Chapter Summaries

Chen Mu fought Heavenly Demon Cang inside the Creation Great Array, where Cang used a Formless Demon Body and the array to counter his attacks. Chen Mu ultimately burned Cang’s body and demonic soul with God Fire, leaving nothing behind.

• Heavenly Demon Cang attacked Chen Mu with his Formless Demon Body, but Chen Mu proved stronger and forced Cang to restore his injured body with the Creation Great Array.
• Cang sealed the area with the array and mirrored Chen Mu’s blade techniques, preventing him from drawing Heaven and Earth Origin Qi while claiming he could not escape.
• Chen Mu used the Human Emperor Seal to smash through Cang’s chest, then struck his damaged Formless Demon Body with the Universe Blade.
• Chen Mu revealed the God Control Pearl and ignited Cang’s fractured body with God Fire, which spread to Cang’s demonic soul.
• Heavenly Demon Cang howled as the Black Flame consumed him, and both he and the spreading Demonic Qi disappeared.

Chen Mu confronted a Divine Realm Devil Race existence emerging through the Creation Great Array, while the Great Xuan World’s Will suppressed the invasion. He joined his power with Heaven and Earth to destroy the attacker’s palm and collapse the array, but the enemy vowed to kill him when it arrived in person.

• Chen Mu studied the Creation Great Array and realized the Devil Race intended to damage the Great Xuan World through it.
• A Divine Realm Devil Race existence extended a hand through the gray-mist vortex, and the Will of Heaven and Earth manifested to suppress it.
• The Devil Race existence struck at Chen Mu with a palm of Divine Power as the Great Xuan World’s power battered the attack.
• Chen Mu summoned Heaven and Earth’s power and slashed with the Universe Blade, shattering the palm imprint and destroying the array and vortex.
• The Devil Race existence’s hand was obliterated, and it promised to personally kill Chen Mu before the vortex collapsed.

Mang failed to strike Chen Mu through the worlds and learned that Chen Mu could threaten the Devil Race’s plans if he reached the Divine Realm. After surviving the attack, Chen Mu purged the Sha County Earth Abyss of Demonic Qi and returned aboveground as its heaven and earth began to recover.

• Mang’s cross-world attack was cut off, and he dismissed Wang’s warning while waiting for a Void Tide to attack Chen Mu’s world again.
• Chen Mu emerged from the ruins unharmed and recognized the vast gap between his half-step toward the Divine Realm and a true Divine Realm existence.
• Chen Mu resolved to protect his world and loved ones, then used the Power of Heaven and Earth to destroy Demonic Qi and an Eighth Rank Ancient Demon.
• Chen Mu swept through every layer of the Sha County Earth Abyss, annihilating its Demonic Qi, demonized creatures, and Devil Race members.
• Chen Mu gathered the remaining unpolluted spirit ores for the Seven Mysteries Sect and left the Earth Abyss as Sha County’s essence of heaven and earth began returning to normal.

Chen Mu told Qin Mengjun that a Demon Calamity was approaching and proposed uniting the world’s martial artists to prepare for it. After she left to warn the factions, he set out to deal with threats beyond the pass and seek resources before the invasion.

• Qin Mengjun found Chen Mu in the desert and told him that Heaven Calculating Daoist had died after glimpsing a terrible heavenly secret foretelling a great calamity.
• Chen Mu confirmed that the calamity was real, explained that the Devil Race came from beyond heaven, and asked Qin Mengjun and Senior Yin to warn the factions.
• Chen Mu proposed making the Original Chart available to Blood Exchange experts and later drawing a Primal Chaos Diagram to advance the martial path.
• Chen Mu told Qin Mengjun that he would travel Beyond the Pass and to the Outer Sea, deal with the Outside the Pass Foreign Race and heretical sects, and gather resources.
• Qin Mengjun returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect, while Chen Mu vanished from the desert to begin his journey.

Chen Mu and Yuan Hong traveled beyond the pass to meet the Outside the Pass Foreign Race’s Great Ancestor as they prepared for the coming Demon Calamity. At the ancestral land, Qiu Xiang and Wu Zu discussed Chen Mu’s reputation before Shi Zu and Tu Zu arrived.

