techniques to destroy Mu Chen's Dragon Elephant Divine Halberd and launched Lion Emperor Triple Swallow.
• Mu Chen unleashed the Blood War King's Self-Sacrifice Demon Fist, which swept away the Golden Twin Heroes' attack and killed Jin Qingtian and Jin Lie.

Mu Chen and his allies defeated the Sky Wolf and Golden Lion clans, then entered the basin where the Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast had died. In the beast’s lake, Mu Chen discovered a torrent of Divine Artifacts inside its corpse.

• Jiu You transformed into an Ancient Undying Bird and struck Huo Yang, but Mu Chen killed the fleeing young lord of the Sky Wolf Clan.
• Han Shan, the Mo Siblings, and their allies routed the remaining Sky Wolf and Golden Lion fighters.
• Mu Chen led the eight-member squad through the Beast Spirits under a Micro Spirit Array to reach Treasure-Hoarding Lake.
• Han Shan warned the group about the lake’s corrosive waters, and the squad crossed to the Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast’s corpse to search for treasures.
• Mu Chen used his Grandmaster-level Spirit Soul will to probe the lakebed and discovered the beast’s inner vault, a torrent of Divine Artifacts.

Mu Chen found and claimed the Ancient Treasure-Hoarding Beast’s unfinished, growth-capable Sacred Artifact, the Life-Extinguishing Pupil, and used it to survey the Myriad Beast Tomb. After his companions returned with their treasures, he revealed his new divine eye to Han Shan.

• Mu Chen searched the artifact torrent with his Mind’s Eye, caught the fleeing Life-Extinguishing Pupil, and identified it as a Low-grade Sacred Object capable of growth.
• Mu Chen nurtured the Life-Extinguishing Pupil with his essence, refined it into the space between his brows, and awakened a black vertical eye.
• Mu Chen used the eye to spot a hundred-zhang pit in an ancient beast’s skull and glimpse the phoenix cries and Undying Sacred Flame at the tomb’s core.
• Mu Chen saw a six-person squad led by a Ninth Grade Sovereign woman from the Nine-Colored Peacock Clan, whose five-colored divine light cut off his gaze.
• Han Shan and the Mo Siblings returned with Quasi-Sacred Objects, while Jiu You claimed the Dark Divine Ruler.
• Mu Chen showed Han Shan the Life-Extinguishing Pupil, and Han Shan asked him to put the unnerving divine eye away.