Chapter Summaries

The Ancient Kings ordered Su Chen's talent examined after the Bronze Church's Flame revived, while the Vast Sea Emperor sought a way to remove the mist ember contamination. After the ceremony, Su Chen worried that the examination could expose him, but his profession panel revealed the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable's evolution and a new Dispatch feature, which he used to send Eternal Body away.

• The Vast Sea Emperor learned that the Bronze Church's Flame had revived after Su Chen emerged from it, then ordered the churches to examine Su Chen for True Radiance Talent and bring the Xuantian Instrument.
• Chu Lingyuan told the Ancient Kings that Su Chen had blocked Qin Yun's attack and that Qing Cang had killed Qin Yun, shocking them; the ceremony then ended.
• The Vast Sea Emperor went to seek help from Boundless Buddha, and the Bronze Ancient King intercepted a wisp of Boundless Buddha's power before Boundless Buddha offered a way to resolve the mist ember contamination.
• Qing Cang examined Su Chen and confirmed he had Divine Radiance, not True Radiance, while Chu Lingyuan discussed the faith spirit and a replacement with him.
• Su Chen worried that a talent examination could expose his identity and considered taking on another profession for concealment.
• Su Chen's panel revealed that the Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable had evolved into the Sun-Transformed Tribulation Heaven Venerable and unlocked Dispatch; after spending three drops of divine blood, Su Chen dispatched Eternal Body.

Su Chen fused two primary professions into the Thunderbone Martial Venerable and considered using Profession Forging to strengthen his concealment. Meanwhile, Black Pagoda rejected a plan to seize the Five Great Sects’ Spirits of Radiant Moon, then learned that the Bronze Church had seized another shipment of divine goods and decided to arrange the next move personally.

• Su Chen sent out the World-Slaughter Aspect and Shadowflash Form, then used the Heavenly Venerable to fuse the Flamebone General and Storm Warrior into the Thunderbone Martial Venerable.
• Su Chen considered strengthening Shadowflash Form with Profession Forging so it could fool the Xuantian Instrument, but he lacked Strange God source power.
• Black Pagoda refused to join Crimson, Faceless Ghost, and Cunning Fox in targeting the Five Great Sects’ Spirits of Radiant Moon, warning that the sects might destroy their own Spirits rather than let them be taken.
• He Peiting resolved to abduct Su Chen once the divine goods arrived, believing he could act quickly while Chu Lingyuan was away.
• Black Pagoda learned from the High Priest that the Bronze Church had seized the latest shipment of divine goods and ordered the believers to kill themselves.
• Black Pagoda decided to go personally to arrange the next shipment after suspecting the High Priest’s contact had been used as bait.

Su Chen created and took up the Emberless Flame profession, gaining powerful body-enhancing abilities. Shadowflash Form returned with secret intelligence revealing that Boundless Buddha was deceiving the Prison-Suppressing King with a ritual that would expose the Dust Star Sea’s coordinates.

• Su Chen followed Luo Shuhang and Little Zhang’s instructions to fuse several flames, completing the Emberless Flame and its requirements.
• Su Chen took up Emberless Flame, gaining Flame Martial Body and an emberless flame nourished by his flesh and blood.
• Su Chen discovered that Shadowflash Form had returned with secret intelligence and spent seven drops of divine blood to retrieve it.
• Su Chen witnessed Boundless Buddha contact the Prison-Suppressing King and offer a way to purify the mist ember contaminating the Spirit of Radiant Moon.
• Shadowflash Form revealed that Boundless Buddha’s proposed ritual would summon the World-Saving Dharma Wheel and expose the Dust Star Sea’s precise coordinates.

Su Chen learned that the Boundless Buddha was secretly seeking Dust Star Sea coordinates to summon the World-Crossing Dharma Wheel, while he planned how to recover the Remnant Spirit’s lost origin and conserve his dwindling resources. In the Flamefire Space, the Ancient Kings reached a cautious agreement with the Vast Sea Emperor, as the Boundless Buddha’s weakened plan and the danger posed by Kongming remained unresolved.

• Su Chen questioned the Remnant Spirit about the World-Crossing Dharma Wheel and learned it could teleport through Nether Mist, while a living Bright Sun could break through the Flame.
• The Remnant Spirit explained how Su Chen could retrieve his lost origin by asking the Ancient Kings for Bright Sun remnant flame, and warned that his captor had grown much stronger.
• Su Chen dispatched Emberless Flame, conserved his remaining divine blood, and learned that Black Pagoda had ordered Old Bu to stop further purges and focus on watching him.
• The Vast Sea Emperor and Bronze Ancient King agreed to work together to address the mist ember contaminating the Spirit of Radiant Moon, while the Ancient Kings worried about the Boundless Buddha and Kongming.
• The Boundless Buddha told Kongming that most of his power had been intercepted, leaving too little to summon the World-Crossing Dharma Wheel, but refused to report the unknown seventh-tier True Radiance Talent to the World Honored One.