• Chen Mu told Yuan Hong that a powerful Ancient Demon Clan threatened the world and urged him to prepare North Suppressing Manor without alarming ordinary people.
• Yuan Hong explained that the Outside the Pass Foreign Race consisted of Twelve Tribes led by three Blood Exchange Realm ancestors and the Celestial Being Realm Great Ancestor, Qiu Xiang.
• Chen Mu and Yuan Hong headed into the foreign race’s ancestral land to meet Qiu Xiang.
• Qiu Xiang and Wu Zu discussed Chen Mu, but Wu Zu dismissed the reports of his strength as Central Plains intimidation.
• Shi Zu and Tu Zu arrived at the pool, where Wu Zu greeted them.

Chen Mu arrived at the Foreign Race Ancestral Land and used overwhelming heavenly might to suppress its people and leaders. He stood before the Four Ancestors and asked whether they submitted.

• Great Ancestor Qiu Xiang warned Tu Zu and Shi Zu that the divided Central Plains kingdoms were still too powerful to attack, and that the rumored Martial Saint was a serious threat.
• Tu Zu and Shi Zu dismissed the Martial Saint rumors, and Tu Zu boasted that he would defeat him if he came Beyond the Pass.
• Chen Mu answered Tu Zu from nowhere, and his voice transformed the pool and sky while the ancestors failed to locate him.
• Chen Mu walked into the ancestral land, causing its people and Grandmasters to collapse unconscious under his pressure.
• Chen Mu reached the pool and forced Tu Zu, Wu Zu, and Shi Zu to their knees while Great Ancestor Qiu Xiang remained standing.
• Chen Mu asked the Four Ancestors whether they submitted.

Chen Mu subdued the Four Ancestors of the Foreign Race without fighting, secured their submission, and left Yuan Hong to explain the approaching calamity. He then entered the Foreign Race Secret Vault and discovered a broken sword that appeared to be the legendary Heaven Severing Sword, a Divine Weapon tied to the Void Path.

• Chen Mu suppressed Qiu Xiang, Tu Zu, Shi Zu, and Wu Zu with the pressure of heaven and earth, and Qiu Xiang led the Four Ancestors in submitting to him.
• Chen Mu placed a wisp of refined God Fire in each ancestor and asked Yuan Hong to explain the coming calamity to the Foreign Race.
• Chen Mu departed, and Yuan Hong reunited with Qiu Xiang before beginning to explain the calamity's origins.
• Chen Mu entered the Foreign Race Secret Vault and found a broken sword whose patterns belonged to the Void Path.
• Chen Mu recognized the sword as likely being the legendary Heaven Severing Sword, a Divine Weapon beyond ordinary Spirit Weapons.

Chen Mu took the damaged Heaven Severing Sword, a Void Divine Weapon, from the Foreign Race secret treasury and encountered the last Innate Being at the edge of the world. As the being died, it gave him the Years of Fire, a flame containing the power of Time Dao, and warned that the Extraterrestrial Demon Race was returning.

• Chen Mu tested the broken Heaven Severing Sword, found that it was nearly indestructible but could not activate its power, and discovered the Qiankun Pot could not hold it.
• After Chen Mu left, Qiu Xiang entered the secret treasury and realized that Chen Mu had taken the Heaven Severing Sword.
• Chen Mu sensed the world's northern border and spotted an elk-like Innate Being surviving amid the shattered wasteland.
• The Innate Being told Chen Mu that heaven and earth would decay, recalled how the Ancient Demon Clan had invaded from beyond heaven, and said the Extraterrestrial Demon Race was returning.
• The dying Innate Being gave Chen Mu its Years of Fire, a flame of Time Dao, then dispersed into spiritual light.

Chen Mu obtained the Years of Fire at World Edge, then began destroying Heavenly Corpse Sect strongholds Beyond the Pass. After finding a refined corpse stronger than an Earth Corpse, he recognized it as a Heavenly Corpse and continued searching for the sect’s main headquarters.

