Chapter Summaries

Yue Shuo established a steady schedule for helping sect members cross tribulation while using the time between runs to improve his cultivation skills. After about six months, the applicants ran out, and Jiang Chen asked when Yue Shuo would contract the Immortal-Grade Spirit Beast he needed.

• Yue Shuo arranged to bring cultivators through tribulation every three days, and Jiang Chen and Senior Ze agreed to the schedule.
• Yue Shuo studied Restrictive Seals and used sect materials to advance his Formation Dao, Alchemy, Talisman Crafting, and Artifact Refining.
• Yue Shuo led batches of cultivators through Third-Tier to Fourth-Tier tribulation dungeons and upgraded Great Yue Peak’s grand formation.
• After about six months and more than five hundred successful runs, Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo there were no more applicants for that breakthrough tier.
• Jiang Chen explained that few cultivators needed help and Spirit Beast disciples could break through more easily, then asked when Yue Shuo would contract an Immortal-Grade Spirit Beast.

Yue Shuo received three exceptionally promising Spirit Beasts from Jiang Chen and Senior Ze, including a black-patterned egg that hatched after he contracted it. Senior Ze revealed that the creature was a Mysterious Tortoise and promised Yue Shuo the Half-Immortal Heaven-Gazing Spirit-Testing Mirror, which he would be able to use through his contract.

• Jiang Chen gave Yue Shuo a blood-related little brother of Bai Shen's white tiger and a mutated Little Azure Flood Dragon suited to become the Azure Dragon of the Four Symbols.
• Senior Ze gave Yue Shuo a black-patterned egg whose bloodline Yue Shuo could not assess, and urged him to contract it so it could hatch.
• Yue Shuo formed blood and Primordial Spirit contracts with the life inside the egg and poured in Primordial Spirit power and Spell Power until cracks spread across its shell.
• Yue Shuo asked Senior Ze about the egg, and Senior Ze revealed that it held a Mysterious Tortoise with a bloodline inheritance.
• Senior Ze explained that the Heaven-Gazing Spirit-Testing Mirror was a Half-Immortal Artifact and said Yue Shuo would be able to use it after contracting the Little Mysterious Tortoise.

Senior Ze explained the Spirit-Testing Mirror’s power and warned Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen to keep their knowledge of the Upper Realm and their past Karma private. As Yue Shuo tried to help the Little Mysterious Tortoise hatch, its shell split open, but it lay motionless, leaving Senior Ze uncertain whether it would survive.

• Senior Ze explained that the Spirit-Testing Mirror could help find a Grotto-Heaven Spirit and that Yue Shuo could take it through ascension, while other Half-Immortal Artifacts carried risks and Karma.
• Yue Shuo asked how to care for the Little Mysterious Tortoise, and Senior Ze told him to raise it like an ordinary Spirit Turtle and communicate with it after it hatched.
• Senior Ze warned Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen not to investigate or discuss certain matters before ascending, and told them their Lower Realm Karma would be severed after they ascended.
• Jiang Chen asked about finding the Patriarch, and Senior Ze said ascended sect seniors would receive them despite Jiang Chen not knowing who they were seeking.
• Yue Shuo lightly flicked the Little Mysterious Tortoise’s egg, causing its shell to crack open and expose part of the hatchling’s dark shell.
• When the Little Mysterious Tortoise lay motionless, Yue Shuo poured life force into it and asked Senior Ze whether he had hurt it; Senior Ze said its birth depended on fate.

Yue Shuo saved the newborn Little Mysterious Tortoise by channeling his Taiji Visualization power, then formed a perfect contract with it and discovered its divine abilities. After Senior Ze rested, Yue Shuo used his enhanced perception to arrange the next advancement groups and contracted the Little White Tiger and Little Azure Flood Dragon.

• Yue Shuo infused the Little Mysterious Tortoise with life force, Primordial Spirit power, Spell Power, and Taiji Visualization power until its health recovered and it began hatching.
• Yue Shuo inspected the Little Mysterious Tortoise's Sub-Panel and found its Black Tortoise bloodlines and three divine abilities: Heaven-Gazing Fortune Reading, Black Tortoise's Protection, and Death-Evasion Rebirth.
• Senior Ze explained that the Little Mysterious Tortoise needed Yue Shuo's great Fortune to survive, and Yue Shuo sensed Fortune power flowing back to him as its condition stabilized.
• Yue Shuo used Heaven-Gazing and briefly saw the outside world and a wilted ball of light, then suffered temporary blurred vision as his eyes began recovering.
• Senior Ze withdrew to rest, and Yue Shuo told Jiang Chen to arrange two people for each of the following Fourth-to-Fifth advancement groups.
• Yue Shuo contracted the Little White Tiger and the Little Azure Flood Dragon.

