Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Thoughts Divided into Reincarnation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Jiang Chen attempts to use his comprehension of the Transformation Dao to derive the true five elements from primordial chaos. Although the process begins successfully, invisible Heavenly and Earthly restrictions cause the transformation to collapse.
• He realizes that directly manifesting the five elements is currently beyond his ability, but the failed attempt deepens his understanding of the Great Five-Elements Escape-One Hidden Gold Chapter and may help him complete the Primordial Unity True Explanation.
• Jiang Chen also concludes that the Primordial Unity Ancient Stele contains more secrets beyond the One Thought Reincarnation Method.
• The Spirit Lord completes his transformation and breaks through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Peak. His Blessed Land’s evolution of the five elements provides the foundation needed to overcome the usual slow accumulation required for advancement.
• The Spirit Lord plans to consolidate his cultivation, refine his Blessed Land, continue the five-element evolution, and nurture his innate treasure.
• Jiang Chen assesses his other avatars:
  • Yellow Garment is limited by his innate origin and must locate other Yellow Heaven Dao Palaces, possibly by extracting the coordinates of the Netherworld Realm.
  • Mist Flood Dragon, despite becoming a True Dragon, has a weaker foundation and may eventually seek opportunity in the True Dragon Immortal Estate.
• Jiang Chen reflects on the risks of the Spirit Infusion Method. Dividing his soul repeatedly can damage or even collapse his soul origin, though powerful avatars can also provide feedback and stabilize him.
• He sends Yellow Garment a method for refining an anchor, allowing him to investigate the Netherworld Realm’s coordinates.
• A year later, Jiang Chen successfully severs a Reincarnation Thought from his soul. He studies its subtle life-and-death aura and realizes why it can merge into another world.
• He wonders how the original master of the Primordial Unity Hall cultivated One Thought Reincarnation without possessing a Yang Spirit, but sets the question aside for more immediate concerns.

Character Developments

• Jiang Chen gains a clearer understanding of the limits of his current Transformation Dao comprehension. Rather than viewing the failed five-element derivation as wasted effort, he identifies ways to incorporate the Five-Elements inheritance into his future cultivation.
• His strategic thinking becomes more systematic. He begins planning the advancement of all three avatars instead of relying only on his own strength.
• Jiang Chen also develops a deeper understanding of the Spirit Infusion Method’s costs, recognizing that his avatars are not merely weapons but extensions of his soul whose growth directly affects his own cultivation.
• The Spirit Lord makes a major breakthrough to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Peak. His confidence and future plans show that he has become a powerful and increasingly independent ally.
• Yellow Garment remains temporarily restricted, while Mist Flood Dragon has advanced to the True Dragon stage but still lacks the foundation for the highest realms.

Significant Themes

• Limits and gradual cultivation: Jiang Chen’s failed attempt emphasizes that profound breakthroughs cannot be forced and require deeper comprehension and stronger foundations.
• Transformation and evolution: The five-element evolution serves as both a cultivation process and a symbol of moving from abstraction into concrete existence.
• The costs of divided power: The avatars grant Jiang Chen greater strength and broader capabilities, but soul division carries serious hidden dangers.
• Mutual growth and interdependence: The avatars’ advancement can strengthen Jiang Chen, suggesting that power is distributed among interconnected selves rather than concentrated in one body.
• Reincarnation and the nature of existence: The Reincarnation Thought introduces the mystery of how consciousness can transcend worlds and merge into another realm.
• Unresolved ancient inheritances: The Great Five-Elements inheritance and Primordial Unity Ancient Stele remain incomplete sources of knowledge, promising future discoveries.

