Chapter Summaries

Yue Shuo refined Third-Tier Spirit Pills effortlessly while considering how to prepare his family for his Ascension and discussing Jiang Chen’s ambitions. The chapter ended with Yue Shuo assigning Jiang Chen to teach pill refinement to the Spirit Crane Children.

• Yue Shuo explained that his Nirvana Fire could automatically refine familiar Spirit Pills, while Jiang Chen watched over him.
• Yue Shuo considered nurturing his family and their elders so they could remain safe after he ascended in twenty years.
• Jiang Chen proposed punching the Heavenly Dao, sweeping across the Spirit Realm, and taking Elder Ze along when they ascended; Yue Shuo agreed to discuss possible methods later.
• Yue Shuo learned that Jiang Chen could refine pills at a Third-Tier skill level and offered to teach him.
• Yue Shuo summoned the Spirit Crane Children, gave them pill furnaces, and asked Jiang Chen to guide their Alchemy training.

Yue Shuo attended the Heavenly Extreme Sect’s grand competition, where the sect’s Supreme Elders treated him with conspicuous respect after sensing his unusual power. With Jiang Chen’s encouragement, Yue Shuo decided to challenge the sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators to work through his urge to stir up trouble, leaving them eager to refuse.

• Jiang Chen was assigned to teach the Little Spirit Cranes alchemy while Yue Shuo continued refining pills.
• Yue Shuo attended the sect competition and sat among the Supreme Elders, who showed him unusual friendliness after assessing his strength.
• Jiang Chen explained that Yue Shuo’s powerful Divine Soul and cultivation made him stand out, and Yue Shuo reflected that his new confidence might be a rebound from his earlier insecurity.
• Jiang Chen advised Yue Shuo to face several all-out battles, and Yue Shuo challenged the Heavenly Extreme Sect’s Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The Spirit Transformation cultivators feared Yue Shuo’s tribulation lightning, and a Supreme Elder gently asked whether Yue Shuo was dissatisfied with the competition’s hospitality.

Yue Shuo visited the Heavenly Extreme Sect and the other five great sects, where he was treated with impeccable courtesy and given access to ordinary inheritances and cultivation grounds. The six sects later revealed why they had chosen accommodation: they feared provoking the Beast Taming Sect’s new Dao Child after witnessing his overwhelming power.

• Yue Shuo finished his visit to the Heavenly Extreme Sect, where the Beast Taming Sect won the competition and he studied ordinary inheritances before being politely escorted out.
• Jiang Chen persuaded Yue Shuo to visit other great sects, and each sect welcomed him, let him inspect its resources, and courteously sent him away after three days.
• After nearly a month of travel, Yue Shuo stopped visiting smaller sects, reviewed the knowledge he had gathered from the six great sects, and continued cultivating aboard the Flying Cloud Palace.
• The six great sects shared reports of Yue Shuo’s visits and discussed their alliance, which balanced hostility toward the Beast Taming Sect with a conciliatory faction seeking to preserve their inheritances.
• The sect elders recalled that Yue Shuo had intimidated their delegations at the Heavenly Extreme Sect’s marketplace by striking disrespectful cultivators with tribulation lightning, leaving many badly injured.
• The sects’ Void Refinement Supreme Elders refused to test Yue Shuo, whose power and connection to the Heavenly Dao had made them wary.

The six great sects chose to restrain themselves and wait rather than risk provoking Yue Shuo, bringing peace to the Beast Taming Sect. Under Jiang Chen’s protection, Yue Shuo grew stronger through battles and resolved to repay his parents’ karma by using a Sixth-Tier Sea Beast’s origin source to restore his mother; the chapter ended as he attacked it.

• The six great sects’ Void Refinement Grand Elders agreed to rein in their sects and endure until Yue Dao Child and True Lord Yujing Ascended.
• Jiang Chen led Yue Shuo across the world to challenge powerful figures and gather treasures, while the Beast Taming Sect enjoyed a period of peace.
• Yue Shuo grew through battles, absorbed their spoils and insights, and advanced his Body Tempering to the Peak Fifth-Tier.
• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo that his mother’s origin source had likely been depleted by bearing five children and urged him to replenish it with a Sixth-Tier Sea Beast’s origin source.
• Yue Shuo recognized that repaying his parents’ grace was necessary to settle his karma in this life, then attacked the Sixth-Tier Sea Beast with a lightning sword.

