Plot and events

• Liu Yuanchen discovers that the Grotto-Heaven protected by an innate grand formation contains a fruit-bearing Myriad-Longevity Flat Peach Tree. Its peaches can each extend a person’s life by ten thousand years, even with repeated use.
• He tells the Eight Desolations Pavilion’s grand-masters, whose advanced age makes the discovery especially welcome. The Grotto-Heaven is modest in size, and Liu expects to be able to take it using the Earth Book.
• To avoid disturbing the weakening formation, Liu postpones picking the peach and instead merges the Earth Book with the Grotto-Heaven. While the Book records the region’s veins, he cultivates beneath the tree, discovering that its abundant Innate Spiritual Qi strengthens his body through the Innate Gods-and-Devils Forging Method and conserves his rarer Innate Primordial Qi.
• After ten days, the Earth Book’s imprints are clear enough to move the entire Grotto-Heaven. Liu returns outside and uses the Book to pull it into his Middle Dantian.
• The innate formation collapses, releasing thousands of streaks of light containing Innate Primordial Qi and formation runes. The grand-masters cannot hold them, but Liu gathers them all with Universe in the Sleeve and stores them for later use.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen shows patience and strategic judgment: although tempted by the peach, he prioritizes securing the whole Grotto-Heaven and protecting the tree. He also gains insight into how Innate Spiritual Qi can support his body-training method.
• The grand-masters, especially the oldest among them, react with hope at the prospect of extended life. They guard Liu while he works and later marvel at his abilities.
• Azure Origin Pill King asks practical questions about the Grotto-Heaven and recognizes the significance of Liu’s Earth Book and its connection to the Ancestor of Earth Immortals.
• Golden Flame Venerable spots the Earth Book as it enters Liu’s body, prompting Liu to explain its origin. The group sees Liu’s connection to the Ancestor as a potential boon to the pavilion.
• The grand-masters try to capture the formation’s escaping energy, but Liu’s spatial technique succeeds where theirs fail.

Significant themes

• Life, age, and hope: The peaches offer a powerful answer to the grand-masters’ dwindling lifespans.
• Patience and stewardship: Liu resists immediate gratification to secure the tree intact and preserve its future fruit.
• Resourcefulness and cultivation: He adapts his training to make use of Innate Spiritual Qi while saving Innate Primordial Qi for a greater goal.
• Power and status: Liu’s inherited techniques and ties to the Ancestor of Earth Immortals strengthen both his individual standing and the pavilion’s prospects.

Plot points and events

• After Liu Yuanchen’s powerful spatial technique captures thousands of escaping lights, he and the grandmasters return to Dongyang Divine Prefecture to discuss the Myriad-Longevity Flat Peaches.
• Liu takes them into the Grotto-Heaven containing the enormous peach tree. The group mistakenly identifies the abundant Innate Spiritual Qi there as Innate Primordial Qi. Liu clarifies that true Innate Primordial Qi is a higher form of energy that dissipates into Innate Spiritual Qi when exposed; it is essential to a Grotto-Heaven’s growth into a Minor World.
• The grandmasters entrust Liu with dividing the tree’s 212 peaches. He keeps the tree, allocates one tenth of the fruit to Seven-Treasure Apothecary and Mountain Mover, two tenths equally among the grandmasters, four tenths to himself, and three tenths to Eight Desolations Pavilion. Shares will pass to named successors if their holders die.
• To protect the pavilion from rival factions—especially the Divine Court—the group agrees to keep the tree’s existence secret.
• They decide the oldest grandmasters will eat their peaches in groups of ten, so enough leaders remain available to guard Blackcloud Ridge against the Demon Race. The first ten eat theirs and undergo dramatic rejuvenation, then fall into a deep state of cultivation.
• Liu tests a peach with a technique for extracting Innate Primordial Qi and discovers it contains about 600 wisps. The tree therefore offers him a major new source of this rare resource.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu demonstrates both great power and humility: although the group credits him with securing the tree, he acknowledges the contributions of Seven-Treasure Apothecary and Mountain Mover.
• The grandmasters show strong trust in Liu, willingly giving him authority over the division and responsibility for the tree. Mountain Mover initially considers his reward excessive, but accepts when reminded of his long service.
• The group’s excitement at the peaches is balanced by practical caution. Liu urges staggered consumption, and Azure Origin Pill King supports the plan to maintain the Human Race’s defense.
• The first recipients’ transformation confirms that the peaches provide not only extraordinary longevity but also vitality and insight into the laws.

Significant themes

• Trust and fair leadership: Liu’s allocation recognizes individual contributions while benefiting the wider group.
• Knowledge and inherited misunderstanding: Liu’s explanation reveals how limited records led earlier generations to confuse two distinct forms of energy.
• Collective security versus personal gain: The group postpones some peaches and hides the tree to preserve their defenses and prevent a faction-wide conflict.
• Immortality and opportunity: The peaches turn longevity—and the chance to correct past cultivation failures or advance further—from a distant hope into a tangible possibility.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen extracts Innate Primordial Qi from Myriad-Longevity Flat Peaches. The Qi’s absence reduces their bodily and cultivation benefits, but barely affects their lifespan-extending power or law-based insights. His elders ask him to store their extracted Qi for future breakthroughs and Grotto-Heaven advancement.
• After eating a peach himself, Liu Yuanchen comprehends four First-Rank Laws: Life, Jia Wood, Growth, and Ren Water.
• He decides not to transplant the Innate Flat Peach Tree into Dongyang Grotto-Heaven, since it might weaken the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s control—and therefore his own. Instead, he plants a peach pit there, which can grow into a powerful but less threatening Acquired Spirit Root. He names the tree’s original home Flat Peach Grotto-Heaven.
• Liu Yuanchen harvests vast quantities of Innate Primordial Qi from the elders’ peaches, remnants of the shattered protective formation, Innate Treasure materials, and the tree’s existing fruit. He channels it into Dongyang Grotto-Heaven’s Heavenly Dao Embryo, learning that its growth depends on the gradual development of laws as well as energy.
• Over twenty years, he cultivates laws and repairs the Yin-Yang Realms’ Ancestral Spirit Veins. The embryo’s forty-nine laws reach perfection, and it becomes a true Heavenly Dao.
• A golden compass manifests and bestows mysterious energy on Liu Yuanchen, giving him a profound new sense of authority over the Grotto-Heaven. A heavenly tribulation then appears, signaling the realm’s impending advancement into a Minor World.

Character developments

• Liu Yuanchen grows in both cultivation and understanding, gaining four First-Rank Laws and completing the Heavenly Dao Embryo. His influence over Dongyang Grotto-Heaven deepens, though his personal strength does not visibly increase with the golden light.
• He acts as a trusted intermediary for his elders, safeguarding their Innate Primordial Qi while directing the surplus toward his own realm’s development.
• His decisions show strategic caution: he pursues the Flat Peach Tree’s benefits without risking the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s central role.

