Chapter Summaries

Yue Shuo unleashed his sixty-percent-awakened Chaos Sacred Body and Taiji visualization, devouring energy and sensing the Grotto-Heaven as it began to collapse. He noticed his cranes and He Tian were in danger, then sent Spirit Cranes to aid several familiar acquaintances, including Gu Jiu, who had become a Qi Refining cultivator.

• Yue Shuo cultivated at full strength, converting the Four Symbols Tokens as his Chaos Sacred Body and Taiji visualization absorbed the Grotto-Heaven’s energy and laws.
• Yue Shuo discovered that his Chaos Sacred Body had awakened to sixty percent and sensed that his cultivation was causing the Grotto-Heaven to shrink.
• Yue Shuo perceived fragmentary spaces collapsing and saw cultivators fleeing, including his cranes, He Tian, and cultivators from the Beast Taming Sect.
• Yue Shuo noticed Tian Wan, Gu Jiu, and Zou Chongying together and sent nearby Spirit Cranes to help them.
• Yue Shuo realized that Gu Jiu, whom he had left on Little Hemmu Island, had entered cultivation and reached Qi Refining Level Three.

Yue Shuo followed Gu Yang’s aura to a Star Palace, where an ancient spirit tried to possess Gu Yang to pass on the Astral Dao inheritance. Yue Shuo sealed the spirit and contacted Senior Ze for help as the Grotto-Heaven continued to collapse.

• Yue Shuo searched the Grotto-Heaven for his missing cousin Gu Yang and followed a faint trace of his aura.
• Gu Yang cultivated the Stellar Body Tempering Art in a Star Palace, unknowingly absorbing violet starlight from a hidden spirit-light cluster.
• The spirit-light cluster decided to possess Gu Yang after the Chaos Devouring Physique made Yue Shuo unsuitable for its inheritance.
• Yue Shuo arrived as the spirit tried to enter him, trapped it in the Spirit-Sealing Bottle, and suppressed it beneath the Imperial Spirit Golden Page.
• Yue Shuo found no other inheritance, activated the Astral Gold Mirror to summon help, and resolved to protect the disciples as the Grotto-Heaven collapsed.

Yue Shuo survived a violet Spirit Body’s attempt to possess him when the Black and White Taiji Diagram destroyed it and refined its soul power. After escaping the collapsing Grotto-Heaven, he refined a Four Symbols Token and used the Vermilion Bird Star Palace to gather the scattered spatial fragments into a more stable region.

• As the Grotto-Heaven began to collapse, Yue Shuo tried to send Gu Yang into the Spirit Bird Space, but a violet Spirit Body surged into his consciousness through his Primordial Spirit power.
• The Black and White Taiji Diagram ground the violet Spirit Body to pieces, and Yue Shuo absorbed the resulting soul power, raising his Divine Soul to peak Fifth-Tier while the diagram grew clearer.
• Yue Shuo noticed that one Four Symbols Token no longer showed an incomplete soul imprint, then dodged a huge hand reaching through the collapsing palace.
• After Senior Ze told Yue Shuo to verify the rescuer with the Sect Imprint, Yue Shuo confirmed the huge hand belonged to the Sect Master and was carried out of the Grotto-Heaven.
• Yue Shuo contacted Senior Ze through his Spirit Cranes, refined the cleaned Four Symbols Token, and gained control of Star Palace formations.
• Yue Shuo controlled the Vermilion Bird Star Palace to draw together the Grotto-Heaven’s spatial fragments and form a more stable region.

Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen to guard him while he worked to control the collapsing Grotto-Heaven, and he tested Gu Yang before releasing the sealed Spirit Body. The Spirit Body was ground down by Yue Shuo’s Taiji Diagram, pushing his Divine Soul to Sixth-Tier and leaving Jiang Chen stunned by how much Yue Shuo’s strength exceeded his known records.

• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen to stand guard while he refined the Grotto-Heaven core, and Jiang Chen agreed.
• Jiang Chen stopped Grand Elders from other sects from attacking the Grotto-Heaven entrance, slowing its collapse.
• Yue Shuo checked Gu Yang for Spirit Body fragments and handed him to Jiang Chen for another inspection.
• Yue Shuo contacted the sealed Spirit Body, which broke free and rushed into his Primordial Spirit, where the Taiji Diagram ground it into soul power.
• Yue Shuo used the soul power to break through from Fifth-Tier to Sixth-Tier Divine Soul, and Jiang Chen realized the sect records of Yue Shuo’s strength were far behind.

