Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu traded with Hua Nongyue before climbing Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak during the Cloud Sea Turmoil to comprehend heaven and earth. Deep in his contemplation, he ignored Gu Hong’s challenge and broke Gu Hong’s Heart Sword without lifting a hand, leaving the other geniuses stunned as he continued toward the summit.

• Hua Nongyue gave Chen Mu a first-grade Five Elements Lotus Platform for an Earth Essence Azure Lotus Seed, promised to send dual cultivation methods, and warned him that many people had their eyes on him.
• As the Cloud Sea Turmoil began, geniuses from across the Eleven Provinces of Hanbei Province gathered at Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak and started climbing toward its summit.
• Chen Mu climbed rapidly and became immersed in the transformations of heaven and earth, eventually reaching the mountain stairs where the top-ranked geniuses were gathered.
• Gu Hong challenged Chen Mu to a sword duel, but Chen Mu continued climbing without acknowledging him.
• Gu Hong’s sword Qi stopped and shattered above Chen Mu as he approached, causing Gu Hong’s Heart Sword to collapse and leaving him vomiting blood while Chen Mu continued upward.

Chen Mu reached the summit of Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak and revealed his complete Qiankun Power of Intent Realm, defeating Jiang Yifei and Zuo Qianqiu without being forced to use his full strength until Zuo wielded the Profound Heaven Sword Diagram. The chapter left Chen Mu standing alone above Hanbei’s prodigies, who bowed their heads after he shattered more than a hundred sword intents.

• Chen Mu’s Qian Heaven Power crushed Gu Hong’s Heart Sword and stopped the other geniuses from challenging him as he climbed the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Stairway.
• Jiang Yifei attacked Chen Mu with the Peach God Sword and his Four Seasons Cycle, but Chen Mu awakened, trapped the sword between two fingers, and sent Jiang flying before continuing to the summit.
• Chen Mu revealed his complete Qiankun Power of Intent Realm on the mountaintop, then defeated Zuo Qianqiu’s Heaven Severing Seven Swords with one finger.
• Zuo Qianqiu returned with the Profound Heaven Sword Diagram and awakened more than a hundred sword-intent imprints from Heaven Sword Sect Grandmasters.
• Chen Mu used the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal to shatter the sword river and the awakened sword intents, while Zuo Qianqiu was sent into the sea of clouds.
• Chen Mu stood at the summit as Hanbei’s prodigies lowered their heads.

After Chen Mu defeated Zuo Qianqiu, Jiang Changsheng helped Zuo understand how the loss could temper his Heaven Sword, while Murong Hong considered the threat Chen Mu might become. Below the summit, Linghu Shang and Shen Lin learned that Chen Mu had reached the top of the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Stairway and defeated Zuo Qianqiu.

• Jiang Changsheng told the defeated Zuo Qianqiu that facing Chen Mu could help him temper the Heaven Sword, and Zuo resolved to treat Chen as a worthy rival.
• Murong Hong judged Chen Mu’s rapid progress a potential threat but decided that targeting him was too costly for now.
• Linghu Shang and Shen Lin met Heaven Sword Sect disciples Lu Yuan and Xin Zhongze while climbing Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak.
• Zheng Ji arrived carrying the badly injured Gu Hong and said Chen Mu had defeated him; an unseen speaker added that Zuo Qianqiu had also lost to Chen Mu.
• Linghu Shang, Shen Lin, Lu Yuan, and Xin Zhongze learned that Chen Mu had reached the summit of the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Stairway and were left astonished.

Yuan Hong and Horizon Sea Pavilion received intelligence about Chen Mu’s extraordinary performance at the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Stairway. The revised rankings named Chen Mu the foremost new talent in Hanbei and placed him twenty-seventh on the Wind and Cloud Rankings.

• Yuan Hong learned that someone had cultivated the Heaven-Earth Martial Way at the Five Viscera Realm for the first time in eighty-seven years.
• Hai Qianyuan’s pavilion received delayed intelligence revealing that Chen Mu had shattered Zuo Qianqiu’s sword intent and demonstrated strength rivaling Wind and Cloud ranked experts.
• Hai Qianyuan ordered the New Talent Rankings redrafted and the Wind and Cloud Rankings updated to include Chen Mu.
• Readers in Jade Province saw Chen Mu listed first on the New Talent Rankings and twenty-seventh on the Wind and Cloud Rankings.