Character Interactions

• The Spirit Lord communicates with Jiang Chen after his breakthrough, acknowledging him before returning to seclusion to consolidate his realm.
• Jiang Chen evaluates the Spirit Lord’s strength and recognizes him as a formidable ally capable of protecting the Layered Mountains Continent.
• Jiang Chen sends Yellow Garment a spiritual method for refining an anchor and tracing the Netherworld Realm, setting up future cooperation and exploration.
• His relationship with Mist Flood Dragon is more strategic and patient: Jiang Chen identifies the True Dragon Immortal Estate as a possible opportunity but decides not to interfere yet.
• The chapter contains little direct dialogue, focusing instead on Jiang Chen’s internal assessments and his cultivation-based connections with the Spirit Lord and avatars.

Summary

Key plot points

• A Reincarnation Thought from Jiang Chen crosses the void and enters the Azure Sky Minor Realm, where it is born as a baby. It carries the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet, which should help protect its fragile new body.
• Jiang Chen realizes the thought arrived unusually quickly by following cause and effect. He decides to let it grow until it awakens from the mystery of the womb, while he focuses on his own cultivation and refining the Five-Directions Mountain-River Cauldron.
• Over the next three years, the Spirit-Void Realm remains unsettled after the fall of the Five-Directions Establishing-Pole Dao. Rumors grow about opportunities connected to the True Dragon Immortal Estate, while Immortal Palaces seek information about the outside world.
• Divine Dao Founding locates the Great Scarlet Heaven. Its leaders hope to seize a shattered Divine Kingdom there, whose fortune once helped Chi Yuan Venerable reach the fifth tier. The prize could give their faction a secure base and help it compete with the Immortal Palaces.
• Yuanling Divine Lord warns that the operation is dangerous: without Scarlet Spirit, they lack a key advantage, and powerful defenders may remain in the Great Scarlet Heaven. The other Divine Lords accept that they cannot proceed without better intelligence.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Chen shows confidence in the Reincarnation Thought’s protection but patience about its development. He trusts his Dao Heart and Illusion-Breaking ability to help it awaken safely.
• Yannian Divine Lord, under pressure from Qiyuan Divine Lord after Scarlet Spirit’s death disrupted their plans, is relieved to find the Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Baigong Divine Lord sees the Divine Kingdom as a potential foundation for Divine Dao Founding’s future.
• Yuanling Divine Lord acts as the cautious counterweight, challenging the others’ excitement by emphasizing the risks and the strength of possible opponents.
• The three Divine Lords’ discussion reveals both their shared ambition and their differing temperaments: optimism from Baigong and Yannian, caution from Yuanling.

Significant themes

• Rebirth and protection: Jiang Chen’s thought begins a new life, relying on the Jade Tablet while needing time to grow.
• Ambition and survival: Divine Dao Founding seeks a stable source of immortal qi and a lasting base in a realm dominated by powerful rivals.
• Uncertainty and restraint: Major opportunities invite bold action, but incomplete knowledge can turn ambition into disaster.
• The costs of power: Even powerful gods need immortal qi to resist the Great Dao’s corrosion.

Key plot points and events

• The Divine Dao Founding opens a passage to Great Scarlet Heaven, a harsh, barren realm rich in fire-aligned spiritual energy. Divine Lords Zhihuo and Netherworld Capital enter as scouts to assess its remaining power and resources.
• The two split up to explore. Netherworld Capital is especially cautious, haunted by the memory of Divine Lord Weilie’s death and the sense that something has been watching him.
• As Netherworld Capital leaves the artifact’s protection, a long-dormant shadow within him stirs and begins to spread—unbeknownst to him.
• In the Spirit-Void Realm, Jiang Chen senses that a demon seed he once planted in Netherworld Capital has unexpectedly awakened. Through it, he detects a faint connection to Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Jiang Chen reasons that the Divine Dao Founding may be seeking Great Scarlet Heaven’s divine inheritance and a Grotto-Heaven. He decides to let its scouts investigate before choosing his own next move, while strengthening his connection to the seed.

