Chapter Summaries

The Stupa Pagoda fused with the Abyss Pillar during its reconstruction, forcing the Bright Suns to negotiate with its Administrator over oversight and authority. With the Abyssless core rebuilt, the group turned to plans for developing the domain and addressing the Mystic Pivot and Final Ruins.

• The Stupa Pagoda emerged during the clash between Dao Lord and the World Honored One, fused with the Abyss Pillar, and helped stabilize it.
• Great Heaven accused Dao Lord and the World Honored One of conspiring to stage the Stupa Pagoda’s arrival, but Longevity Old Man cautioned against drawing conclusions.
• The Administrator rejected the World Honored One’s attempt to exclude Five Pillars members from its trials and proposed cooperation that included access to the Void Cycle and high-level authority.
• The Bright Suns agreed that the Stupa Pagoda could judge everyone, chose Chang Gexiao and Yan Xing as ambassadors, and accepted that the existing ambassadors did not count against their quotas.
• Longevity Old Man proposed developing the rebuilt core and transforming Abyssless, while the Mech Sovereign raised the need to address the Mystic Pivot and the newly unrestricted Final Ruins.

Su Chen learned more about the Mystic Pivot and returned to Soaring Heavens as the Five Pillars announced plans for the reforged Abyssless Domain and the Stupa Pagoda. After using the Stupa Pagoda’s new Void Cycle access and Formless Heaven Gate, he entered the Mystic Pivot, where he expected to operate without the Bright Suns nearby.

• The Dao Lord told Su Chen that the Mystic Pivot held repeating fragments of the past, while Old Gou of Final Ruins realized the Abyss Pillar had lifted their shackles and began plotting to incarnate agents.
• Su Chen visited Qin Guanyu’s mourning site, met Qin Xiaojing, and offered his condolences before returning to his palace.
• The Five Pillars announced thirteen star routes and the Stupa Pagoda’s Reward and Punishment system, prompting debate across the Abyssless Domain.
• The Stupa Pagoda administrator revealed that it had gained Five Pillars-level access to the Void Cycle, and Su Chen ordered it to monitor his aliases and place more agents in the Bronze Church and Buddha Land.
• Su Chen used the Formless Heaven Gate to enter the Mystic Pivot and concluded that the absence of Bright Suns made it his comfort zone.

Su Chen obtained the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord’s Aura-Hiding Flame, then entered the Mystic Pivot and discovered that its stele had automatically ranked Jiang Yang ninety-sixth for possessing seven Morning Flames. He arranged for Zhang Feng to alter his records, and ended the chapter examining the stele’s challenge rules.

• The Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord concealed Su Chen’s Chosen One aura and gave him an Aura-Hiding Flame that he could ignite or extinguish at will.
• Su Chen entered the Mystic Pivot, where the Mystic Pivot Stele appeared and automatically placed Jiang Yang at rank ninety-six based on his seven Morning Flames.
• Su Chen asked Zhang Feng to remove references to his special-exception arrival from his internal records and paid him to handle the change discreetly.
• Zhang Feng discovered Jiang Yang’s ranking and seven Morning Flames, then hurried to carry out Su Chen’s request.
• After Zhang Feng confirmed the records had been altered, Su Chen reviewed the stele’s challenge rules and considered whom he might challenge.

Su Chen defeated Si Shuo in Mystic Pivot and discovered that Faith Spirits could redeem physical spoils from its fallen challengers. While the Five Pillars sent candidates to compete for the Supreme Sovereign title, Su Chen stayed behind, gathered Faith Spirits, and prepared to return to the Stupa Pagoda to confront Bearded Man.

• Su Chen challenged Si Shuo, overwhelmed his Buddhist techniques, and received a Seven-Trace Buddha Relic by spending one thousand Faith Spirits.
• Su Chen reasoned that Faith Spirits could materialize physical rewards from the Ruins Origin Realm, then returned to Soaring Heavens and learned that Ni Zhan had noticed his summons.
• The Dao Lord led candidates from the Five Pillars to Pivot Star and announced that whoever stirred the Supreme Sovereign's incomplete spirit would become Supreme Sovereign and the next Dao Lord.
• The Five Pillars' candidates entered Mystic Pivot while the Dao Lord and other Pillar Lords stayed behind to watch over the Final Ruins.
• Qing Cang delivered Su Chen twenty thousand Faith Spirits, which he combined with his remaining supply before contacting the Stupa Pagoda.
• Su Chen entered the Formless Heaven Gate, intending to confront Bearded Man and avenge the earlier slap.