Significant themes

• Growth through balance: The Heavenly Dao needs both energy and gradually cultivated laws; neither can be rushed alone.
• Power and control: Adding a powerful Innate Spirit Root could improve the realm but threaten Liu Yuanchen’s existing bond and authority.
• Cooperation and long-term planning: The elders entrust him with their resources, while he invests them toward future advancement.
• Cultivation as gradual transformation: Even immense stores of energy cannot replace time, comprehension, and steady development.

Character interactions

• The elders gather around Liu Yuanchen to examine the peach’s Innate Primordial Qi, question him about its effects, and agree to let him store it for later use.
• Liu Yuanchen escorts those who have not eaten peaches out of the Grotto-Heaven, then manages the elders’ visits and Qi through his clone.
• His internal deliberations over the Flat Peach Tree reflect the tension between benefiting Dongyang Grotto-Heaven and preserving his bond with the Ginseng Fruit Tree.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen prepares for Dongyang Grotto-Heaven’s transformation into a Minor World, knowing the Origin Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao may resist because the ascension would deprive it of resources.
• He relies on two main protections: the Earth Book’s Mountain-and-River Marks, which draw on the Origin Spirit Realm’s terrain, and his powerful Merit Golden Lotus, strengthened by years of repairing ancestral veins.
• As the tribulation begins, the Grotto-Heaven’s future Ancestral Vein rises near its Main Spirit Vein. The pressure drives many inhabitants and spirit plants to hide or bow, while the Ginseng Fruit Tree remains unaffected.
• The Heavenly Dao assesses Liu Yuanchen’s Merit and Karmic Force. His two nearly Fourth-Rank Merit Golden Lotuses greatly weaken the tribulation, and purple-gold rain nourishes the Ginseng Fruit Tree, the Thousand-Longevity Flat Peach, and Liu Yuanchen himself.
• Liu Yuanchen’s Dao Embryo absorbs and refines the rain’s energy, using the Qiangliang Ancestor Witch’s Thunder Return to Origin technique. The clouds thin dramatically before the lightning phase begins.
• He endures eighty-one purple-gold lightning strikes, delivered in nine-bolt groups that grow increasingly powerful. The Earth Book’s summoned Mountain-and-River Phantoms absorb the attacks; the final strike nearly destroys them, but the phantom of Blackcloud Ridge helps withstand it.
• With the tribulation over, Dongyang Grotto-Heaven becomes the Dongyang Realm. A blackness spreads across its sky, and forty-nine mysterious beams descend. The Golden Compass—revealed as the new realm’s Heavenly Dao—absorbs them, expands across the realm, and disperses into it. Some of its light enters Liu Yuanchen and merges with the Earth Book.

Character developments

• Liu Yuanchen demonstrates confidence grounded in careful preparation, but the rapid, escalating strikes force him to recognize how dangerous the ascension truly is. He survives by combining merit, the Earth Book, and his Dao Embryo’s ability to refine lightning.
• His Dao Embryo has developed into a composite form bearing traits of several Ancestor Witches, though Jumang remains dominant. Qiangliang’s lightning power is now especially prominent.
• The Golden Compass changes from an artifact merged with Liu Yuanchen into the Heavenly Dao of the newly formed Dongyang Realm.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree and Thousand-Longevity Flat Peach show rapid growth after absorbing the tribulation rain.

Character interactions

• The Origin Spirit Realm’s instinctive Heavenly Dao acts as an opposing force, treating the ascension as a threat to its resources.
• Liu Yuanchen works in concert with the Earth Book: its terrain phantoms shield him, while his Dao Embryo consumes and refines the residual lightning.
• The tribulation affects the realm’s inhabitants and plants differently: Spirit Gourd Daoist flees, Liu Yan carries his body away, Liu Ling shelters underground, and most plants bend under the pressure.

Significant themes

• Preparation and resilience: Liu Yuanchen survives through long-term planning, accumulated merit, and layered defenses.
• The cost of independence: Becoming a world frees Dongyang from its former dependence on the Origin Spirit Realm, but provokes a severe confrontation with that realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Transformation through adversity: The tribulation is both a deadly trial and a source of energy that strengthens Liu Yuanchen and nurtures the realm’s life.
• Power and responsibility: Liu Yuanchen’s ascension makes him master of a world, while the emergence of its own Heavenly Dao signals that the new realm has begun developing an independent order.

Key plot points and events

• After Dongyang Grotto-Heaven advances into a complete Minor World, Liu Yuanchen discovers that the Earth Book has gained detailed land marks of the new world. The realm’s spiritual vein has become its Ancestral Vein, the world can now produce its own rain, and new life is beginning to gestate.
• The Dongyang Realm’s Heavenly Dao expands from forty-nine laws to over a hundred. Forty-nine profound laws—including a complete Time Law—have arrived from the Great Dao; Liu Yuanchen’s own previously comprehended laws have also merged into the Heavenly Dao.
• Liu Yuanchen tests whether his will as Heavenly Dao can force a spirit tree to gain new Dao Resonance. It cannot: the Great Dao’s principles constrain him, and the tree can improve only through gradual growth. He redirects the realm’s energy from a Hundred-Year Flat Peach to the more valuable Five-Needle Pine.
• He discovers Primordial Yellow Mother Qi forming within the new world and stores it for possible future use in refining a defensive treasure.
• Merit descends in two forms: Heavenly Dao Merit raises his Merit Golden Lotus by two grades, and a violet-gold lotus of Great Dao Merit merges into it. The chapter ends with Liu Yuanchen realizing that creating the Dongyang Realm has earned him an extraordinary reward.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen shifts his focus from the Origin Spirit Realm to the Dongyang Realm, which he owns and sees as central to his future cultivation.
• He demonstrates growing understanding of the hierarchy between the Great Dao and a world’s Heavenly Dao: even though he governs Dongyang’s laws and energy, he cannot override the Great Dao’s principles.
• His choices reveal a practical approach to cultivation: he prioritizes the Five-Needle Pine, whose nuts support a major Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation goal, over the less useful Hundred-Year Flat Peach.
• There are no direct conversations or conflicts with other characters. The chapter’s key interaction is Liu Yuanchen’s examination and manipulation of his realm, its treasures, and its Heavenly Dao.

Significant themes

• World-building and creation: A complete world develops weather, an Ancestral Vein, nascent life, and the potential to form celestial bodies and treasures.
• Limits of authority: The Heavenly Dao’s power remains subordinate to the Great Dao; even Liu Yuanchen’s will cannot bypass its rules.
• Cultivation through patience: Growth and Dao Resonance must develop naturally rather than be imposed.
• Merit and responsibility: Creating a world brings both Heavenly Dao Merit and the rarer Great Dao Merit, marking Liu Yuanchen’s achievement as a small-scale echo of creation itself.

