Chapter Summaries

A gray-robed elder from the Sun Moon Divine Church robbed cultivators of their treasures by revealing his overwhelming cultivation, and rumors made the church the target of widespread anger. The chapter ended as an enraged Eastern Ancient Clan Saint arrived to confront the church’s people.

• A gray-robed elder raised his cultivation from the first level of the Approaching Dao Realm to Half-Saint and took a purple-robed elder’s treasure.
• Rumors spread that the Sun Moon Divine Church had robbed hundreds of cultivators, including the Golden Luan Sage and an Eastern Ancient Clan Saint.
• A crowd attacked four Sun Moon Divine Church experts near the imperial mausoleum, beating them, knocking them unconscious, and stuffing them into sacks.
• The horse-faced middle-aged man learned that Ancestor Luoning was believed to be behind the robberies and questioned why his spirit tablet had shattered.
• An enraged Eastern Ancient Clan Saint arrived, demanding to know whether Sun Moon Divine Church members were present.

Hua Yunfei taught Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, and Jia Duobao the Backer Sect’s Dao of Caution while following the old ancestors. He then signed in and received the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor, an Emperor Armament, leaving him delighted to possess a second one alongside the Chaos Bell.

• The four Sun Moon Divine Church elders fled when the old Saint of the Eastern Ancient Clan arrived, but he pursued them and refused to hear their explanation.
• Hua Yunfei taught Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, and Jia Duobao the principles of the Dao of Caution and explained the rules for learning the sect’s core techniques.
• Hua Yunfei signed in after realizing a new month had begun and received the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor.
• The system revealed that the Pill Emperor had refined the cauldron into an Emperor Armament during his second, fatal Emperor Tribulation.
• Hua Yunfei stored the cauldron in the system space and celebrated having two Emperor Armaments, the other being the Chaos Bell.

At the emperor’s tomb, sacred grounds and clans returned after being robbed and blamed the Sun Moon Divine Church, while Hua Yunfei’s group intercepted Kunlun Divine Palace. The Sun Moon Sect Leader learned that Ancestor Luoning had robbed everyone emerging from the tomb and tried to determine who was responsible.

• Ten Thousand Caves Mountain returned to the tomb after being robbed, then unleashed Sage might while demanding that the Sun Moon Divine Church come out.
• The Celestial Pivot Holy Land and the Eastern Ancient Clan joined Ten Thousand Caves Mountain in planning to demand compensation from the Sun Moon Divine Church, regardless of who had truly robbed them.
• The Jade Pool Female Sage arrived, and Emperor’s Might flared as Kunlun Divine Palace clashed with the other side.
• Yun Tian Zhenren and Xuan He told Hua Yunfei that Old Ancestor of Emptiness had gone to intercept Kunlun Divine Palace, whose experts had brought an Emperor Armament.
• Three days later, Kunlun Divine Palace’s experts returned with dark faces, while Hua Yunfei’s group watched them.
• The Sun Moon Sect Leader learned that Ancestor Luoning and other church experts had robbed those leaving the emperor’s tomb, including members of Ultimate Sacred Grounds, and wondered who was behind it.

The Sun Moon Sect Leader suspected the Yaoguang Holy Land was behind the attacks on his sect, while Dao Xuwu returned to Daoyuan Peak after robbing Kunlun Divine Palace and described encountering another cultivator of the Dao of Caution. Dao Xuwu traced that mysterious cultivator’s Celestial Threads to Wildlands Province.

• The Sun Moon Sect Leader blamed the Yaoguang Holy Land for the Sun Moon Divine Church’s recent losses and called for Ancestor Luoyang when several major factions arrived to visit.
• Dao Xuwu told Xuan He and Yun Tian Zhenren that he had taken two treasures from Kunlun Divine Palace before fleeing with serious injuries.
• Dao Xuwu met Hua Yunfei and explained that he had encountered a concealed Saint who cultivated the Dao of Celestial Secrets, Karma, and Caution.
• Hua Yunfei and Xuan He recognized the mysterious cultivator as a fellow practitioner of the Dao of Caution and expressed interest in meeting him.
• Dao Xuwu said the cultivator’s Celestial Threads had vanished in the direction of Wildlands Province.

