Chapter Summaries

After demonstrating the Life Profundity to his family in Great Xuan World, Chen Mu continued exploring the Boundless Star River while his Interface Avatar accumulated fusion experience. A collapsing void vortex trapped his God Power True Body, the Devil Ancestor, and Ming Fan God Monarch in Bottomless Abyss, where Chen Mu resolved to explore and cultivate until he could escape.

• Chen Mu demonstrated how life and death formed a cycle, and Chen Yao showed the clearest understanding among those watching.
• Chen Mu's Interface Avatar continued exploring the Boundless Star River as its Three Mysteries Fusion experience rose above forty thousand points.
• A collapsing void vortex caught Chen Mu during his battle with the Devil Ancestor and Ming Fan God Monarch, and all three were swept into its current.
• Chen Mu emerged in Bottomless Abyss and recognized it as a perilous land from which those below the Nine Heavens could not escape by ordinary means.
• Chen Mu realized the Devil Ancestor and Ming Fan God Monarch's true bodies had also been trapped, and decided to explore Bottomless Abyss and cultivate toward the Nine Heavens.

Chen Mu, the Devil Ancestor, and Ming Fan God Monarch were trapped in the Bottomless Abyss, where escape was nearly impossible and danger came from powerful Abyss Beasts. Chen Mu began exploring the crimson Rock Cave and considering how to survive and locate Fan Gu God Monarch.

• The Devil Ancestor and Ming Fan God Monarch realized they had fallen into the Bottomless Abyss with Chen Mu and resolved to survive rather than destroy their true bodies.
• Dozens of Eighth Heaven Threshold Abyss Beasts attacked the Devil Ancestor and Ming Fan God Monarch, who blocked them briefly and fled.
• Chen Mu told Fan Gu God Monarch that he had entered the Bottomless Abyss, and Fan Gu explained how he had been trapped there and asked where Chen Mu had landed.
• Chen Mu began exploring the crimson Rock Cave and tried to identify his layer, hoping to find Fan Gu God Monarch and join his faction.
• Chen Mu examined the rock strata, discovered they contained fused Mysteries from different Great Daos, and failed to damage them with an attack near the Seventh Heaven limit.

Chen Mu explored the Bottomless Abyss, discovered that the System Panel could map cross-system Mystery fusions, and survived attacks by Abyss Beasts while locating himself in the Lava Cave. After learning he was near Fan Gu God Monarch, he waited for their reunion and eventually met Fan Gu in person.

• Chen Mu examined the Bottomless Abyss’s rock layers and saw that the System Panel offered many cross-system Mystery fusions, but chose to focus on mastering one Great Dao first.
• An Eighth Heaven Abyss Beast attacked Chen Mu from a rock layer, and he escaped after repelling its tentacle with the Haotian Mirror.
• Chen Mu later killed a weaker Seventh Heaven Abyss Beast and used his explorations to identify his location as the nineteenth thousand, seven hundred and forty-first layer of the Lava Cave.
• Fan Gu God Monarch learned Chen Mu was in the Lava Cave and offered to travel from his own location to find him.
• Chen Mu continued surveying the area until Fan Gu God Monarch arrived in his God Power True Body.

Chen Mu reunited with Fan Gu God Monarch in the Lava Cave and traveled with him through the Bottomless Abyss to Magma Fire City. There, Chen Mu met Peng Yu and learned how the Flame Sun Society offered shelter in exchange for rotating defense and patrol duties.

• Fan Gu God Monarch found Chen Mu in the Lava Cave and invited him to travel to Magma Fire City with him.
• Fan Gu God Monarch led Chen Mu through dangerous stretches of the Lava Cave and across its strange passages between layers.
• After more than thirty Realm Years, Fan Gu God Monarch brought Chen Mu to Magma Fire City, where thousands of Divine Lords gathered for safety.
• Peng Yu, an overseer of the Flame Sun Society, greeted Fan Gu God Monarch and met Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu learned that Flame Sun Society members could stay in Magma Fire City but had to rotate between city defense and patrol assignments.

Chen Mu settled into Magma Fire City after joining the Flame Sun Society, while other Divine Lords judged him to be only an ordinary Eighth Heaven Threshold cultivator. With his God Power True Body secluded in his cave abode, he focused his Interface Avatar on studying the stars and pursuing Three Mysteries Fusion of the Void Lineage.