Key events

• Liu Yuanchen reviews the effects of the four kinds of Merit. He decides to save his Great Dao Merit for the Dongyang Realm’s future growth rather than spend it on a Merit Golden Body or another treasure.
• The Earth Book’s Merit Golden Lotus has advanced to the fifth grade. Several of his spirit treasures and Spirit Roots also contain Merit, while the realm’s plants and Wood Spirits have benefited from the Heavenly Dao’s allocation of spiritual energy.
• Liu Yuanchen integrates the Molten Lava, Nether Sun, and Flat Peach Grottos-Heaven into the Dongyang Realm, hoping their Innate Primordial Qi will speed its development. He leaves the Luochuan Grotto-Heaven untouched for now because he still needs it for studying the Luochuan Dragon King’s laws.
• He plans to strengthen the Eight Desolations Pavilion and help its elders advance, anticipating conflict with the Witch and Demon Races, the Heaven-Restoration Sect, and the Human Race’s Divine Court.
• On leaving the Dongyang Realm, Liu Yuanchen is confronted by the Origin Spirit Realm Heavenly Dao. It first manifests the Myriad-Longevity Flat Peach Tree, then turns into an image of Heavenly Punishment when he refuses to return it. When he offers a trade, it signals that it wants Innate Primordial Qi.
• Liu Yuanchen agrees to return the tree. Inspecting the Flat Peach Grotto-Heaven, he discovers it contains at least five million strands of Innate Primordial Qi—far more than he expected—and realizes why the Heavenly Dao is so determined to reclaim it.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen shows strategic patience: he preserves scarce Great Dao Merit, prioritizes his world’s long-term development, and weighs the risks of defying the Origin Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Spirit Gourd Daoist, Xiao Yu, and Liu Ling are on the verge of breakthroughs after the realm’s formation. Liu Yan is preparing to merge his Spirit Body with his original form.
• The Origin Spirit Realm Heavenly Dao, previously an impersonal force, communicates directly with Liu Yuanchen and openly threatens him over the Flat Peach Tree. Their exchange establishes that it values the tree’s contribution to its supply of Innate Primordial Qi.
• Liu Yuanchen’s agreement to return the tree may be tactical rather than final: he privately intends to take it with him when he eventually leaves for the Primordial World.

Significant themes

• Merit as power and responsibility: Merit can strengthen treasures, aid cultivation, and support a world, but Liu Yuanchen must choose carefully how to spend it.
• World-building and resource competition: The Dongyang Realm’s advancement depends on accumulating Innate Primordial Qi, making Grottos-Heaven and Spirit Roots valuable sources of power.
• The limits of control: Even as the Dongyang Realm’s Heavenly Dao Will, Liu Yuanchen cannot ignore the Great Dao’s rules or escape the Origin Spirit Realm’s authority without consequences.
• Rising conflict: Liu Yuanchen’s plans to unite and strengthen the Human Race are set against powerful rival factions—and now a Heavenly Dao willing to enforce its claims.

Key events

• Liu Yuanchen discovers that the Flat Peach Grotto-Heaven contains over five million wisps of Innate Primordial Qi, much of it produced by the Myriad-Longevity Flat Peach Tree. Since the grotto-heaven cannot merge into his Dongyang Realm, he places a Qi-Locking Seal and ten Qi-Gathering Seals on it, securing an estimated 300-plus wisps of Qi each year.
• He detaches the Flat Peach Grotto-Heaven from the Dongyang Realm. The Heavenly Tribulation warning and signs of Karmic Force disappear, reassuring him that the arrangement is acceptable.
• Liu visits his grandmasters, whose appearance and longevity have improved after eating the flat peaches. He lends Azure Origin Pill King the Jadeglow Twofold Ceremonial Lamp and shares written notes about advancing a Grotto-Heaven into a Minor World. He urges the elders to prepare carefully rather than risk an early ascension tribulation.
• Preparing to advance to Earth Immortal, Liu seeks advice from Cixin about the Yin Fire Calamity. Cixin explains that Merit and the Earth Book can protect him, and that water-attributed treasures or divine water can weaken Yin Fire.
• Liu realizes that his Replica Sea-Calming Pearl, One-Origin Heavy Water, and flat peaches may help counter the calamity. He then travels to Dragon Abyss to collect more heavy water, while recognizing that the enormous, semi-autonomous realm may be a future opportunity but cannot yet be absorbed into Dongyang.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu becomes more strategic and cautious: rather than surrendering the flat-tree grotto-heaven’s resources, he secures a share while avoiding apparent karmic consequences. His next goal is preparing thoroughly for the Yin Fire Calamity.
• His grandmasters are rejuvenated and have renewed time to cultivate. They eagerly seek Liu’s guidance, while he warns them from personal experience about the danger of advancing a Grotto-Heaven.
• Cixin has recovered much of his strength and offers practical, reassuring counsel. Their exchange highlights Liu’s caution and Cixin’s confidence in the protections Liu has accumulated.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: Liu weighs the immense value of the Spirit Root against the risks of taking its resources, trying to benefit without provoking karmic reprisal.
• Preparation over haste: Both Liu and the grandmasters recognize that survival in cultivation depends on patience, Merit, and defensive resources.
• World-building and ambition: Liu’s new Minor World gives him greater power and a broader perspective, but also reveals the limits of what he can yet absorb or control.

Key plot points and events

• Pressed for time before the Black Lotus Holy Sect’s headquarters is discovered, Liu Yuanchen seeks ways to grow stronger. He gathers over a thousand drops of One-Origin Heavy Water from Dragon Abyss and plans eventually to force or persuade Demon Race Longevity Immortals to collect its rare treasures for him.
• Before attempting the Earth Immortal breakthrough, he spends three years in Flat Peach Grotto-Heaven cultivating the Innate Gods-and-Devils Forging Method. The Innate Spiritual Qi there greatly strengthens his body.
• In Dongyang Realm, Liu Yuanchen observes the Spirit Gourd Daoist undergoing an Origin Immortal tribulation. As the realm’s master, he halves the tribulation’s power, allowing the Daoist to survive with only minor injuries.
• Liu Yuanchen begins forming an Earth Immortal Body by drawing Earth-Origin Qi from the Earth Book. After a month, the Yin Fire Calamity begins. His authority over Dongyang Realm can weaken this exceptional tribulation by only about one percent, though his Merit reduces its power by roughly half.
• The Yin Fire enters through the soles of his feet and spreads through his meridians and organs as chilling black flames. Liu Yuanchen counters it with the Earth Book, the Sea-Calming Pearl, the Zhurong inheritance, a flat peach, and Ren Water Essence. The flames weaken, and he uses the ordeal to practice his divine abilities and laws.
• After about an hour, both the flames and tribulation clouds are nearly spent, and the calamity appears close to ending.

Character developments

• Liu Yuanchen grows more strategic and confident: he plans to exploit Dragon Abyss’s resources, recognizes Dongyang Realm’s value for safer tribulations, and prepares carefully for his own breakthrough. During the Yin Fire Calamity, he remains composed enough to turn the danger into a chance to refine his techniques.
• Spirit Gourd Daoist advances from the peak of the Divine Ability Realm toward the Origin Immortal Realm. His successful tribulation demonstrates the protection Liu Yuanchen can offer within Dongyang Realm.

Significant themes

• Preparation and resourcefulness: Liu Yuanchen relies on long-term training, gathered treasures, and layered defenses rather than strength alone.
• Power and responsibility: As Dongyang Realm’s master, he can protect those who cultivate there, though his influence has limits against higher-order calamities.
• Turning trials into growth: Liu Yuanchen treats tribulation not only as a threat but as an opportunity to strengthen his body, techniques, and understanding.
• Ambition and pragmatism: His plans for Dragon Abyss balance the potential rewards against the time, labor, and danger of building a force there.