Su Chen tried to challenge higher-ranked cultivators at Mystic Pivot while a large group from the Six Divine Bloodlines arrived to seek the Supreme Sovereign’s residual spirit. Their newcomers’ probing ended with Fu Yi being punished by Mystic Pivot’s statutes, as Su Chen observed that they were treating the place like an ordinary Ruin Realm.

• Su Chen asked Changge Jing to fight, but Changge Jing declined, so Su Chen challenged a Buddha Land cultivator ranked eighty-fifth and was accepted.
• More than forty members of the Five Pillars arrived at Mystic Pivot, where Ming Xiao explained that the Supreme Sovereign’s incomplete spirit had surpassed Bright Sun and Xu Yingshen said Su Chen had been barred from coming.
• Zhong Yue suggested Su Chen might still be able to earn the residual spirit’s favor, and Xu Yingshen blamed the World Honored One and the other Bright Suns for refusing him entry.
• Zhang Feng approached the newcomers, but one of them tested his strength and Fu Yi angrily demanded a proper answer from him.
• Fu Yi tried to attack Zhang Feng, triggering Mystic Pivot’s crimson chains and a six-month confinement sentence.
• Su Chen watched the incident and concluded that the newcomers were treating Mystic Pivot like an ordinary Ruin Realm.

Taixuan Ji attacked Xu Yingshen for his connection to Nether Domain power and killed him after Xu insulted the Taixuan Family. As the newcomers explored the Mystic Pivot Stele, they discovered that Jiang Yang, an unknown Soaring Heavens figure, had risen to twentieth place despite being only 120 years old and having tempered seven Morning Flames, leaving Su Chen and the others astonished.

• Taixuan Ji arrived to investigate the disturbance, then seized Xu Yingshen with Violet Extremity Flame after noticing his connection to Nether Domain power.
• Xu Yingshen insulted the supposedly destroyed Taixuan Family, and Taixuan Ji incinerated him before disappearing.
• Zhang Feng introduced himself as the Mystic Pivot steward and explained why the Stupa Pagoda had not intervened against Taixuan Ji.
• The newcomers examined the Mystic Pivot Stele and excitedly recognized figures they considered ancestors from the Five Pillars.
• The group noticed Jiang Yang ranked twentieth, and Zhang Feng was shocked to see that the 120-year-old had tempered seven Morning Flames.
• Tong Zhuo and the others resolved to investigate Jiang Yang, while Su Chen reacted strangely to the claim that he was Soaring Heavens' ancestor.

Su Chen considered the strange reputation of Buddha Land and continued climbing the Mystic Pivot rankings while building ties with Zhang Feng. When Changge Jing finally accepted his challenge, Su Chen entered the Starfield Battlefield to face the Longevity Divine Lineage fighter and his Longevity Root.

• Zhang Feng returned a thousand Faith Spirit to Su Chen, who refused them and secured Zhang Feng's promise to keep his identity secret.
• Su Chen wondered whether Buddha Land had once been more upright after Zhang Feng said its people seemed to have grown cunning.
• Ni Zhan realized defeating people in Mystic Pivot could yield valuable treasures, while Ming Xiao considered targeting Longevity Root and Violet Extremity Flame.
• The newcomers from the Five Pillars explored Mystic Pivot, and Tong Zhuo repeatedly tried to visit Su Chen, who kept rejecting him.
• Changge Jing accepted Su Chen's challenge after suspecting Su Chen had deliberately targeted him, and he summoned his towering Longevity Root tree in the Starfield Battlefield.

Su Chen defeated Changge Jing, obtained the Longevity Root, and the Saint Monarch forged him a new Holy Profession that let him control it. He discovered the fusion had freed a branch on the Mystic Tree, allowing him to prepare another Holy Profession.

• Su Chen fought Changge Jing, escalated his enhancements, and shattered the Azure Wood Divine Armor before Mystic Pivot rescued Changge Jing from a fatal blow.
• Su Chen tried to use the blood he had taken from Changge Jing, but the Flawless One reported that it was an empty shell with no useful information.
• Tong Zhuo and Zhong Yue saw Su Chen rise to rank twenty-four after defeating Changge Jing, and Tong Zhuo became determined to learn his secrets.
• Su Chen spent twenty thousand Faith Spirit to materialize the Longevity Root, but it drained his strength until Violet Extremity Flame stopped it.
• The Saint Monarch fused Greenwood Wanderer and Eternal Body with branches of the Longevity Root, creating the Holy Profession Immortal and restoring Su Chen’s strength.
• Su Chen realized Immortal had freed a Mystic Tree branch and decided he could begin preparing another Holy Profession.