• Chen Mu took the Years of Fire from the place where the Innate Being had vanished, safely fused it into his palm, and bowed farewell to the senior.
• While traveling back toward Great Xuan, Chen Mu sensed the Heavenly Corpse Sect and decided to eradicate its strongholds.
• Chen Mu crushed a hidden Heavenly Corpse Sect branch stronghold with a massive palm, killing its guardians and destroying its refined corpses.
• Chen Mu continued south and destroyed nearly a dozen more branch strongholds, while reports of the devastation reached the North Suppressing Manor.
• Chen Mu detected another stronghold in southwest Hanbei Province and sensed a refined corpse stronger than an Earth Corpse, identifying it as a Heavenly Corpse.

Chen Mu infiltrated the Heavenly Corpse Sect headquarters, took its accumulated resources, and confronted its Sect Master over the secret art from the Great Wilderness. After crushing the Sect Master, he addressed the hair-bearing Heavenly Corpse in the Fiend Pool as the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s First Generation Sect Master.

• Chen Mu sensed seven Heavenly Corpses at the Heavenly Corpse Sect headquarters, including one whose strength rivaled a Celestial Being.
• Chen Mu passed through the sect’s defenses and swept centuries of spiritual materials from its vault into the Qiankun Pot.
• The Heavenly Corpse Sect Master learned that the Ancient Demon Clan might invade and viewed the coming calamity as a chance for the Corpse Path to reach the Divine Realm.
• Chen Mu appeared beside the Fiend Pool and crushed a gray-robed elder who recognized him as the Martial Saint.
• Chen Mu demanded the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s complete corpse-refining secret art, then crushed the Sect Master when he began to answer.
• Chen Mu examined the hair-bearing Heavenly Corpse and identified it as the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s First Generation Sect Master.

Chen Mu killed the First Generation Sect Master of the Heavenly Corpse Sect and destroyed the sect’s headquarters, then set out to eliminate its remaining branches. Days later, he announced that the Demon Calamity was imminent and opened the Original Eight Aspects Diagram to martial artists, drawing many experts to the Seven Mysteries Sect.

• The First Generation Sect Master revealed his origins and defended Corpse Refining, but Chen Mu exposed the flaws in his path and crushed him with the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Chen Mu left the forbidden grounds, and the arriving Heavenly Corpse Sect elders found the sect master, an elder, and a Heavenly Corpse crushed into balls and scraps.
• Chen Mu used his power to roll up and crush the land beneath the Heavenly Corpse Sect headquarters, killing those within and burying them under a mass of earth and rock.
• Chen Mu left to search for and destroy the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s remaining branches while gathering resources and contemplating the Heaven-Earth Void Dao and Qiankun Primal Chaos Dao.
• News spread that the Demon Calamity was imminent and that Chen Mu would let martial artists contemplate the Original Eight Aspects Diagram, prompting countless experts to travel to the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• The Heavenly Corpse Sect’s headquarters and branches were annihilated, and the sect quietly disappeared from the world.

Yuwen Hao, the fugitive Heavenly Demon Old Ancestor, hunted people on an Outer Sea island before a coalition led by Sikong Rui cornered him. He fought to the death and perished, ending the Heavenly Demon Sect, while Chen Mu barely reacted to the news.

• Yuwen Hao devoured a hunter and planned to prey on the island village, blaming Chen Mu for the Heavenly Demon Sect's collapse and resolving to hide in the Outer Sea until Chen Mu died.
• Yuwen Hao tried to flee when he sensed an ambush, but a sword expert, Superior Zonggang, and Du'e blocked his escape and wounded him.
• Dragonwood Island Master and Grand Elder of Pure Sea Palace closed the remaining routes, while Sikong Rui appeared as the fifth pursuer and said he was acting to repay Chen Mu.
• Yuwen Hao accepted that he had reached a dead end, revealed his Heavenly Demon Body, and fought the five experts until he perished.
• In Great Xuan Calendar year 1442, the Heavenly Demon Sect became history, and Chen Mu heard of Yuwen Hao's death while visiting Pure Sea Palace before dismissing the news.

