Chapter Summaries

Su Zhan followed his Demonic Rats through the tomb and was caught in an Illusionary Technique that severed his connection with them. With help from Sun and the Moon Beast, he regained his bearings and continued toward the strange tomb chamber alone, intending to keep its secrets from the other experts.

• Su Zhan sent swarms of Demonic Rats to search the tomb and discovered a strange chamber, then left the others behind to investigate alone.
• Su Zhan lost his connection with the Demonic Rats and became trapped in an Illusionary Technique that filled his senses with false signals and voices.
• Sun guided Su Zhan to use the Sun God Art in his eyes, briefly restoring his vision and revealing that he was still in the tomb passage.
• Su Zhan summoned the contracted Moon Beast, who hurried to him and bit him several times to strengthen his defenses with mental Spirit Energy.
• Su Zhan realized the chamber was suspicious because the Demonic Rats that entered it sent no signals back, and he and the Moon Beast chose to proceed without calling the experts.

Su Zhan entered a strange, empty space inside the coffin while searching for the Demonic Rat, then chased a shadow that only he could see. He realized the figure was probably an illusion and that it had drawn him away from the Moon Beast, leaving him alone in the darkness.

• Su Zhan found the burial chamber where the Demonic Rat had vanished and discovered that the coffin opened into a dark, seemingly endless space.
• Su Zhan summoned the Moon Beast, which said it knew nothing about the place and suggested it might be a secret weapon of the Moon Worship Tribe.
• Su Zhan and the Moon Beast chased a black shadow that stayed just out of reach, until Su Zhan realized the Moon Beast had disappeared.
• Su Zhan asked the Chat Group about the figure, and Blood Consumption and Hidden Dragon said it had vanished from their sight.
• Su Zhan sent incarnations of Blood Consumption and Hidden Dragon toward the shadow, but they could neither see nor touch it, leading him to suspect it was an illusion.

Su Zhan escaped the Mirror of Insight by having his incarnations smash the coffin that housed his body, then found the legendary mirror among its pieces. After seeing his horrifying reflection in the bronze mirror, he confirmed he had found the artifact and put it away.

• The Sun identified the shadowy figure as Su Zhan’s sinister reflection inside the Mirror of Insight and explained that escaping required overcoming his own heart.
• The White Dragon explained that the mirror could not reveal the true state of mind of two exceptional kinds of people, while Su Zhan considered how to escape.
• Su Zhan reasoned that his body was inside the coffin and that destroying it could reconnect his consciousness with the outside world.
• Two of Su Zhan’s incarnations smashed the coffin, allowing him to awaken and climb out among its broken pieces.
• Su Zhan found a bronze mirror decorated with Dragon Marks and saw his reflection make the same terrifying smile.
• Su Zhan put the Mirror of Insight away and smugly told the Moon Beast to be jealous.

Su Zhan used the Mirror of Insight to reveal hidden presences in a burial chamber, then came under attack from strange liquid pillars that phased through barriers and ignored the Moon Beast. The mirror made Su Zhan intangible long enough for the liquids to lose track of him and disappear.

• Su Zhan entered a cold burial chamber and used the Mirror of Insight to spot black mist and other hidden things.
• Dao explained that the Mirror of Insight had spiritual, potentially demonic properties and could reveal what ordinary sight missed.
• Su Zhan noticed stiff streams of strange liquid attacking him from the ceiling and walls, and they passed through his Space Barrier.
• Su Zhan used the Moon Beast as a shield, but the liquid pillars passed through it without harming it and continued pursuing him.
• Su Zhan raised the Mirror of Insight and called for help, causing water-like energy to make him intangible until the liquid pillars lost track of him and collapsed.

Su Zhan escaped a dangerous burial chamber and used the Moon Beast’s origin to awaken his artifact fragment, which pointed him toward the fourth chamber. When the fragment warned him away from entering, he returned to seek help and found no sign that Elder Shishan knew more than he had revealed.

• Su Zhan escaped the chamber’s attacking liquid pillars, then heard the Moon Beast warn him not to use it as a shield again.
• Su Zhan tried and failed to awaken his artifact fragment until the Moon Beast offered its origin in exchange for his promise to dissolve their contract.
• The Moon Beast gave up its origin, which fused with Su Zhan and awakened the fragment.
• Su Zhan learned that the fragment was in the fourth burial chamber on the right, but its intense warning stopped him from entering.
• Su Zhan returned to the others, told them he had found strange burial chambers, and watched Elder Shishan react with apparent surprise and delight.

Su Zhan asked the experts to guard him while he cultivated, then unlocked the Mental Attribute in the special region. His cultivation techniques absorbed the chamber’s mysterious power, manifested more clearly, and began rapidly increasing their cultivation multipliers.