Yue Shuo continued refining the Four Symbols Grotto-Heaven and devised a formation-based way to expose its hidden Remnant Spirit. As the other sects argued over the Grotto-Heaven, a calamity struck the Eastern Sea Region, forcing them to leave and rescue its islands.

• Yue Shuo refined three quarters of the Four Symbols Tokens, learned the Grotto-Heaven was called the Four Symbols Grotto-Heaven, and found that the White Tiger Token still showed an incomplete soul seal.
• Unable to locate the remaining Remnant Spirit, Yue Shuo restored the Four Symbols and Twenty-Eight Mansions Star Formation and used its resonance to intensify his refinement and draw the spirit out.
• Yue Shuo located more than one hundred Golden Core cultivators from other sects but kept them out of conspicuous locations in case the Remnant Spirit had possessed one of them.
• The other sects' grand elders held back from intervening while Jiang Chen remained present and their Golden Core cultivators were still alive.
• A sudden upheaval brought towering waves to the Eastern Sea Region, and the other sects removed the spatial Spirit Treasure and went to rescue the islands; Jiang Chen sent the Beast Taming Sect's disciples to help with disaster relief.

Yue Shuo refined the Four Symbols Grotto-Heaven and discovered that its unstable connection had caused natural disasters in the Eastern Sea Region. He began restoring balance to the region, while Jiang Chen was left stunned by Yue Shuo’s abilities and agreed to assist him.

• Yue Shuo fused the Four Symbols Tokens, refined the Grotto-Heaven core token, and closed the entrance as Jiang Chen confirmed the process had worked.
• Yue Shuo learned that the Grotto-Heaven had drained spiritual energy from the Eastern Sea Region, and that his adjustments to its Star Formation had triggered a clash of laws and natural disasters.
• Yue Shuo chose to calm the chaotic laws rather than abandon the Grotto-Heaven, and he used his Five-Element Immortal Spiritual Root to restore balance while absorbing excess Spirit Essence.
• Jiang Chen watched Yue Shuo effortlessly sort and convert the chaotic powers, and began suspecting that he was a reincarnated great power.
• Yue Shuo asked the distracted Jiang Chen to help, and Jiang Chen introduced himself and offered to coordinate under Yue Shuo’s direction.

Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo worked together to calm the Eastern Sea Region’s chaotic power of heaven and earth and settled on addressing each other as senior and junior brothers. They began discussing how to deal with the cultivators and a possible remnant spirit in the Grotto-Heaven.

• Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo cooperated to suppress the natural disaster, restoring order in the Eastern Sea Region while other Spirit Transformation cultivators kept their distance.
• Yue Shuo privately complained to Senior Ze about Jiang Chen, while Jiang Chen told Elder Ze he suspected Yue Shuo was the reincarnation of a powerful figure.
• Elder Ze considered the risks of Yue Shuo’s arrival and decided the sect would need to adjust its plans.
• Jiang Chen suggested that Yue Shuo call him Senior Brother Jiang, and Yue Shuo agreed after they discussed their shared regard for Elder Ze.
• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen how to handle the other sects’ disciples and a possible remnant spirit in the Grotto-Heaven, and Jiang Chen shared his earlier speculation.

Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo investigated the Grotto-Heaven Spirit and freed the trapped cultivators while helping the Eastern Sea Region recover. As they discussed the Spirit Taming Sect’s history with the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Chen struck down a group of Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Yue Shuo questioned their strength and schemes.

• Jiang Chen explained methods for refining artifacts and suggested how someone’s soul might have become the Grotto-Heaven Spirit, while Yue Shuo gathered clues to capture the Remnant Spirit.
• Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo inspected cultivators in the Grotto-Heaven, released those without problems, and kept uncertain cultivators inside.
• Yue Shuo kept Gu Jiu, Tian Wan, and Zou Chongying in the Grotto-Heaven after learning that Fire Gourd Island and their elders had been lost in the Demon Calamity.
• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo how the Spirit Taming Sect had helped the realm flourish and had clashed with its Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a hundred-zhang God and Devil and slapped away a group of Spirit Transformation cultivators who had come to challenge the sect.
• Yue Shuo wondered whether the injured cultivators were hiding their strength or wasting effort on schemes, and Jiang Chen laughed at his remarks.