Su Chen received the Strange God-related goods Bu Siqi had stolen and used the Profession-Forging Furnace to strengthen Shadowflash Form. After learning that the Xuantian Instrument was traveling toward the Bronze Church with only two Ninth Rank escorts, Su Chen began planning an ambush and considered how to avoid being blamed.

• Bu Siqi returned with three boxes of stolen goods, then left after meeting Jiang Mufeng at the Floating Island port.
• Jiang Mufeng told Su Chen that He Peiting had left the church on a tempering mission and was heading toward Taiyue Hub, where Su Chen inferred Old Black planned to collect goods.
• Su Chen opened the boxes and found Divine Blood, Faith Spirits, and four portions of Black Pagoda Origin Power.
• Su Chen spent three portions of Origin Power to strengthen Shadowflash Form, gaining Banbreaker, which made confinement abilities difficult even for Morning Star to use against him.
• Su Chen learned that the Xuantian Instrument was escorted by Lu Huai and Ni Chuan, without a Morning Star, and began considering an attack and a way to avoid suspicion.
• Jiang Mufeng told Su Chen that the garrison at Taiyue Hub would be notified when a Bronze Church member entered, and Su Chen saw an opportunity to time his plan.

Su Chen advanced to Eighth Rank and prepared to tamper with the Xuantian Instrument while the Church leaders gathered to verify his talent. With Lu Huai and Ni Chuan nearing the Bronze Church, Su Chen disguised himself as Bu Siqi and headed for the starport.

• Su Chen obtained the Thunderbone Martial Venerable profession, whose ability strengthened his body up to fivefold during continuous combat.
• Chu Lingyuan, Qing Cang, Prison-Suppressing King, and the other Morning Stars agreed to wait for the Xuantian Instrument before meeting Su Chen to verify his talent.
• Su Chen reviewed the requirements for advancing to Morning Star and planned to install a backdoor in the Xuantian Instrument rather than destroy it.
• After Qing Cang approved his request, Su Chen received materials for upgrading his Mystic Artifacts, including a massive Molten-Core Fission Maul.
• Su Chen knocked out Bu Siqi, extracted his shadow filament, placed him in a rest pod, and altered his appearance to match Bu Siqi's.
• Su Chen boarded his aircraft and set off for the Bronze Church's starport as Lu Huai and Ni Chuan drew closer.

Su Chen traveled to the Taiyue Hub under Bu Siqi’s identity while his plan led to He Peiting being detained at the Bronze Church station. Elsewhere, the Seven-Profession Wonder Tree seed vanished from Kongming’s hand, and Su Chen discovered that World-Slaughter Aspect and Shadowflash Form had obtained something requiring three hundred drops of Divine Blood to extract.

• Su Chen boarded the Silver Moon spacecraft, extracted a wisp of Ten-Thousand-Year Thunder Arc from Eternal Body, and resumed upgrading his Mystic Artifacts during the journey.
• He Peiting was diverted to the Bronze Church station, where Peng Hui assigned him a guidance mission to await two important arrivals.
• Taixuan Tianyi admitted that he had already challenged Taixuan Hong, prompting Boundless Buddha to reconsider how to deal with him.
• Kongming brought out a Seven-Profession Wonder Tree seed and watered it with dazzling blood, but the seed abruptly vanished from his hand.
• At the Taiyue Hub, Su Chen saw that World-Slaughter Aspect and Shadowflash Form had returned with an item whose extraction required three hundred drops of Divine Blood.

Su Chen arranged for Lu Huai to use the Xuantian Instrument to raise He Peiting’s talent, but the attempt was interrupted when Su Chen attacked the reception quarters as a Strange God worshipper. His assault on Ni Chuan and Lu Huai unleashed a massive blast across the Taiyue Hub.

• Su Chen considered the enormous Divine Blood cost of extracting a new ability and resolved to obtain the Strange God objects held by Black Pagoda.
• Lu Huai and Ni Chuan arrived at the Taiyue Hub and agreed to stop there so Lu Huai could use the Xuantian Instrument to help He Peiting.
• Lu Huai learned that Su Chen had asked Qing Cang to arrange the talent enhancement for He Peiting, and he summoned the youth to the Xuantian Instrument.
• Black Pagoda, disguised as He Peiting, hesitated over entering the instrument but pretended to cry and praised Su Chen as his granduncle.
• A security officer accused the reception quarters of harboring a Strange God worshipper, then the door exploded as Su Chen attacked Ni Chuan and Lu Huai with his full power.
• The collision sent enormous dark-red shock waves across the Taiyue Hub, triggering alarms and emergency countermeasures.