Hua Yunfei and Dao Xuwu erased evidence of the battle while Ancestor Luoyang’s deduction blamed Yaoguang Holy Land. Then the Profound Yellow Great Emperor’s phantom appeared and confronted a Buddha phantom at Spirit Mountain, where they spoke of their mutual defeat.

• Dao Xuwu gave out talismans to conceal Celestial Threads and karma, then sent the others back while he destroyed the evidence.
• Hua Yunfei gave Jia Duobao instructions, carried Ye Bufan and the other two in his sleeve, and followed Dao Xuwu to erase the remaining traces.
• Ancestor Luoyang used the Sun Moon Star Seal to investigate the battlefield and concluded that Yaoguang Holy Land was responsible.
• A white-robed figure watched Ancestor Luoyang leave and remarked that the rival factions could fight among themselves.
• The Profound Yellow Great Emperor’s phantom crossed the regions and paused at Spirit Mountain, where a Buddha phantom appeared and spoke with him.

Hua Yunfei returned to the Backer Sect and found its disciples mourning Di Shen Zhenren, whose apparent death followed a private conversation with Tianji Zhenren. In the sect’s Ancestral Land, Di Shen Zhenren revealed he was alive, had broken through after ten years of cultivation, and hoped to enter the Ancestral Tomb.

• Profound Yellow vanished after telling a young man that he should do what he wanted and need not face the terrifying future.
• Hua Yunfei returned to the Backer Sect with Ye Bufan, two others, and Dao Xuwu, where Elder Shi reported that Di Shen Zhenren had died from qi deviation.
• Dao Xuwu left to check the sect’s karmic ties, while Hua Yunfei led his companions to Foe God Peak and joined the funeral rites for Di Shen Zhenren.
• Gou Yuan Zhenren questioned Tianji Zhenren about his last conversation with Di Shen Zhenren, and Tianji Zhenren insisted they had discussed cultivation.
• In a Cave Abode in the sect’s Ancestral Land, Di Shen Zhenren broke through another realm and looked forward to entering the Ancestral Tomb.

Hua Yunfei paid respects at Di Shen Zhenren’s funeral while secretly dispersing the karma that threatened him, and Yun Tian Zhenren appointed a reluctant elder as Foe God Peak’s temporary Peak Master. The story then turned to the ancient Nangong Clan, whose power and prominence had faded after it encountered one person.

• A powerful karmic force struck Di Shen Zhenren, but Hua Yunfei dispersed it while offering incense at his funeral.
• Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, and Jia Duobao paid their respects, and Wuji Zhenren mourned Di Shen Zhenren before fighting Tianji Zhenren over his role in Di Shen’s qi deviation.
• Xuan He warned Tianji Zhenren to keep quiet, and Yun Tian Zhenren urged the sect’s elders to work harder and stop clinging to their positions.
• Yun Tian Zhenren appointed a younger elder as Foe God Peak’s temporary Peak Master and demanded that he break through to the Celestial Realm by the next day.
• The account introduced the Nangong Ancient Clan, which had once dominated the Eastern Region before it encountered one person and withdrew from public view.

The Nangong Clan Chief learned that a blue-robed clan member had been beaten and robbed by a green-robed cultivator, while a powerful white-robed figure had shattered his divination. He recognized the encounter as connected to the clan’s inherited Dao of Cautious Survival and sensed the clan member would meet the green-robed figure again, as Hua Yunfei and the others left Foe God Peak.

• Old Ancestor Nangong recalled how the Nangong Ancient Clan staged its destruction and secluded itself after an old man left behind The Saint of Cautious Survival.
• A bruised blue-robed youth asked the Nangong Clan Chief for justice after a green-robed cultivator defeated and robbed him.
• The Nangong Clan Chief tried to divine the green-robed cultivator, but a white-robed figure shattered the vision and destroyed his ancient compass.
• The Clan Chief warned the youth not to name the clan’s legendary benefactor and said his encounter involved a senior practitioner of the Dao of Cautious Survival.
• The Clan Chief told the youth to seek the Old Ancestor’s guidance and predicted that a Golden Age might soon let the Nangong Ancient Clan produce an Emperor.
• Hua Yunfei left Foe God Peak ahead of Ye Bufan and the others, while Jia Duobao looked astonished.