• Peng Yu assigned Peng Yi to escort Chen Mu to the Inner City, where Chen Mu chose a mountain cave abode and transformed the crimson peak into a verdant one.
• Chen Mu opened palaces inside the mountain and concealed himself from probing perceptions by restraining his aura.
• Gen Jun and Mo Yu God Monarch heard that Chen Mu had reached the Eighth Heaven Threshold, but both dismissed him as unremarkable.
• Chen Mu declined invitations from Flame Sun Society cultivators and left his God Power True Body secluded in his cave abode.
• Chen Mu studied the stars with his Interface Avatar, relating their movements to Void Profundities as he pursued Three Mysteries Fusion.

Tai Chen emerged from nearly half an Epoch of seclusion as a newly ascended Seventh Heaven Divine Lord and learned how Chen Mu had reached the Eighth Heaven and fought two overlords. Meanwhile, Chen Mu received a request to help defend Magma Fire City, ending his long rest there.

• Tai Chen completed his Divine Lord-level cultivation and emerged from seclusion in Fan Gu Hall.
• Hong Lin told Tai Chen that Fan Gu God Monarch was trapped, but Chen Mu had become an Eighth Heaven Divine Lord and fought the Devil Ancestor and Ming Fan God Monarch without being defeated.
• Tai Chen concluded that the rumor of Chen Mu being a reincarnated Nine Heavens Peerless God Monarch explained his extraordinary talent and Fan Gu God Monarch's regard for him.
• In Magma Fire City, Chen Mu received a message asking him to assist in defending the city after spending tens of thousands of Realm Years at rest.

Chen Mu joined Jing Tian God Monarch and the other Divine Lords assigned to guard Magma Fire City, and they reviewed their defenses before the city began traveling through the Bottomless Abyss. The chapter ended as an Abyss Beast detected the city and struck its Void barrier.

• Green River God Monarch arrived at the city tower, greeted Jing Tian God Monarch, and reunited with the other Seventh Heaven Peak Divine Lords.
• Chen Mu arrived, introduced himself as Mu God Monarch, and exchanged greetings with Jing Tian God Monarch and the others.
• Jing Tian God Monarch explained the city-guarding duties, and the Divine Lords discussed their lineages and combat methods.
• Magma Fire City traveled between layers of the Lava Cave as a black, tentacle-like shadow detected it and pursued it.
• The shadow slammed into Magma Fire City's outer Void barrier, and Jing Tian God Monarch, Green River God Monarch, Chen Mu, and the other Divine Lords looked toward it.

Chen Mu studied Magma Fire City's Void Path defenses while guarding the city, then confronted an Eighth Heaven Giant Snake Abyss Beast that could use Void and Time methods. He deceived it with an illusory spatial scene, allowing Magma Fire City to escape without a direct clash.

• Green River God Monarch and another Divine Lord annihilated a Seventh Heaven Abyss Beast while suppressing the battle's disturbance.
• Chen Mu observed Magma Fire City's power and resumed comprehending the Void Dao as several hundred Realm Years passed.
• An Eighth Heaven Giant Snake Abyss Beast entered the Void Path barrier, and Chen Mu went out to handle it.
• The Giant Snake swallowed Chen Mu, but he had deceived it with an illusion; Magma Fire City escaped while the beast searched in confusion.
• Chen Mu returned to the tower, and Jing Tian God Monarch and the other Divine Lords praised his Void Lineage methods.

Chen Mu studied a Chaos Hole in the Boundless Star River and gained his first true insight into Three Mysteries Fusion. After evading the attention of Bai Yan God Monarch, he found that his accumulated experience had reached one million and prepared to use it to master the fusion.

• Chen Mu studied how a Chaos Hole formed and used his power to draw one into his palm, gaining insight into the Void Dao.
• Chen Mu glimpsed the root of Three Mysteries Fusion through Convergence, Extension, and Infinity.
• Bai Yan God Monarch arrived, restored the shattered void, and failed to trace Chen Mu with Causality Profundity before leaving.
• Chen Mu sensed Bai Yan God Monarch, concealed his aura inside a star, and decided not to investigate the Divine Lord's presence.
• Chen Mu checked the System Panel and found one million experience points for Three Mysteries Fusion, then prepared to begin.