After Chen Mu defeated Zuo Qianqiu and reached the summit of the Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Stairway, news spread that he had become the top talent in Hanbei and entered the Wind and Cloud Rankings at twenty-seventh. Nearly two months into his solitary comprehension at the summit, Chen Mu ended his session with over twenty thousand experience points, enough for two deductions of his Qiankun Power of Intent Realm.

• Xu Hongyu suggested helping Yu Ru marry Chen Mu, and Chen Yue teased Yu Ru about her feelings for him.
• Ku Er reported that Chen Mu was rumored to rank twenty-seventh, then visitors arrived to congratulate the household.
• Yu Zuyi and Xue Huaikong revealed that Chen Mu had defeated Zuo Qianqiu, become the number one talent in Hanbei, and entered the Wind and Cloud Rankings at twenty-seventh.
• Yan Jingqing reviewed Chen Mu's new ranking and reflected that he had mastered both Qian Heaven and Kun Earth Power of Intent in only two years.
• After nearly two months atop Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak, Chen Mu stopped comprehending as the pressure strained his body and his inner force dwindled.
• Chen Mu checked his System Panel and found 20,913 experience points, enough to deduce his Qiankun Power of Intent Realm twice.

After spending nearly a month at the summit of Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak, Chen Mu returned to Bi County and reflected on his Martial Dao Will and plans to enter the Six Bowel Realm. Meng Danyun gave him spiritual materials for further tempering and accepted Jiang Yifei’s Peach God Sword, while Chen Mu remained focused on strengthening his foundation before pursuing more dangerous lands.

• Chen Mu descended from Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak and returned to Bi County two months later, where people discussed his rankings without recognizing him.
• Chen Mu considered how his experience at the summit had strengthened his Martial Dao Will and decided to temper his five viscera further before entering the Six Bowel Realm.
• Meng Danyun told Chen Mu she was pursuing a vanished Five Viscera Realm criminal and gave him two portions of Viscera Refining Spiritual Materials for his eleventh tempering.
• Chen Mu gave Meng Danyun Jiang Yifei’s Peach God Sword, and she accepted it after testing its compatibility with her Kan Water Power of Intent.
• Meng Danyun gave Chen Mu three more spiritual materials, and he decided to remain in Jade Province rather than explore the Outer Sea, Earth Abyss, or Great Wilderness.

After advancing his Qiankun Power of Intent Realm, Chen Mu learned to transform the formless Power of Heaven and Earth into tangible substances and move through solid earth. Hua Nongying delivered a dual cultivation method, but Chen Mu caught her when she tried to flee, leaving her restrained in his courtyard.

• Meng Danyun warned Chen Mu to beware of schemes now that he had established himself on the Wind and Cloud Rankings, then left him to cultivate.
• Chen Mu made two deductions of the Qiankun Power of Intent Realm and gained the ability to turn the Power of Heaven and Earth into substances such as water and to pass through solid ground.
• Chen Mu tested his increased strength and considered returning to Jade Commandery to spar with Yan Jingqing after reaching the Six Bowel Realm.
• Hua Nongying appeared and gave Chen Mu a scroll containing a dual cultivation method, which he read and returned.
• When Hua Nongying teased Chen Mu and tried to escape, he froze the Power of Heaven and Earth around her, seized her, and ordered the people outside to withdraw.

Chen Mu drove Hua Nongying away and visited Jin Ling'er, learning that a Golden Tail Fox had killed her Third Uncle and threatened her village. He tracked the fox to a mountain fissure and caught it by the tail as it tried to flee underground.

• Chen Mu subdued Hua Nongying, rejected her invitation to join the Joyful Union Sect, and let her escape when Meng Danyun pursued her.
• Chen Mu found Jin Ling'er washing clothes and learned that a three-tailed Golden Tail Fox had attacked her village and killed her Third Uncle.
• Chen Mu deduced that the fox had been drawn by a nearby spiritual treasure and set out to find it.
• Chen Mu searched the mountains for half a day before spotting the Golden Tail Fox fleeing into a narrow rock fissure.
• The Golden Tail Fox tried to escape deeper underground, but Chen Mu reached through the rock and seized one of its tails.