Hua Yunfei brought Jia Duobao to Daoyuan Peak, then tested the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor against the Chaos Bell and began refining his Natal Mystic Tool. The chapter ended with Hua Yunfei rejecting the system’s suggestion to fuse the Time-Space Divine Realm into his pagoda because he still needed the realm.

• Hua Yunfei warned Jia Duobao not to bring foul aura into Backer Sect, and Jia Duobao eagerly accepted him as his master.
• Hua Yunfei and his companions returned to Daoyuan Peak, where they saw disciples, including Li Duxiu, competing to build Cave Abodes.
• Hua Yunfei summoned the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor and the Chaos Bell, whose power overwhelmed the other Emperor Armament.
• The Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor sulked and withdrew into Hua Yunfei’s Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven, while the Chaos Bell showed off.
• Hua Yunfei added Celestial River Water, Eternal Immortal Gold, and Profound Yellow Energy to his Nine-Layered Pagoda and began refining it with the Time-Space Divine Realm’s laws.
• Hua Yunfei refused the system’s suggestion to fuse the entire Time-Space Divine Realm into his Natal Mystic Tool.

Hua Yunfei finished refining the Nine-Layered Pagoda and returned to find his disciples discussing a same-realm fight with him. After swiftly defeating Jia Duobao, he faced Huang Xuan, who challenged him to fight without holding back.

• Hua Yunfei completed the Nine-Layered Pagoda, which contained nine wisps of immortal qi and responded to him through a childlike manifestation.
• Huang Xuan defeated Jia Duobao in a sparring match, and Jia Duobao suggested that he and Ye Bufan challenge Hua Yunfei at the same realm.
• Hua Yunfei joined the group and offered a Great Saint cultivation technique to anyone who could touch him.
• Jia Duobao accepted the challenge but was knocked unconscious almost immediately by Hua Yunfei, who matched his apparent Violet Palace Realm cultivation.
• Huang Xuan challenged Hua Yunfei without fusing with the Emperor's Heart, and Hua Yunfei released the pressure of the ninth level of the Core Formation Realm.

Hua Yunfei defeated Huang Xuan and Ye Bufan in sparring, teaching them that an invincible heart could endure defeat. Meanwhile, Hua Cangqiong returned to the Backer Sect in secret and headed to Foe God Peak after hearing that Di Shen Zhenren had died.

• Hua Yunfei defeated Huang Xuan with one Solar Fist Sutra punch and explained that the Invincible Dao required an invincible heart, not an unbroken record of victories.
• Ye Bufan challenged Hua Yunfei, but Hua Yunfei sent him flying into Jia Duobao, who had just awakened beside the spirit lake.
• Huang Xuan learned Hua Yunfei had used about ninety percent of his strength and felt encouraged to keep trying to surpass him.
• Hua Cangqiong returned to the Backer Sect in disguise and told Elder Shi he planned to visit Wuji Zhenren at Limitless Peak.
• Elder Shi told Hua Cangqiong that Di Shen Zhenren had died, and Hua Cangqiong went to pay his respects while asking Elder Shi to keep his return secret.

Hua Cangqiong returned to the Backer Sect and beat Wuji Zhenren and pursued Gou Yuan Zhenren before meeting with Hua Yunfei. He told Hua Yunfei that his mother had run off with someone, leaving the circumstances unexplained.

• Elder Shi told the gatekeeping disciples that Hua Cangqiong was Hua Yunfei’s father and the former chief seat of Daoyuan Peak.
• Hua Cangqiong sent Wuji Zhenren flying into the sky and chased Gou Yuan Zhenren to Backer Peak.
• Yun Tian Zhenren offered Hua Cangqiong and Gou Yuan Zhenren tea, while Wuji Zhenren arrived and joined them.
• Hua Yunfei asked Hua Cangqiong where his mother was, and Hua Cangqiong said she had run off with someone.

Hua Cangqiong returned to Backer Sect after a mysterious man took Long Er to the Desolate Ancient Starfield, and the elders prepared to summon the sect’s ancestors to rescue her. Hua Yunfei suspected the man might not be as powerful as feared, then privately examined the tiny wisp of celestial fate he had extracted from his father.