Chen Mu used the System Panel to comprehend Three Mysteries Fusion and, after more than seven thousand Realm Years, mastered it, advancing to the Eighth Heaven and glimpsing the essence of the Void Dao. He returned his attention to his trapped true body in Magma Fire City and planned to cultivate the Myriad Worlds Divine Method after the city defense ended.

• Chen Mu spent one million experience points to use the System Panel and received a complete insight into Three Mysteries Fusion.
• After more than seven thousand Realm Years of comprehension, Chen Mu mastered Three Mysteries Fusion and glimpsed the source of the complete Void Dao.
• Chen Mu used his new mastery to hold a million-mile star in his palm and entered the eighth layer of void without the Haotian Mirror, confirming that he had reached the Eighth Heaven.
• Chen Mu assessed that cultivating the Myriad Worlds Divine Method and reforging the Haotian Mirror could help him approach the Eighth Heaven Peak, but he lacked the resources to reforge it yet.
• In Magma Fire City, Jing Tian God Monarch noticed a brief Void Lineage fluctuation from Chen Mu and wondered whether something had happened to his avatar outside.
• Chen Mu decided to wait until the city defense ended before cultivating the Myriad Worlds Divine Method during his ten epochs of Guard Time.

After ten thousand years defending Magma Fire City, Chen Mu gained a peaceful stretch to cultivate the Myriad Worlds Divine Method and plan his path toward Four Mysteries Fusion. Seven epochs later, Chen Yue encountered a wondrous object in the Boundless Star River and decided to call Chen Yao for help.

• Fan Gu God Monarch warned Chen Mu that fleeing Magma Fire City alone during a large Abyss Beast attack could leave him vulnerable, and Chen Mu agreed to act cautiously.
• Chen Mu sealed his palace, began cultivating the eighth layer of the Myriad Worlds Divine Method, and planned to use Overlap as the fourth Mystery in his future Dao fusion.
• Seven epochs passed peacefully as Chen Mu cultivated in Magma Fire City and his Interface Avatar comprehended the Void Dao in the Boundless Star River.
• Chen Yue, who had reached the Fourth Heaven, arrived at a forming wondrous object surrounded by six or seven powerful Divine Realm lifeforms.
• Chen Yue judged the competition troublesome and decided to summon Chen Yao, who had reached the Fifth Heaven Peak.

Chen Yue, Chen Yao, and Qin Mengjun gathered near the Twin Companion Stars as a rare treasure formed, only to discover it was a valuable Dual Vein Star Fate Stone. Amid the ensuing battle, Chen Yao seized the stone and escaped using Chen Mu’s Cross-Boundary Teleportation Talisman.

• Chen Yue summoned Chen Yao and Qin Mengjun after finding the Twin Companion Stars nurturing a rare treasure.
• The treasure erupted with flame-light powerful enough to force more than a hundred Divine Realm creatures to retreat, then revealed itself as a Dual Vein Star Fate Stone.
• Gu Chen delayed the first attacker, and the gathered Fourth and Fifth Heaven True Gods fought over the stone as the Twin Companion Stars shattered.
• Chen Yao broke through the clash, used an illusion-like technique to evade several Fifth Heaven True Gods, and took the Star Fate Stone.
• Chen Yao activated her talisman and vanished from the encirclement.

Chen Mu rescued Chen Yao from a pursuing Seventh Heaven Divine Lord and revealed that seven epochs of cultivation had brought him to the limit of the Eighth Heaven. He warned Chen Yao against risking herself for treasures, then sent her back out while the injured Divine Lord fled in shock.

• Chen Yao arrived on a small star and offered Chen Mu the Dual Vein Star Fate Stone, while Chen Mu sensed a pursuer and ordered him to leave.
• Chen Mu’s command shattered the surrounding void, crushed the Seventh Heaven Divine Lord’s God Power True Body, and forced his remaining shadow to flee.
• Chen Mu explained that the Divine Lord had followed Chen Yao’s Cross-Boundary Teleportation Talisman to seize the valuable Star Fate Stone.
• Chen Mu reflected that he had reached the limit of the Eighth Heaven and intended to master Four Mysteries Fusion before confronting the Devil Ancestor and Ming Fan God Monarch.
• Chen Mu scolded Chen Yao for risking herself over the Star Fate Stone, replenished her Cross-Boundary Teleportation Talisman, and sent her on her way.
• The wounded Divine Lord fled through the Boundless Star River, wondering who the terrifying Void Lineage expert had been.