Su Chen stole and secretly altered the Xuantian Instrument while disguised as a Crimson Believer, then exposed and killed Black Pagoda’s descent body before escaping Taiyue Hub. Back aboard the Silver Moon, he considered the incident safely concealed and wondered what the Origin Marrow was.

• Su Chen used the battle’s chaos to steal the Xuantian Instrument and let the Flawless One absorb some of its hidden Origin Marrow while preserving enough for Lu Huai not to notice.
• Su Chen revealed that he had come for He Peiting, identified him as Black Pagoda’s descent body, and killed him before Black Pagoda could bring out his stored power.
• Black Pagoda’s spirit returned to the Nether Domain, while Ni Chuan tried to capture Su Chen and failed when he escaped using Shadowflash Form.
• Lu Huai recovered the Xuantian Instrument, and Ni Chuan ordered Peng Hui to report the incident before they headed to the Bronze Church.
• Su Chen returned to the Silver Moon unnoticed, reviewed how the witnesses would interpret the incident, and wondered about the Origin Marrow.

Su Chen examined his new strength, learned that the Boundless Buddha had lost the Seven-Profession Wonder Tree, and used his cheat to clear the requirements for the Endless Titan Profession. Meanwhile, the Bronze Church learned that a Crimson Believer had killed He Peiting at the Taiyue Hub and escaped despite Ni Chuan’s intervention.

• Su Chen counted the Divine Blood, Faith Spirit, and source power he had obtained, then left his ship for a security screening.
• The Boundless Buddha accused the Spirit of the Bright Sun of taking the Seven-Profession Wonder Tree, but withdrew after reconsidering and failed to persuade the Ancient Kings to help him confront Taixuan Hong.
• Su Chen fused his passive Holy Profession into Endless Titan, used a violent thunderbolt to erase its requirements, and decided to wait until he returned to the church before taking it up.
• Qing Cang and Chu Lingyuan learned from Peng Hui that a Crimson Believer had killed He Peiting, Black Pagoda’s descended body, at the Taiyue Hub.
• Peng Hui reported that Ni Chuan had blocked an attack but the Crimson Believer escaped, apparently stronger and faster than Ni Chuan.

Su Chen took up the Endless Titan Profession and demonstrated Divine Radiance talent to visiting church leaders, while Strange God attacks raised alarm across the churches. He sought a way to obtain more Divine Blood by offering to purify the Royal Court’s Mist Ember.

• Qing Cang and Chu Lingyuan discussed He Peiting’s failed scheme, while Wu Feng confronted Zhou Yunyang about his student being Black Pagoda’s descended incarnation.
• Su Chen awakened Bu Siqi, took up Endless Titan, gained Titan’s Heart and Fury Feedback, and began training with forbidden-canon methods.
• Ni Chuan and Lu Huai arrived with the Xuantian Instrument, which confirmed Su Chen’s Divine Radiance talent in front of the church leaders.
• The leaders learned that Strange Gods had attacked the True Martial Church, but Wu Yue said its moon radiance essence had already been moved.
• Su Chen asked Qing Cang for Divine Blood and proposed offering to purify the Royal Court’s Mist Ember in exchange.

Su Chen persuaded Qing Cang to negotiate with the Royal Court over purifying its Spirit of Radiant Moon, while concealing why he needed so much Divine Blood. The two sides provisionally agreed on compensation and to bring the Spirit of Radiant Moon and Galaxy Throne to the Bronze Church for purification.

• Qing Cang scanned Su Chen with the Bronze Ancient King's shadow, discovered he had advanced to Eighth Rank, and questioned his need for Divine Blood.
• Su Chen convinced Qing Cang that the Bronze Church should negotiate with the Royal Court before its Spirit of Radiant Moon became nourishment for a Strange God.
• Qing Cang and Su Chen met with the Prison-Suppressing King and Ni Chuan to negotiate, and Qing Cang demanded compensation for the church's losses and Ku Baiye's death.
• The Prison-Suppressing King provisionally agreed to provide three hundred and fifty drops of Divine Blood, one hundred and fifty Faith Spirits, and high-level Strange God's Power.
• Qing Cang refused to let Su Chen travel to the Royal Court, and Chu Lingyuan agreed that the Royal Court could bring its Spirit of Radiant Moon and Galaxy Throne to the Bronze Church for purification.