Chen Mu followed the Golden Tail Fox into a hidden cave beneath a mountain and found Kunlun Jade fused with Kunlun Stone and the surrounding terrain. He used his Xuanhuang Stone and Qiankun Power to extract the treasure, escaped as the mountain shook, and left with materials valuable enough to fund his Viscera Refining needs.

• Chen Mu captured the Golden Tail Fox, searched the nearby slopes, and used its nervous reaction to locate an unusual mountain wall.
• Chen Mu passed through the mountain wall and descended into a cave where Gen Mountain Force grew increasingly dense.
• Chen Mu discovered Kunlun Jade growing atop valuable Kunlun Stone and used his Xuanhuang Stone to draw the earth veins away from it.
• Chen Mu used Dui Marsh Power to sever the Kunlun Jade from the mountain, then linked the disrupted earth veins and mountain force with a Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal.
• Chen Mu escaped through the mountain wall as the terrain collapsed and stabilized, carrying the Kunlun Jade, Kunlun Stone, and unconscious Golden Tail Fox.
• Chen Mu concluded that the recovered materials would provide more than enough resources for his Viscera Refining needs.

Chen Mu brought Jin Ling'er to the Seven Mysteries Sect after helping her choose between leaving for martial arts training and staying with her dying mother. Back at the sect, he gathered the resources for another attempt at viscera refinement, ending with roughly twenty-six or twenty-seven portions in his possession.

• Chen Mu learned that Jin Ling'er's mother was gravely ill and told Jin Ling'er to decide for herself whether to leave for the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• Jin Ling'er's mother forced her to go, and Jin Ling'er tearfully chose to train and return home as soon as she could.
• Chen Mu entrusted Jin Ling'er to Meng Danyun, who recognized her exceptional strength and aptitude for Ling Xuan Peak.
• Chen Mu exchanged his collected materials and True Disciple allotment for thirteen portions of Viscera Refining Spiritual Materials.
• Chen Mu returned to Ling Xuan Peak and combined the new materials with his existing supplies, bringing his total to roughly twenty-six or twenty-seven portions.

Chen Mu completed the thirteenth refinement of his Five Viscera, reaching the unprecedented realm of Five Energies Converging to the Origin and gaining nearly ten portions of Origin Astral Force. He began advancing into the Six Bowel Realm and awakened his stomach spirit in just three days, then prepared to refine the next viscus.

• Chen Mu used medicinal powders and the System Panel to complete the thirteenth refinement, transforming his Five Viscera into a state approaching pure Origin Qi.
• Chen Mu realized that Five Energies Converging to the Origin greatly increased his strength and longevity, and that he could now enter the Six Bowel Realm.
• Chen Mu directed his Origin Qi into his stomach and awakened its spirit, forming a new circulation that absorbed and stored Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• Chen Mu completed the stomach refinement after three days, attaining Grain Avoidance and no longer needing ordinary food or excretion.
• Chen Mu closed his eyes and began refining the next of the Six Viscera.

Chen Mu broke through to the Six Bowel Realm, tested his greatly increased strength, and began cultivating the fifth layer of the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal. As war engulfed Ice Province and the Seven Mysteries Sect debated whether to intervene, Chen Mu remained focused on his training and planned to return to Jade Commandery.

• Chen Mu awakened his Triple Burner, entered the Six Bowel Realm, and discovered that his Yuangang True Force had grown to the equivalent of twenty shares of the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Mu tested his strength by shattering a rock wall and concluded that his combined power could place him among the top ten on the Wind and Cloud Rankings.
• Chen Mu decided to cultivate the fifth layer of the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal before descending the mountain and returning to Jade Commandery.
• Chen Mu used the fifth layer of the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal to pierce more than forty zhang of earth, then heard disciples discuss Zuo Qianqiu's recent recovery and growing strength.
• Chen Mu learned that the Heavenly Demon Sect, the Heavenly Corpse Sect, and the Outside the Pass Foreign Race had plunged Ice Province into war, while the Seven Mysteries Sect remained divided over whether to assist the Ice Severing Palace.