Character developments and interactions

• Netherworld Capital is wary and politically ambitious. He hopes Great Scarlet Heaven will offer a chance to grow stronger and gain influence within the Divine Dao Founding, but his fear of past dangers remains.
• Zhihuo begins excited by the realm’s suitability for fire cultivation, then accepts Netherworld Capital’s warning and proceeds cautiously.
• Jiang Chen turns an unexpected demon-seed connection into a potential advantage. Rather than rushing into the unknown, he adopts a patient, strategic approach.
• Zhihuo and Netherworld Capital coordinate their scouting, then separate. Jiang Chen’s connection to Netherworld Capital creates an indirect link between the Spirit-Void Realm and the new world.

Significant themes

• Hidden consequences: A seemingly failed demon seed survives and awakens at a distance, showing that past actions can produce unforeseen effects.
• Power and opportunity: The Divine Dao Founding seeks resources and inheritance to overcome its weak foundations, while Jiang Chen considers how a Grotto-Heaven might aid his future advancement.
• Caution amid uncertainty: Each character recognizes that Great Scarlet Heaven may be dangerous despite its apparent desolation, and Jiang Chen chooses to gather information before acting.

Key plot points and events

• Deep underground, Dan Xi and the other Saint Lords finally find a genuine trace of the True God’s Corpse after being misled by its shifting aura. Divine Lord Qiyuan can no longer delay the group.
• Qiyuan privately resents Jiang Chen, whom he blames for killing Scarlet Spirit and forcing him into a difficult position. He has learned that Jiang Chen is connected to the Impermanence Sect, which he suspects the War-Stopping Immortal Abode has secretly supported.
• Qiyuan’s immediate priority is Great Scarlet Heaven. He hopes the Divine Dao Founding can seize its fortune and locate its Divine Kingdom, giving him and his faction the strength and security to compete with the Immortal Palaces.
• As the six Saint Lords continue provoking the True God’s Corpse, its influence spreads. At the ruined site of Azure Firmament Mountain, No-Self awakens from dormancy as the divine power grows stronger.
• No-Self’s power begins weakening Sage Lord Xiyi’s sword seal. He uses his divine ability to restore the broken Void Illusory World Mirror, then orders the Slovenly Daoist to find and bring someone—or some people—back.

Character developments and interactions

• Divine Lord Qiyuan shifts from cautious stalling to reluctant cooperation with the other Saint Lords. His resentment toward Jiang Chen and the Impermanence Sect is tempered by a more urgent ambition: strengthening the Divine Dao Founding through Great Scarlet Heaven.
• No-Self awakens with his power still constrained, but the True God’s influence gives him a way to gradually resist the seal. He takes initiative by restoring the mirror and commanding the Slovenly Daoist.
• Dan Xi expresses excitement at the group’s progress, helping lift the other Saint Lords’ spirits.
• Sage Lord Xiyi, though absent, remains a powerful presence: his sword seal still restrains No-Self, while his earlier actions shaped the ruined, forbidden state of Azure Firmament Mountain.
• The interactions set up two linked struggles: the Saint Lords’ pursuit of the True God’s Corpse, and No-Self’s emerging effort to act through the Slovenly Daoist.

Significant themes

• Power and political leverage: Qiyuan’s standing depends on alliances, artifacts, and securing a stronger base; he sees Great Scarlet Heaven as a route to independence.
• Hidden influence and shifting loyalties: Immortal Palaces plant agents and extend their reach through lesser factions, while Qiyuan reassesses whom he can trust or challenge.
• Seals weakening and forces returning: The True God’s growing influence revives No-Self and restores the mirror, suggesting that past containment is beginning to fail.
• Illusion and reality: The ruined mountain, No-Self’s awakening, and the mirror all blur the boundary between what is real and what is concealed.