• Hua Cangqiong told Yun Tian Zhenren and Hua Yunfei that a mysterious man had taken Long Er and left clues pointing to the Desolate Ancient Starfield.
• Hua Yunfei warned that the clues might be a trap, but Gou Yuan Zhenren and Wuji Zhenren insisted the sect should rescue their junior sister.
• Yun Tian Zhenren ordered the elders to invite the ancestors and open the Ancestral Tomb.
• Hua Yunfei received a system mission to recruit two disciples with at least lower-grade Saint-rank cultivation aptitude, but he was displeased by the timing and questioned the system’s motives.
• After the system suggested the kidnapper might not consider them a threat, Hua Yunfei reconsidered the danger and secretly revealed the tiny wisp of celestial fate he had extracted from Hua Cangqiong.

Hua Yunfei traced the Celestial Threads to a powerful man in black who had taken his mother, then formally accepted Jia Duobao as his disciple and prepared to leave. He gave Huang Xuan the Time-Space Divine Realm token so he could cultivate undisturbed while Hua Yunfei was away.

• Hua Yunfei used the Celestial Threads on Hua Cangqiong to glimpse his mother and a man in black, but the man noticed him and shattered the vision.
• The man in black crushed the Celestial Threads and continued through the starfield with Hua Yunfei's mother, who asked why he had taken her.
• Hua Yunfei judged the man arrogant and resolved to confront him, then returned to Daoyuan Peak.
• Hua Yunfei formally accepted Jia Duobao as his disciple, gave him the sect's cultivation arts and Identity Jade Pendant, and imparted One Qi, Three Purities.
• Hua Yunfei said he needed to leave soon and gave Huang Xuan the Time-Space Divine Realm token so Huang Xuan could cultivate in seclusion.

Hua Yunfei left Daoyuan Peak in the care of Ye Bufan while Huang Xuan entered seclusion and Jia Duobao abandoned plans for grave robbing. Aboard a concealed Bronze Ark, Hua Yunfei, Hua Cangqiong, Hua Cangtian, and Dao Xuwu headed to investigate Long’s abduction, deciding to search the site of the incident for clues before pursuing the kidnapper.

• Hua Yunfei departed Daoyuan Peak, and Ye Bufan activated its formations to protect the peak while Huang Xuan cultivated in seclusion.
• Jia Duobao suggested that he, Ye Bufan, and Huang Xuan go grave robbing, but Huang Xuan withdrew and Ye Bufan persuaded Jia Duobao to cultivate instead.
• Dao Xuwu traveled aboard a concealed Bronze Ark with Hua Yunfei, Hua Cangqiong, and Hua Cangtian after escaping another beating in the Ancestral Tomb.
• Hua Cangtian promised Hua Yunfei that he would bring Long back safely, then scolded Hua Cangqiong for doubting him.
• Hua Yunfei and Hua Cangtian agreed to investigate the site where Long had been taken and use the remaining heavenly secrets to track the abductor.
• Hua Yunfei noted that the disappearance of the Xuanhuang Emperor's Tomb seemed to have loosened the Great Dao's suppression during the Era of Dharma Decline.

Hua Yunfei and the others investigated the traces left by a powerful figure in the Azure Wolf Starfield, while Hua Yunfei discovered how formidable Hua Cangtian was. They began using a compass artifact to gather the figure’s celestial traces, but the effort was difficult even for three Sage-level experts.

• Hua Cangtian and Hua Yunfei discussed the loosening Emperor Dao suppression and speculated that an ancient expert had awakened early to adapt to the current world.
• Hua Yunfei, Hua Cangtian, Dao Xuwu, and Hua Cangqiong traveled to the Azure Wolf Starfield aboard a concealed Bronze Ark.
• Dao Xuwu and Hua Cangtian traded barbs, and Hua Yunfei saw that Hua Cangtian had secretly reached Sage Realm Perfection.
• Hua Cangtian punched Hua Cangqiong three times before Hua Yunfei urged the group to focus on their investigation.
• The four reached the site where Hua Cangqiong and his wife had encountered the mysterious figure and sensed the powerful aura traces left behind.
• Dao Xuwu used a compass artifact, strengthened by Hua Cangtian and Hua Cangqiong, to gather the lingering celestial traces.