• Su Zhan recounted what had happened while concealing the Mirror of Insight and the cultivation techniques’ help.
• Su Zhan asked the experts to stand guard while he attempted a breakthrough, and they eagerly agreed.
• The system offered to unlock new attribute permissions in the special region, and Su Zhan accepted.
• The Mental Attribute awakened, allowing more than ten cultivation techniques to manifest and absorb mysterious power from the burial chamber.
• Blood Consumption, Sanyu, Nine Fires, Frenzy Blood, Lei Yin, Hidden Dragon, Years, White Dragon, Great Dao, and Sun awakened their Mental Attributes with a cultivation multiplier of 1.
• Blood Consumption, Sanyu, Nine Fires, Frenzy Blood, Lei Yin, and Hidden Dragon increased their base cultivation multipliers to 5.

Su Zhan used the Mirror of Insight to accelerate the cultivation of his technique incarnations, enduring a dangerous surge of energy as he grew stronger. While he focused on channeling the power, unseen forces attacked his companions from the Tomb Passages, leaving them to hold the line and hope he awakened soon.

• Su Zhan asked the cultivation techniques whether they had artifacts that could increase their cultivation speed, and Sun suggested using the Mirror of Insight.
• Su Zhan took out the Mirror of Insight, and it intensified the energy flowing into the ten cultivation technique incarnations.
• Su Zhan endured tearing pain and worsening cold as he channeled the surging energy, becoming increasingly unaware of his surroundings.
• Eerie power surged from the Tomb Passages, and the experts guarding Su Zhan moved closer and defended against the unseen attacks.
• The companions maintained their defensive line and silently hoped Su Zhan would awaken, now relying on him to help them escape the danger.

Su Zhan continued cultivating while the experts struggled to hold off increasingly fierce attacks, until a second item fragment emerged from the eastern Tomb Passage and stopped the assault. The fragment joined the one Su Zhan carried, leaving the experts stunned and Su Zhan with two fused fragments of different colors.

• Su Zhan pushed his cultivation toward a hundredfold speed while the experts' defenses weakened under attacks from the tomb's entities.
• The entities intensified their attacks, and Elder Shishan and the other experts neared exhaustion as Su Zhan refused to stop cultivating.
• Su Zhan's item fragment grew scorching hot, and a stronger force resonating with it came from the eastern Tomb Passage.
• A glowing green fragment flew out of the passage and scattered the surrounding energy, ending the immediate crisis.
• Elder Shishan recognized the green fragment as an item fragment, and it flew to Su Zhan and merged with the pale golden fragment he carried.
• Su Zhan examined the fused fragments, whose colors remained different, while the experts stared in astonishment.

After leaving the great tomb with a powerful item fragment, Su Zhan used it to heal the Moon Beast and began to suspect that the tribe’s contract-breaking efforts concealed a deeper cause. The chapter left him investigating Cheng Xinghe’s relapse and the Moon Worship Tribe’s secret.

• The item fragment surged with power, and Elder Shishan told Su Zhan there was no need to keep searching for a way to resolve the contract.
• Su Zhan and the others left the now-ordinary great tomb, while the injured visitors departed to recover and Elder Shishan arranged to deliver their rewards later.
• Su Zhan returned to his residence, healed the unconscious Moon Beast, and discovered that the joined fragments could separately use their blessing and mental powers.
• The fragment recognized the mental contract and began healing the Moon Beast, surrounding it with protection and restoring its strength.
• A tribesman summoned Su Zhan to Cheng Xinghe, whose condition had relapsed as he struggled against chains with wounds and fangs.
• Su Zhan questioned whether the Moon Beast had caused Cheng Xinghe’s condition and suspected the Moon Worship Tribe was hiding a serious reason for wanting the contract dissolved.

Su Zhan discovered that the Moon Worship Tribe’s contract with the Moon Beast had siphoned away its power, causing the tribe’s main bloodline to mutate. He decided to reclaim the stolen power for the Moon Beast and considered using the book fragments to purify it, but warned the tribe that Cheng Xinghe might lose an entire major cultivation level.

• Su Zhan used the Mirror of Insight on Cheng Xinghe and realized his beastlike features were part of his true appearance, concealed until the effects on him worsened.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan that Cheng Xinghe had absorbed its power, revealing that the Moon Worship Tribe’s contract had drained it over many years.
• Su Zhan understood that the stolen power had become chaotic and was mutating the tribe’s main bloodline, while the sealed method for dissolving the contract left the tribe unable to stop it.
• Disgusted by the Moon Worship Tribe’s treatment of the Moon Beast, Su Zhan decided to help it reclaim its power and return to its former peak.
• Su Zhan reasoned that the book fragments had formed and maintained the contract, and considered using them to purify the power before returning it to the Moon Beast.
• When the tribe asked whether he had found a solution, Su Zhan warned that resolving the problem could cost Cheng Xinghe an entire major cultivation level, possibly permanently.