Su Chen chose and forged the top-grade Holy Profession Mortal Realm Eye, then took it on after retrieving the materials it required. His past-life experiences unexpectedly transformed its slow-growing Mortal Realm Chart into the vastly stronger Mortal Realm Painting, and he began tempering the profession’s traits.

• Su Chen decided he needed an eye-technique profession and selected Mortal Realm Eye, spending one hundred Faith Spirit to obtain the eight professions required to forge it.
• After realizing he lacked the Perfect-Grade Strange God Origin Power and Grand Vow Crystal needed to complete the profession, Su Chen left to retrieve them from the Law Bureau.
• Ming Xiao visited Si Zhou and presented a swastika symbol as an edict from the World Honored One, which Si Zhou accepted and agreed to obey.
• Su Chen returned to the Mystic Pivot and successfully took on Mortal Realm Eye, but his eyes suddenly began bleeding as its abilities evolved.
• The panel revealed that Su Chen’s past experiences had overwhelmed the Mortal Realm Eye’s understanding, transforming Mortal Realm Chart into Mortal Realm Painting and granting him immense vision and power.
• Su Chen concluded that his transmigration had filled the profession’s accumulation progress and used Morning Star Embers to temper Mortal Realm Eye’s traits.

Su Chen learned that someone had killed Taixuan Muchen to obtain his Violet Extremity Flame, then discovered the World Honored One was secretly sending Ming Xiao after the Longevity Root and Violet Extremity Flame. After World-Slaughter Aspect gained the Godslayer trait, Su Chen defeated the bearded man in their Absolute Domain Trial and stopped him before he left.

• Zhang Feng warned Su Chen that Taixuan Muchen had been killed, prompting Su Chen to suspect that someone was secretly targeting Violet Extremity Flame and the Longevity Root.
• Su Chen used dispatched intelligence to witness the World Honored One order incarnated Ming Xiao to seize the treasures and give him Faith Spirit, while learning Ming Xiao might have his own plans.
• Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord bestowed Might-Igniting Flame on World-Slaughter Aspect, evolving Ascension Metamorphosis into Godslayer and raising the Heavenly Marks limit.
• Su Chen met the bearded man for their Absolute Domain Trial, revealed that he had tempered seven strands of Morning Flame, and used the Longevity Root to withstand the bearded man's attacks.
• Su Chen struck back and defeated the bearded man, who conceded and said he would wait at the end of the Absolute Domain Trial; Su Chen called out to him before he left.

Su Chen questioned the Co-Lord about the Co-Lord’s residual spirituality and received a token that could restrain the Stupa Pagoda, then passed the trial and collected its rewards. Outside the Ruins Origin Realm, Old Gou arrived with a young disciple who had an Origin-Returning Talent, prompting the Pillar Lords to suspect he wanted access to the residual spirituality.

• Su Chen asked the bearded Co-Lord how residual spirituality might be passed down, and the Co-Lord said it needed a path to complete itself rather than a chosen person.
• Su Chen reported a secret murder in Mystic Pivot and received the Co-Lord’s Token, which could restrain the Stupa Pagoda once.
• Su Chen passed the trial, gained three years of permitted existence, and received ten strands of Source Fire and five portions of Buddhaheart Liquid; the Saint Monarch traded the Source Fire for a Body-Tempering Flame.
• The Mech Sovereign entered the Ruins Origin Realm to replace World Honored One, who joined Dao Lord and Great Heaven outside it.
• Old Gou appeared before the Pillar Lords with a young disciple whose Origin-Returning Talent astonished Dao Lord, and World Honored One accused Old Gou of seeking the Co-Lord’s residual spirituality.

Old Gou secured permission to send a person with an Origin-Returning Talent into the Ruins Origin Realm, while Su Chen prepared to challenge Ming Xiao and met with Tong Zhuo and Zhong Yue. The chapter ended when Zhu Jue arrived and his twelve strands of Morning Flame placed him above Dao Lord on the Mystic Pivot Stele.