Yue Shuo used his Water and Five-Element abilities to subdue and refine a giant Sea Beast, then consumed its Beast Cores to break through to Sixth-Tier Body Tempering. After consolidating his cultivation, he asked Jiang Chen where to find the most high-tier resources.

• Yue Shuo fought the giant Sea Beast, advanced his Water-Element Law to the Sixth-Tier, and discovered that its immense vitality made it difficult to kill with direct attacks.
• Yue Shuo trapped the Sea Beast in an array and used fused Five-Element abilities to carve it apart and refine its bloodline essence while Jiang Chen guarded against approaching Sea Folk.
• Yue Shuo refined hundreds of Beast Cores, raising his Alchemy proficiency to the Middle Fifth-Tier as he extracted them.
• Yue Shuo consumed dozens of Sixth-Tier Lower-Grade Beast Cores and Outer Sea energy to break through to Sixth-Tier Body Tempering, further fusing his Five-Element Divine Ability with his body.
• Yue Shuo consolidated his cultivation by consuming spiritual resources, then asked Jiang Chen where to find more high-tier items and resources.

Yue Shuo returned to the Beast Taming Sect with Jiang Chen after retrieving Big Whale and a mysterious relative from Sea Prefecture. At the sect, Jiang Chen and Senior Ze disagreed over whether Yue Shuo should travel and fight or cultivate in seclusion, leaving the decision to him.

• Jiang Chen brought Yue Shuo to Sea Prefecture, where Yue Shuo retrieved Big Whale and broke a formation to take a Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivator—apparently his grandfather—into his Grotto-Heaven.
• Jiang Chen returned Yue Shuo and the other disciples to the Beast Taming Sect, where Senior Ze recorded the disciples' conduct and distributed their mission rewards.
• Senior Ze declared Yue Shuo better suited to be sect master, and Jiang Chen agreed before asking when Yue Shuo would take over.
• Jiang Chen explained that Void Refinement cultivators faced Heavenly Dao suppression, while he could still move freely because of his Outer Realm cultivation and the sect's Fortune.
• Jiang Chen urged Yue Shuo to travel through the sect's territories and establish his strength through battles, while Senior Ze advised him to cultivate in seclusion using the sect's resources.
• Jiang Chen and Senior Ze left the choice to Yue Shuo, with Jiang Chen warning that he might not be able to travel freely for much longer.

Yue Shuo returned to the sect intending to cultivate in seclusion, improve his Qi Refining, and finish the Nine Tribulations, while learning that his Beast Pills could help restore his mother’s origin. Jiang Chen and Senior Ze realized Yue Shuo might have inherited the original Phoenix Emperor Tribulation-Transference Nirvana Art, whose Nine Tribulations had a different purpose from the revised version.

• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen how long he could avoid Heavenly Dao suppression, and Jiang Chen said he could deceive it for three to five years.
• Senior Ze examined Yue Shuo’s Beast Pills and said their high-level vitality required external refinement, but their faint Dragon-Breath Origin could replenish Yue Shuo’s mother’s origin.
• Yue Shuo asked Senior Ze to record his new Beast Pill formula and said he planned to continue drawing down Minor Heavenly Tribulations to complete the Nine Tribulations.
• Jiang Chen explained that the revised art allowed only three Tribulations at each of three cultivation stages, while Yue Shuo had already completed more than five.
• Senior Ze suggested Yue Shuo had inherited the original version of the Phoenix Emperor Tribulation-Transference Nirvana Art, and Jiang Chen asked whether Senior Ze had deliberately arranged it despite the original version’s supposedly impossible final Three Tribulations.

Yue Shuo learned why the original Nine Tribulations to Immortality technique’s final three Tribulations were difficult, but chose to keep cultivating it with Jiang Chen and Senior Ze’s support. After agreeing to cultivate with the sect’s resources before traveling to other realms, he shared proposals for the Beast Taming Sect’s future.

• Senior Ze explained that the original technique’s final three Tribulations required immense Tribulation Aura, and that an Ascended Immortal had succeeded by breaking a World-Destroying Tribulation.
• Yue Shuo reasoned that success might require Tribulation Aura and Fortune to coexist and transform, and decided to continue cultivating the technique.
• Jiang Chen agreed to help Yue Shuo obtain Tribulation Aura and Fortune, first through sect cultivation and later by traveling to other worlds together.
• Senior Ze and Jiang Chen opened the sect’s resources to Yue Shuo and gave him additional cultivation supplies.
• Yue Shuo offered Senior Ze ideas for the sect’s future, and Senior Ze praised his aptitude for becoming sect master.

