Chapter Summaries

Three years after Chen Yue began her rise, she broke through the Marrow Cleansing Mysterious Pass but became lost in Heaven and Earth during the body infusion. Chen Mu gathered her scattered soul and mind, then returned his attention to his Void Path, which was close to reaching Dao Entry.

• After three years of training, Chen Yue challenged the Marrow Cleansing Mysterious Pass while Xu Hongyu, Chu Jingsu, Meng Danyun, and the others guarded her.
• Chen Yue broke the Body Pass, Heart Pass, and Heaven and Earth Pass, then immersed herself in Heaven and Earth's essence during the body infusion.
• Chu Jingsu and Xu Hongyu realized Chen Yue had remained immersed too long and prepared to seek help from Chen Mu or another Heaven-Human Level expert.
• Chen Mu revealed that he had guided Chen Yue to immerse herself and used his power to gather her scattered soul and mind back into her body.
• Chen Yue recovered and left the Bamboo Forest, while Chen Mu checked his System Panel and saw that his Void Path had nearly reached three thousand experience points.

Chen Mu spent thousands of years in a timeless void comprehending the Void Path and reached Dao Entry. After gaining the ability to merge with the void, he found that he could command far greater void power and perceive the world from beyond it.

• Chen Mu used 3,000 experience points to advance the Void Path from Prototype to Dao Entry, and his consciousness entered a boundless, deathly silent void.
• Chen Mu concluded that the System Panel had sent him there to comprehend the void himself and kept studying its mysteries without any passage of time in the outside world.
• After several thousand years of comprehension, Chen Mu stirred the silent void and returned to the cave, where he found that no time had passed.
• Chen Mu saw that the System Panel now listed the Void Path as Dao Entry and felt the Void Source Great Path recognize him.
• Chen Mu gained Body Merged with Void, disappeared into the surrounding void, and sensed that he could wield several times more void power.

After entering Dao Entry in the Void Path, Chen Mu briefly severed Heaven and Earth from the martial artists at Seven Mysteries Sect, then announced that he would teach his martial inheritance to the world in seven days. He later revisited Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak with Chen Yao, reflecting on time, family, and his pursuit of the Years Path, before taking her toward Ice Province.

• Chen Mu used the Void Path to cut off the valley's connection to Heaven and Earth, alarming Yin Heng, Qin Mengjun, the Heaven Lake Island Master, and the gathered martial artists.
• Chen Mu reassured the valley that the Demon Calamity had not arrived and announced he would demonstrate the Qiankun path in seven days to martial artists who had reached Marrow Cleansing Realm.
• The announcement spread through Great Xuan and the Outer Sea, prompting martial artists from across the regions and the three great Outer Sea sects to head for Seven Mysteries Sect.
• Chen Mu tested the System Panel, found he could not deepen his Void Path mastery before entering the Divine Realm, and began preparing the Qiankun Primal Chaos Path inheritance.
• Chen Mu took Chen Yao to Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak, recounted his early rise, and reflected on time, mortality, and his search for answers in the Years Path.
• Chen Mu left Cloud Rainbow Heavenly Peak with Chen Yao and said he would take her to Ice Province.

Grandmasters and Blood Exchange experts gathered at Seven Mysteries Sect to discuss Chen Mu’s public teaching of the Dao and the approaching demon calamity. The Profound Heaven Dao Lord revealed that Heaven Calculator had pointed to the Great Wilderness as a possible escape, while Gu XiaoChen’s account of its dangers and ranks left the assembled experts uncertain how they could resist the Devil Race.

• Qin Mengjun and Yin Heng spoke with gathered experts, who sought connections with Seven Mysteries Sect and its influential figures.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Lord said Heaven Calculator had identified the Great Wilderness as a possible way out of the calamity.
• The experts considered whether entering the Great Wilderness could save them, while Mo Zun privately weighed it as an escape route.
• Gu XiaoChen explained that Below God ranks measured strength in the Great Wilderness, where Blood Exchange experts were tier one and Celestial Being experts were tier two.
• The assembled experts feared that powerful Devil Race beings could overwhelm Great Xuan and recognized that the calamity might arrive before they were prepared.