Chen Mu suspected the Boundless Star River was nearing its Terminus because it had begun producing resources unusually often, while a Nine Heavens Abyss Beast attacked Magma Fire City. The Flame Sun Society’s leaders fought to hold back the beast as more powers gathered around the city.

• Chen Mu told Xu Hongyu that the Boundless Star River’s increasing resources and frequent Divine Lord sightings might signal its approaching destruction.
• Chen Mu sensed trouble at Magma Fire City and learned that a Nine Heavens Abyss Beast had attacked it.
• The Giant Elephant Abyss Beast struck Magma Fire City’s gatehouse and heavily injured the Seventh Heaven Peak Divine Lords defending it.
• Mo Yu God Monarch appeared and tried to block the beast’s attack, but could not withstand it alone.
• Gen Jun God Monarch, Fan Gu God Monarch, and Peng Yu God Monarch joined Mo Yu to resist the Giant Elephant Abyss Beast.
• Divine Lords inside Magma Fire City rushed toward the gatehouse as strange auras and watching gazes gathered in the surrounding Lava Cave.

Chen Mu watched the Flame Sun Society battle a Nine Heavens Giant Elephant Abyss Beast as Magma Fire City fled through the Void Path. The beast pursued the city and drew a swarm of Abyss Beasts into a desperate battle, while Flame Sun God Monarch urged the defenders to hold on until they reached a passageway.

• Chen Mu observed Fan Gu God Monarch, Mo Yu God Monarch, and the Flame Sun Society stewards struggle to hold back the Giant Elephant Abyss Beast as other Abyss Beasts converged on Magma Fire City.
• Flame Sun God Monarch unleashed Magma Fire City's power, briefly stopping the giant elephant and sending the city fleeing.
• The Giant Elephant Abyss Beast used Void Path techniques to catch up, and Chen Mu reunited with Jing Tian God Monarch atop the city gate.
• The giant elephant shattered the Nine-Layer Void with its charge, slowing Magma Fire City and allowing swarms of Seventh and Eighth Heaven Abyss Beasts to attack.
• Thousands of Divine Lords, including Jing Tian God Monarch, joined the battle as Flame Sun God Monarch urged them to hold the beasts off until they reached a passageway.

Chen Mu fought off Abyss Beasts attacking Magma Fire City, revealing strength that made Jing Tian God Monarch suspect he had broken through. The city fled into a rock cave in the Lava Cave, where its movement became restricted and the pursuing beasts continued their assault.

• Chen Mu used the Haotian Mirror to kill Seventh Heaven Abyss Beasts with beams of mirror light as the battle around Magma Fire City intensified.
• Chen Mu trapped an Eighth Heaven Scaled Armor Abyss Beast by stretching the distance between it and the city, prompting Jing Tian God Monarch to suspect Chen Mu had advanced beyond the Eighth Heaven Threshold.
• The Flame Sun Guild Master turned Magma Fire City toward the Lava Cave's rock layer and guided it into a cave, aiming for a passage to another cave layer.
• Inside the rock cave, Magma Fire City's movement became restricted as the pursuing Abyss Beasts shook the passages and attacked from all directions.

Magma Fire City fought its way through the lava cave while the Twelve-Legged Giant Elephant pursued it, and Flame Sun God Monarch and the other Divine Lords struggled to hold the beast back. Chen Mu displayed his increased strength, but just as the city neared the passage, a second Nine Heavens Abyss Beast appeared ahead, threatening to trap them between two foes.

• Fan Gu God Monarch used Myriad Worlds against the Twelve-Legged Giant Elephant, and Mo Yu God Monarch, Gen Jun God Monarch, and the others weakened its strike before it could badly damage Magma Fire City.
• Flame Sun God Monarch trapped the giant elephant in a blazing sun long enough for Magma Fire City to flee, but the beast tore free and caught up with the city in the twisting cave passages.
• Chen Mu annihilated a Seventh Heaven Peak Abyss Beast with a beam of mirror light, prompting Green River God Monarch to recognize his formidable strength and congratulate him on advancing.
• The Flame Sun Society's Divine Lords fought off waves of Abyss Beasts as Magma Fire City neared the passage, while the Twelve-Legged Giant Elephant continued its pursuit.
• With less than one hundred billion miles to the passage, the Divine Lords sensed a second Nine Heavens Abyss Beast approaching from ahead, placing Magma Fire City between two powerful pursuers.

Two Nine Heavens Abyss Beasts threatened to trap Magma Fire City, so the Flame Sun Society’s leaders fought desperately to clear a path while Flame Sun God Monarch held off the Giant Elephant Abyss Beast. After the Black Shadow Abyss Beast split into a swarm and one of its forms nearly blocked the city, Chen Mu appeared before it, leaving his ability to stop it as the next crucial question.

• Flame Sun God Monarch burned his Divine Power to hold back the Twelve-Legged Giant Elephant Abyss Beast while Fan Gu God Monarch, Mo Yu God Monarch, Gen Jun God Monarch, and four other leaders attacked the approaching Black Shadow Abyss Beast.
• The seven leaders’ combined strike briefly immobilized the Black Shadow Abyss Beast, and Flame Sun God Monarch seized the opening to drive Magma Fire City past it.
• The Black Shadow Abyss Beast split into more than a hundred Eighth Heaven Peak avatars, and several fused into a stronger form that charged at Magma Fire City.
• Chen Mu suddenly appeared in front of the reassembled Black Shadow Abyss Beast, and Fan Gu God Monarch recognized his Void Shift and realized Chen Mu might be able to delay it.

Chen Mu used his newly created Void technique, Cosmos, to trap the Black Shadow Abyss Beast and let Magma Fire City escape through the Lava Cave. After the beast broke free and stopped before a pitch-black passage, the Flame Sun Society’s Divine Lords realized Chen Mu’s strength rivaled an Eighth Heaven limit cultivator, while Fan Gu kept his suspicions about Chen Mu’s past life to himself.

• Chen Mu used Cosmos to trap the charging Black Shadow Abyss Beast, allowing Magma Fire City to flee through the Lava Cave.
• The Black Shadow Abyss Beast broke free, destroyed many Abyss Beasts in its furious eruption, and stopped before a pitch-black passage without entering it.
• Magma Fire City emerged from a passage in another Lava Cave, and its Divine Lords gathered their attention on Chen Mu.
• Jing Tian God Monarch, Green River God Monarch, and others concluded that Chen Mu had hidden his Eighth Heaven limit strength since joining the Flame Sun Society.
• Peng Yu God Monarch teased Fan Gu God Monarch for concealing Chen Mu’s strength, while Fan Gu privately suspected Chen Mu was a reincarnated Nine Heavens Divine Lord.
• Mo Yu God Monarch resolved to befriend Chen Mu, and Gen Jun God Monarch wanted to discuss the Dao and exchange blows with him.

After Magma Fire City escaped the cavern crisis, Chen Mu befriended Flame Sun God Monarch and the Flame Sun Society stewards while seeking information about old foes. He then studied a collapsing star in the Boundless Star River and glimpsed subtle changes that could lead him toward the deeper mysteries of the Void Dao.

• Magma Fire City left the rocky caverns, and Flame Sun God Monarch thanked the Divine Lords for surviving the crisis.
• Flame Sun God Monarch welcomed Chen Mu and invited him to visit, while Chen Mu hoped to learn from him about Ming Fan God Monarch and Mo Ang God Monarch.
• Mo Yu God Monarch, Gen Jun God Monarch, and other stewards approached Chen Mu to form ties after witnessing his strength.
• After Magma Fire City crossed several levels and stopped, Chen Mu remained atop the city gate to study the Lava Cave's void structure.
• In the Boundless Star River, Chen Mu watched a star collapse into a void black hole and recognized subtle changes pushing the region toward its end.
• Chen Mu considered how those changes might reveal the fusion of the five Void Lineage mysteries, then left to observe other dying stars.