Key plot points and events

• Shenling Daoist, a Purple Mansion rogue cultivator known for illusion techniques, has been trying unsuccessfully to refine a mirror fragment he stole. When its spirituality awakens, he senses Dao resonance and suspects it may belong to the legendary Void Illusory World Mirror.
• The fragment’s awakening alerts Slovenly Daoist, who tracks Shenling Daoist through its connection and kills him with a single overwhelming strike, taking the fragment.
• Acting on No-Self’s orders, Slovenly Daoist is collecting the scattered mirror fragments. No-Self’s control of the mirror lets him locate them, and Slovenly Daoist has already killed several people who possessed fragments.
• The Underworld notices the pattern. Yellow-Robed Daoist investigates, but his attempt to see through the mystery causes a bloody backlash. He concludes that the hunter is likely at the peak of the Celestial Phenomenon stage.
• Yellow-Robed Daoist sends two fragments the Underworld has collected out as bait, hoping to test the hunter’s tracking ability and draw him out.

Character developments and interactions

• Shenling Daoist moves from frustration to excitement when the fragment shows signs of power, but his eagerness leaves him exposed. He has no chance against Slovenly Daoist’s superior strength.
• Slovenly Daoist is revealed as No-Self’s agent, methodically recovering fragments and treating their holders as obstacles. His actions remain secret from the wider world.
• Yellow-Robed Daoist responds to the killings with caution and calculation. Though his divination fails and injures him, he turns the threat into an opportunity by setting a trap.
• No-Self, though sealed, directs the recovery effort through Slovenly Daoist and retains control of the mirror’s core through his connection to it.
• The central interaction is a growing contest between Slovenly Daoist, who is gathering fragments for No-Self, and Yellow-Robed Daoist, who tries to uncover and exploit his methods.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Shenling Daoist’s skill and suspicion cannot protect him from a vastly stronger opponent.
• Secrets and hidden allegiance: Slovenly Daoist’s role under No-Self is unknown to the outside world.
• Bait and strategic deception: Yellow-Robed Daoist deliberately risks valuable fragments to expose his opponent.
• The cost of forbidden knowledge: His attempt to probe the hunter’s identity triggers a painful backlash.

Plot points and events

• Purple Lightning completes its transformation after several years of silence. Its sword edge has grown so sharp that it can threaten Jiang Chen’s powerful Dao Body; combined with its lightning and the Great White Slaughter Form, it could be devastating. It remains below the level of a half-immortal artifact, but Jiang Chen considers its killing power unmatched among weapons of its grade.
• Purple Lightning wants to grow further. Jiang Chen tells it to wait, hinting that a developing demonic seed may present an opportunity.
• Jiang Chen assesses Great Scarlet Heaven, where the Crimson Heaven Divine Church still dominates despite the upheaval caused by Venerable Chi Yuan’s death. Rather than attack the powerful church directly and risk a drawn-out fight, he plans to exploit the coming conflict between it and Divine Dao Founding.
• Using Bloodfire Dao knowledge he has gathered, Jiang Chen sends the Netherworld Capital Divine Lord a dream that reveals new insights. The Divine Lord is subtly influenced to carry this knowledge to Divine Dao Founding and investigate the church’s secrets.
• The church detects the Divine Lord and tries to kill him. He escapes at great cost, while his soul and consciousness are unknowingly reshaped. His ordeal is made to look like the fallout of internal church conflict.
• Divine Dao Founding verifies the intelligence he brings. Armed with it, the group’s conflict with the Crimson Heaven Divine Church intensifies, shifting the balance of the war in Great Scarlet Heaven.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Chen shows patience and strategic restraint: instead of confronting the Crimson Heaven Divine Church head-on, he uses its rival as leverage. He also continues directing events through the demonic seed.
• Purple Lightning has become more powerful and spiritually expressive, communicating its desire to Jiang Chen. Their connection lets him understand its changes and intentions.
• The Netherworld Capital Divine Lord believes he has discovered valuable knowledge independently and risks his life to deliver it. In reality, Jiang Chen’s intervention has clouded his judgment and altered his consciousness.
• Divine Dao Founding shifts from preparation to action after confirming the Divine Lord’s information.
• Jiang Chen’s earlier trap for the Slovenly Daoist has yielded clues leading toward No-Self, suggesting that this pursuit may connect to his broader plans.