Chen Mu arrived at the Seven Mysteries Sect and began transmitting the Dao, explaining the Primal Chaos Path and the three Source Paths that governed the cosmos. He then prepared to demonstrate the Primal Chaos Heaven-Earth Dao for the gathered martial artists.

• Celestial Being Realm experts resolved to seek opportunities in the Great Wilderness when its passage opened and hoped Chen Mu’s transmission would reveal a path forward.
• Chen Yue, Xu Hongyu, and Chen Mu’s family entered the valley, where the sect leaders and Blood Exchange Realm figures greeted them respectfully.
• Hua Nongyue and Hua Nongying met Yuan Yingsong, who noted that Zuo Qianqiu had not come to hear Chen Mu transmit the Dao.
• Chen Mu appeared beside the Original Chart, silenced the valley, and explained how Primal Chaos divided into heaven and earth and evolved the Eight Trigrams.
• Chen Mu outlined the Void Path, Time Dao, and Path of Creation, explaining that the Heaven-Earth Martial Way and Primal Chaos Dao were branches of Creation.
• After the gathered martial artists absorbed his explanation, Chen Mu said he would demonstrate the Primal Chaos Heaven-Earth Dao.

Chen Mu painted the Heaven and Earth Primal Chaos Chart, gathering the transformations of Heaven and Earth into a complete martial arts guide for the world. He then revealed that he had comprehended the Void Dao and began demonstrating its power as he prepared to paint a second chart.

• Chen Mu used Tenth Rank Heavenly Demon hide to paint the Heaven and Earth Primal Chaos Chart, evolving the mysteries from Primal Chaos through the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces before returning to Primal Chaos.
• The Profound Heaven Dao Lord, Heaven Saber Gongyang Yu, and East Lin Sword Saint Gu XiaoChen praised Chen Mu's achievement and recognized that the chart could guide martial artists for generations.
• Chen Mu announced that he would paint a crude, incomplete Source Path chart and warned that only those at the Blood Exchange Realm or above should study it.
• Chen Mu clarified that his Source Path insight concerned the Void Dao, surprising Gu XiaoChen and the other Heaven-Human figures.
• Chen Mu spread Void power across Heaven and Earth, freezing its workings and restraining the Blood Exchange experts and Heaven-Human figures as Gu XiaoChen realized Chen Mu had mastered the Void Dao.

Chen Mu completed a defective Void Chart that let the gathered experts study the Void Path, then returned to seclusion to pursue the Years Path before the coming Demon Calamity. He began contemplating the Years of Fire, while his System Panel revealed substantial accumulated experience in the Creation Path.

• Chen Mu demonstrated the Void Source Great Path and drew a Void Chart on Tenth Rank Heavenly Demon hide, which barely survived the process.
• Gu XiaoChen, Gongyang Yu, the Profound Heaven Dao Lord, and the other experts studied the Void mysteries, while the Profound Heaven Dao Lord and the Heaven Lake Island Master wondered whether Chen Mu could help the world survive the Demon Calamity.
• Chen Mu returned to the Forbidden Land Valley and considered his strength, the unopened passage to the Origin Land, and his next steps in comprehending Source Paths.
• Chen Mu checked his System Panel and found 97 Years Path experience and 471 Creation Path experience, then chose to focus on the Years Path.
• Chen Mu took out the Years of Fire and began contemplating its mysteries.

Four years later, Chen Mu mourned Yu Jiujiang at the Yu Family cemetery and gained the final insight needed to enter the Time Dao. He returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect, spent several days with his family, and prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• Chen Mu poured Horizon Wine at Yu Jiujiang’s grave and reflected on the approaching Demon Calamity and the time he had lost with the elder.
• Chen Mu’s grief and reflections brought his Time Dao experience to 3,000 points, and he gained the Time Dao prototype.
• Chen Mu bowed to Yu Jiujiang’s tomb and disappeared; a Yu Family guard later wondered whether he had seen Chen Mu paying his respects.
• Chen Mu returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect, visited Xu Hongyu, Xiao He, and the others, and guided the grown Chen Yao in martial arts.
• Chen Mu entered the sect’s forbidden grounds, sat down, and summoned the System Panel to begin his next cultivation.