Yue Shuo proposed reforms to the Spirit Taming Sect and shared a plan for a future Stellar Grand Formation before returning to Great Yue Peak with his grandfather, Yue Loufang. Yue Qingxiao initially failed to recognize his father, but Yue Loufang cleaned himself up and revealed his identity.

• Yue Shuo presented plans to improve the sect’s training, combine Astral Dao and Body Tempering techniques, and eventually build a Stellar Grand Formation; Senior Ze and Jiang Chen judged the proposals feasible.
• Yue Shuo left He Tian with Senior Ze for training and returned to Great Yue Peak to reunite with his family.
• Yue Shuo released Yue Loufang from the Grotto-Heaven and brought him to Yue Qingxiao, who failed to recognize his father beneath his unkempt beard.
• Yue Loufang trimmed his beard and cleaned himself, then told Yue Qingxiao that he was his father; Yue Qingxiao still asked Yue Shuo whether he could test their blood relation.
• Madam Su scolded Yue Qingxiao for doubting his father and apologized to Yue Loufang for her husband's confusion.

After reuniting his family and settling his relatives, followers, and spirit beasts, Yue Shuo prepared to cultivate. Senior Brother Jiang reminded him to upgrade Great Yue Peak’s Spiritual Vein, and explained that the sect would nurture a Sixth-Tier vein for him.

• Yue Shuo gave Madam Su an Ancient Treasure for protection and left his parents and grandfather to mend their long-separated family bond.
• Yue Shuo reunited with his eldest and third brothers, gave them cultivation pointers, and helped them prepare to break through on Blazing Gold Peak.
• Yue Shuo settled his family, followers, companions, and spirit beasts around the sect and in his Grotto-Heaven.
• Senior Brother Jiang reminded Yue Shuo to upgrade Great Yue Peak’s Spiritual Vein before cultivating.
• Jiang Chen explained that the sect would nurture a Sixth-Tier Spiritual Vein for Yue Shuo, which could later merge with the main peak after Jiang Chen Ascended.

Yue Shuo upgraded the Beast Taming Sect’s Spiritual Vein, giving cultivators across the sect an opportunity to contemplate its Spirit Essence and law fluctuations. After his brothers completed Foundation Establishment, he used the moment’s inspiration to begin advancing Spirit Cranes through Minor Heavenly Tribulations, leaving the others to continue cultivating.

• Yue Shuo spent three days upgrading the Spiritual Vein with guidance and resources from Jiang Chen and Senior Ze, while contemplating a possible role for Senior Ze in his Firmament Star Formation plan.
• Yue Shuo moved his eldest brother and third younger brother to Blazing Gold Peak, where they completed natural Foundation Establishment breakthroughs and strengthened their Special Constitutions.
• Cultivators on Blazing Gold Peak and nearby Inner Sect elders contemplated the spiritual energy, Spirit Essence, and laws stirred by the Spiritual Vein upgrade for three days.
• Yue Shuo finished upgrading the Spiritual Vein to Early Sixth-Tier and resolved to nurture it further toward Peak Sixth-Tier.
• Yue Shuo brought out nine Peak Second-Tier Spirit Beasts, including Big Whale, fed them Spirit Pills, and triggered their Minor Heavenly Tribulations.
• Yue Shuo bore eighty percent of the Tribulation Lightning and used it to temper his physique, planning to raise the cranes to Third-Tier before attempting tenfold Fourth-Tier tribulations.

The Beast Taming Sect's elders learned that Yue Shuo's visit to other sects had changed how those sects treated them. After hearing how fiercely Yue Shuo had dealt with his opponents, they admired him and wondered when Sect Master Jiang would step down.

• The elders praised Yue Shuo for upgrading the Spiritual Vein and heard reports that other sects had become more courteous to the Beast Taming Sect.
• Elders handling external affairs found that other sects had stopped nitpicking and seemed eager to make peace.
• The elders investigated and learned that Yue Shuo had protected his people by striking opponents with heavenly thunder and intimidating the other sects.
• After confirming accounts from disciples, the elders learned that Yue Shuo had even struck down a Spirit Transformation Supreme Elder and threatened the remaining sects.
• The elders proudly hailed Yue Shuo as their future sect master and wondered when Sect Master Jiang would step down.

