Chapter Summaries

Chu Bai rescued Yan Tieshan and three Formless City cultivators by effortlessly killing a Hundred-Eyed Grudge Spider, then devoured its resentment and posed as an awakened Ancient Immortal. After giving the group its High-Tier Baleful Core, he accepted Yan Tieshan’s invitation to Formless City, where he could search for clues to the Myriad Laws Divine Hall and Heaven-Burying Abyss.

• A Hundred-Eyed Grudge Spider overwhelmed Yan Tieshan’s squad, leaving all four cultivators gravely wounded and on the verge of death.
• Chu Bai emerged from the mist and killed the spider with Geng Metal Sword Qi and Bing Fire Divine Thunder, then absorbed its ancient resentment without being corrupted.
• Yan Tieshan and his companions mistook Chu Bai for an Ancient Immortal after he claimed to have survived a world-ending war and awakened from a long slumber.
• Chu Bai gave the group the spider’s High-Tier Baleful Core to help Junior Sister Yun recover, deepening their reverence for him.
• Yan Tieshan invited Chu Bai to Formless City and offered Ironblood Hall’s support and access to its Scripture Pavilion; Chu Bai accepted and set off with the group.

Chu Bai learned how Formless City survived the Wasteland and agreed to save Ironblood Hall’s poisoned hall master in exchange for help gathering ancient records. At the city gates, he chose to approach openly despite lacking an identity plaque and carrying killing intent that would trigger the screening mirror.

• Yan Tieshan explained that Formless City relied on the World-Cleansing Grand Array, powered by the Sea-Calming Divine Stone, and described its divided districts and ruling factions.
• Yan Tieshan begged Chu Bai to save Lei Wu, Ironblood Hall’s comatose hall master, and protect the organization from the Wang Clan; Chu Bai agreed to help and asked Ironblood Hall to gather ancient records for him.
• After traveling through the Wasteland, Chu Bai and the four cultivators reached Formless City and saw its vast golden barrier and thriving city within.
• At the city gate, Chu Bai witnessed the City Guard Army execute a refugee whose contamination triggered the Clearheart Treasure Mirror.
• Yan Tieshan warned that Chu Bai lacked an identity plaque and that the mirror would react to his killing intent, but Chu Bai refused to take a detour and walked toward the gate.

Chu Bai entered Formless City with Yan Tieshan and used a single glance to force Wang Teng to let them pass. After learning that the Wang Household threatened Ironblood Hall and its hall master was dying from Netherworld Baleful Poison, Chu Bai went to examine him and declared the poison easy to neutralize.

• The Clearheart Treasure Mirror blazed with white light around Chu Bai and began to crack, but Wang Teng accused him and Yan Tieshan's companions of being Strange Creature collaborators and ordered their arrest.
• Chu Bai's gaze terrified Wang Teng into collapsing, and Wang Teng let Chu Bai and the others enter Formless City.
• Yan Tieshan explained the city's Three Great Clans as the group traveled through the impoverished Outer City and paid to enter the wealthy Inner City.
• The group reached Ironblood Hall and learned that the Wang Household had demanded its deed and submission by noon the next day, while Hall Master Lei was expected to die that night from Netherworld Baleful Poison.
• Yan Tieshan announced that Chu Bai could save Hall Master Lei, and Chu Bai ignored the doubting cultivators, entered the sick man's chamber, and said the poison was not difficult to neutralize.

Chu Bai cured Lei Wu of the netherworld absolute baleful poison by devouring its resentment, gaining more destructive power while postponing his Purple Abode breakthrough. Lei Wu made Chu Bai Ironblood Hall’s Supreme Venerable, and Chu Bai prepared to confront the Wang Household at noon the next day.

• Chu Bai used the Origin-Opening Daoist Scripture and [General Star Destiny] to remove Lei Wu’s poison, heal his injuries, and absorb its killing intent.
• Lei Wu awoke, learned Chu Bai had saved him, and pledged the Ironblood Hall’s service to him.
• Chu Bai and Lei Wu entered the courtyard, where they found cultivators looting the hall; Lei Wu publicly relinquished his position and named Chu Bai the Supreme Venerable.
• Chu Bai spared the traitors from immediate execution and ordered them to serve as vanguard cannon fodder.
• The deputy hall master revealed the Wang Household’s ultimatum to seize Everlasting Joy Street and make Ironblood Hall swear allegiance, and Chu Bai declared he would meet them at noon the next day.