Su Chen negotiated for Divine Blood, entered the Flamefire Space early, and used faith spirits to trade with the Spirit of the Bright Sun for damaged Morning Star Artifacts and information about Boundless Buddha. After viewing Boundless Buddha’s arrival and a furious demand to “hand it over,” Su Chen suspected the Buddha had lost something important.

• Su Chen asked Qing Cang to lend him a hundred drops of Divine Blood, and Qing Cang agreed to allocate them first.
• Su Chen entered the Flamefire Space early and told the Ancient Kings that Boundless Buddha was searching for the Outer Domain, offering to deduce where his escaped strand of power had gone.
• Su Chen traded faith spirits to the Spirit of the Bright Sun and obtained three damaged Morning Star Artifacts, while learning it had no more to give.
• Su Chen paid additional faith spirits for the Spirit of the Bright Sun to show him scenes of Boundless Buddha’s arrival and actions in the Flamefire Space.
• Su Chen watched Boundless Buddha confront the Spirit of the Bright Sun and repeatedly demand that it hand something over, then wondered whether Boundless Buddha had lost it.

Su Chen learned more about Boundless Buddha’s lost object and received a Taixuan sacrificial method that could let him contact Taixuan Tianyi, then entered a sixth-floor Bright Sun Trial to test a powerful Taixuan opponent. He struggled against the opponent’s combined Holy Profession manifestations and relentless spear, and prepared to use Limit Release.

• Su Chen compared the intelligence about Boundless Buddha with the item Shadowflash Form had uncovered, then gave the Spirit of the Bright Sun fifteen portions of Faith Spirit and received the Morning Star Artifact’s weapon.
• The Spirit of the Bright Sun asked Su Chen to save Taixuan Tianyi and gave him a Taixuan clan sacrificial method for secret communication; Su Chen realized he could use Taixuan Tianyi’s blood to perform it.
• Su Chen assessed Kongming as a dangerous opponent, kept Taixuan Tianyi’s blood for a future attempt, and discovered that nearly all sixth-floor palaces remained available to challenge.
• Su Chen entered the sixth-floor Bright Sun Trial and faced a purple-robed opponent whose Holy Professions combined into a fiery mountain, giant, dragon, armor, axe, and spear.
• Su Chen endured the opponent’s attacks, shattered its fire giant, and recognized that its increasingly fast spear and descending volcano made victory difficult without Heavenly Marks.
• Su Chen decided to use Limit Release rather than spend metal materials charging his Heavenly Marks against the trial opponent.

Su Chen cleared the Bright Sun Trial, learned that its opponent had used a Refinement Method, and gained valuable rewards that reduced the requirements for his Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable Profession. As Boundless Buddha became wary of Su Chen and tried to leave the Tower of Spirituality, he unleashed his full power and rushed toward the exit.

• Su Chen used Limit Release to destroy the volcanic trial opponent, obtained a Purple Extremity Flame, and learned from the Remnant Spirit how Refinement Methods strengthened Holy Professions.
• Aboard a warship in the Nether Domain, a sallow-faced old man and a burly middle-aged man discussed a statue sensing a recognized candidate and searched for the Fallen Land.
• Su Chen returned from four trials with perfect-grade strange god origin power, a Primordial Breath Potion, and Great Heaven Pills; the origin power reduced several requirements for his Crimson Flame Thunder Venerable Profession.
• Boundless Buddha noticed that Su Chen had cleared a Bright Sun Trial and tried to send Kongming to challenge him, but the Ancient Kings intervened and stopped the attempt.
• Boundless Buddha resolved to escape the Tower of Spirituality, manifested his Refinement Method, and charged toward the exit as the Spirit of the Bright Sun and the Ancient Kings watched.

Boundless Buddha forced his way out of Flamefire Space, prompting the Ancient Kings to ask Su Chen for help locating him and reaching Dust Star Sea. Su Chen obtained the Remnant Spirit origin and learned from Taixuan Tianyi that Dust Star Sea’s eight Moon Radiances had escaped during the Mistfall Calamity, which drove the Saint Monarch mad.

• Boundless Buddha escaped Flamefire Space, and the Ancient Kings feared he would reach Dust Star Sea while they were trapped.
• Su Chen agreed to explain how to leave Flamefire Space and accepted the Remnant Spirit origin and the Ancient Kings’ blood.
• Su Chen deduced that Boundless Buddha’s escaped power was with Pei Jun, Vast Sea Emperor’s subordinate, and warned the Ancient Kings that Boundless Buddha might deceive him.
• Su Chen used Taixuan Tianyi’s blood in a sacrificial ritual to contact him after Boundless Buddha left.
• Taixuan Tianyi told Su Chen that the eight Moon Radiances of Dust Star Sea had escaped during the Mistfall Calamity, which had targeted the Saint Monarch and caused him to go mad and die.