Significant themes

• Power and limits: Purple Lightning’s advancement is extraordinary, yet becoming a half-immortal artifact remains beyond reach.
• Strategy over force: Jiang Chen seeks to shape the conflict rather than fight a stronger, unified power directly.
• Manipulation and hidden agency: The Divine Lord’s apparent discovery and choices are partly engineered by Jiang Chen.
• Conflict as opportunity: The Crimson Heaven Divine Church’s internal turmoil creates an opening for its rivals—and for Jiang Chen—to act.

Plot points and events

• Ten years after entering the Azure Sky Minor Realm, Jiang Chen awakens to his identity within the body of Jiang Liu and understands that he was born here through his cultivation of One Thought, Reincarnation.
• He assesses the realm: technology is advanced, spiritual energy is scarce and declining, and firearms have largely displaced cultivators. Xu Sinian’s achievement of Golden Core cultivation in such conditions was exceptional.
• Jiang Chen decides to adapt, strengthen his new body, and seek one of Xu Sinian’s three hidden inheritance abodes, including one near Linjiang City.
• After two years of secret cultivation, he reaches the peak of Foundation Establishment with help from Xu Sinian’s resources and the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet.
• Probing the realm reveals that its known cultivation path extends from Qi Refining to Golden Core, while higher stages such as Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation are absent from surviving records—even where teachings seem capable of continuing.
• Suspecting that the missing knowledge was deliberately concealed, Jiang Chen forces his way through a mysterious barrier. It cracks, beginning to reveal the realm’s hidden side.

Character developments

• Jiang Chen moves from recovering his identity to establishing himself in the unfamiliar world. Patient and strategic, he keeps his cultivation hidden while gathering resources and information.
• His confidence grows as he recognizes that his true nature and spiritual power exceed what his young body—and the realm’s limits—would suggest.
• Xu Sinian’s past gains significance: his rare success and surviving inheritances give Jiang Chen both a model and practical support.

Significant themes

• Decline and change: The realm’s spiritual energy is fading as technology advances.
• Knowledge suppressed or lost: The consistent gaps in cultivation teachings hint at deliberate concealment.
• Adaptation and hidden potential: Jiang Chen must work within the limits of a new body and weakened world, while possessing power that may exceed those limits.
• The boundary between worlds: The barrier represents both the realm’s restrictions and secrets beyond ordinary perception.

Character interactions

• Jiang Chen has no major direct interactions in the chapter. His connection to Xu Sinian is indirect, through Xu’s memories, legacy, and inherited resources; Jiang Chen’s main “confrontation” is with the realm’s barrier itself.

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Chen enters the dark inner layer of the Azure Sky Minor Realm to investigate its secrets. When his divine sense probes too deeply, a sword light cuts it off and tracks the attack back to his body.
• He uses the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet to merge with heaven and earth, surviving a strike that nearly kills him. Though shaken, he decides to continue, believing the darkness holds what he came to find.
• Avoiding divine sense, he follows the tablet’s guidance through the void and discovers a vast, luminous rift: a sword scar splitting the world’s inner layer.
• Jiang Chen realizes the earlier attack was only an echo of the sword strike that made the scar. The original blow wounded the realm and severed its Dao and laws, causing its cultivation inheritance to vanish above Golden Core.
• The tablet helps him understand that heaven and earth are drawing close to him and still retain traces of the lost path. Believing the scar may reveal secrets of Spirit Transformation, he advances toward it despite the force battering his mind.

Character development

• Jiang Chen shifts from confidence in his control of the realm to caution after encountering a danger capable of threatening his life.
• His curiosity and resolve ultimately outweigh his fear: he chooses to risk approaching the scar rather than retreat and protect his reincarnated body.
• He demonstrates growing insight, piecing together the connection between the sword strike, the realm’s damaged laws, and the disappearance of higher cultivation realms.