Chen Mu visited the Outer Sea’s major sects to exchange for body-tempering spiritual materials and warn them about the approaching Demon Calamity. After inviting Pure Sea Palace’s experts to study the Original Chart at Seven Mysteries Sect, he returned to find visitors gathering there.

• Chen Mu told Jinghai Chen that the Devil Race had Divine Realm experts and that the world’s living beings needed to unite against the Demon Calamity.
• Chen Mu exchanged a precious item for Pure Sea Palace’s Primal Seven-Colored Flower and invited its experts to Seven Mysteries Sect to study the Original Chart.
• Chen Mu left Pure Sea Palace, where Jinghai Chen marveled at his ability to vanish without a trace.
• Chen Mu traded for two spiritual resources at Vast Sea Pavilion and another body-tempering material from Listening Tide Cliff.
• More than ten Blood Exchange experts gathered at Seven Mysteries Sect to visit Chen Mu, and he returned just as the first Celestial Being arrived.

Chen Mu returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect, where experts from across the world had gathered to study the Original Chart and discuss the approaching Demon Calamity. After welcoming Prince Chu and Ji Hong, he reunited with his family and announced that he would paint a new chart to guide martial artists.

• Yin Heng welcomed the Heaven Lake Island Master, the fifth Celestial Being Realm expert to arrive at the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• Prince Chu, Ji Xuanming, and Princess Yongning, Ji Hong, arrived to study the Original Chart and discuss the Demon Calamity.
• Chen Mu returned from the Outer Sea and greeted Ji Xuanming and Ji Hong at the sect; Ji Hong recalled his earlier warning about foreign invaders.
• Chen Mu discussed the Demon Calamity with Ji Xuanming, then returned to Ling Xuan Peak and playfully scolded Chen Yao for sneaking into the back mountain.
• Chen Mu told Xu Hongyu that the Demon Calamity would likely be unavoidable and said he would paint a Heaven and Earth Primal Chaos Chart to guide martial artists.

Chen Mu used his secluded cultivation to absorb spiritual treasures and study the Void Path through a damaged Void Divine Weapon. After a year of comprehension and spending System Panel experience, he formed a Void Path Prototype, leaving him better prepared for the coming Demon Calamity.

• Chen Mu consumed the body-tempering spiritual materials he had gathered, raising his experience to 9382 points but still falling short of the Blood Refinement Limit.
• Chen Mu chose to focus on the Void Path because of his agreement with the Seeking Wood Divine Tree and studied the Void-Broken Sword in seclusion.
• After nearly a year, Chen Mu learned to move his attacks through the Void by understanding its nature and avoiding conflict with its power.
• Chen Mu used the System Panel to spend experience and comprehend the Void Path, forming a Void Path Prototype.

After forming a Void Path Prototype, Chen Mu tested his new power and ventured into the void to seek the Seeking Wood Cave Heaven. He traveled beyond the Great Xuan World and spotted a distant point of light, leaving the destination’s identity uncertain.

• Chen Mu used Void Power to shatter the void, withstand its currents, and pierce a thousand zhang into the earth with a single strike.
• Chen Mu realized his Void Path Prototype had brought his strength to Below God Sixth Rank and considered seeking more resources from Seeking Wood to prepare for the Demon Calamity.
• Chen Mu left the Seven Mysteries Sect, traveled to the Outer Sea, and entered the chaotic void currents where the Return to Ruins Sea had once connected to the Seeking Wood Cave Heaven.
• Chen Mu walked through the void, observed the Great Xuan World and nearby worlds as spheres of light, and continued toward the darkness as the currents grew more violent.
• Chen Mu decided to travel a little farther before turning back, then spotted a tiny point of light ahead.

Chen Mu reached Seeking Wood Cave Heaven and spoke with the awakened Seeking Wood, who explained how Divine Power, the Divine Realm, and Source Paths worked. Chen Mu learned that his origins and progress could give him multiple portions of Divine Power when he entered the Divine Realm, and that the theoretical maximum was ten.