Su Chen learned why Boundless Buddha was escaping and warned the Ancient Kings that the Dust Star Sea’s past could bring trouble from the Abyssless Domain. After the Ancient Kings delivered sixty portions of faith spirit, Su Chen had everything he needed for his next step.

• Taixuan Tianyi told Su Chen that Boundless Buddha sought the Spirit of Radiant Moon, had lost the Seven-Profession Wonder Tree, and feared Su Chen might become the Chosen One.
• Su Chen’s Flawless One talent strengthened his Flawless Heart and began searching for a way to repair the backlash from Limit Release.
• Boundless Buddha broke free of the Bright Sun flame and headed toward the Dust Star Sea.
• The Vast Sea Emperor learned that Boundless Buddha had contacted the Prison-Suppressing King, ordered the hostile visitor erased, and warned the factions to prepare for an incoming Radiant Moon expert.
• Su Chen explained to the Ancient Kings the Dust Star Sea’s connection to the Abyssless Domain and its former Moon Radiance experts.
• The Xuantian Ancient King delivered sixty portions of faith spirit, and Su Chen declared that everything was ready.

Su Chen began the Remnant Spirit’s risky deduction ritual, offering divine blood and contaminating faith spirits to draw out its essence. Elsewhere, the Great Strange Gods fled as a Final Ruins warship approached the Bright Sun, while the Ancient Kings debated whether to abandon the Dust Star Sea.

• Su Chen refused to release the Remnant Spirit, so it explained an alternative deduction method involving contaminated faith spirits, a sacrifice, and distracting the Spirit of the Bright Sun.
• Su Chen contaminated nearly a hundred faith spirits, sacrificed five drops of divine blood to a long-fallen Final Ruins, and began a ritual that started revealing scenes of the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord’s flame.
• The Faceless Ghost, Crimson, and other Great Strange Gods sensed a Final Ruins warship approaching and fled the Nether Domain.
• The old man aboard the Nuo Ship sent a statue of the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord into the Bright Sun’s flames to investigate.
• The Ancient Kings discussed using the Galaxy Throne to escape and debated whether to remain in the Dust Star Sea or leave in light of the Abyssless Domain and the mistfall calamity.

Weird King Huang Pan arrived in the Flamefire Space, prompting Kongming to report the discovery to the World Honored One while Su Chen’s deduction reached its first mysterious symbol. Su Chen challenged Kongming, and as their duel began, the Spirit of the Bright Sun reacted with unusual agitation.

• A statue of the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord emerged from a vortex, and Huang Pan stepped out of it before giving the statue to the Spirit of the Bright Sun.
• The Ancient Kings recognized Huang Pan as a member of Great Heaven, while Kongming identified him as one of its five Weird Kings and used a Glazed Sarira to report the discovery to the World Honored One.
• Taixuan Tianyi recognized the Saint Monarch’s statue and feared Great Heaven and the Buddha Land would prevent Taixuan Hong from becoming the Chosen One.
• Su Chen saw the first mysterious symbol appear in his deduction and challenged Kongming to draw the Spirit of the Bright Sun’s attention.
• Kongming accepted Su Chen’s challenge, and Huang Pan introduced himself to the Ancient Kings as a representative of Great Heaven.
• The Spirit of the Bright Sun began watching Kongming and Su Chen’s duel, its body writhing as purple flames surged around it.

Su Chen, posing as Taixuan Hong, fought Kongming inside the Cultivation Residence while delaying him as the Spirit of the Bright Sun continued its extrapolation. After neither Kongming’s attacks nor Su Chen’s counterattacks secured victory, Kongming began revealing a more powerful form.

• Su Chen told Kongming he had come to rescue Taixuan Tianyi, and Kongming offered to let him join the Buddha Land instead.
• Kongming pursued Su Chen with his speed holy profession, but Su Chen repeatedly evaded him while the outside observers watched in surprise.
• Kongming used the Fierce Golden Lion and the Thousand-Handed Buddha, but Su Chen resisted the mental attack and blocked the massive assault.
• Su Chen and Kongming fought head-on, trading blows until their battle reached a stalemate.
• Kongming declared that he could not lose and transformed, his body shining like a Buddhist sun as his aura surged skyward.