Character interactions

• Jiang Chen’s main “interaction” is with the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet, which shields him, guides him, and grants moments of understanding.
• He also confronts the lingering sword force embedded in the realm. Though it is an echo rather than a living opponent, it attacks his divine sense, body, and mind.

Significant themes

• The lasting cost of overwhelming power: A single sword strike can wound a world and alter its cultivation for ages.
• Knowledge versus survival: Jiang Chen knowingly approaches a lethal mystery because its answers may be invaluable.
• A damaged but living world: The realm’s Dao is severed, yet heaven and earth remain active and may preserve fragments of what was lost.
• The limits of understanding: Jiang Chen recognizes that the sword’s power transcends the techniques and realms he has encountered.

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Chen pushes toward a mysterious sword scar in the Great Void, but its overwhelming sword force nearly destroys his divine-sense body.
• A fragment of spiritual light escapes from the scar and reaches him. He recognizes it as the Azure Sky Deification Scripture, a genuine spirit-transformation inheritance formed from part of the Azure Sky Realm’s Dao.
• Jiang Chen realizes the inheritance was deliberately granted to him—likely through the Azure Sky Minor Realm’s favor and the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet. Since retreating would cost him that protection and likely mean death, he accepts the opportunity.
• As he absorbs the scripture, its Dao resonance strengthens the jade tablet’s connection to heaven and earth, stabilizing his collapsing body.
• He studies the Azure Sky cultivation path, compares it with the Spirit-Void Realm’s approach, and decides to transform his cultivation foundation and begin practicing the Azure Sky method.

Character development

• Jiang Chen remains wary despite receiving a major inheritance: he questions why it came to him and understands its hidden circumstances.
• He shows adaptability and ambition, choosing to learn a foreign cultivation system rather than cling solely to his existing path.

Significant themes

• Different paths to the Dao: The Spirit-Void Realm internalizes the Dao, favoring combat power and independence; Azure Sky cultivators imprint their souls on their world and borrow its authority.
• Power and dependence: Azure Sky spirit transformation offers longevity, fortune, and potential return from death, but its power weakens outside its native realm.
• Heaven’s favor and its cost: Jiang Chen’s opportunity comes with danger and limited choices; divine favor is both a gift and a necessity for survival.

Character interactions

• No direct exchanges occur. Jiang Chen’s key interaction is with the Azure Sky Minor Realm’s power, mediated by the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet, which grants the inheritance and helps preserve him.

Key events

• Jiang Chen receives an unexpected message from his reincarnated self in the Azure Sky Minor Realm. That self has obtained the powerful Azure Sky Deification Scripture, which contains something important enough to trigger a contingency Jiang Chen had planted.
• He concludes that the reincarnated self is likely doomed and decides not to intervene. Trying to change its fate could entangle his original body in the same karma; instead, he accepts the risk and extracts what insight he can from the information received.
• Jiang Chen considers pursuing Spirit Transformation, but senses that the Spirit-Void Realm’s Great Dao rejects this path and that attempting it could bring a tribulation. He decides not to cultivate it here, though he will adapt useful principles from the scripture.
• Using deduction, he derives a secret art called Dao Resonance, designed to connect with the Great Dao rather than cultivate magical power.
• He applies it to the Myriad Beasts Dao Embryo, whose dormant Dao Marks belong to the Way of Enslavement. His soul produces a sound that begins to awaken those marks.

Character development and interactions

• Jiang Chen shows caution and strategic restraint: he gives up on saving his reincarnated self to protect his original body, while still seeking value in the situation.
• He remains committed to his main path of transformation, treating the Way of Enslavement as a useful tool rather than a new foundation.
• The chapter centers on Jiang Chen’s interaction with the reincarnated self’s transmitted memories, the warning signs of the Spirit-Void Realm’s Great Dao, and the Dao Embryo he hopes to refine.