Yue Shuo used the Heaven-Gazing Spirit-Testing Mirror to discover that Fortune flowed between him and everyone with a condensed Sub-Panel, then noticed his mother beginning an unexpected breakthrough and helped her through it. He reflected on the sect’s shortage of Outer Domain guards and expected it to ease as more cultivators advanced.

• Yue Shuo fed Spirit Pills to Little White Tiger and Little Azure Flood Dragon, then summoned the Heaven-Gazing Spirit-Testing Mirror and learned it had been made from the previous generation's Mysterious Tortoise shell.
• Yue Shuo imprinted the mirror with his Primordial Spirit and used Heaven-Gazing Fortune Reading to observe the Fortune connections between himself and those with condensed Sub-Panels.
• Yue Shuo saw that small amounts of Fortune flowed from him to others when he wished for their growth, and found that his own Fortune was unusually stable and abundant.
• Yue Shuo noticed his father, Yue Qingxiao, slacking off while his mother approached a breakthrough, then discovered she had suddenly begun breaking through and gave her guidance, an array, Spirit Pills, and spiritual items.
• Yue Shuo recalled that the sect needed more elders to guard Outer Domain resource zones, but expected the shortage to ease as more than five hundred Nascent Souls or Fourth-Tier cultivators had been born.

Yue Shuo helped his mother awaken a perfect True Dragon Bloodline while she broke through to Foundation Establishment, easing much of the Karma he felt he owed her. He then left his grandfather a cultivation plan for his father and returned to the Inheritance Hall, while Yue Loufang acted on the plan and took his son to Blazing Gold Peak.

• Yue Shuo watched over his mother’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough and used Fortune, refined Beast Pills, Nirvana Fire, and guidance to awaken her True Dragon Bloodline perfectly.
• Yue Shuo realized that helping his mother enter the Dao would repay the great Karma he owed her for giving birth to and raising him.
• Yue Shuo left his grandfather a jade slip proposing a cultivation plan for his father, then contacted Jiang Chen about future tribulation arrangements and returned to the Inheritance Hall.
• Yue Loufang emerged from meditation, read Yue Shuo’s message, found his son, and took him to Blazing Gold Peak to discipline him.

Yue Shuo prepared two Nascent Soul Cultivators to undergo tribulation and discovered that the lightning felt unusually weak against his improved defenses. Meanwhile, his reputation had spread across the cultivation world, and Yue Loufang took his grandson’s advice to push Yue Shuo’s father into seclusion.

• Yue Loufang took Yue Qingxiao into seclusion after learning that Yue Shuo wanted his father to work harder.
• Cultivators across the sect came to regard Yue Shuo as the Thunder-Wielding True Lord, believing he wielded powerful lightning techniques and could influence tribulation lightning.
• At Great Yue Peak, two Nascent Soul Cultivators addressed Yue Shuo as the Thunder-Wielding True Lord, and he introduced himself as Taiyue before preparing them to cross tribulation.
• Jiang Chen offered to guard outside the formation, but Yue Shuo warned that he might accidentally attract a Heavenly Tribulation, so Jiang Chen withdrew and gathered supplies.
• Yue Shuo guided the two cultivators through their breakthrough, but the Tribulation Lightning felt like a gentle massage against his strengthened body, formations, divine soul, and lightning technique.

Yue Shuo pursued stronger tribulation lightning to advance his Lightning Technique and Body Tempering, while rising sect Fortune fueled his cultivation insights. After gradually increasing the number of cultivators undergoing tribulation, he finally faced Seventh-Tier heavenly lightning and advanced both techniques to Seventh-Tier.