Character interactions

• Liu Yuanchen indirectly aids the Spirit Gourd Daoist by weakening his tribulation, then observes his successful breakthrough.
• Liu Yuanchen’s relationship with Dragon Abyss’s Demon Race remains prospective: he intends to recruit compliant Longevity Immortals as subordinates and defeat those who resist.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen survives the Yin Fire Calamity and becomes a Longevity Immortal. The Yin Fire is refined into a spirit flame under his control, leaving a black flame mark on his Dao Embryo.
• He spends half a month refining the calamity’s remaining energy, triggering an extended enlightenment vision based on the memories of figures whose abilities he has practiced.
• In the Heaven Hound Marshal’s memories, he observes Donghuang Taiyi and the Chaos Bell, then witnesses the bell’s devastating power in battle. He gains valuable insight into its essence. Memories of other figures, including Witch experts, further strengthen his understanding of laws and inherited techniques.
• After ten years in the vision, Liu Yuanchen returns to the present. He has advanced more than seventy laws beyond the First Rank, and his soul has grown substantially stronger.
• He applies his new understanding to the Chaos Bell energy preserved in the Golden-Feather Lihuo Banner. The energy stabilizes, grows more substantial, and briefly forms a faint bell above his head. He then draws it back into the banner for safekeeping.

Character developments

• Liu Yuanchen becomes more powerful and confident after his breakthrough, gaining control of the Yin Fire and making major progress in law comprehension.
• His long-term ambition sharpens: he intends to nurture the Chaos Bell’s residual energy and eventually use it to create a powerful Chaos Bell Replica.

Significant themes

• Trial as opportunity: Liu Yuanchen turns the Yin Fire Calamity into a source of insight and power.
• Accumulation and patience: His many years of study and careful nourishment of the Chaos Bell energy promise greater future strength.
• Power through knowledge: Memories, observation, and understanding of laws let him improve both himself and his treasures.
• Limits and trade-offs: His broader cultivation yielded great gains, but the vision did not show Pangu creating the world—perhaps because it consumed too much energy.

Character interactions

• In the reconstructed memory, Donghuang Taiyi catches the Heaven Hound Marshal staring at the Chaos Bell. The Marshal tactfully apologizes, and Taiyi responds favorably, suggesting he might one day allow him to cultivate inside the bell.
• In the final battle memory, the Chaos Bell’s peals immobilize and destroy the surrounding Golden Immortal cultivators, while Liu Yuanchen observes and uses the spectacle to deepen his understanding.

Chapter Summary: Earth Book Advancement

Key Plot Points

• Liu Yuanchen's Earth Book has fully evolved into a Merit Spirit Treasure and an Acquired Spirit Treasure, now radiating golden light that resembles Merit Golden Light. Its 48 Acquired Treasure Restrictions are complete and contain 7th-grade laws — equal to the Sea-Calming Pearl and Jadeglow Twofold Ceremonial Lamp.
• The Golden-Feather Lihuo Banner has recovered considerably due to the Nurturing Divine Ability (from the Spirit Gourd Daoist), potentially becoming an imitation Chaos Bell using residual Chaos Bell energy.
• The Dragon Pearl is more than half-repaired and will soon be fully restored.
• Liu Yuanchen evaluates the power balance: he could likely defeat a Celestial Immortal, but cannot rashly fight the Witch/Demon Races due to their ancient Celestial Immortal monsters, the Twelve-Celestial Capital Gods and Fiends Formation, possible Extraterritorial Lifeform control of the Sky-Suspended Ghost City, and risk to the Ancestral Vein. He decides to focus on developing his forces for now.
• He visits Coiled Dragon Mountain to make arrangements for bringing clansmen into the Dongyang Realm.

Character Developments

• Liu Yuanchen: Now an Earth Immortal with the strength to contend with major powers. He shifts from hiding to confident action, though he still chooses strategic patience over reckless confrontation.
• Liu Chengye: Reached early Soul Condensation Realm (cultivating three paths simultaneously). Has taken two concubines (from Mo and Zhang clans) but has no children yet.
• The Liu Family has grown villages along the Coiled Dragon River; population expanded from a few thousand to over 100,000.

Significant Themes

• Strategic patience over brute force: Even with immense power, Liu Yuanchen recognizes the danger of overreaching (multiple Celestial Immortals, formations, Extraterritorial Lifeforms as a hidden threat).
• Foundations and lineage: Focus on family expansion, preserving bloodlines, and relocating people to safety.
• Hiding strength to avoid exposure: He can disguise himself with Womb-Shift Transformation to wander freely, but moving large populations will reveal him — and he no longer fears that.

Character Interactions

• Liu Yuanchen gifts Liu Chengye Five-Needle Pine pine cones (Acquired Spirit Root) to temper his five viscera, and mentions the Seven Po Soul condensation auxiliary formation at Netherworld Coiled Dragon Mountain.
• The two discuss family legacy — Liu Yuanchen jokes about Liu Chengye's childhood boast of marrying dozens of wives and fathering hundreds of children.
• Liu Chengye raises concern about the Divine Court and Demon Race retaliating if the relocation plan is exposed. Liu Yuanchen dismisses this: with the Earth Book's authority over mountains, rivers, and landforms, the Holy Court's invested gods are essentially puppets in his hands, and the Demon Race is too preoccupied to interfere.

Plot and events

• Liu Chengye admits that his newly formed Blessed Land is underdeveloped: it has only one Main Spirit Vein, and the local Dongyang Lake vein is low-grade. Liu Yuanchen promises to improve the lake’s vein and use his Earth Book Imprinting Technique to create Rootless Spirit Veins inside the Blessed Land.
• Liu Chengye quickly arranges for members of the Liu Family, Zhang Clan, and Mo Household to relocate to Liu Yuanchen’s Dongyang Realm. Liu Yuanchen transports more than fifty settlements—and their residents and farmland—from the Coiled Dragon River region into the realm.
• Xiao Yu, now a Primordial Spirit cultivator, takes charge of the newcomers with several hundred Dao Soldiers. He places the settlements under the Dongyang Divine Prefecture, offers talented cultivators a path into its administration, and promises Divine Positions to deceased cultivators who can continue guarding their communities.
• Liu Yuanchen explains the wider purpose of developing the realm: its inhabitants can provide Human and Earthly Dao Merit, Incense Merit, resources, talented cultivators, and help strengthen its Heavenly Dao. He also plans to acquire Innate Treasure Materials and add more subordinate Grotto-Heavens.
• Liu Yuanchen approaches his grandmasters about moving their Grotto-Heavens into the Dongyang Realm. He believes the realm’s Heavenly Dao may weaken the Ascension Tribulation that they must face to advance their Grotto-Heavens into Minor Worlds.
• Excited by the possibility, Venerable Sea Severing volunteers to move his Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven and entrusts Liu Yuanchen with its future and his descendants if he dies. Golden Flame Venerable follows suit.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen takes an increasingly active role as the Dongyang Realm’s ruler, combining cultivation support, migration, governance, and long-term world-building. He reassures Liu Chengye and later offers the grandmasters a potentially safer route to ascension.
• Liu Chengye shows ambition for his Blessed Land but relies on Liu Yuanchen’s generosity and guidance. Their conversation emphasizes the trust and familial bond between them.
• Xiao Yu has grown significantly in cultivation and becomes the realm’s practical administrator. Though his tiny, youthful appearance undermines his attempt to look imposing, he confidently lays out rules and responsibilities to the clan representatives.
• The grandmasters, especially Venerable Sea Severing, shift from cautious cultivation to eager consideration of a dangerous gamble. Their willingness to entrust their Grotto-Heavens and descendants to Liu Yuanchen reflects strong trust in him.