Chu Bai led Ironblood Hall to the Wang Clan’s residence, where he shattered its famed defensive array with a single word and crushed Wang Juefeng with his overwhelming aura. He spared the kneeling clan on condition that it surrender ancient texts, maps, and half its resources, then entered the manor to rest as Ironblood Hall took control.

• Chu Bai marched with Lei Wu, Yan Tieshan, and Ironblood Hall’s forces to the Wang Clan’s residence, alarming Formless City’s watching factions.
• Lei Wu kicked down the Wang Clan’s gates and confronted Wang Juefeng, who activated the Eight Desolations Baleful-Warding Spirit Array.
• Chu Bai identified flaws in the array and destroyed it by touching its barrier and saying, “Disperse.”
• Chu Bai’s baleful poison and draconic pressure forced Wang Juefeng, the elders, and the Wang Clan’s guards to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Chu Bai demanded ancient texts and maps from the Wang Clan’s treasury and half its resources in exchange for the clan’s lives, then ordered Lei Wu to take control of the manor.

After defeating the Wang Household, Chu Bai searched its ancient texts for clues to the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm. He discovered a map pointing toward the Heaven-Burying Abyss and its secrets, then summoned Lei Wu to prepare Ironblood Hall’s affairs for the next morning.

• Lei Wu took control of the Wang Household’s Hidden Dragon Courtyard and treasury, seized half its cultivation resources and all its ancient texts, and forced Wang Juefeng to make the clan Ironblood Hall’s vassal.
• Yan Tieshan crippled Wang Teng and the elders who had threatened Ironblood Hall, while Wang Juefeng accepted the new tribute terms and ceded disputed market districts.
• Chu Bai let Lei Wu keep the seized cultivation resources and began scanning the Wang Household’s ancient texts with his Divine Sense.
• Chu Bai found a fragmentary map made from the same material as the broken stele, which marked a route to the Heaven-Burying Abyss and showed a ruined Myriad Laws Divine Hall and clues about the Sea-Calming Divine Stone.
• Chu Bai saw that the route crossed the Ten Thousand Bones Blood Miasma, then called Lei Wu and ordered him to arrange Ironblood Hall’s worldly affairs for the next morning.

After crushing the Wang Household, Chu Bai secured Ironblood Hall’s dominance and prepared to investigate the Heaven-Burying Abyss. Formless City’s leaders chose not to oppose him, and the chapter ended as Chu Bai led Ironblood Hall beyond the city barrier.

• Rumors of Chu Bai’s effortless defeat of the Wang Household spread through Formless City, while he studied a map to the Heaven-Burying Abyss and prepared to face Purple Abode demons.
• Li Qinglian sent Medicine King Valley’s treasures to Ironblood Hall, and Chu Bai dismissed the valley’s ancient pill formula as flawed, prompting her to forbid anyone from provoking him.
• Zhao Panshi ordered the Hundred Refinements Pavilion to defend itself and offer Ironblood Hall members discounted magical artifacts.
• Murong Xian revealed that the Sea-Calming Divine Stone had resonated with Chu Bai and that the old city lord had ordered the City Lord’s Manor not to provoke him.
• Over three days, Ironblood Hall absorbed the Wang Household’s holdings, and Chu Bai’s guidance helped Lei Wu loosen his long-standing cultivation bottleneck.
• On the fourth day, Chu Bai left the Hidden Dragon Courtyard and led Lei Wu and the others beyond Formless City’s barrier.

Chu Bai led Lei Wu and twelve Ironblood Hall elites from Formless City toward the Ten Thousand Bones Blood Miasma, using his powers to protect them from the Wasteland’s dangers. After entering the Forbidden Zone and discovering a concealed formation, the group was ambushed by blood-energy tentacles controlled by a powerful Demon King, and Chu Bai welcomed the fight.

• Chu Bai departed Formless City with Lei Wu and twelve Ironblood Hall elites, and his baleful intent forced low-level Strange Creatures to flee their path.
• After seven days of travel, Lei Wu identified the Ten Thousand Bones Blood Miasma, whose killing intent drove several elites toward madness until Chu Bai suppressed it with a snort.
• Chu Bai opened a Five-Colored Azure Lotus law domain that repelled the Blood Miasma and shielded the company as they entered the Forbidden Zone.
• Chu Bai recognized that the Blood Miasma and Bone Forest followed the paths of an ancient formation and guided the company along its Life Gate.
• As the company approached a rib arch marking the boundary between the formation’s Life Gate and Death Gate, blood-energy tentacles burst from the Blood Mud and struck the outermost riders.
• Chu Bai sensed a Purple Abode Demon King underground and greeted the attacker as interesting prey.