Jiang Chen brought Yue Shuo back to the Beast Taming Sect, where Yue Shuo repaired and reorganized the Grotto-Heaven before returning to Great Yue Peak. There, he discovered his twin younger siblings had grown into walking toddlers and carried them to find their mother.

• Jiang Chen compensated Yue Shuo and taught him how to traverse Boundary-Layer Space, and Yue Shuo quickly completed his spatial Divine Ability Rune through Enlightenment.
• Senior Ze examined Yue Shuo at the Inheritance Hall and found no issue, after which Yue Shuo returned to his peak to handle Grotto-Heaven matters.
• Yue Shuo searched for the missing remnant spirit and began restoring the Four Symbols Star Palace Cluster and merging the Grotto-Heaven's spatial fragments.
• Yue Shuo organized the Grotto-Heaven's residents into work assignments, setting resource exchanges according to their Karma and restricting those who had committed grave crimes.
• Yue Shuo returned to Great Yue Peak, found his twin younger siblings playing with a large cat, and carried them to his mother, who was cultivating at a nearby spirit spring.

After returning from a year away, Yue Shuo visited his master and martial uncle on Yanjin Peak and offered to improve its mountain-protecting formation array. He left them arranging the Fifth-Tier materials he requested to raise the array's grade.

• Yue Shuo let He Tian lead nine Spirit Cranes out of the Grotto-Heaven to prepare to break through, while the others remained inside.
• Yue Shuo returned home, played with his baby siblings, and learned from Madam Su that his father had entered seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Yue Shuo visited Ning Xin and Yan Ning on Yanjin Peak, thanked them for protecting his family, and discussed his time in the Eastern Sea Region.
• Yue Shuo proposed upgrading Yanjin Peak's mountain-protecting formation array, and Yan Ning offered to obtain the needed materials.
• Yue Shuo named several Fifth-Tier materials he needed, causing Yan Ning's smile to freeze.

Yue Shuo told Ning Xin and Yan Ning that he had mastered specific Fifth-Tier formations after studying an inherited Grotto-Heaven, prompting them to consider finding him a more suitable mentor. He then revealed that he had also reached Fourth-Tier alchemy and gave them pills he had refined.

• Yue Shuo said he needed a few Fifth-Tier materials to raise Blazing Gold Peak's formation to the Fifth-Tier, but Ning Xin and Yan Ning doubted he could do it.
• Yue Shuo explained that he had spent a year in an inherited Grotto-Heaven learning the Formation Dao and could set up certain Fifth-Tier formations.
• Ning Xin and Yan Ning realized Yue Shuo's formation talent was exceptional and resolved to find a Supreme Elder who could give him better resources and instruction.
• Yue Shuo clarified that alchemy did not hold him back either and gave Ning Xin and Yan Ning two bottles each of Fourth-Tier Spirit Pills he had refined.

Yue Shuo reinforced the Spirit Peak formations and sought advice on obtaining Tribulation Aura, while his master and martial uncle marveled at his Fourth-Tier alchemy and formation skills. Senior Ze contacted Jiang Chen, who considered even Yue Shuo reaching Fifth-Tier Formation Dao perfectly normal for a reincarnated expert.

• Yue Shuo chose to prioritize cultivation and reinforced Yanjin Peak’s Spirit Peak Grand Formation, integrating its core into his master’s Spirit Peak Seal.
• Yue Shuo asked Ning Xin and Yan Ning how to obtain Tribulation Aura, and they warned him not to believe he could control Calamity Fortune before suggesting he consult Senior Ze.
• Ning Xin and Yan Ning examined Yue Shuo’s supreme-grade Fourth-Tier Spirit Pills and wondered whether he could also refine Fifth-Tier pills.
• Senior Ze reassured Ning Xin and Yan Ning, then asked Jiang Chen whether he knew Yue Shuo’s Formation Dao had reached at least the peak of Fourth-Tier.
• Jiang Chen said that even Fifth-Tier Formation Dao would be unsurprising for Yue Shuo, whom he believed to be a reincarnated mighty expert.