Significant themes

• Building a world through community: The Dongyang Realm’s growth depends not only on spiritual resources but also on its population, institutions, and future generations.
• Power and responsibility: Liu Yuanchen uses his authority to protect settlers, organize governance, aid relatives, and safeguard his elders’ legacies.
• Risk, trust, and legacy: The grandmasters weigh the danger of ascension against the chance of survival, relying on Liu Yuanchen and making plans for their followers should they fail.
• Cooperation and mutual benefit: Families, clans, Dao Soldiers, and cultivators all contribute to the realm’s development, while Liu Yuanchen’s proposal could benefit both him and the grandmasters.

Plot and key events

• Liu Yuanchen persuades the Eight Desolations Pavilion’s grandmasters to merge their grotto-heavens into the Dongyang Realm. This would preserve their lands for their descendants if they die in their eventual Ascension Tribulations. To avoid attracting attention from the Demon Race and Myriad Gods Sect, five grandmasters—including Venerable Sea Severing—agree to travel to Asking Dao Mountain first, where Liu can arrange the transfer.
• With the Pavilion’s plan set in motion, Liu turns to the Dragon Abyss, hoping to recruit its Longevity Immortals and put them to work gathering Innate Treasure Materials.
• He seeks out Black Tortoise Daoist, a reclusive turtle immortal, at Black Tortoise Mountain. The Daoist has foreseen Liu’s arrival and recognizes him as the Dongyang Divine Lord.
• Black Tortoise reveals that he once served Ao Mang, the Dragon Abyss’s former master. He refused Ao Mang’s legacy to avoid being killed by the master’s ambitious nominal disciples; Ao Mang’s legacy was later taken by a son of the Dragon Emperor.
• Having fulfilled his duty by guarding Ao Mang’s tomb for ten thousand years, Black Tortoise has avoided serving Ao Mang’s descendants. He believes the Dragon Race’s heavy karmic burden and reckless conduct will bring disaster.
• Black Tortoise readily offers Liu his allegiance in return for a home for himself and his descendants. Liu accepts the opportunity and asks why the Dragon Abyss’s fortunes are declining.
• Black Tortoise explains that over sixty thousand years ago the Origin Spirit Realm’s damaged Ancestral Vein sent its lost essence into the Dragon Abyss, elevating its Main Spirit Vein to the ninth rank. He suspects the Origin Spirit Realm intended to use the nearly world-like Dragon Abyss as a refuge for its Heavenly Dao. Since Liu’s rise changed events, the realm may now be trying to reclaim that essence and restore its Ancestral Vein, leaving the Dragon Abyss’s future uncertain.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen shows strategic patience: he plans around the grandmasters’ long tribulation timelines and prioritizes discreet action over open conflict. He also shifts from expecting resistance in the Dragon Abyss to gaining Black Tortoise’s voluntary support.
• Black Tortoise Daoist emerges as cautious, perceptive, and pragmatic. His divination and sensitivity to Merit and karmic forces help him recognize Liu’s importance, while his concern for his descendants motivates his allegiance.
• The grandmasters move from accepting the danger of tribulation to seeking a way to preserve their legacies through the Dongyang Realm.
• Liu and Black Tortoise establish a relationship of mutual advantage: Liu offers security and a place to live, while Black Tortoise offers service and crucial knowledge about the Dragon Abyss.

Significant themes

• Legacy and preservation: The grandmasters want their grotto-heavens to remain with their families; Black Tortoise seeks a lasting home for his descendants.
• Prudence and survival: Both the grandmasters’ cautious plan and Black Tortoise’s refusal of Ao Mang’s legacy reflect the value of avoiding unnecessary danger.
• Fortune, merit, and karmic consequence: Black Tortoise’s insight suggests that political power and a realm’s survival are shaped by deeper forces.
• Worlds in transition: The Dragon Abyss may be caught between its own emergence as a world and the Origin Spirit Realm’s attempt to reclaim its essence.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points & Events

• Liu Yuanchen realizes why the Origin Spirit Realm had poured origin energy into Dragon Abyss: it was preparing an escape route by having its Heavenly Dao “borrow the corpse and return the soul” using Dragon Abyss’s nascent Heavenly Dao.
• After Liu Yuanchen gained control over the Origin Spirit Realm’s ancestral vein via the Earth Book, the Origin Spirit Realm no longer needed Dragon Abyss as a refuge. Dragon Abyss is now likely to decline, losing its ninth-rank spirit vein and reverting to a normal half-step minor world.
• Black Tortoise Daoist explains the concept of fortune/destiny, merit, karmic force, and the use of treasure to suppress a faction’s destiny.
• Liu Yuanchen learns from Black Tortoise Daoist and considers using the Earth Book to suppress the destiny of the Eight Desolations Pavilion and Dongyang Divine Prefecture.
• Black Tortoise Daoist offers his allegiance and gifts Liu Yuanchen a jade tome containing secret arts for observing and manipulating destiny, including the Black Tortoise Qi-Gazing Art and a method for suppressing destiny.
• Liu Yuanchen tasks Black Tortoise Daoist with gathering innate treasure materials in Dragon Abyss and recruiting demon experts to assist; in return, he promises them a place in the Dongyang Realm.
• Liu Yuanchen leaves Dragon Abyss, returns to the Netherworld, places the Dongyang Realm in a spirit nexus, and studies the gifted jade tome.

Character Developments

• Liu Yuanchen: Consolidates power, expands influence into Dragon Abyss, and deepens his understanding of destiny and merit. He is cautious about who to trust, intending to keep demon recruits at arm’s length and rely on his own loyal forces.
• Black Tortoise Daoist: Pragmatic and perceptive. Seeing Liu Yuanchen’s immense fortune, he willingly submits and provides useful knowledge and connections, hoping to preserve his own future and that of his demon allies.

Significant Themes

• Fortune and destiny: The chapter explores how merit and karmic force shape fate, and how treasures can suppress or preserve a faction’s destiny.
• Heavenly Dao self-preservation: The Origin Spirit Realm’s original plan to use Dragon Abyss as an escape route and its later abandonment demonstrate the cold logic of world-level survival.
• Resource and influence building: Liu Yuanchen strategically recruits experts and gathers rare materials to strengthen the Dongyang Realm.