Chu Bai defeated the Blood Fiend Demon King in the Ten Thousand Bones Blood Miasma, devoured its resentment, and searched its memories for a safer route to the Heaven-Burying Abyss. He ordered Lei Wu and the Ironblood Hall elites to recover before following him deeper into the miasma.

• A Blood Fiend Demon King attacked Lei Wu, but Chu Bai stopped its tentacle and exposed the monster as a Foundation Establishment-level mutant borrowing power from the earth vein.
• The demon king unleashed corrosive blood rain, which Chu Bai's black-purple flames devoured before he cleaved the monster in two with a single strike.
• Chu Bai swallowed the demon king's released resentment and karmic obstruction, then used his fortune golden body to suppress its corrupting effects.
• Chu Bai searched the demon king's memories and revised the Wang Household's fragmentary map to avoid deadly zones on the way to the Heaven-Burying Abyss.
• Chu Bai told Lei Wu to let the Ironblood Hall elites recover for an incense stick before following him deeper into the Ten Thousand Bones Blood Miasma.

Chu Bai guided Ironblood Hall through the Ten Thousand Bones Blood Miasma, calmed its dangers, and uncovered the history of the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm. The group reached the Heaven-Burying Abyss, where an ancient Purple Abode Realm guardian awakened and demanded Chu Bai explain who he was.

• Chu Bai led Ironblood Hall safely past deadly spatial hazards and used his fortune golden body to dispel heart-demon miasma before it could make the group kill one another.
• Chu Bai released his general star destiny and used the Golden Edict to send the ancient battlefield's war souls to rest.
• Chu Bai deciphered the White Jade Altar's inscription, learning that a Heavenly Dao Traitor had brought Extraterrestrial Demons into the realm and that three Immortal Boundary-Steles were needed to reactivate the Myriad Laws Divine Hall's suppressing formation.
• The battlefield's remaining battle intent formed a Black Baleful Crystal Core within Chu Bai, strengthening his control over baleful intent and his combat power.
• Chu Bai led Ironblood Hall out of the miasma to the Heaven-Burying Abyss, where an ancient qilin-like guardian awoke and demanded his origins.

Chu Bai convinced Abyssguard that he was a Realm Patrol Envoy by invoking his True Spirit aura and purifying the guardian’s abyssal breath with the Origin-Opening Daoist Scripture. After Abyssguard revealed the locations of the three Immortal Boundary-Steles and gave him an Abyssguard Scale, Chu Bai entered the abyss alone to seek them.

• Chu Bai resisted Abyssguard’s spiritual pressure and claimed it had failed to recognize a Realm Patrol Envoy’s authority.
• Chu Bai explained his weakened cultivation as the result of crossing the shattered world barrier and cited the Heavenly Dao Traitor and Extraterrestrial Demons to convince Abyssguard of his identity.
• Chu Bai purified Abyssguard’s abyssal origin breath, causing the guardian to accept him as an orthodox successor and bow in reverence.
• Abyssguard told Chu Bai that three Immortal Boundary-Steles were needed to reactivate the Myriad Laws Divine Hall and described where they had been lost or taken.
• Abyssguard gave Chu Bai an Abyssguard Scale and agreed to protect Lei Wu and the other attendants while Chu Bai entered the abyss alone.

Chu Bai entered the Heaven-Burying Abyss and slaughtered its swarming wraiths, absorbing their resentment until it nearly overwhelmed his mind. After using his fortune golden body to purify the energy and regain control, he discovered a bone altar at the source of the wraith sea, with an unknown object atop it.

• Chu Bai crossed into the Heaven-Burying Abyss, resisted its crushing gravity and corrosive abyssal breath with the Abyssguard Scale, and killed an Abyss Wraith that attacked his soul.
• Chu Bai sensed thousands of Foundation Establishment-level wraiths converging on him and unleashed his Black Baleful Crystal Core to destroy them and absorb their resentment.
• Chu Bai grew intoxicated by the surging power, while the wraiths’ memories and negative emotions contaminated his divine soul and nearly drove him to attack his own shadow.
• The humanity’s willing force from Anping County awakened Chu Bai’s fortune golden body, helping him recover his clarity and purify the resentment before it reached his core.
• Chu Bai changed his absorption method to filter resentment through the fortune golden body, stabilized his Dao heart, and traced the wraiths’ source with his divine sense.
• Chu Bai discovered a bone altar surrounded by chains of law at the source of the wraith sea and sensed that the object upon it was tied to the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm and the Immortal Boundary-Stele.

Chu Bai endured the abyss’s resentment, defeated a heart demon, and reached the quasi-Purple Abode level before uncovering the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm’s origin as a cosmic prison. Atop the White Bone Altar, he found the second fragment of the Immortal Boundary-Stele and a dead Realm Patrol Envoy who addressed him as the next inheritor of the Kindling Flame.

• Chu Bai tempered his Dao heart and body against the abyss’s resentment and gravity as he advanced toward the White Bone Altar.
• Chu Bai defeated an Obsession Wraith, then broke free of its heart-demon illusion by affirming that he would pursue power to protect the people of Anping County.
• Chu Bai’s divine soul reached the quasi-Purple Abode level, and he used the broken stele’s aura to open a passage through the altar’s spatial restriction.
• Chu Bai witnessed the ancient catastrophe that revealed the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm had been severed from its parent world and made into a prison for resentment and poison.
• Chu Bai found the second Immortal Boundary-Stele fragment atop the White Bone Altar and discovered a corpse dressed as a Realm Patrol Envoy.
• The corpse awakened faint green soul fire and called Chu Bai the next inheritor of the Kindling Flame.

Chu Bai accepted Xuan Cang’s inheritance and swore to purify the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm’s resentment, binding himself to its hundred-thousand-year burden. After Xuan Cang’s soul passed on the Great Luo Divine Refining Art and his Purple Abode insights, Chu Bai claimed temporary control of the Immortal Boundary-Stele and subdued the first level’s wraiths.

• Chu Bai learned from Xuan Cang that the resentment in the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm was alive, growing, and threatening to escape and destroy the parent world.
• Xuan Cang explained that each Realm Patrol Envoy became a gravekeeper whose life and soul fueled the Immortal Boundary-Stele, and urged Chu Bai to purify the resentment instead of merely suppressing it.
• Chu Bai recalled the people of Anping County and swore to accept the realm’s karma and purify its hundred thousand years of resentment, while promising to accept death rather than break his oath.
• Xuan Cang’s corpse crumbled, and his soul light passed Chu Bai the Great Luo Divine Refining Art and his insights into forming a Purple Abode.
• As the Immortal Boundary-Stele weakened and the wraiths gathered to attack, Chu Bai used the art to seize temporary control of the stele’s control hub.
• Chu Bai combined his divine sense with the stele’s authority to suppress the Wraith Sea, causing thousands of Vengeful Spirits and Obsession Wraiths to bow to him.

Chu Bai returned to Formless City with Lei Wu and demonstrated his overwhelming power, prompting the city’s factions to halt their plans against Ironblood Hall. After rejecting Lei Wu’s proposal to seize the city through a massacre, Chu Bai accepted an invitation from the newly emerged City Lord Xuanmingzi to meet at the Star-Gazing Tower in three days.

• Chu Bai entered Formless City, and his aura forced the gate guards to kneel and clear his way.
• Wang Juefeng pledged the Wang Household’s complete submission to Chu Bai, while spies from other factions suffered backlash trying to probe Ironblood Hall.
• Lei Wu proposed gathering Formless City’s factions for a killing, but Chu Bai rejected the plan and chose to stir fear, hope, and rumors instead.
• A City Lord’s Manor envoy arrived with an invitation from Xuanmingzi, who had emerged from a century of seclusion and requested a private meeting with Chu Bai.
• Chu Bai erased the probe hidden in the invitation and agreed to meet Xuanmingzi at the Star-Gazing Tower on the night of the full moon.

Chu Bai met Xuanmingzi at the City Lord's Manor and learned that karmic backlash prevented cultivators from clearing the abyss, while breakthrough attempts provoked a deadly demonic tide. Chu Bai promised to absorb the karma and protect Xuanmingzi during his Purple Abode breakthrough, and Xuanmingzi pledged his life and Formless City to Chu Bai's cause.

• Chu Bai entered the City Lord's Manor alone and clashed with Xuanmingzi using his quasi-Purple Abode divine soul, earning the old city lord's respect.
• Chu Bai revealed the truth about the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm, its contamination, and the vengeful spirits to Xuanmingzi.
• Xuanmingzi explained that killing vengeful spirits transferred their karmic obstruction to their slayers, while a Purple Abode breakthrough would draw an overwhelming demonic tide.
• Chu Bai offered to bear the karma from the purification campaign and proposed using Xuanmingzi's breakthrough to lure the vengeful spirits out, promising to protect him and Formless City.
• Xuanmingzi pledged his life and allegiance to Chu Bai if he survived the breakthrough, then ordered Formless City to prepare for his attempt at Soul-Severing Ridge in three days.

Formless City prepared for Xuanmingzi’s attempt to attain the Purple Abode Dao, which threatened to draw an overwhelming demon tide. As Xuanmingzi and Chu Bai headed for Soul-Severing Ridge, the abyssal demons awoke and the great battle began to loom.

• Xuanmingzi announced his tribulation and sealed Formless City under the highest military alert, triggering panic that the guards violently suppressed.
• Li Qinglian ordered Medicine King Valley to fortify the city, while Zhao Panshi committed the Hundred Refinements Pavilion’s weapons and disciples to its defense.
• Lei Wu rallied Ironblood Hall behind Chu Bai, who spent three days cultivating the Great Luo Divine Refining Art and created the Soul-Slaying Blade.
• Xuanmingzi entrusted the City Lord’s Manor’s reserves to a guard commander for Chu Bai in case he died, then prepared to leave for the tribulation.
• As the Purple Abode tribulation gathered over Soul-Severing Ridge, Xuanmingzi and Chu Bai left the city, and the abyssal demon tide erupted in response to Xuanmingzi’s aura.

Chu Bai guarded Xuanmingzi as he broke through to Purple Abode, battling the abyssal demonic tide and its strongest fiends. Just as Xuanmingzi’s breakthrough neared completion, the Faceless Evil King fired an Extinction Light Pillar at him, and Chu Bai rushed to intercept it with his own body.

• Chu Bai carved a trench at Soul-Severing Ridge and vowed to stop any abyssal creature from reaching Xuanmingzi as he ascended.
• Xuanmingzi shattered his thirty-six seals and began breaking through while the heaven-and-earth karmic fire unleashed a vast demonic tide.
• Chu Bai used Great Luo Soul Refinement to destroy vengeful spirits and absorbed their karmic obstruction with the help of humanity’s fortune and his Black Baleful Crystal Core.
• When Foundation Establishment Perfection evil spirits charged, Chu Bai fought them with his physical strength and Great Five-Phase True Astral Force, holding the trench as Xuanmingzi forged Fallen Star River and opened his Purple Abode Space.
• The Faceless Evil King emerged from the abyss and fired an Extinction Light Pillar at the vulnerable Xuanmingzi, and Chu Bai raced into its path.

Chu Bai held off the Faceless Evil King until Xuanmingzi completed his breakthrough into the Purple Abode Realm and destroyed the fiend and the demonic tide. When the slaughter’s accumulated karma formed a catastrophic tribulation cloud, Chu Bai tried to absorb it, and Xuanmingzi intervened to help him refine it as his divine soul began transforming toward the Purple Abode Realm.

• Chu Bai crippled the Faceless Evil King’s assembled body with Soul-Slaying Blades and endured its attacks for a quarter of an hour to protect Xuanmingzi’s breakthrough.
• Xuanmingzi attained the Purple Abode Realm, used Starfall to obliterate the Faceless Evil King, and swept away the million-strong demonic tide with Falling Stars.
• The dead fiend and spirits’ accumulated karma gathered into a world-threatening tribulation cloud, and Chu Bai began drawing it into himself.
• Chu Bai’s divine soul began to tear under the karmic burden, so Xuanmingzi suppressed the corruption with Purple Abode spell power and urged Chu Bai to refine it.
• Chu Bai anchored himself with his vow and used the Origin-Opening Daoist Scripture and Fortune Golden Body to refine the karma, beginning a transformation toward a true Purple Abode divine soul.

Chu Bai purified the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm by absorbing its hundred-thousand-year karmic obstruction, then guided the collapsing fragment realm safely back into Great Zhou. The chapter ended with Chu Bai confronting Great Zhou’s arriving experts and declaring his return as Lord of Northern Peace.

• Chu Bai swallowed the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm’s karmic obstruction, purified the realm, and broke through to a transformed divine soul, though the burden left half his hair white and a Black-Purple Lotus mark on his brow.
• The people of Formless City sent Chu Bai a surge of faith, and Xuanmingzi bowed to him and acknowledged him as the Realm Lord.
• The Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty’s laws began forcibly drawing the fragment realm back, threatening to destroy it and everyone within during the collision.
• Chu Bai steered the realm with the Immortal Boundary-Stele while Xuanmingzi shielded Formless City, and they survived the crossing into Great Zhou.
• The Southern Pacification General, the Qingzhou Prefect, and other Great Zhou powerhouses arrived and recognized Chu Bai as the magistrate who had entered the fragment realm alone.
• Chu Bai introduced himself as Great Zhou’s Lord of Northern Peace and declared that he had brought the Heavenly Abyss Fragment Realm back into the fold.