Chen Mu used the System Panel to enter a mortal life as hunter Qiu Mu, hoping to comprehend the Years Path through ordinary experience. After Qiu Mu died and his story faded into history, Chen Mu began another reincarnation, now as a wealthy family's infant, and continued his pursuit of Dao Entry.

• Chen Mu spent his experience to upgrade the System Panel and awakened in a frail hunter's body on Qingcheng Mountain, unable to use extraordinary powers.
• Chen Mu settled into mortal life, hunted for food, and gradually became known in town as Master Qiu for his skill and courage.
• Li Youde tried to buy Qiu Mu's tiger hide for Fourth Master Liu, but Qiu Mu refused and later found his home burned and the hide stolen.
• Chen Mu went to Fourth Master Liu's birthday banquet, killed Liu and many of his servants with an iron fork, then returned to his burned home and died as soldiers surrounded him.
• Chen Mu watched Qiu Mu's story fade with time, then awakened as an infant in a wealthy family and recognized that the System Panel had begun sending him through repeated mortal lives.

Chen Mu lived a full life as a gifted An Family heir, became a high-ranking official, and spent his final years pondering the Years Path. He died at seventy-two without explaining his thoughts to his son An Lan, and the chapter left his understanding of time unresolved.

• Chen Mu considered whether his life in the An Family world was real or a realm created by the System Panel, then decided to experience it more fully and took Shi Shu into his favor.
• Shi Shu bore Chen Mu a son, and Chen Mu later placed first in the metropolitan examination, became Flower Seeker, married Wang Han's daughter, and rose to Minister of War before retiring.
• Chen Mu spent his later years reading and visiting temples and Daoist monasteries, then became bedridden at seventy-two as Shi Shu and his children gathered around him.
• Chen Mu told Shi Shu that he would not die, called An Lan to his bedside, and died before answering his son's unspoken questions.

After witnessing the An Family’s decline across generations, Chen Mu was reborn as Great Zhou’s sixth prince and became emperor, ruling through a renewed era before watching the dynasty vanish into history. He then entered a fourth reincarnation as an abandoned infant at a temple, where the abbot entrusted his care to the monk Jing Nian.

• Chen Mu watched the An Family flourish, decline, and disappear amid the collapse of the dynasty, and reflected that time eventually erased all worldly traces.
• Reborn as Great Zhou’s nineteenth prince, Chen Mu earned the favor of the old emperor through his wisdom and flawless work in the Ministry of War and Ministry of Revenue.
• After the emperor died and the princes disputed succession, Chen Mu dismissed three wavering cabinet ministers and revealed that the capital’s military forces would support him.
• Chen Mu took the throne as the Great Beginning Emperor, ruled for forty-seven years, and watched Great Zhou later fall and fade from history.
• In his fourth reincarnation, Chen Mu was found as an abandoned infant outside a temple, and the abbot ordered Jing Nian to raise him after noticing his fixed gaze on the Buddha statue.

Reincarnated as the novice monk Zhen Ding, Chen Mu spent centuries returning to the world as a revered living Buddha while probing the mysteries of time and reincarnation. After his final nirvana, he watched that world pass through annihilation and return to nothingness, then awoke in his cave at the Seven Mysteries Sect having comprehended the true essence of the Years Path.

• As a young novice at Fatan Temple, Chen Mu reflected on Buddhas and Daoist Venerables appearing across worlds and glimpsed a fleeting thread of the Years Path.
• Chen Mu became a renowned monk and Fatan Temple's abbot, then announced he would enter nirvana and return through reincarnation.
• Three years after Chen Mu's death, he was reborn into a farming family, and Du'e recognized him and welcomed him as Great Scholar Zhen Ding.
• The Hongguang Emperor traveled to meet infant Chen Mu, sought his teaching, and began believing in Buddhism; Chen Mu continued reincarnating and guiding the world for nearly two thousand years.
• After telling his disciples he would not return again, Chen Mu entered nirvana, watched the world endure catastrophe and vanish, and returned to his cave at the Seven Mysteries Sect with the Years Path comprehended.