Su Zhan devised a way to help the Moon Beast reclaim its stolen energy by hypnotizing Cheng Xinghe into behaving like a spiritual creature. After Cheng Xinghe began guiding the energy into order, Su Zhan promised the Moon Beast he would repay its sacrifice, though the Moon Beast remained troubled.

• Su Zhan left Cheng Xinghe’s residence and told the others to wait until Cheng Xinghe and Elder Shishan were in better condition.
• Su Zhan told the Moon Beast he could restore its lost energy and realized its contract had been formed through deceit.
• Su Zhan planned to use hypnosis to make Cheng Xinghe instinctively guide the Moon Beast’s energy back into order.
• The next morning, Su Zhan took the Moon Beast to a fortified Cultivation Room and used a summoning tool to hypnotize Cheng Xinghe into believing he was a spiritual creature.
• Cheng Xinghe stopped struggling, then began guiding the unruly energy inside his body, gradually bringing it under control.
• Su Zhan assured the silent Moon Beast that he would repay its sacrifice and sat beside it.

After Cheng Xinghe’s purification freed him from the Moon Worship Tribe’s contract, Su Zhan returned the stolen energy to the Moon Beast, who recovered his full strength and agreed to leave with him. Su Zhan learned that the fragments he sought belonged to the Eye of the Heavenly God and discovered that the final piece was with the elusive, constantly drifting Great Evolution Tribe.

• Cheng Xinghe completed three days and nights of purification, lost the Moon Beast’s energy, and returned to his former appearance after recovering.
• Su Zhan secretly gave the Moon Beast’s stored energy back, and the Moon Beast emerged from a seven-day cocoon restored to his powerful form.
• Elder Shishan asked Su Zhan why Cheng Xinghe had lost so much strength, and Su Zhan explained that the tribe had to give up power that never belonged to them.
• Su Zhan told the Moon Beast he planned to leave, and the Moon Beast agreed to go with him.
• The Moon Beast identified Su Zhan’s fragments as pieces of the Eye of the Heavenly God and warned him that the Great Evolution Tribe was difficult to find.
• Su Zhan used the system to locate the Great Evolution Tribe in D258 Nebula, Coordinate Route 365, and realized its location had changed.

Su Zhan searched for clues about the Great Evolution Tribe and learned how terrifyingly powerful its members were. When the Drum Tribe arrived at the Moon Worship Tribe to capture him, Su Zhan escaped and hurried onward in search of the tribe.

• Su Zhan failed to get information from the system and spent half a month searching libraries for clues about the Great Evolution Tribe.
• Su Zhan found records saying the Great Evolution Tribe was nearly extinct and possessed godlike power, but he refused to abandon his pursuit of the fragment.
• A messenger warned Su Zhan that Drum Tribe elders had come to the Moon Worship Tribe looking for him.
• Su Zhan concealed his aura and used an invisible Space Attribute to slip past the Drum Tribe elders at the boundary.
• Su Zhan fled with the Moon Beast, realizing he had to keep moving and grow stronger before his enemies caught up with him.

Su Zhan struggled to track the elusive Great Evolution Tribe member and stopped on a planet to find something that might lure him out. There, he reunited with Qing He, who asked for Su Zhan’s help with a problem facing his sect.

• Su Zhan traveled for days following the system’s shifting marker, then decided to seek a way to attract the Great Evolution Tribe member instead.
• Su Zhan searched planets for rare goods that might serve as bait and landed on a prosperous world to find food.
• A restaurant attendant stopped the disheveled Su Zhan at the entrance, but Qing He recognized him and brought him inside.
• Su Zhan ate with Qing He, who offered his help and promised that Su Zhan could use his name on nearby planets.
• Qing He asked Su Zhan to help resolve a problem confronting his sect, and Su Zhan agreed to hear him out.

Su Zhan discovered that the black qi surrounding Qing He’s land was five-star Dark Energy and realized he could absorb it to help solve the problem. He began cultivating in an Advanced Cultivation Room, leaving Qing He impressed as the darkness poured into the formation.