• Chen Mu observed Seeking Wood Cave Heaven from outside, recognized Seeking Wood's Creation Life Dao, and knocked on the world barrier to awaken it.
• Seeking Wood sensed Chen Mu's Undying Soul and Void Path Prototype and praised his rapid progress.
• Chen Mu told Seeking Wood that the Great Xuan World had not yet produced a Divine Realm being, and Seeking Wood explained that its first to break through could receive an extra portion of Divine Power.
• Seeking Wood explained that Divine Power formed a Divine Realm being's body and that breaking layers of the true void measured strength above the Divine Realm.
• Seeking Wood outlined the additional Divine Power gained through extreme cultivation, Source Path progress, and an unenlightened world's first breakthrough.
• Seeking Wood explained that entering the Origin Land and leaving a life imprint could grant another portion, making ten the theoretical maximum.

Chen Mu learned that the Great Wilderness was the Origin Land of the Fan Gu Void Domain and that the Devil Race would reach the Great Xuan World in less than two Realm Years. Seeking Wood gave him Spirit Heart Divine Liquid to help him enter the Divine Realm, but the gift devastated its Cave Heaven, leaving Chen Mu to hurry back and prepare for the invasion.

• Chen Mu learned from Seeking Wood that the Great Wilderness was the Origin Land, where beings competed for resources and the chance to gain Divine Power, and that Divine Realm experts could rise through nine heavens to become Venerables above them.
• Seeking Wood explained that the Devil Race came from the Ancestor Demon Realm and had multiple God Monarchs, warning Chen Mu that the Great Xuan World was in danger.
• Seeking Wood urged Chen Mu to enter the Divine Realm quickly and revealed that it had been created by a Creation God Monarch, could not freely move through the void, and needed Chen Mu's help to return to its homeland.
• Chen Mu asked for resources to temper his physique, and Seeking Wood gave him Spirit Heart Divine Liquid from its core.
• Seeking Wood's gift caused its outer roots and branches to wither and parts of its Cave Heaven to collapse, destroying remote Spirit Race tribes.
• Seeking Wood warned Chen Mu that the Devil Race would arrive with the next Void Tide in less than two Realm Years, and Chen Mu left for the Great Xuan World.

Chen Mu refined Spirit Heart Divine Liquid and used the System Panel to break through to the Undying Body, reaching the Below God Seventh Rank. He learned that he still could not break the first layer of void and that the Below God Ninth Rank was the limit beneath the Divine Realm.

• Chen Mu returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect forbidden grounds and refined a drop of Spirit Heart Divine Liquid, gaining nearly twenty experience points.
• Chen Mu refined more Spirit Heart Divine Liquid over several days until his experience reached 10,000 points.
• Chen Mu upgraded his physique and transformed his blood into Divine Blood, gaining an Undying Body capable of regenerating from a drop of blood and changing into myriad forms.
• Chen Mu tested his new body's transformations and sensed that he could now shatter the Great Xuan World's barrier with ease.
• Chen Mu concluded that, despite reaching the Below God Seventh Rank, he still could not break the first layer of void, and he recalled the path to the Below God Eighth and Ninth Ranks.

After perfecting his Undying Body, Chen Mu told Qin Mengjun he was close to the Divine Realm and gave her Spirit Heart Divine Liquid to advance her Blood Refinement, with another portion for Yin Heng. He then returned to seclusion to comprehend the Void Path in preparation for the Demon Calamity.

• Chen Mu told Qin Mengjun that he had advanced along the path of Blood Refinement and was not far from the Divine Realm.
• Chen Mu gave Qin Mengjun Spirit Heart Divine Liquid and set aside another portion for Yin Heng, urging Qin Mengjun to focus on cultivation while he guarded the sect.
• Qin Mengjun accepted the Spirit Heart Divine Liquid and agreed to leave sect affairs to Headmaster Qi and let the formation operate on its own.
• Chen Mu checked his Void Path experience, then began comprehending the damaged Heaven Severing Sword to deepen his understanding of the Void Path.