After comprehending the Dao Entry of the Years Path, Chen Mu combined its power with the Void Path and shattered the First Heaven of the void with a single strike. He returned to the Seven Mysteries Sect, reassured everyone that the sky裂 had not signaled the Demon Calamity, and named his strongest technique “Annihilation.”

• Chen Mu entered the Years Path’s Ethereal State, accelerating his time flow, and tested it alongside the Void Path’s Null State.
• Chen Mu realized that joining the powers of space and time placed heavy pressure on him, then struck the void and shattered the First Heaven.
• The resulting void turbulence struck the Great Xuan World’s barrier, opening a crack across the sky above the Seven Mysteries Sect.
• Chen Mu told the frightened martial artists that the Demon Calamity had not arrived and that the sky裂 was merely a change in heaven and earth.
• Chen Mu returned to the sect, judged that he could manage only a few overlapping space-time strikes, and named the technique “Annihilation.”

Chen Mu reflected on the need to comprehend the Creation Path and obtain a Source Body Infusion in the Great Wilderness before entering the Divine Realm. After spending time with his family and guiding his disciples, he sensed that the passage to the Great Wilderness had opened again.

• Chen Mu judged that he needed to reach Dao Entry in the Creation Path and seek Source Body Infusion in the Origin Land to build a ten-portion Divine Power foundation.
• Chen Mu visited Xu Hongyu and told her about his long experience in a cycle of time, then promised to spend more time guiding Chen Yao.
• Chen Mu spent nearly half a month on Ling Xuan Peak with his family and disciples, guiding Zhao Xiaohong, Jin Ling'er, Hua Nongying, and Hua Nongyue.
• Chen Mu assessed Hua Nongying and Hua Nongyue as close to challenging the Blood Exchange Realm and praised their diligent cultivation.
• Chen Mu sensed the long-awaited void passage to the Great Wilderness open in the western desert.

The Origin Land opened during the Void Tide, drawing powerful beings from across the Fan Gu Void Domain to seek its treasures and the chance to leave a Life Imprint. Chen Mu and Mu Qingqiu entered through the Great Wilderness passage, and Chen Mu emerged in the Origin Land, where he began testing how its mist affected his perception.

• The Origin Land opened as the Void Tide swept across the Fan Gu Void Domain, prompting powerful beings from several worlds to prepare to enter its core.
• A bamboo-jointed being revealed that his Creation Path had reached Dao Entry and resolved to claim a Life Imprint during his third chance in the Origin Land.
• Chen Mu and Mu Qingqiu reached the altered passage in the yellow sands, and Chen Mu entered first before Mu Qingqiu followed.
• Gu XiaoChen, the Profound Heaven Dao Lord, Gongyang Yu, Mo Zun, and other cultivators entered the passage in succession.
• Chen Mu emerged from a void vortex into the Origin Land and found that its gray mist sharply limited his perception, though his Null State let him sense farther than Heaven and Earth United.

Chen Mu and Mu Qingqiu explored an outer landmass of the Origin Land while searching for traces of the Joyful Union Sect’s previous sect master. After Chen Mu effortlessly defeated the Aberrant Beasts and learned from their nature, Mu Qingqiu stayed behind to search the landmass while he continued toward the deeper regions.

• Mu Qingqiu used Celestial-Human Resonance but could not identify the unfamiliar landmass, so she followed Chen Mu deeper to look for her markers.
• Chen Mu reflected that the Origin Land greatly accelerated comprehension of the Source Paths, especially the Creation Path, and reaffirmed his goals of finding a Life Imprint location and a Creation Path wonder or Divine Weapon.
• An Aberrant Beast ambushed Chen Mu, but he caught its spike, destroyed it, and recognized it as a manifestation of the Source Paths that dissolved back into mist.
• Chen Mu led Mu Qingqiu across the landmass, killing every attacking Aberrant Beast and collecting several unusual resources as they explored.
• At the landmass’s edge, Mu Qingqiu ended their agreement and stayed behind to continue searching, while Chen Mu headed alone toward the deeper regions of the Origin Land.