• Old Gou threatened the World Honored One and Dao Lord with the consequences of a fight, and Dao Lord agreed to let Old Gou's companion enter the Origin Realm.
• Su Chen tempered his eighth strand of Morning Flame and planned to gather Heavenly Marks before moving against Ming Xiao.
• Su Chen received Tong Zhuo and Zhong Yue, who sought his guidance, and agreed to let them visit again.
• Tong Zhuo learned that a newcomer with an Origin-Returning Talent had arrived, and Su Chen saw Zhu Jue rise to eighth place on the Mystic Pivot Stele with twelve tempered strands of Morning Flame.

Su Chen investigated Zhu Jue’s mysterious arrival and learned that he was a living Origin-Returning from the Abyssless Era. Meanwhile, Ming Xiao targeted Jiang Yang for his strength and possible treasure, while Si Zhou struggled to obey the World Honored One’s edict.

• Tong Zhuo and Zhong Yue speculated that Su Chen held extraordinary secrets and discussed finding another way to obtain them.
• Ming Xiao considered challenging Changge Jing for the Longevity Root, then focused on Jiang Yang after learning that Jiang Yang had defeated Si Kui with one punch.
• Ming Xiao decided to act against Jiang Yang despite Si Zhou warning him that Mystic Pivot was already investigating Taixuan Muchen’s death.
• Su Chen asked Zhang Feng about Zhu Jue, and Zhang Feng admitted he knew nothing of Zhu Jue’s origins but recalled that he had spoken strangely upon seeing the Mystic Pivot Stele.
• Su Chen concluded that Zhu Jue was a living Origin-Returning from the Abyssless Era.

Su Chen received ninety-one Morning Star Artifacts from Qing Cang and transformed them into Heavenly Marks, bringing his total to one hundred. As he tested their immense augmentation, activating fifty destroyed his hall, but the Longevity Root replenished his depleted vitality.

• Zhu Jue arrived at the Floating Island, dismissed the efforts to draw out an incomplete spirit, and addressed the deeper presence as Kind Father.
• Qing Cang gave Su Chen ninety-one Morning Star Artifacts and reported that Buddha Land and the Machine Domain were suppressing the Bronze Church while Strange God incidents spread through Abyssless.
• Su Chen absorbed the spirits of all ninety-one artifacts over more than twenty days and raised his Heavenly Marks to one hundred.
• Su Chen tested increasing numbers of Heavenly Marks, discovered that Morning Flame could no longer augment his power, and activated fifty marks.
• The resulting blood-and-vitality surge demolished Su Chen's hall and drew the attention of Tang Huai and other powerful figures, while the Longevity Root replenished Su Chen's vitality.

After a destructive accident in Soaring Heavens, Su Chen moved to a new residence and learned that Longevity Old Man and the Mech Sovereign were trying to use the Abyss Pillar to spy on Mystic Pivot. Back on his Floating Island, he grew wary of Ming Xiao’s interest in him and sensed something unexpected while examining the Mystic Pivot Stele.

• Su Chen dismissed Qi You’s questions about the damaged hall, accepted a replacement residence, and discussed Soaring Heavens’ opposition to the Bronze Church’s role on Pivot Star.
• The administrator showed Su Chen Longevity Old Man and the Mech Sovereign investigating the Abyss Pillar, and Su Chen suspected Zhu Jue was connected to the Final Ruins because he had not entered the Origin Realm through it.
• Su Chen returned to Mystic Pivot and discovered that Ming Xiao had visited his sealed Floating Island, making him reconsider his plan to ambush Ming Xiao because of the World Honored One’s Edict.
• Su Chen declined Shang Jiuxiao’s challenge on the Mystic Pivot Stele and then abruptly looked into the distance as golden radiance filled his eyes.

Su Chen found Changge Jing's corpse and watched the gathered factions argue over who had killed him. As suspicion spread, Su Chen abruptly attacked Ming Xiao, who realized he had been targeted but barely had time to react.

• Su Chen arrived at Changge Jing's corpse and used his Mortal Realm Eye to inspect the scene, noticing Zhu Jue among the crowd.
• Changge Wudi and Taixuan Ji questioned the witnesses as Changge Ming accused the Soaring Heavens, Great Heaven, and Buddha Land lineages of being suspects.
• Si Zhou and Ming Xiao arrived from Buddha Land, while Ming Xiao privately considered his next target and searched the crowd for Jiang Yang.
• Ming Xiao spotted Jiang Yang watching him, and Su Chen suddenly launched an attack from less than a hundred meters away.
• Ming Xiao recognized Su Chen as his attacker and instinctively erupted with Buddha light.