Character Interactions

• Liu Yuanchen and Black Tortoise Daoist have an extended discussion about destiny, merit, and karmic force.
• Black Tortoise Daoist demonstrates his value by explaining hidden connections between Dragon Abyss and the Origin Spirit Realm, and by offering his loyalty and assistance.
• Liu Yuanchen accepts his service and gives him a mission to gather materials, while remaining wary of trusting demon experts too closely.

Plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen learns the Black Tortoise Qi-Gazing Art, which reveals fortune through colors, shapes, and size, and shows impending calamity as blood-red traces. He hopes to use it to assess his grandmasters’ chances of surviving Ascension Tribulations.
• He examines the fortune of plants and people in Dongyang Realm. Spirit Gourd Daoist has stronger fortune than an Acquired Spirit Root, while Liu Yuanchen’s relatives appear more fortunate than other mortals. He concludes that living beings generally have more fortune than plants without independent consciousness.
• The Myriad-Longevity Flat Peach Tree’s fortune appears as a sacred, horned python. Liu Yuanchen suspects his own fortune exceeds the tree’s, since examining it causes no backlash.
• He resumes cultivating with Earth-Origin Qi drawn through the Earth Book, which gives him an abundant supply and a major advantage over other Earth Immortals.
• After a year, Venerable Sea Severing reaches the Eight Desolations Divine Prefecture and summons Liu Yuanchen’s clone into his water-dominated Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven. Sea Severing explains that he designed it around his water cultivation and is in no hurry to progress.
• The Earth Book records the Grotto-Heaven’s veins. Two years later, Liu Yuanchen swaps his true body with his clone across an enormous distance, enduring a dangerous strain, then merges his bonded artifact with Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven.
• Liu Yuanchen assesses Sea Severing’s fortune as powerful—nearly comparable to that of the Ginseng Fruit Tree. They go to the Grotto-Heaven’s Spirit Nexus, where Liu Yuanchen draws out the Earth Book’s power and restores its flow of spiritual spring water.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen proves quick to master the qi-gazing art and increasingly confident in using his powers to protect others. He remains diligent in cultivation despite his high standing and demonstrates the risks of his long-range clone-swapping ability.
• Venerable Sea Severing is patient and practical: he accepts the limitations of his Grotto-Heaven and sees no need to rush cultivation. He is impressed by Liu Yuanchen’s abilities and becomes interested in having his fortune checked again after mastering more laws.
• Their relationship is warm and collaborative. Liu Yuanchen explains the art and its uses; Sea Severing shares his Grotto-Heaven’s design and helps him reach its Spirit Nexus.

Significant themes

• Fortune and risk: Qi-gazing offers a way to anticipate disaster and make more informed decisions about tribulations.
• Conscious life and potential: Independent beings possess greater fortune than plants, while a plant’s awakening into a spirit could transform its power.
• Preparation and patience: Liu Yuanchen seeks to reduce avoidable deaths, while Sea Severing accepts slow progress rather than forcing it.
• Power through resources and cultivation: The Earth Book gives Liu Yuanchen exceptional access to Earth-Origin Qi and enables him to influence and absorb Grotto-Heavens.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen and Venerable Sea Severing complete the relocation of Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven into Dongyang Realm. The chamber’s formations contain its spiritual energy, keeping the move secret.
• Liu Yuanchen tests how the newly formed realm affects law comprehension. Inside Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven, he advances several times faster than in Flat Peach Grotto-Heaven. He reasons that Dongyang Realm’s immature Heavenly Dao leaves the purer, more fundamental Great Dao less obscured by competing laws.
• Venerable Sea Severing decides to cultivate there, and the other grand-masters are allowed to take turns doing the same while others patrol Blackcloud Ridge. Over ten years, more Grotto-Heavens merge into Dongyang Realm, which grows to roughly fifty to sixty thousand li across and accumulates Innate Primordial Qi.
• Venerable Ling Song of the Heaven-Restoration Sect approaches Liu Yuanchen about their long-delayed plan to strike the Black Lotus Holy Sect. Liu Yuanchen warns that the Demon Race’s heavy presence near Blackcloud Ridge makes the operation dangerous.
• Ling Song says the Heaven-Restoration Sect will handle the Demon Race’s Longevity Immortals, asking the Eight Desolations Pavilion only to feint near Demon Cloud Sea and withdraw if necessary. He offers the Tianwu Ancestor Witch Statue as a reward, and promises Xuanming’s as well.
• Liu Yuanchen suspects the proposal may also be a test of his strength. He uses the negotiation to seek more statues, offering information about the origins of the Heaven Hound Dao Lord in exchange for statues of Xizi, Zhu Jiuyin, and Shebi Shi. Ling Song agrees to consult Dao Lord Hongyuan and reply within a month.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen becomes more confident in managing Dongyang Realm, discovers its value as a place for law cultivation, and remains cautious about revealing the secret of relocating Grotto-Heavens. He also shows strategic ambition by turning the Heaven-Restoration Sect’s request into a chance to expand his collection of Ancestor Witch inheritances.
• Venerable Sea Severing accepts the merger of his Grotto-Heaven without reservation and is eager to exploit its accelerated cultivation benefits.
• Venerable Ling Song presses for the Heaven-Restoration Sect’s plan but backs off when Liu Yuanchen raises the risks. His reaction to the Heaven Hound revelation suggests the information may be serious enough to affect the sect’s human faction.
• The grand-masters cooperate by alternating between cultivation in Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven and patrol duty on Blackcloud Ridge.

Significant themes

• Power and secrecy: Relocating Grotto-Heavens could transform human military strength, making concealment essential.
• World-building and cultivation: Dongyang Realm’s developing Heavenly Dao creates unusual advantages for comprehending laws.
• Prudence and political maneuvering: Liu Yuanchen avoids a potentially disastrous confrontation while negotiating from a position of valuable knowledge.
• Inheritance and survival: Ancestor Witch legacies offer Liu Yuanchen protection against future calamities, while the Heaven Hound’s origins may threaten the Heaven-Restoration Sect’s human faction.