Significant themes

• Karma and the limits of control: Interfering with a reincarnation can endanger the original self.
• Adapting to different worlds: A cultivation method viable in one realm may be forbidden or dangerous in another.
• Pragmatism and opportunity: Jiang Chen accepts a loss but seeks insight and advantage from it.
• Resonance with the Dao: Progress may come not only through cultivation, but through establishing contact with the underlying principles of the Great Dao.

Key events

• True Lord Xuanji breaks through to the celestial phenomenon middle stage, a major achievement that gives her hope of progressing along her Dao Path.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong considers his own prospects. Though his injuries have improved, his damaged Dao Foundation and dwindling lifespan make a breakthrough to the celestial phenomenon peak difficult. He resolves to recover further and possibly seek help from Jiang Chen.
• Jiang Chen recognizes that Xuanji’s breakthrough may be close to the limit of her natural potential. He also judges that Xuan Qiong and his teacher, True Person Yuan Gang, have strong innate gifts, but Xuan Qiong’s condition is especially poor. Jiang Chen forms a plan to help him, while acknowledging that success ultimately depends on Xuan Qiong.
• Jiang Chen reveals the reason for his own awakening: after three years of work, he has successfully merged with the Myriad Beasts Dao Embryo. Its power awakens, transforming his body and soul and producing the phenomenon known as “Myriad Beasts’ Reverence.”
• He resists being swept away by the Dao Embryo’s power. Rather than follow the dangerous path of replacing his Dao Heart with a Tiger-Wolf Heart, he uses his established Dao Heart to control and stabilize the Embryo. After hours of struggle, he brings its power under control.
• Jiang Chen can now invoke the Dao’s marks, but his mastery remains crude; he believes it will take more study to use them effectively against formidable Dao Embryo cultivators.

Character developments

• True Lord Xuanji reaches a significant cultivation milestone, though Jiang Chen believes her talent may limit further advancement.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong remains determined to seek another breakthrough despite the severe obstacles posed by his age and injuries.
• Jiang Chen advances substantially by integrating the Myriad Beasts Dao Embryo. His established Dao Heart lets him harness its dangerous power without surrendering his own judgment.

Themes and interactions

The chapter explores the difference between innate potential and effort, and the limits imposed by age, injury, and talent. It also emphasizes the danger and discipline of wielding immense power: the Dao Embryo offers extraordinary strength, but only Jiang Chen’s firm Dao Heart keeps it from consuming or distorting him. Jiang Chen’s concern for Xuan Qiong shows his role as a mentor and benefactor, while Xuan Qiong’s hopes depend in part on Jiang Chen’s guidance.

Saint Lord Mo Lin sensed that a powerful cultivator on a related Dao had emerged and mobilized the Myriad Spirits Immortal Palace to hunt for them. His concern led him to form an alliance with Saint Lord Danxi and Divine Lord Qiyuan, while the three human immortal palaces sensed the shift.

• Saint Lord Mo Lin sensed a stronger warning from his Dao and suspected a rival had reached the threshold of the Dao Embryo realm.
• He awakened more hidden elders and deployed a half-immortal artifact to search the Spirit-Void Realm for powerful Earth Dao cultivators.
• Saint Lord Mo Lin considered whether the unknown rival was a revived fossil, an outsider, or someone secretly backed by an immortal palace.
• Worried that a human immortal palace might be supporting the rival, Saint Lord Mo Lin reconsidered Divine Lord Qiyuan's proposal for an alliance.
• Saint Lord Mo Lin contacted Saint Lord Danxi, who agreed to cooperate, and the Myriad Spirits Immortal Palace, Flame Phoenix Immortal Palace, and Divine Dao Founding formally allied.
• The Void-Purging, Inverted, and War-Stopping Immortal Palaces sensed the alliance, and the atmosphere grew delicate.