Su Chen exposed Ming Xiao as the assassin of Changge Jing and Taixuan Muchen, killed him, and uncovered his Nether Domain corruption. The World Honored One’s power emerged from Ming Xiao’s severed arm, but the Co-Lord’s Token summoned Mystic Pivot’s Supreme Sovereign, who sealed the Buddha projection.

• Su Chen ambushed Ming Xiao, severed his left arm to seize the Golden Light Bag, and defeated Si Zhou when he attacked.
• Su Chen accused Ming Xiao of assassinating Changge Jing and Taixuan Muchen, and used the Co-Lord’s Token to stop the crimson chains from attacking him.
• Su Chen killed Ming Xiao when he denied the accusations, and black mist identified him as a corrupted being from the Nether Domain.
• Si Zhou admitted that Ming Xiao had deceived him and that he had been an accomplice in the assassinations.
• The World Honored One’s projection emerged from Ming Xiao’s severed arm, but the Co-Lord’s Token summoned a Supreme Sovereign who sealed the projection away.

Su Chen followed the Supreme Sovereign phantom after it sealed the World Honored One’s Edict and investigated the deaths of Changge Jing and Taixuan Muchen. In the Pivot palace, the phantom revealed that it knew Su Chen’s identities and warned him not to seek the Supreme Sovereign’s residual spirituality, but Su Chen urged it to let the Bright Suns prove themselves.

• The Supreme Sovereign phantom sealed the World Honored One’s Edict and told Changge Wudi and Taixuan Ji it would investigate the deaths of Changge Jing and Taixuan Muchen.
• The phantom summoned Jiang Yang, and Su Chen followed it to the Pivot palace while the others speculated about his connection to the Supreme Sovereign.
• The phantom revealed that it knew Su Chen was the Chosen One of the Purple Extremity World-Purifying Sage Lord and the Reward and Punishment Lord.
• The phantom told Su Chen that the Supreme Sovereign’s residual spirituality would not acknowledge anyone and warned that revealing its location could help the Bright Suns find it.
• Su Chen argued that the Bright Suns should be given a trial because the danger beneath the Origin Realm threatened them too.

Su Chen learned that the Origin Realm was a manifestation of the Supreme Sovereign’s incomplete profession, then used the Golden Light Bag’s Longevity Root to strengthen his own and gain Winter Storage. The chapter ended with him witnessing Si Zhou enter meditation to die, apparently seeking redemption for his past actions.

• The phantom told Su Chen that the Origin Realm was a profession manifestation and explained that the Supreme Sovereign’s failed Ultimate Leap had changed the Nether Domain’s rules.
• Su Chen warned the hall about Zhu Jue, and the phantom realized Su Chen had seen through its disguise and began planning to learn his identity.
• Si Zhou apologized to Su Chen for opposing him, thanked him for exposing Ming Xiao, and warned that Mystic Pivot was entering troubled times.
• Su Chen used the Golden Light Bag’s Longevity Root to strengthen the root within his body and gained the special ability Winter Storage, which concealed it.
• Su Chen spotted Si Zhou surrounded by grieving monks and realized that Si Zhou was passing away in meditation to redeem himself.

Su Chen absorbed the Violet Extremity Flame, advanced to nine Morning Flames, and challenged Zhu Jue to obtain his blood. Their fight revealed Su Chen’s overwhelming power, while the Bright Suns continued investigating the unstable Abyss Pillar and the hidden Professional Spirit.

• Su Chen absorbed a higher-grade Violet Extremity Flame, reached nine Morning Flames, and gained a doubling of his Refinement Method assistance efficiency.
• Su Chen restored the damaged Floating Island and decided to challenge selected people for the remaining Violet Extremity Flame and Longevity Root.
• The Bright Suns failed to stabilize their view through the Abyss Pillar, and the World Honored One hoped Ming Xiao would secure the Violet Extremity Flame and Longevity Root.
• Zhu Jue performed a strange ritual intended to draw out the hidden spirit, then accepted Jiang Yang’s challenge on the Mystic Pivot Stele.
• Su Chen fought Zhu Jue, pierced his defenses, and drew blood before revealing a far more powerful Morning Star that left Zhu Jue stunned.