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen claims the Tianwu Ancestor Witch inheritance by surviving its trial and absorbing its inheritance seed. It grants him the Astral Wind Domain, which creates destructive wind-aspected energy, and Wind Return to Origin, which consumes wind energy to heal and strengthen him.
• He begins drawing in the inexhaustible Nine Heavens Astral Wind, hoping to merge Tianwu’s True Form Diagram into his Dao Embryo before his coming Celestial Immortal tribulation.
• The Heaven-Restoration Sect responds to his warning about the Heaven Hound Dao Lord. Dao Lord Hongyuan arrives in person and brings the four remaining Ancestor Witch statues—Xuanming, Zhu Jiuyin, Xizi, and Shebi Shi—in exchange for information.
• Liu confirms that the Heaven Hound Dao Lord is Liu Ming and warns Hongyuan that Liu Ming is likely a Celestial Immortal whose father, Liu Yan, was once a Golden Immortal and the strongest being in Origin Spirit Realm. Hongyuan should therefore avoid trying to seize power recklessly.
• Liu explains that Origin Spirit Realm is only a Lesser Thousandfold World, once subordinate to the Primordial World, where the Witch-Demon War was fought. He describes the Primordial World’s extraordinary abundance of spirit roots and resources, leaving Hongyuan and Venerable Ling Song astonished.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen continues to act strategically: he turns valuable intelligence into the four statues he needs, while also trying to preserve cooperation between the Eight Desolations Pavilion and the Heaven-Restoration Sect. He is now close to possessing all twelve Ancestral Witch inheritances.
• Dao Lord Hongyuan shows urgency by coming himself. He recognizes Liu’s composure and suspects he has a hidden means of survival, but lets the matter drop. His concern shifts from the Sect’s internal danger to the wider world Liu describes.
• Venerable Ling Song serves as intermediary and reacts with surprise to the higher cultivation realms and the Primordial World’s riches.
• The meeting is mutually cautious but cooperative: Hongyuan supplies the statues; Liu supplies warnings and world-shaking information.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: Liu prepares for a dangerous tribulation, while Hongyuan must contend with a stronger rival within his own sect.
• Knowledge as currency: Liu trades secrets for the statues, using information to secure both personal advancement and political advantage.
• Scale and perspective: The revelation that Origin Spirit Realm is a minor frontier compared with the Primordial World reframes the characters’ understanding of power, history, and resources.

Key events

• Dao Lord Hongyuan questions Liu Yuanchen about the Innate Black Lotus and the Primordial World. Liu shares limited information, hoping to redirect the Heaven-Restoration Sect’s attention and encourage Hongyuan to investigate a possible route there.
• In return, Liu asks why the Heaven-Restoration Sect moved against the Black Lotus Holy Sect. Hongyuan admits his sect is testing Liu’s strength, after observing his Grotto-Heaven and suspecting he has reached at least the seventh realm.
• Liu tells Hongyuan his theory that Sky-Suspended Ghost City may be a route for the Witch and Demon Races to return to the Primordial World. Hongyuan leaves after revealing the suspected location of the Black Lotus Holy Sect’s headquarters.
• Away from Liu, Hongyuan explains that he doubts he could defeat him. Liu’s confidence, concealed aura, knowledge, and rapid growth suggest he may be an ancient expert reborn or have powerful backing.
• Liu obtains and studies the four remaining Ancestor Witch inheritances, completing all twelve. He gains techniques associated with time, ice, poison, and light, and forms their True Form Diagrams.
• Liu then reassesses the danger posed by the Black Lotus Holy Sect. If it is exposed or destroyed, others may connect him to the Blackcloud Ridge Heavenly Dao Authority, the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and possibly Grand Immortal Zhenyuan. He concludes he must either protect the sect or destroy it himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Yuanchen uses selective honesty and careful bargaining with Hongyuan, while concealing the extent of his own power. His acquisition of all twelve inheritances marks a major advance, but he remains wary of drawing attention.
• Dao Lord Hongyuan proves perceptive and cautious. Though he tests Liu, he decides capture is too risky and suspects Liu’s strength and origins are far beyond appearances.
• Venerable Ling Song is shocked by his master’s assessment and considers what Liu might do with the information about the sect’s location.
• Hongyuan and Liu engage in a guarded exchange: each reveals enough to negotiate while probing the other’s knowledge and intentions.

Significant themes

• Deception and strategic disclosure: Both Liu and Hongyuan test one another while carefully managing what they reveal.
• Power hidden behind appearances: Liu’s youth and calm manner conceal strength that even a peak Earth Immortal fears.
• The risks of exposure: Liu’s growing power and past actions could make him a target if the Black Lotus Holy Sect can no longer serve as a convenient scapegoat.
• Ambition and perilous advancement: The new inheritances expand Liu’s abilities, but their cultivation—especially the rare temporal power—requires time, resources, and risk.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Liu Yuanchen resolves to destroy the Black Lotus Holy Sect. Using the Earth Book and the Blackcloud Ridge Imprint, he spies on Leisure Cloud Mountain and discovers a hidden Grotto-Heaven where the sect is based.
• He sends a Divine Ability Clone (via Body-Leaving Trace) to infiltrate the Grotto-Heaven, bypassing formations and guards undetected.
• The sect master senses the spying and raises defenses. Liu Yuanchen, disguised as the Mysterious River Dragon King, confronts him.
• Liu Yuanchen warns that the Black Lotus Holy Sect’s ancient enemy has found them, then reveals his second purpose: to personally destroy the sect.
• He unleashes golden lightning via the Wind-Thunder Banner, suppresses the sect’s formations using the Earth Book, and kills most Origin Immortal Realm demons.
• The sect master retaliates with the Black Jade Lotus Platform, channeling the power of the Twelve-Petaled World-Ending Black Lotus.
• Liu Yuanchen swaps to his true body, uses a Merit Golden Lotus to block the attack, and decapitates the master with his Dao Embryo’s axe.
• The Black Jade Lotus Platform is damaged, and an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon escapes from the sect master’s body.

Character Developments

• Liu Yuanchen demonstrates growing mastery over multiple divine abilities: Earth Book surveillance, Body-Leaving Trace, Womb-Shift Transformation, Death-Substitute Clone, and the Myriad Poisons Ancestor potential.
• He takes note that the black mist on Blackcloud Ridge could be used to cultivate his poison-based divine ability, hinting at future plans.
• He shows ruthlessness toward traitorous humans allied with Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, justifying total extermination.

Significant Themes

• Human betrayal and cosmic threats: The Black Lotus Holy Sect is a human organization colluding with Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, making them a legitimate target.
• Power and retribution: Liu Yuanchen’s overwhelming strength and cunning enable him to dismantle a major evil sect despite its hidden defenses.
• Hidden dangers and surveillance: The use of the Earth Book and spirit vein manipulation underscores the importance of information and battlefield control.

Character Interactions

• Liu Yuanchen exchanges words with the sect master, revealing his dual intentions (warning then attack).
• Guards at the entrance notice only minor spatial fluctuations, failing to detect the clone.
• The sect master tries to negotiate but is refused when Liu Yuanchen reveals his true goal.
• The scene ends with the emergence of an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, setting up an ongoing conflict.