With most of Great Scarlet Heaven lost and Madam Chi Lian dead, Old Man Burning Sutras decided the Crimson Heaven Divine Church would abandon the realm and escape using the barely usable Crimson Sun Divine Kingdom. The church began a feigned counteroffensive while secretly evacuating its resources, leaving Divine Dao Founding wary of a desperate final attack.

• Old Man Burning Sutras told six Divine Lords that Madam Chi Lian had fallen and that Divine Dao Founding’s deities kept recovering and returning from death.
• The Divine Lords acknowledged that Divine Dao Founding’s Fifth-Tier Divine Venerable and true divine artifact made victory unlikely.
• Old Man Burning Sutras ordered the church to remove or destroy its resources, delay the enemy, and steer the Crimson Sun Divine Kingdom away from Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Old Man Burning Sutras confirmed that the Crimson Sun Divine Kingdom was not fully repaired but was usable enough for their escape.
• The Crimson Heaven Divine Church sent its followers into battle as it secretly moved important resources, prompting Divine Dao Founding to fear a desperate counterattack.

Jiang Chen traveled through the hostile starry void toward Great Scarlet Heaven as Divine Dao Founding completed a sacrifice that elevated Divine Lord Baigong to Celestial Phenomenon peak. Baigong then launched the final assault on the Crimson Heaven Divine Church.

• Jiang Chen crossed the starry void toward Great Scarlet Heaven, hoping to arrive before the conflict ended.
• Divine Lord Baigong sacrificed the remains of foreign gods to Great Divine Sovereign Qiyuan and received divine power.
• The sacrifice helped Divine Lord Baigong break through to Celestial Phenomenon peak, and a divine seed took root in him.
• After seven days, Divine Lord Baigong declared the Crimson Heaven Divine Church heretical and ordered Divine Dao Founding to attack.
• Ten thousand gods answered Baigong's command, and the assault plunged the world into battle and bloodshed.

Old Man Burning Sutras awakened the Crimson Sun Divine Kingdom as Divine Lord Baigong discovered his hiding place and descended to attack. Old Man Burning Sutras used the kingdom’s Great Dao power to suppress Baigong and prepared to unleash another strand of power.

• Old Man Burning Sutras awakened the Crimson Sun Divine Kingdom beneath the Red Mist Land, hoping to escape before Divine Dao Founding breached the region.
• Divine Lord Baigong found the hidden abyss and threatened to interrupt the kingdom’s ascent.
• Old Man Burning Sutras summoned crimson sun Great Dao power and attacked Baigong, who defended himself with the power of his divine seed.
• Old Man Burning Sutras overwhelmed Baigong with the crimson sun and Crimson Calamity Light, burning away his essence, qi, and spirit.
• Old Man Burning Sutras summoned a second strand of Great Dao power as the Great Void filled with crimson sunlight.

Jiang Chen arrived at the crimson sun divine kingdom and began trying to swallow it with the Kunpeng’s power while Divine Lord Qiyuan took control of Divine Lord Baigong’s body and fought Old Man Burning Sutras. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen observing their battle and studying Divine Lord Qiyuan’s mastery of the Great Dao.

• Divine Lord Qiyuan awakened within Divine Lord Baigong and entered the Crimson Tribulation Land, shielding himself from Old Man Burning Sutras’ attacks.
• Old Man Burning Sutras burned himself to unleash more power, but Divine Lord Qiyuan steadily weakened him.
• Jiang Chen arrived, examined the crimson sun divine kingdom, and decided to try absorbing it with the Kunpeng’s power.
• Jiang Chen began drawing the crimson sun divine kingdom into the Primordial Kunpeng, estimating that the process would take time.
• Jiang Chen sensed Divine Lord Qiyuan fighting Old Man Burning Sutras and studied their techniques to understand the Great Dao.