• Su Zhan followed Qing He into a region where dense black qi blocked the sunlight while allowing moonlight and starlight through.
• The System identified the black qi as Dark Energy, which could enhance other attributes, and Su Zhan realized its extreme concentration was preventing other energies from appearing.
• Su Zhan reasoned that the Dark Energy had gathered because Light Energy was lacking and decided to absorb some of it before dispersing the rest.
• Su Zhan asked Qing He for an Advanced Cultivation Room and a Spirit Gathering Formation, and Qing He prepared the best available facilities.
• Su Zhan summoned dozens of cultivation techniques to absorb the Dark Energy, creating a vast vortex that Qing He watched with growing admiration.

Su Zhan’s cultivation techniques absorbed Dark Energy at rapidly increasing speeds until the resulting lightning threatened the surrounding area. He halted their absorption, settled into Qing He’s residence, and watched the energy stabilize while Qing He warned the sect not to disturb him.

• Su Zhan’s cultivation techniques unlocked Dark Energy absorption and accelerated their cultivation speed as they gathered energy in the Cultivation Room.
• Su Zhan found lightning striking the clear sky and shattering a nearby mountain peak, then stopped the techniques’ absorption through the Chat Group until the thunder faded.
• Su Zhan asked the Moon Beast about Dark Energy and learned that living beings needed balanced attributes, while his cultivation techniques did not.
• Su Zhan watched the Dark Energy for several hours, confirmed that it had stabilized, and worried that the Great Evolution Tribe might move farther away.
• Qing He gathered the sect members and told them to respect Su Zhan and avoid disturbing the master he had invited.

Su Zhan used the Mirror of Insight to store Dark Energy, greatly speeding up the effort to clear the Cultivation Room. He planned to finish within three days and asked Qing He to search for information about the Great Evolution Tribe.

• Su Zhan considered storing the Dark Energy and, after Sun suggested it, summoned the Mirror of Insight.
• Su Zhan explained the task, and the Mirror of Insight agreed to help despite doubting his promise of a reward.
• Su Zhan used the Mirror of Insight alongside his avatars to gather and absorb Dark Energy, reducing the problem by a third in a day and a night.
• The Mirror of Insight paused when its space filled with Dark Energy and needed time to adjust.
• Su Zhan told Qing He he expected to clear the Dark Energy within three days and offered to establish an array to keep it balanced.
• Qing He promised to search his channels for information about the Great Evolution Tribe and offered further assistance, which Su Zhan declined.

Su Zhan finished building a formation to contain and cycle the Dark Energy, then used Qing He's information to pursue the last surviving Great Evolution Tribesman. Hoping to lure the wandering drunkard to him, Su Zhan headed for True Man Lin Lie to seek the legendary wine Thousand Year Drunk.

• Qing He told Su Zhan that the Great Evolution Tribe had only one survivor, an over-ten-thousand-year-old wanderer who carried a wine gourd.
• Su Zhan declined Qing He's invitation to stay and completed the Dark Energy formation with Qing He's help.
• Su Zhan left, used the System to track the Great Evolution Tribe, and decided to lure its survivor with rare wine.
• Su Zhan learned that True Man Lin Lie made Thousand Year Drunk and set out to seek him, since his coordinates lay along the way.

Su Zhan reached True Man Lin Lie’s remote planet seeking Thousand Year Drunk, only to be caught in a trap and confronted by the old man. Lin Lie refused to hand over the wine and instead offered to teach Su Zhan how to brew it.

• Su Zhan arrived at Lin Lie’s barren planet after enduring repeated electronic storms that he suspected were defenses.
• White Dragon and Sun sensed strange energy nearby, so Su Zhan proceeded cautiously before a trap suddenly locked him in a cage.
• Su Zhan failed to break the cage, and True Man Lin Lie appeared behind him and rebuked him for trespassing.
• Lin Lie recognized that Su Zhan had come for Thousand Year Drunk and said he would have to earn the wine.
• Lin Lie told Su Zhan he wanted an heir to his brewing craft, while Su Zhan privately resisted learning to brew wine.

Su Zhan gathered the rare ingredients True Man Lin Lie demanded for Thousand Year Drunk and began learning to brew it. After repeated explosions and failures, he improved his control and drew close to brewing his first batch.

• Su Zhan collected peach blossoms from ancient trees and chased conscious ginseng across the planet until he had gathered all the required materials.
• True Man Lin Lie approved Su Zhan's collection and told him to begin brewing.
• True Man Lin Lie gave Su Zhan two brewing recipes and left him to experiment, causing his first attempts to explode.
• Su Zhan discovered that spiritual fire and precise heat control were crucial, then practiced until he could produce cloudy wine and refine his technique.
• True Man Lin Lie recognized Su Zhan's talent and judged that he was only one or two attempts away from brewing his first batch.