• Yue Shuo told Jiang Chen that he wanted stronger lightning, and Jiang Chen suggested bringing a cultivator making a Fifth-Tier to Sixth-Tier breakthrough instead.
• Yue Shuo chose to bring four Fourth-Tier Nascent Soul Cultivators the next day, explaining that their Spirit Transformation would greatly increase the sect's Fortune.
• Yue Shuo used the Black Tortoise Mirror to deepen his understanding of Karma, Fortune, and the Phoenix Emperor Tribulation-Transference Nirvana Art as his rising Fortune brought him frequent insights.
• Yue Shuo underwent tribulation with four cultivators, but the lightning remained at Sixth-Tier, so he continued comprehending and learned the Mysterious Tortoise's defensive divine ability, Black Tortoise's Protection.
• Yue Shuo increased the number of Fourth-Tier Nascent Soul Cultivators in each successive tribulation, from five to nine, until Seventh-Tier heavenly lightning appeared.
• Yue Shuo's Lightning Technique and Body Tempering both advanced to Seventh-Tier without him needing to use Black Tortoise's Protection.

Yue Shuo quickly helped the remaining eight cultivators advance and arranged to guide two Spirit Transformation cultivators through their next tribulation, which he believed would trigger his Eighth Tribulation. During the wait, he observed his family’s cultivation, considered the dangers of refining bloodlines, and continued raising his Spirit Cranes.

• Yue Shuo brought the remaining eight Nascent Soul and Fourth-Tier cultivators through their breakthroughs, while other sect cultivators chose to wait and observe.
• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen to arrange for two Spirit Transformation cultivators to undergo their fifth-to-sixth-rank tribulations ten days later.
• Yue Shuo found that his mother had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and that her Immortal-Grade True Dragon Bloodline would naturally raise her body to Third-Tier.
• Yue Shuo recalled that refining another race’s bloodline could cause severe backlash and concluded that strength was essential, but he stayed in the sect rather than risk an ambush in the Outer Sea.
• Yue Shuo raised the remaining Spirit Cranes to Third-Tier and several dozen to the Third-Tier Middle or Late Stage; He Tian was nearing the Fourth-Tier Middle Stage.

Yue Shuo used heavenly tribulations to strengthen cultivators and advance his Eighth Tribulation, while reports spread that tribulations had weakened across the world. His divination revealed that several worlds, drawn by this world’s future abundance, would join forces to invade and divide it.

• Yue Shuo helped He Tian survive his tribulation, then established Thunderbolt Formations so his Household could temper their bodies and strengthen their cultivation with heavenly thunder.
• Yue Gu agreed to come train under a Thunderbolt Formation, and Yue Shuo arranged for a Spirit Crane to bring him to Blazing Gold Peak.
• Yue Shuo guided two Spirit Transformation elders through their Minor Heavenly Tribulations, opening his Eighth Tribulation as the weakened heavenly thunder struck.
• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo that tribulations had weakened across the cultivation world, where many cultivators had died or been left vulnerable after their breakthroughs.
• Yue Shuo used the Black Tortoise Mirror’s divination to glimpse the future, preserved some images in Stellar Gold, and told Jiang Chen that several worlds would join forces to carve up their world.

Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen discussed the Turbid Realm’s infiltration and made plans to prepare their world and sect for the coming tribulation. Yue Shuo then led cultivators through tribulations and checked on his family, while recognizing that time was the greatest obstacle to their preparations.

• Jiang Chen revealed that he and Elder Ze knew Yue Shuo was reincarnated and had urged him to become sect master because they believed he would be better suited to the role.
• Yue Shuo showed Jiang Chen that the Turbid Realm had infiltrated parts of their world, and they exchanged ideas and agreed on several plans to counter the coming tribulation.
• Yue Shuo led cultivators through tribulations one at a time, and two Void Refinement Grand Elders also advanced after witnessing an ordinary Minor Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen handled sect affairs, preparing for battle and working to stabilize the cultivation system.
• Yue Shuo checked on his family: his mother had reached Third-Tier, his eldest brother neared a breakthrough, his third brother reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and Yue Loufang reached Mid Golden Core.
• Yue Shuo considered raising his family to Fourth-Tier and using his Grotto-Heaven as an escape route, but concluded that they lacked time.

Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen prepared the Beast Taming Sect for the Turbid Realm’s invasion by awakening Senior Ze and securing other sects’ cooperation on the Heavenly Stellar Grand Formation and a Cultivation Alliance. Senior Ze was dismayed by their forceful methods, then assured them he could relocate the realm if true danger came.