Chen Mu visited Qin Mengjun before leaving the Seven Mysteries Sect, and she awakened from more than a year of seclusion to explain the strength of Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters and demonstrate her Qian Heaven Domain. The chapter ended with Chen Mu resisting the Domain using his Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal, leaving Qin Mengjun surprised by how advanced his Qiankun Power of Intent Realm had become.

• Chen Mu climbed to the summit to visit the still-sleeping Qin Mengjun before returning to Jade Commandery, but he sensed the Qian Heaven Power around her begin to stir.
• Qin Mengjun awakened, confirmed that more than a year had passed, and agreed to answer Chen Mu's questions about Grandmasters and Martial Dao Domains.
• Qin Mengjun classified Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters into five tiers according to how much Power of Heaven and Earth they could mobilize.
• Qin Mengjun carried Chen Mu into the clouds and demonstrated how her Qian Heaven Domain controlled the surrounding Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Mu stepped into Qin Mengjun's Domain and used the Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal to cycle the Eight Trigrams and resist its suppression.
• Qin Mengjun recognized the strength of Chen Mu's Qiankun Power of Intent Realm and wondered how much time had passed during her seclusion.

Chen Mu tested his strength against Qin Mengjun’s Qian Heaven Domain and learned how far his Qiankun Power and Origin Astral Force could withstand a peak Grandmaster. After she revealed the limits of his defense, Qin Mengjun recognized his extraordinary Five Viscera tempering and warned him to conceal his strength.

• Chen Mu assessed that he could fight second-tier Grandmasters, escape third-tier Grandmasters, and survive against Qin Mengjun only by keeping his distance.
• Chen Mu asked Qin Mengjun to demonstrate more methods of her Qian Heaven Domain, and she attacked him with countless palms from every direction.
• Chen Mu combined his Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal with Yuangang True Force to withstand the assault, but Qin Mengjun used two enormous palms to crush his seal and gently capture him.
• Qin Mengjun asked whether Chen Mu had tempered his Five Viscera eleven or twelve times, and explained that rare Five Elements Lotus Platforms could enable such tempering.
• Qin Mengjun warned Chen Mu to keep his exceptional foundation secret and advised him to learn Fallen Flowers, No Trace to conceal the intensity of his Origin Astral Force.

As the Seven Mysteries Sect responded to growing unrest in Ice Province, Chen Mu mastered the first layer of Fallen Flowers, No Trace and prepared to leave the mountain. He learned that Meng Danyun and Chu had been assigned to guard Lang Commandery, while he descended without a sect assignment.

• Qi Zhiyuan sent Shi Zhenyong to Lang Commandery as Jade Province's Inspecting Commissioner to hold the border against the spillover from Ice Province.
• Chen Mu combined Fallen Flowers, No Trace with his Qiankun Power of Intent Realm, allowing him to move lightly through the air and greatly improving his flexibility.
• After mastering the first layer of Fallen Flowers, No Trace, Chen Mu prepared to descend the mountain.
• Chen Mu met Meng Danyun at Qin Mengjun's rear cliff and learned that she and Senior Brother Chu had been transferred to Lang Commandery.
• Chen Mu and Meng Danyun waited for Qin Mengjun to awaken, reported to her, and then descended the mountain in different directions.

Chen Yue discovered a Black Obsidian Ore vein during the aftermath of an earth disaster and fought off Nie Yi of the Heavenly Seal Sect when he tried to claim it. After Chen Yue grievously injured Nie Yi, the sect elder Nie Yu arrived and threatened to take her away, demanding that Chen Mu come for her.

• Chen Yue killed a tier three White Wolf Demon and led Green Robe Guards to investigate an earth fissure, where they found a large Black Obsidian Ore deposit.
• Nie Yi and Heavenly Seal Sect disciples appeared and demanded half the ore; Nie Yi insulted Chen Yue and challenged her to fight.
• Chen Yue outmaneuvered Nie Yi and struck him through his protective armor, leaving him badly injured, while the guards on both sides fought.
• A tier four giant demon bear burst from the forest, and Nie Yu killed it with a single strike before confronting the group.
• Nie Yu recognized Chen Yue and, despite her identifying herself as a Demon Subduing Office White Robe Guard, threatened to detain her until Chen Mu came to retrieve her.