Elder Ze and Jiang Chen concluded that Yue Shuo might be a reincarnated mighty figure and decided to speak candidly with him about the sect master position and their plans. Jiang Chen visited Yue Shuo as he strengthened the formation around Taiyue Twin Peaks, where the new grand formation began to take shape.

• Jiang Chen argued that Yue Shuo’s extraordinary cultivation and mastery of alchemy and formations pointed to a reincarnated mighty figure.
• Elder Ze and Jiang Chen agreed that Yue Shuo’s rapid progress could make him surpass Jiang Chen, and Jiang Chen offered to abdicate in his favor.
• Elder Ze reminded Jiang Chen that Yue Shuo might Ascend first, so Jiang Chen proposed explaining the sect master position’s benefits, costs, and their Ascension plans openly.
• Jiang Chen went to Great Yue Peak and offered to help Yue Shuo, who sensed him and continued working.
• Yue Shuo used twenty-eight Ancient Treasures and five Five Elements formation foundations to build a simplified Twenty-Eight Mansions Four Symbols Astral Grand Formation.
• The formation’s heaven and earth began to take shape as it drew on the power of the heavens and stars, earth veins, and Spiritual Veins.

Yue Shuo learned how to adapt the Stellar Grand Formation to this world's stars and asked Jiang Chen how to obtain the energy his cultivation and Grotto-Heaven required. Jiang Chen explained the sect master's benefits and revealed that the Beast Taming Sect needed an Ascended One of the direct lineage.

• Yue Shuo questioned Jiang Chen about how the Stellar Grand Formation worked despite the different positions of this world's stars, and Jiang Chen explained that worlds shared fundamental laws.
• Yue Shuo adjusted the formation to better suit this world, then invited Jiang Chen to his cave residence and asked how he could obtain more resources.
• Jiang Chen described the sources of energy crystals, the difficulty of finding mines, and the benefits of serving as sect master.
• Yue Shuo guessed that Jiang Chen's talk about sect-master benefits reflected Senior Ze's intention, and Jiang Chen confirmed that the Beast Taming Sect needed an Ascended One of the direct lineage.

Yue Shuo chose to follow sect rules and compete for the Dao Child position, hoping to fulfill Senior Ze’s expectations and eventually Ascend. After a day of preparation, he was ready for the True Disciple Challenge and was teleported to its starting mountain peak.

• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo that he could learn about Ascension from jade slips in the Inheritance Hall and asked whether he would seek a private discussion or follow the proper order to become a Dao Child.
• Yue Shuo chose to challenge his way through the True Disciples before taking the Dao Child Examination, and Jiang Chen explained that the True Disciple Challenge could begin at any time.
• Jiang Chen scheduled the challenge for the next day, and Senior Ze activated the Inner Sect’s teleportation arrays so disciples could reach the public event in time.
• Yue Shuo spent a day in secluded cultivation, found only a faint trace of Tribulation Aura, and concluded that the Beast Taming Sect alone could not provide enough to fuel his breakthrough.
• After Senior Ze reminded him, Yue Shuo declared himself ready and Jiang Chen’s spatial power teleported him to a mountain peak.

Jiang Chen prepared the Beast Taming Sect’s True Disciple Challenge while Yue Shuo learned how Tribulation Aura could spread through conflicts and damage others’ Fortune. Yue Shuo rejected the idea of stirring up trouble within his own sect and asked Senior Ze about leading a team beyond it; the challenge then began under revised eligibility rules.

• Jiang Chen explained the Core Disciples’ status and the Spirit Peak’s Cloud-Borne Lotus to Yue Shuo, who asked whether it could be refined into flying Treasure Artifacts.
• Yue Shuo discussed with Senior Ze how escalating a minor dispute could create Tribulation Aura, drain others’ Fortune, and draw more people into a growing calamity.
• Yue Shuo considered provoking conflicts to gain Tribulation Aura but decided against harvesting his own territory because he felt a sense of belonging to the Beast Taming Sect.
• Yue Shuo asked Senior Ze whether the inter-sect competitions had ended and whether he could lead a team; Senior Ze agreed to have Jiang Chen accompany and protect him.
• The True Disciple Challenge began with revised rules allowing eligible Inner Sect disciples under one hundred years old, backed by an elder and above Third-Tier combat strength, to apply; fewer than thirty challengers took the lotus platform.

Yue Shuo challenged all the True Disciples and aspiring competitors at once to secure the Dao Child position quickly. He overwhelmed their combined assault, leaving the sect elders stunned by his strength.

• Yue Shuo proposed settling the True Disciple challenge all at once, and Jiang Chen agreed.
• Yue Shuo took the platform, suppressed the crowd with his Primordial Spirit power, and challenged everyone to attack him together.
• After Jiang Chen approved, the True Disciples and competing disciples joined the battle and unleashed their strongest attacks in cooperation.
• Yue Shuo smashed through spells and Treasure Artifacts with his fists while the Array Formation Space repaired the damage.
• Jiang Chen and the Inner Sect elders watched in shock as Yue Shuo made the combined attack look effortless.

Yue Shuo defeated the True Disciples in the Beast Taming Sect’s Dao Child selection and was formally declared the sect’s Dao Child. Jiang Chen declined to take him as a disciple, and Elder Ze brought Yue Shuo to the Inheritance Hall to explain the sect’s need for an Ascender and the Upper Realm.

• Ning Xin and Yan Ning recognized Yue Shuo’s Fourth-Tier Gods-and-Devils Body Tempering and tried to explain his rapid progress through his talent and resources.
• Yue Shuo defeated the participating True Disciples, gave Spirit Pills to the injured, and won their wholehearted support.
• Jiang Chen formally announced Yue Shuo as the Beast Taming Sect’s Dao Child, and Senior Ze updated his authority and records.
• Ning Xin and Yan Ning asked whether Jiang Chen would take Yue Shuo as his disciple, but Jiang Chen declined and asked Elder Ze to explain that someone in the Upper Realm had taken an interest in him.
• Elder Ze teleported Yue Shuo to the Inheritance Hall, granted him authority there, and told him about Ascension, the Upper Realm, and the sect’s need for an Ascender.

Yue Shuo learned why the Beast Taming Sect needed its direct inheritors to Ascend and how Ascension affected the missing Patriarch and the world’s origin. He agreed to help the sect Ascend as soon as possible, then considered whether weakening the world might make Ascension easier, prompting Senior Ze to warn him against destroying the world.

• Jiang Chen and Senior Ze explained that a direct inheritor’s Ascension sent Fortune back to the missing Patriarch, with the amount depending on the inheritor’s ties to the sect.
• Jiang Chen explained that Ascenders took World Origin with them and that the Beast Taming Sect returned Fortune to its Patriarch rather than feeding it back into the realm.
• Yue Shuo declared that his loyalty lay with the Beast Taming Sect and that he would Ascend as soon as possible if Senior Ze needed him to.
• Jiang Chen explained that the sect leader’s line faced Heavenly Dao interference and that successful Tribulation Crossing compelled a cultivator to Ascend.
• Yue Shuo asked whether downgrading the world would make Ascension easier, and Jiang Chen said it could damage the realm and weaken what an Ascender carried away.
• Senior Ze rebuked Jiang Chen for encouraging the idea and warned Yue Shuo that destroying the world would leave him with a karmic burden.

Yue Shuo learned that the Beast Taming Sect would fully fund his cultivation as its Dao Child, and received a huge supply of crystals and other benefits. He prepared to claim the sect’s inheritances and strengthen his Household, while wondering how the previous Dao Child had squandered such advantages.

• Senior Ze persuaded Yue Shuo not to Ascend early by explaining that greater cultivation brought more feedback from heaven and earth.
• Jiang Chen explained that the Dao Child could act with the sect master's authority and outrank a deputy sect master, and Senior Ze promised to supply Yue Shuo's cultivation resources.
• Yue Shuo requested Spirit Crystals and Tribulation Aura, and Senior Ze gave him five hundred million Spirit Crystals.
• Jiang Chen gave Yue Shuo a personal gift of crystals and Immortal Crystals, prompting Yue Shuo to resolve to better prepare his Household before Ascending.
• Senior Ze told Yue Shuo to receive the sect's inheritances, and Yue Shuo learned that his Dao Child benefits included one hundred million points every hundred years.