Chen Mu explored the Origin Land’s inner region, killed a Void Dao exotic beast, and collected a silver tree that stabilized space, while considering how it might help him create a refuge for people. Elsewhere, six creatures gathered around Years Dust Sand and waited for the unstable time flow to settle before approaching it.

• Chen Mu found a silver tree growing in a pool of nearly materialized Void Power and recognized it as a Void Dao object.
• A small exotic beast ambushed Chen Mu with a spatial distortion, but he cut through its enlarged maw, exposed it after it merged with the void, and killed it.
• Chen Mu took the silver tree and found that it stabilized the space inside his Qiankun Pot, then considered using it to craft a Grotto-Heaven where people could live.
• Chen Mu set aside the idea and continued searching for a route to the Origin Land’s Core Region.
• A black-flamed creature arrived at a time-distorted area where five creatures already waited around Years Dust Sand, and it joined them in watching for the time flow to stabilize.

Jin Gu and Qing Shi drove away the other claimants and began collecting the Years Dust Sand, but Chen Mu arrived and tried to seize it for himself. Jin Gu countered Chen Mu’s Void Great Handprint with a Void Path Divine Weapon and warned him not to fight.

• Jin Gu and Qing Shi arrived at the temporal distortion and threatened the gathered beings into abandoning the Years Dust Sand.
• Qing Shi used the Years Path to adapt to the distorted flow of time and reached the sand at its center.
• Chen Mu arrived, recognized the Years Dust Sand as a way to gain more time for his cultivation, and attacked to claim it.
• Jin Gu split Chen Mu’s Void Great Handprint with a Void Path Divine Weapon and told him the Years Dust Sand was already theirs.

Chen Mu used Void Enlightenment to seize Years Dust Sand from Qing Shi and Jin Gu, then drove the two Divine Weapon wielders away. With Years Dust Sand in hand, he planned to advance his Creation Path before the Demon Calamity and set his sights on the Origin Land’s Core Region and Source Body Infusion.

• As Qing Shi reached for Years Dust Sand, Chen Mu merged the surrounding void with his body and seized it before Qing Shi could.
• Qing Shi used his Years Everlasting Lamp to escape Chen Mu’s void suppression, while Jin Gu cut through the Void Power with the Void Scissors.
• Jin Gu and Qing Shi recognized Chen Mu’s Void Enlightenment and fled into the white mist rather than fight him.
• The other beings in the area also retreated after concluding that Chen Mu was a Below God Ninth Rank expert.
• Chen Mu considered the danger of revealing his mastery of both the Void and Years Paths and decided not to expose his Years Path unless necessary.
• Chen Mu resolved to use Years Dust Sand to pursue Dao Entry in the Creation Path and seek Source Body Infusion in the Origin Land’s Core Region.

Chen Mu found the entrance to the Origin Land’s Core Region and followed three pitch-black lifeforms inside after they used a guiding artifact to locate the route. He learned that hunting Core Region beasts could provide Source Origin Crystals and Dao-rhyme insights, and considered using them to achieve Dao Entry in the Creation Path.

• Chen Mu used Void Power and a void blade to kill a fast strange beast while continuing to search for a safe route to the Core Region.
• Chen Mu discovered that a mud figure sent toward the Core Region was teleported away, confirming that he needed to find a stable path through the void.
• Three pitch-black lifeforms arrived, discussed Qing Zhu and another Void Enlightenment cultivator, and used a compass-like artifact to locate the route.
• The three lifeforms entered the Core Region, and Chen Mu followed them after observing their one-use guiding artifact.
• Chen Mu recalled that beast remains could form Source Origin Crystals for Life Imprints and that dead beasts left Dao rhymes that might help him gain Creation Path Dao Entry.