Yue Shuo cultivated by drawing repeated Minor Heavenly Tribulations, refining Tribulation Aura and tempering his body while continuing to raise his Little Spirit Cranes. Nearby, Yue Loufang unexpectedly faced a breakthrough tribulation, but a powerful senior protected him and taught him a lightning-based Body Tempering technique, leaving him confident he would survive and determined to thank the senior with his son.

• Senior Ze explained to Sect Master Jiang that Yue Shuo used heavenly lightning to refine Tribulation Aura while tempering his body and practicing his Lightning Technique.
• Yue Shuo drew another round of tribulation lightning as his abundant resources and resonance methods supported the rapid growth of his Little Spirit Cranes.
• Yue Loufang finished digesting his Spiritual Vein insights and sensed that he was about to break through.
• Yue Loufang panicked when he saw tribulation clouds overhead and feared the stacked Heavenly Tribulations would kill him before he could spend time with his newly reunited family.
• A senior guided Yue Loufang away from his son and daughter-in-law, shielded him from most of the lightning, and transmitted a lightning-based Body Tempering technique.
• Yue Loufang cultivated through the Minor Heavenly Tribulation, gained confidence in his breakthrough, and resolved to bring his son to kowtow and thank the senior.

Yue Shuo experimented with overlapping Minor Heavenly Tribulations, discovering that twenty Little Spirit Cranes could produce Fifth-Tier-level lightning and help him test the Heavenly Dao’s limits. After completing twenty rounds of cultivation, he stopped when the Fifth-Tier tribulations failed to open his seventh tribulation.

• Yue Shuo moved a cultivator breaking through on Blazing Gold Peak to Great Yue Peak, where the overlapping tribulations grew far stronger than expected and briefly affected Master Ning and Martial Uncle Yan Ning.
• Yue Shuo considered involving sect elders in future tribulation training and sent Yue Loufang into the Grotto-Heaven after he completed his tribulation, urging him to advance to Fourth-Tier.
• Yue Shuo assessed Yue Loufang’s strong foundation and potential, then gradually increased the number of Little Spirit Cranes undergoing tribulation together to twenty.
• Yue Shuo found that the twenty overlapping tribulations reached Fifth-Tier intensity and used the trials to further test the Heavenly Dao’s limits while tempering his body.
• Yue Shuo completed twenty rounds of lightning-drawing cultivation, but Fifth-Tier-level tribulations did not stimulate his seventh tribulation, so he stopped.

After completing the Minor Heavenly Tribulation, Yue Shuo proposed using another tribulation to help cultivators break through and strengthen the sect. He agreed to begin preparing for the sect master role while prioritizing his cultivation and testing his theory.

• Yue Shuo finished consolidating his gains, brought the transformed Little Spirit Cranes and Yue Loufang into the Grotto-Heaven, and considered the mysterious bond between himself and his biological grandfather.
• Yue Shuo discussed his plans with Jiang Chen and Senior Ze, who urged him to take office as sect master soon, but he worried sect duties could hinder his growth.
• Yue Shuo decided to help more cultivators break through by drawing down tribulation lightning, reasoning that Sixth-Tier lightning might let him cultivate his seventh Tribulation Transference alongside cultivators breaking through to the Fifth-Tier.
• Jiang Chen and Senior Ze praised Yue Shuo's supposed selflessness, and he asked Senior Ze to list sect cultivators and Spirit Beast disciples above the Third-Tier who were stuck at breakthrough bottlenecks, while Jiang Chen gathered names from outside the sect.

Yue Shuo planned to help bottlenecked cultivators attempt breakthroughs while experimenting with the method on his Spirit Beasts. He also began assembling living Spirit Beast foundations for the Four Symbols Star Formation, but still lacked suitable Azure Dragon and White Tiger candidates.

• Jiang Chen left to contact cultivators who might attempt breakthroughs after Yue Shuo proposed that the sect charge payment only for successful attempts.
• Yue Shuo visited the two Elder Nings at Blazing Gold Peak and offered to help them undergo tribulation, then returned to Great Yue Peak to prepare pills and conduct experiments with He Tian and He Qing'er.
• He Tian and He Qing'er eagerly volunteered for Yue Shuo's experiment, while Azure Feather entered another bloodline metamorphosis after Yue Shuo invested Immortal Crystals and Spirit Crystals in him.
• Yue Shuo considered how Azure Feather, the great Celestial Cranes, his pet turtle, and his little snake might fill positions in the Four Symbols Star Formation, and asked Senior Ze for help finding suitable Spirit Beasts.