• Yue Shuo learned that Senior Brother Jiang had found clues at a likely Turbid Realm invasion site and decided to prepare for the coming threat.
• Yue Shuo and Senior Brother Jiang awakened Senior Ze, assigned him to oversee sect defenses and the Stellar Grand Formation, and told him about the realm’s situation.
• Senior Ze warned Yue Shuo that a Mysterious Tortoise could avoid misfortune and seek fortune, and Yue Shuo showed him the Little Mysterious Tortoise.
• Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen visited sects and powerful Rogue Cultivators, using force to secure agreement on the Stellar Grand Formation and Cultivation Alliance.
• Senior Ze questioned their methods, and Yue Shuo defended himself by saying he had tried to stop Jiang Chen from beating their targets to death.
• Senior Ze said that if true danger came, he could still relocate the realm.

Senior Ze urged Jiang Chen to pass the sect leadership to Yue Shuo and ascend, while the two arranged their handover and plans to reunite in the Upper Realm. In the Blood Beast Domain, Yue Shuo used the Black Tortoise Mirror to discover an Immortal Beast corpse underground.

• Senior Ze told Jiang Chen to transfer the sect leader's position to Yue Shuo and prepare to ascend, and the three agreed to redirect the Blood Beast Plan's resources toward the Stellar Grand Formation.
• Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo began handing over sect affairs, visited controlled realms, and left their Primordial Spirit imprints in Restrictive Seals.
• Jiang Chen explained how the seals worked and made plans with Yue Shuo to find each other after ascending to the Upper Realm.
• Jiang Chen took Yue Shuo to the Blood Beast Domain, where Yue Shuo sensed its unusual environment and used the Black Tortoise Mirror to survey it.
• Yue Shuo saw a nonhuman corpse buried deep underground and realized it was an Immortal Beast corpse.

Jiang Chen explained the world’s Immortal Beast origins and the Blood Beasts to Yue Shuo, then took him to inspect the Beast Taming Sect’s base and its formation core. As they examined the Blood Beast Emperor in a cauldron, several newcomers arrived and one called out to Yue Shuo.

• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo that the world had formed around an Immortal Beast’s corpse and that Blood Beasts were a backlash against the Beast Taming Sect’s control.
• Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo traversed the realm, where Yue Shuo captured Blood Beasts and observed their different species and limited intelligence.
• Yue Shuo inspected the Beast Taming Sect’s Sixth-Tier Array Formation Space and considered how comprehending laws could improve his cultivation and skills.
• Jiang Chen explained that the Blood Beast Emperor held the purest Immortal Beast bloodline and that refining it could provide bloodline power and World Origin.
• Jiang Chen clarified that the creature in the cauldron was not alive but a Baleful Spirit, and several people arrived, one calling out, “Shuo'er!”

Yue Shuo investigated an anomaly in the Blood Beast Realm and concluded that the realm could serve as a route for the Turbid Realm’s invasion. With Jiang Chen leaving him to decide how to respond, Yue Shuo ordered the sect to evacuate and began preparing the realm for its eventual destruction while handling the immediate threats.

• Yue Shuo learned from Yan Ning that strange laws and savage creatures had been discovered underground, and used the Black Tortoise Mirror to confirm the Turbid Realm was infiltrating the Blood Beast Realm.
• Yue Shuo and Jiang Chen considered turning the realm into a battlefield, but Yue Shuo decided the sect should evacuate its forces and destroy the realm after relocating its Spirit Beast clans and resources.
• Yue Shuo ordered Yan Ning to relay his plans and personally took responsibility for relocating the Spirit Beast clans, sealing the underground anomaly, and helping refine the Blood Beast Emperor.
• Yue Shuo set up formations and Restrictive Seals at the underground anomaly to delay the Turbid Realm’s invasion while the sect evacuated and captured Blood Beasts.
• Yue Shuo discovered that the Blood Beast Emperor could be refined only within the realm and that the process required an enormous amount of time.

Yue Shuo devised a far faster method for refining the Blood Beast Emperor and used a massive formation powered by heavenly lightning and earthly fire. As Jiang Chen praised what he thought was Yue Shuo’s carefully coordinated evacuation plan, Jiang Chen suddenly froze after hearing Yue Shuo explain Yin-Yang.

• Yue Shuo used Taiji Insight Radiance to deduce a refining method combining formations, artifacts, alchemy, and talismans.
• Yue Shuo organized the Blood Beast Realm’s cultivators to build a layered Stellar Grand Formation that refined the Blood Beast Emperor a hundred times faster than before.
• Yue Shuo summoned heavenly lightning and earthly fire to power the formation, terrifying reluctant inhabitants into evacuating the Blood Beast Domain.
• Jiang Chen praised Yue Shuo for supposedly coordinating the refining and evacuation, but Yue Shuo said he had simply been handling tasks one at a time.
• Yue Shuo explained Yin-Yang as the great principle of heaven and earth, and Jiang Chen abruptly froze as his aura fluctuated.