Chen Mu rescued Chen Yue from Nie Yu’s attempt to capture her, then reunited with her and took her into the Yellow Rain Mountain Range to explore the earth calamity. They reached the swamp at its center, where Chen Yue noticed fighting in the distance.

• Nie Yu used his Dragon Capture technique to seize Chen Yue, but Chen Mu secretly freed her and guided her to destroy Nie Yu’s attacks with a palm strike and flying sword.
• Chen Yue’s flying sword pierced Nie Yu, who fell, while the Green Robe Guards realized Chen Mu had arrived.
• Chen Mu reunited with Chen Yue, reassured her that the Heavenly Seal Sect would not deter him, and explained that he planned to bring her and the others to Jade Province’s capital.
• Chen Mu took Chen Yue into the Yellow Rain Mountain Range, explained how Kan Water and Kun Earth had formed its central swamp, and noticed martial artists fighting nearby.

Chen Mu rescued Meng Tianzhang from two Riverside Pavilion deacons and led Chen Yue into the depths of the Yellow Rain Mountain Range swamp. He retrieved a strange stone from an underground pool, calming the chaotic earth veins, then left with Chen Yue.

• Guo Wen and another Riverside Pavilion deacon trapped Meng Tianzhang in the swamp and demanded his Black Bone Wood.
• Chen Mu arrived with Chen Yue, subdued the two deacons with the swamp mud, and took a treasure from each before letting them go.
• Chen Mu gave the Azure Water Sword he had taken from the deacon to Chen Yue, while Meng Tianzhang departed with the Black Bone Wood.
• Chen Mu and Chen Yue entered an underground fissure, and Chen Mu's Qiankun aura drove away the martial artists fighting in the depths.
• Xu Zheng told Chen Mu that no one had been able to reach the bottom of a muddy pool, so Chen Mu dived down and retrieved a murky stone that calmed the earth veins.
• Chen Mu left the underground swamp with Chen Yue without revealing what the stone was.

Chen Mu and Chen Yue left the Yellow Rain Mountain Range and began their return to Jade Commandery, while the Profound Mystery Pavilion discussed a scheme to damage Chen Mu’s martial path. On the road, Chen Mu learned that Xu Hongyu had failed to break through to the Five Viscera Realm and considered how he might help her.

• Duanmu Chun learned that Chen Mu had killed Nie Yu and agreed to Dai Fu’s proposal to use a recently acquired item against Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu watched the Earth Vein fissure close, gained insights into Dui Marsh, and saw only Xu Zheng emerge as the other sects’ people escaped by different routes.
• Chen Mu checked his cultivation progress and decided that traveling to witness changes in Heaven and Earth would advance him faster than studying intent diagrams in seclusion.
• Chen Yue joked that she had learned people got hungry if they did not eat, and Chen Mu took her to eat before they returned to An Yu County.
• Chen Mu and Chen Yue set out for Jade Commandery, where Chen Yue told him Xu Hongyu had recently failed to break through to the Five Viscera Realm.
• Chen Mu explained that a deep foundation made the breakthrough easier and considered using the Joyful Union Sect’s dual cultivation method to help Xu Hongyu.

Chen Mu returned to Jade City and saved Xu Hongyu from Demonic Qi planted to force him to choose between her life and his martial path. He absorbed and eradicated the Demonic Qi, advanced his Martial Dao Will, and ordered an investigation into the scheme.

• Xu Hongyu, Ning He, and Yu Ru discussed Chen Mu's long absence and their cultivation while awaiting his return.
• Chen Yue arrived with Chen Mu, but Xu Hongyu suddenly erupted with Demonic Qi as she went to greet him.
• Chen Mu drew the Demonic Qi out of Xu Hongyu and suppressed it in his own five viscera, where he discovered he could quickly eradicate it.
• Xu Hongyu awoke unharmed, and Chen Mu ordered everyone to remain in the courtyard while the Surveillance Department investigated.
• After the Demonic Qi vanished, Chen Mu's choice to protect Xu Hongyu advanced his Martial Dao Will to No Shame Before One's Heart, and he resolved to punish those behind the scheme.