Yue Shuo prepared Great Yue Peak for a tribulation, then took the brunt of an unusually powerful Lightning Tribulation while Ning Xin and Yan Ning tried to survive. He began refining the heavenly thunder for cultivation, but successive bolts drove him close to unleashing his Chaos Sacred Body.

• Yue Shuo repaired the grand formation, searched Great Yue Peak for hazards, and had Senior Ze seal away a Void Rat.
• Yue Shuo and Senior Ze swept the peak again and used an observation-type Spirit Treasure to check for danger before the tribulation began.
• Ning Xin and Yan Ning faced an overwhelmingly powerful Lightning Tribulation, and Yue Shuo redirected almost all of its first bolt onto himself.
• Yue Shuo endured the first bolt, repaired and strengthened his body, and cultivated Qi Refining, Body Tempering, and the Lightning Technique as the panel showed seven tribulations in progress.
• Yue Shuo refined the second bolt and advanced his Lightning Technique, but three more bolts struck in rapid succession, nearly prompting him to unleash the Chaos Sacred Body.

Yue Shuo survived a dangerous Spirit Transformation tribulation by using his Lightning Technique, gaining major improvements to his cultivation and refining all seven tribulations. Afterward, he and Senior Ze planned cautious future breakthroughs, and Senior Ze revealed that only World Origin and Fortune could meaningfully affect his true body.

• Yue Shuo used his Lightning Technique to clash with the tribulation lightning, survived twenty-seven bolts, and refined the full Seven Tribulations Tribulation Aura.
• Yue Shuo's Lightning Technique, Body Tempering, and Divine Soul all reached Late Sixth-Tier, though he decided to pause before attempting another breakthrough.
• Yue Shuo allowed news of Ning Xin and Yan Ning's breakthroughs to spread, prompting sect elders to apply to Senior Ze for breakthroughs.
• Yue Shuo and Senior Ze agreed that applicants would be examined in the Inheritance Hall before future breakthroughs to guard against interference from the Heavenly Dao.
• Yue Shuo asked how Senior Ze could recover his strength, and Senior Ze explained that only World Origin and the power of Fortune could slightly affect his true body.

Yue Shuo learned how World Origin and Fortune were connected and realized that he himself was the realm’s Fortune’s Child. Jiang Chen explained that strengthening the sect could replenish Senior Ze’s losses, then again urged Yue Shuo to become sect master.

• Senior Ze told Yue Shuo that the sect planned to seize World Origin from other realms and gave him jade slips explaining where it could be found.
• Yue Shuo realized that World Origin could reside in supreme treasures, powerful beings, the Heavenly Dao, and Fortune’s Child, and wondered whether Jiang Chen carried some.
• Jiang Chen and Senior Ze revealed that Yue Shuo was the realm’s Fortune’s Child, while Jiang Chen explained that he too had received World Origin and described how it related to Fortune.
• Jiang Chen said that a realm’s strongest cultivators possessed great Fortune and that his own Fortune had risen after he fought powerful beings in other realms.
• Yue Shuo asked whether strengthening the sect would repay Senior Ze, and Jiang Chen agreed that it would while urging Yue Shuo to become sect master.

Yue Shuo learned that his seven tribulations had begun forming the foundation of an Immortal Body, and he planned how to safely attempt the Eighth Tribulation. Jiang Chen and Senior Ze warned him that the Heavenly Tribulations would grow stronger and that Senior Ze could intervene only once.

• Senior Ze explained that Yue Shuo's seven Dao Seed imprints were building an Immortal Body rather than matching ordinary cultivation realms directly.
• Yue Shuo worried that he might complete the Nine Tribulations and ascend before Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen said advancing would become harder and require greater Fortune and energy.
• Jiang Chen estimated that Yue Shuo's next Heavenly Tribulation could approach Seventh-Tier power, so Yue Shuo planned to improve his Lightning Technique, formations, and Body Tempering realm before attempting it.
• Yue Shuo proposed bringing fewer cultivators to trigger the Eighth Tribulation, but Jiang Chen warned that too few might fail to meet its requirements.
• Senior Ze agreed to intervene if Yue Shuo faced a tribulation that was too weak to succeed in and too strong to survive, but told Jiang Chen he had only one chance to do so.