Hua Yunfei used Jia Duobao’s Bronze Compass to trace the man who had taken his mother, and Hua Cangtian destroyed the demonic shadows guarding the trail. The four traveled toward the Desolate Ancient Starfield, where strange events had begun to appear.

• Hua Yunfei enhanced Dao Xuwu’s compass artifact with the Bronze Compass and helped reveal a silvery thread leading toward the Desolate Ancient Starfield.
• Hua Cangtian and the others set out to follow the thread and rescue Hua Yunfei’s mother.
• Ten demonic shadows ambushed the group, and Hua Cangtian killed them all with golden fist rays.
• Hua Yunfei guided the trail into the Bronze Compass, and the four departed aboard the Bronze Ark.
• After they left, an old man emerged from a silver river, searched the starry sky for someone, and vanished as a storm swept through.
• The chapter recounted the Desolate Ancient Starfield’s former glory and decline, then noted that strange events had recently begun there.

The black-clad man destroyed the Spirit Dragon Immortal Sect and fed its stolen life force to the woman in white to push her toward Sagehood. When an unknown expert struck him through a silver-white thread, a faint light entered the woman, giving her hope as she faced the Sage Tribulation.

• After the Spirit Dragon Immortal Sect publicly investigated the destruction of life-bearing stars, the black-clad man wiped out the sect, including its Half-Saint ancestor.
• The black-clad man condensed the sect members' blood qi and essence, energy, and spirit into a blood sphere and forced the woman in white to absorb it.
• As the woman in white began her Sage Tribulation, the black-clad man said he intended to raise her to the Great Saint Realm and take revenge on the Desolate Ancient Starfield.
• A silver-white thread connected the black-clad man to an unknown expert, whose enormous hand struck him across the face with Sage's might and a trace of Emperor's Might.
• The black-clad man welcomed the chance to fight the expert, while a faint stream of light from the great hand entered the woman in white and filled her with hope.

The man in black destroyed worlds across the Desolate Ancient Starfield to empower the woman in white and pursue a chance at a supreme realm. When Xiao Fei arrived in the Bronze Ark to take his mother away, the man in black revealed he had been waiting for the youths and ordered Long to attack one of her companions.

• The man in black gathered the blood of beings from hundreds of planets and brought the woman in white to Desolate Ancient Star, the starfield’s final stop.
• The white-robed guardian activated a thread of Ancient Sacred Body origin, raising his power to the Saint King Realm, but a streak of light from the Bronze Ark soothed the origin and ended the celestial phenomenon.
• Xiao Fei stepped out of the Bronze Ark and reunited with the woman in white, while the man in black let him take her away.
• Three more young Sage Realm experts emerged from the Bronze Ark, and the man in black said he had been waiting for them before telling Long to strike.
• Long’s glabella turned black as her power rose to the Saint King Realm, and she pressed her hand against the chest of the person who had cared for her.

Hua Yunfei freed Long Yan Yue from Yan Luo’s curse and discovered that Yan Luo was an ancient Quasi-Emperor who planned to devour her Dao Attainment Physique. Yan Luo attacked, but Hua Yunfei summoned the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor, leaving the two artifacts clashing.

• Hua Yunfei used the Great Dao’s power to dispel the strange force controlling Long Yan Yue, and she embraced him before Hua Cangqiong.
• Hua Yunfei identified the black-clad man as Yan Luo, a prodigy from the era of the Xuan Tian Great Emperor whose true cultivation was at the first layer of the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Hua Yunfei learned that Yan Luo had abducted Long Yan Yue to cultivate her as a great medicine and devour her Dao Attainment Physique to improve his chances of becoming an Emperor.
• Yan Luo unleashed Black Profound, creating a black hole that enveloped Hua Yunfei and the others.
• Hua Yunfei summoned the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor, shattered the black hole, and suppressed Yan Luo with Emperor Dao Laws.
• Yan Luo drew his Dark Mysterious Sword and struck the Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor.