Chapter Summaries

Su Zhan fought the Grand Elder while secretly preparing a summoning array to call the altar to him. He used his avatar wearing his ceremonial robes as a decoy, leaving himself free to continue drawing the array as the Grand Elder pursued it.

• Su Zhan asked the system for a way to summon the altar fragments and received a summoning incantation.
• Su Zhan fought the Grand Elder while secretly placing five Magic Array nodes, enduring severe injuries as he completed them.
• Su Zhan used his own body to restrain the Grand Elder and traced most of a hexagram while they spun through the air.
• Su Zhan realized his ceremonial robes could disguise his avatar and fled toward the undergrowth to draw the Grand Elder away.
• Su Zhan's avatar escaped in the robes while the real Su Zhan emerged naked and continued drawing the array.

Su Zhan completed a blood-powered formation that summoned an artifact fragment, then collapsed from the ritual’s toll. After recovering enough to travel toward the Moon Worship Tribe, he settled on a dependent planet under a fake identity and worked as a porter while his injuries and Mental Power slowly recovered.

• Su Zhan used his blood to activate the formation, and the shattered altar sent an artifact fragment resembling a jade book to him.
• Su Zhan summoned his avatars through the Chat Group before losing consciousness, then woke three days later on an unknown planet with severe injuries.
• Su Zhan took pills to regain strength and had his avatars carry him toward the Moon Worship Tribe, stopping on a nearby planet to recover.
• Su Zhan concluded that his depleted Mental Power was a major weakness and considered finding techniques to train it.
• Su Zhan adopted a fake identity as an undocumented Interstellar Wanderer and took work as a porter on a backward planet dependent on the Moon Worship Tribe.

Su Zhan learned that the Moon Worship Tribe was recruiting people to cure its heir, whose cultivation had vanished and mind had become abnormal. He secured a recommendation by demonstrating his strength and insisted on attempting the cure, hoping to gain status inside the tribe.

• Su Zhan met Dao Yun, who told him the Moon Worship Tribe was seeking capable people through Heroic Rolls.
• Su Zhan changed his appearance and asked an intermediary about the recruitment, then split a mountain with one strike to prove his strength.
• The intermediary explained that the Moon Worship Tribe's heir had lost his cultivation and become mentally unwell, and that anyone who cured him could make three requests.
• The intermediary advised Su Zhan to seek an Ordinary Grade retainer position, but Su Zhan insisted on being recommended as someone who could cure the heir.
• The intermediary introduced Su Zhan to the Moon Worship Tribe's recruitment, where many candidates gathered and applicants faced strict entry requirements.

Su Zhan joined the Moon Worship Tribe’s recruitment line and clashed with the Yu Family’s eldest legitimate son after refusing to let him cut ahead. After the man’s attack was repelled, Su Zhan waited until his number was called to enter the selection.

• Su Zhan joined the long line of applicants hoping to be recruited by the Moon Worship Tribe.
• A fat man claiming to be the Yu Family’s eldest legitimate son demanded to cut in front of Su Zhan, who refused and mocked him.
• The fat man hurled a powerful explosive at Su Zhan, who deflected it with a Space Barrier, and the man used another treasure to survive the blast.
• The Yu Family man threatened Su Zhan and left, while an elderly applicant warned Su Zhan that the family would seek revenge.
• After waiting through the slow-moving line, Su Zhan heard number 1139 called and hurried forward.

Su Zhan investigated the cause of the Moon Worship Tribe young master's madness and learned it came from a backlash connected to the secret Moon Beast contract. He asked the system to search for information on the Moon Beast, leaving him without a treatment yet.

• Su Zhan volunteered to examine the chained young master and correctly guessed that a fierce battle had drained his Mental Power and that a vicious creature was involved.
• Su Zhan pressed the Moon Worship Tribe representatives until they revealed the young master's secret contract with the Moon Beast and explained that the contract became fragile around midyear.
• Su Zhan realized the tribe would not abandon the Moon Beast and asked to see it, but the representatives warned that it would attack outsiders without its master present.
• Su Zhan used the system's search function and learned that the Moon Beast was a bodiless creature of extreme yin whose contract granted strength but caused mental backlash.

Su Zhan prepared to drive the Moon Beast out of the Moon Worship Tribe's young master by exploiting its weakness to sunlight and heat, and developed a powerful attack combining Lei Yin, time, and White Dragon attributes. At noon, he used the combined flame on the weakened young master, whose body began convulsing as the Moon Beast reacted.

• Su Zhan learned that sunlight, light, and heat could suppress Moon Beasts, then instructed the others to expose the young master to the sun and seek Mental Power techniques and purifying medicines.
• Su Zhan tried combining Lei Yin and White Dragon cultivation arts, then used the Time Attribute to make the two powers coexist and blasted a tree into powder with the resulting attack.
• Su Zhan arrived at eleven in the morning and found the young master bound beneath the sun, badly burned and weakened.
• Su Zhan waited until noon, then unleashed White Dragon Flame mixed with lightning and time attributes, causing the young master to wail and gradually lose strength.
• The young master's body began convulsing and foaming at the mouth, while Su Zhan told the worried onlookers that he had to weaken the host to weaken the Moon Beast.

Su Zhan drove the Moon Beast toward its lair and tracked it to a bamboo forest, where he found an ominous underground entrance. He sent Blood Consumption and Sanyu to guard the entrance, then descended alone despite his instincts warning him to turn back.

• Su Zhan learned Cheng Xinghe's name, stopped others from approaching him, and fought the Moon Beast when it suddenly attacked.
• Su Zhan drove the Moon Beast south and marked it with Demonic Energy ants so he could follow its route.
• Su Zhan tracked the Moon Beast to an unusually dense bamboo forest and followed its traces toward an underground opening.
• Su Zhan released Blood Consumption and Sanyu at the cave entrance and instructed them to pull him out if anything went wrong.
• Su Zhan descended into the deep, dark cave despite his danger sense urging him to retreat, realizing the Moon Beast might be more powerful and mysterious than he had assumed.

Su Zhan wounded and trapped the Moon Beast, then found the unconscious Cheng Xinghe in the cliff wall. Unable to find the way out of the Bottomless Pit, he tried to persuade the hostile Moon Beast to help him by promising to free it from its shackles.

• Su Zhan used White Dragon Flame to lure the Moon Beast into attacking, then burned and battered it until he could trap it in a Space Barrier.
• Su Zhan found Cheng Xinghe hidden in the cliff wall, enclosed him in a Space Barrier, and carried him upward while searching for an exit.
• Unable to find a way out, Su Zhan extinguished the Moon Beast's flames and asked it where the exit was, but it refused to cooperate.
• Su Zhan guessed that the Moon Beast hated those who had enslaved and exploited it, and offered to remove its shackles if it helped him.
• The Moon Beast doubted Su Zhan's promise but grew curious when he claimed to have powerful strength, potential, and many secrets.

Su Zhan signed a Heavenly Dao contract with the Moon Beast, helped Cheng Xinghe return to the Moon Worship Tribe, and gained the tribe’s trust and privileges. While resting, he sensed a powerful connection to the Item Booklet Fragment and resolved to uncover its secret.

• The Moon Beast questioned whether Su Zhan would truly free him, so Su Zhan presented a contract scroll tied to the Heavenly Dao Rules and signed it with him.
• After the contract took effect, the Moon Beast told Su Zhan how to escape, and Su Zhan found the exit with Cheng Xinghe.
• Su Zhan brought the badly injured Cheng Xinghe to the Moon Worship Tribe and urged them to find a Mental Power cultivation method for him, claiming he would inspect it.
• The Moon Worship Tribe welcomed Su Zhan, arranged luxurious lodging for him, and gave him a high-ranking entry token.
• Su Zhan summoned the hidden Moon Beast in his room, then examined the Item Booklet Fragment as its energy healed his minor injuries and strengthened his resolve to collect every fragment.

Su Zhan questioned the Moon Beast about the mysterious item, but it denied knowing anything, leaving him without clues. After sleeping, Su Zhan discovered his strength had increased through their contract and learned that his token granted him Elder status in the Moon Worship Tribe, then wondered whether its members could see the Moon Beast.

• Su Zhan suspected the Moon Beast recognized the item fragment, but it repeatedly denied knowing it and refused to explain the item's history.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan about the Moon Worship Tribe's ancient history and how the great war had weakened many races.
• After a deep sleep, Su Zhan tested his strength and destroyed half a mountaintop with a casual wave.
• The Moon Beast explained that their contract had increased Su Zhan's strength, and Su Zhan considered using his remaining contract scrolls on powerful beings.
• Moon Worship Tribe members mistook Su Zhan's token for proof of Elder status, and he wondered whether they could see the Moon Beast.

Su Zhan studied several Jade Slips containing Mental Power techniques and cultivated the Sun God Art, which joined his Chat Group. He then gave the injured Cheng Xinghe a gentler technique to cultivate while he recovered.

• A man brought Su Zhan several Jade Slips containing Mental Power techniques for Cheng Xinghe’s recovery.
• Su Zhan cultivated the techniques in sequence and found that they improved his Mental Power and sharpened his senses.
• The system detected the Sun God Art and invited it into the Chat Group, where Su Zhan named it Sun.
• Su Zhan put away the Sun God Art’s Jade Slip and brought a gentler technique to Cheng Xinghe, advising him to use it while recovering.

Su Zhan agreed to enter the Moon Worship Tribe’s ancestral tomb to find the method for ending the tribe’s contract with the Moon Beast. He left after Elder Shishan promised him a choice of ten treasures from the tomb.

• Su Zhan arranged for Cheng Xinghe to recover before attempting the demanding Sun God Art, and had him search for spirit jade.
• Elder Shishan told Su Zhan that the Moon Worship Tribe wanted to end its harmful contract with the Moon Beast, but the method was sealed in the ancestral tomb.
• Elder Shishan explained that breaking the contract would unleash accumulated backlash on the tribe, but argued that the Moon Worship Tribe was now strong enough to face it.
• Elder Shishan offered Su Zhan any ten treasures from the tomb, and Su Zhan agreed to investigate it, hoping to find clues about the item fragments.

Su Zhan learned from Sun that the Moon Beast’s contract was reinforced by a powerful, forcibly bound karmic thread that might be undone in the great tomb. The next morning, he joined the Moon Worship Tribe’s expedition as captain, despite the hired experts’ doubts about his youth.

• The Moon Beast warned Su Zhan that the great tomb was perilous and that the Moon Worship Tribe had once bound it with an unknown method.
• Sun identified the Moon Beast’s contract as a tangled karmic binding and said it could not undo it with its current abilities.
• Su Zhan promised the Moon Beast he would do his best to free it and asked what else it knew, but it had little information about its enslavement.
• Elder Shishan arrived the next morning and led Su Zhan to a group of more than ten powerful experts, including five Martial Emperors, ready to depart.
• The experts showed contempt for Su Zhan’s youth, so Elder Shishan defended his strength and warned that anyone dissatisfied could leave.

Su Zhan and Elder Shishan led the group into the hidden great tomb of the Moon Worship Tribe. After discovering that the endless passage was a maze-like formation, Su Zhan used Demonic Energy mice to locate its hidden boundary.

• Elder Shishan guided the group to the clearing and revealed the great tomb by forming a five-star pattern.
• Elder Shishan opened the tomb doors, and he and Su Zhan entered a vast, lavishly built passage.
• Su Zhan and the others walked for a long time without the scenery changing, so Su Zhan ordered everyone to stop.
• Su Zhan sent Demonic Energy mice through the passage and used their vision to discover a boundary leading into another world.
• Su Zhan smiled after identifying the source of the passage's strange behavior.

Su Zhan led the group through an illusion into the tomb’s central burial chamber, where he uncovered hidden formation pearls and murals depicting the rise of the Moon Worship Tribe. The murals raised questions about the tribe’s history, and the group discovered a newly appeared platform with an empty semicircular groove.

• Su Zhan recognized an illusion, led the group through a wall, and revealed the central burial chamber.
• Su Zhan sent out creatures to find and collect hidden pearls that sustained the chamber’s formations, weakening the illusion and brightening the room.
• Su Zhan studied murals showing the Moon Worship Tribe’s rise from a weak tribe to rulers over foreign races.
• Su Zhan asked the group about their discoveries, and Elder Shishan avoided answering before pointing out a strange platform.
• Su Zhan examined the platform’s empty semicircular groove and wondered what it had once held.