Jiang Chen completed his Enlightenment and prepared to ascend, while Yue Shuo took on the Beast Taming Sect’s Fortune and Karma. Jiang Chen stepped outside to break through the tribulation, but the Heavenly Tribulation’s power alarmed Senior Ze.

• Yue Shuo protected Jiang Chen during his two-day Enlightenment and strengthened the Refinement Formation’s defenses.
• Jiang Chen awoke with a stronger aura, thanked Yue Shuo, and said he would wait for him in the Upper Realm.
• Senior Ze summoned Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo to the Inheritance Hall, where Yue Shuo began taking on the sect’s Fortune and Karma.
• Yue Shuo felt no Heart Demon Tribulation, while Jiang Chen laughed and prepared to ascend.
• Jiang Chen stepped outside and declared that he would break the tribulation and ascend, as Tribulation Clouds gathered and Senior Ze sensed that the Heavenly Tribulation’s power was wrong.

Yue Shuo and Senior Ze watched Jiang Chen face a far more powerful Heavenly Tribulation than expected and struggled to understand why it still bore the sect-master’s weight. Yue Shuo discovered his cheat had left him with only a faint karmic phantom while the tangible sect Karma likely remained with Jiang Chen, and the chapter ended with them watching the lightning gather for its next strike.

• Yue Shuo stopped himself from approaching Jiang Chen because his presence as sect master could make the Heavenly Tribulation even stronger.
• Senior Ze explained that the sect-master’s Karma and Fortune had been transferred, but Jiang Chen still carried heavy Karma and faced a tribulation of extraordinary power.
• Yue Shuo used the Mysterious Tortoise Mirror to watch the late-Eighth-Tier lightning gather around Jiang Chen, while Senior Ze noted that the Heavenly Dao’s damaged origin might limit its punishment.
• Yue Shuo examined his Fortune and found only illusory threads of sect Karma clinging to its outer layer, suggesting the tangible Karma remained with Jiang Chen or Senior Ze.
• Yue Shuo and Senior Ze could not determine why Jiang Chen was still being targeted, and Senior Ze wondered whether Jiang Chen had done something else worthy of being struck by lightning.

Yue Shuo devised a plan to help Jiang Chen survive his slowly gathering Heavenly Tribulation by leading other cultivators through Minor Heavenly Tribulations. After Senior Ze sent him to the Blood Beast Realm, Yue Shuo gathered its people and beasts, moved them outside the domain, and prepared to receive cultivators seeking help.

• Yue Shuo asked Senior Ze how long Jiang Chen's tribulation might last and whether Minor Heavenly Tribulations could reduce its power.
• Senior Ze warned Yue Shuo that his status as sect master would strengthen any tribulation he faced, but Yue Shuo decided to proceed with a plan to help Jiang Chen and support the Cultivation Alliance.
• Yue Shuo asked Senior Ze to send him to the Blood Beast Realm and relay his plan to the Cultivation Alliance, then teleported away.
• Yue Shuo refined the Blood Beast Emperor and gathered the Blood Beast Realm's cultivators and Spirit Beast clans.
• Yue Shuo moved the gathered people and beasts outside the domain, where he had formation masters prepare to receive cultivators who needed to cross tribulations.

Yue Shuo refined the Blood Beast Emperor and gained the Life-and-Death Cycle divine ability as he cultivated Taiji. His transformation into an energy Spirit Body began drawing the Blood Beast Realm toward collapse.

• Yue Shuo used his Spirit Cranes to manage sect affairs while refining the Blood Beast Emperor, a task Jiang Chen had left to him as Jiang Chen underwent Tribulation Crossing.
• Yue Shuo refined the Blood Beast Emperor into exceptionally pure essence blood and learned from Senior Ze that Jiang Chen had passed only about one-third of his tribulation.
• After checking the Blood Beast Realm for others, Yue Shuo pressed the essence blood to his glabella and absorbed it through his Taiji Visualization.
• Yue Shuo comprehended and obtained the Life-and-Death Cycle divine ability, then began transforming his body into an energy Spirit Body.
• As Yue Shuo cultivated and devoured energy, the Blood Beast Realm shrank and shifted from a material world toward an energy world.