Chapter Summary: “The Black Lotus Holy Sect’s Hoard”

Key plot points and events

• Liu Yuanchen confirms that the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons are descendants of Luo Hou, the ancient demon whose legacy survives within the Heavenly Dao. The Black Lotus Holy Sect has served these beings for millennia.
• He defeats and destroys the Heavenly Demon that appears after the sect leader’s death. Protected by the Earth Book, he resists its mind-affecting attacks; a Golden Crow from within him annihilates the demon.
• Liu Yuanchen collects the damaged Black Jade Lotus Platform and the sect leader’s corpse, intending to study the platform and later extract the leader’s memories. He also kills the two cultivators guarding the headquarters, leaving the entire sect’s base deserted.
• His victory earns a major influx of Earthly Dao Merit: his Merit Golden Lotus grows from six grades to seven, with twenty-one layers of petals. The Earth Book’s own merit mark also gains a layer.
• To protect Dongyang Realm from the dangerous lotus platform—and evade the Heaven-Restoration Sect’s tracking—he names the captured headquarters Black Lotus Grotto-Heaven and merges it into Dongyang Realm using the Earth Book.
• Liu Yuanchen refines the Black Jade Lotus Platform enough to establish a connection with its network. He discovers that thousands of Demon Qi Black Lotuses feed it, and that it is linked to the Innate Black Lotus in the Netherworld’s Demon Cloud Sea and to Sky-Suspended Ghost City. Both are too dangerous for him to approach for now.
• He explores the Grotto-Heaven’s library and treasury. Lightning destroyed most texts, but many valuable natural treasures survived, including thousands of Innate Treasure Materials and more than a hundred thousand wisps of Innate Primordial Qi.
• Searching the sect leader’s corpse, he finds a black-lotus-shaped treasure mirror. It shares most of the platform’s abilities and contains a Soul-Devouring Law, but its close connection to the platform makes it unsafe for him to use independently.

Character developments

• Liu Yuanchen shows increasing confidence and strategic caution. He defeats the Heavenly Demon, secures the sect’s assets, and carefully isolates the dangerous lotus platform rather than risking Dongyang Realm.
• He also thinks ahead about future threats: the Heaven-Restoration Sect, the Extraterrestrial Lifeforms, and the powerful forces guarding the two locations linked to the platform.
• His attitude toward the Black Jade Lotus Platform shifts from seeing it as a captured relic to recognizing it as a growing, connected power that must be managed carefully.

Character interactions

• Liu Yuanchen resists the Heavenly Demon’s attempts to disturb his mind, then destroys it with his Golden Crow.
• The Black Jade Lotus Platform begins draining demon qi from the Moonwater Demon Lotus. Liu Yuanchen interrupts the process to prevent the useful plant from withering, while recognizing it may help sustain the platform’s growth.
• He anticipates the Heaven-Restoration Sect’s pursuit and conceals the Grotto-Heaven and platform inside Dongyang Realm, hoping its arrival will find no trace of the sect or its headquarters.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Liu Yuanchen gains a dangerous treasure but limits its access to the wider realm.
• Consequences of ancient legacies: Luo Hou’s demonic influence persists through the Black Lotus Holy Sect, its networks, and the Heavenly Demons.
• Merit and cosmic judgment: The extraordinary merit he receives suggests the Origin Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao strongly opposes the sect.
• Knowledge as a resource: The damaged library, the leader’s recoverable memories, and the treasury all offer different kinds of potential value—though some knowledge and power remain inaccessible or risky.

Summary of "Heaven Hound Dao Lord's Attitude"

1. Key Plot Points & Events

• Liu Yuanchen destroys the Black Lotus Holy Sect, seizing two Acquired Spirit Treasures (including the Black Jade Lotus Platform, a descendant of the World-Ending Black Lotus) and a hoard of innate treasure materials.
• A year passes; Liu Yuanchen (age 394) fuses the Tianwu Ancestor Witch True Form Diagram into his Dao Embryo, preparing for future breakthroughs.
• At Heaven-Restoration Sect headquarters, Myriad Spirits Dao Lord's South-Seeking Compass fails to locate the Black Jade Lotus Platform three times. He concludes it was either destroyed or hidden in another world (likely a Minor World) by an expert.
• Dao Lord Hongyuan suspects Liu Yuanchen but Heaven Hound Dao Lord decides to drop the Black Lotus Holy Sect matter entirely, ending the planned probe.
• Dao Lord Hongyuan reveals intelligence that Sky-Suspended Ghost City may be a passage to higher-level worlds, sparking interest in pursuing Celestial Immortal breakthroughs.
• Liu Yuanchen learns the sect has abandoned the Black Lotus investigation via Ling Song Venerable's message and is relieved.
• He enters Duan Hai Grotto-Heaven, informs the grandmasters he now possesses all twelve Ancestor Witch inheritances, and borrows the Jadeglow Twofold Ceremonial Lamp.
• He refines the dead sect master's corpse in the lamp and enters its memory world, experiencing the life of Han Yuan, nephew of the Black Lotus Holy Sect's first leader.
• Memory reveals: the sect was founded under Extraterritorial Lifeforms' patronage, given the Third-Rank Black Jade Lotus Platform; after the Extraterrestrials' defeat, it went into hiding; it grew during the Human-Demon War; Heaven-Restoration Sect destroyed its original headquarters; Han Yuan inherited a First-Rank Black Jade Lotus Platform and became the new sect leader—but must travel to Sky-Suspended Ghost City to receive investiture.

2. Character Developments

• Liu Yuanchen: Shows a collector's obsession with Primordial-world treasures; his strength now rivals peak Earth Immortal, can contend with Celestial Immortals using spirit treasures; steadily improving cultivation and fusing Witch inheritances; pragmatic—accepts the sect's withdrawal gracefully rather than squeezing them dry.
• Heaven Hound Dao Lord: Reacts to news of the vanished Black Lotus Holy Sect with solemn decision, abruptly ending the probing plan; appears to know more than he reveals; his true background (possibly a Celestial Immortal) is hinted at.
• Dao Lord Hongyuan: Notably perceptive; suspects Liu Yuanchen but respects his strength; shifts focus toward higher-world opportunities via Sky-Suspended Ghost City.
• Myriad Spirits Dao Lord: Confounded by his treasure's failure; thoroughly investigates; somewhat disappointed at lack of answers.

3. Significant Themes

• Secrecy & Concealment: The difficulty of hiding world-class treasures; the South-Seeking Compass failure highlights the gap between detection and advanced spiritual/mundane concealment (or dimension-shifting).
• Power & Potential: Liu Yuanchen's growth represents untapped potential versus static peak-Earth-Immortal elders; the desire for Celestial Immortal breakthrough motivates the sect leaders.
• Desire & Collection: Liu Yuanchen's "collector's obsession" ties to his ambition—acquiring spirit roots and witch inheritances as stepping stones toward greater power.
• Memory & History: Using the lamp to relive the sect master's past exposes the intertwined history of humans, demons, extraterrestrials, and the Black Lotus Holy Sect—underscoring how past wars shape present grudges.

4. Character Interactions

• The Three Sect Giants: Myriad Spirits and Hongyuan debate the Black Lotus disappearance; Heaven Hound Dao Lord listens, then overrules further action, demonstrating his authority and hidden knowledge.
• Dao Lord Hongyuan ↔ Heaven Hound Dao Lord: Hongyuan's questions subtly test Heaven Hound's background; Heaven Hound’s reaction confirms he knows far more than he lets on.
• Liu Yuanchen ↔ Grandmasters: He shares news of the completed twelve Ancestor Witch inheritances; they praise him, joke he should have been "more ruthless," and willingly defer their Dao comprehension to lend him the lamp.
• Liu Yuanchen ↔ Ling Song Venerable (off-screen): Receives the message that the sect has dropped the Black Lotus matter—an implicit acknowledgment of his handiwork.

Note: The chapter ends with the memory segment, setting up plot threads involving Sky-Suspended Ghost City and the Black Lotus Holy Sect's past.