Su Zhan led the group through the tomb passages and into chambers filled with treasure, where a strange influence drove most of his companions mad and made them attack one another. With his Space Barrier weakening, he searched for a way to save them and realized the solution might involve the hollow on the platform in the hall they had left behind.

• Su Zhan chose a passage after using his Demonic Beasts to guide the group through the tomb’s distorted spaces and past false chambers.
• Su Zhan led the group into real tomb chambers, where the treasures triggered a strange influence that made his companions greedy and violent.
• Su Zhan raised a Space Barrier to separate the mad companions from himself, Elder Shishan, and another Martial Emperor expert.
• Su Zhan, Elder Shishan, and the other expert searched the chamber for a way to reverse the madness as the barrier began to fail.
• Su Zhan remembered the hollow in the center of the platform in the previous hall and suspected it was meant to hold an object nearby.

Su Zhan forged a sphere by melting spirit beads and infusing it with a fragment of his soul, then used a summoned leopard to place it on the hall’s platform and free the others from a space-induced trap. The sphere connected him to the grand tomb, and as the group explored cautiously, he began uncovering clues about its mysteries and the Moon Worship Tribe’s abandoned power.

• Su Zhan melted the small white spirit beads together and infused the mixture with a fragment of his spiritual body, forming a crystal-clear sphere.
• Unable to reach the hall directly, Su Zhan used Demonic Beasts to find the correct direction and sent a fast leopard carrying the sphere to the platform.
• The sphere landed on the platform, causing the Demonic Energy to disperse and awakening the people who had been attacking the Space Barrier.
• Su Zhan and the others became more cautious, while Su Zhan wondered why the Moon Worship Tribe had abandoned its ancient powers and sealed away their techniques.
• Su Zhan continued exploring with Demonic Beasts scouting ahead and discovered that the sphere had connected him to the grand tomb, which began providing him with clues.

Su Zhan and his companions searched the tomb for a way to break the Moon Beast’s contract, while encountering traps and confusing clues. After finding no answers in the murals, Su Zhan connected with the item fragment and sensed that it could guide them.

• The Moon Beast warned Su Zhan of a hidden arrow, and he dodged the trap that targeted outsiders.
• Su Zhan led the group onward through increasingly dangerous chambers as they searched for a way to break the contract.
• Su Zhan studied the weathered murals and searched for clues, while the Moon Beast found nothing useful.
• Su Zhan realized the tomb’s treasures might be stored together and secretly brought out his item fragment.
• After six attempts using the Sun God Art, Su Zhan established a vague consciousness connection with the item.

Su Zhan and his companions encountered illusion-inducing incense that brought out their deepest desires, leaving several people delirious in a dangerous secret chamber. The Moon Beast helped restore their clarity, but Su Zhan still could not identify the hidden danger or find a way through the chamber.

• Su Zhan followed the item fragment’s signals until it urgently warned him to stop in an ominous area.
• A gardenia-like scent spread through the chamber, causing several people to hallucinate about treasures and power.
• The Moon Beast bit Su Zhan and the others, using its spiritual power to clear their minds.
• Elder Shishan suspected Su Zhan was connected to the Moon Beast’s disappearance and watched him with growing suspicion.
• Su Zhan searched the chamber for danger, but Sun could not explain its sense of familiarity, so Su Zhan turned to the system for information.

Su Zhan searched for a way to survive the illusions and unravel the karma techniques in the great tomb, but the texts offered little he could understand. Elder Shishan recalled a mysterious nursery rhyme taught to every Moon Worship Tribe descendant, though its bizarre lyrics left Su Zhan with no clear lead.

• Su Zhan studied Illusionary Technique and learned that illusions could be broken by destroying their props or controller, or by resisting or countering their effects.
• Su Zhan read about karma but could not understand the obscure text, and the system denied him access to its later sections.
• Elder Shishan asked whether Su Zhan had discovered anything, and Su Zhan urged him to recall secret knowledge passed down among the Moon Worship Tribe.
• Elder Shishan remembered that every descendant learned a nursery rhyme whose purpose no one knew, and he recited its meaning as best he could.
• Su Zhan heard that the rhyme described a son returning with a sharp-fanged monster as his wife, a huge python as his mount, and a transparent soul as his helper, but he found no useful clue in it.