Chapter Summaries

Chu Bai rewarded the Qingzhou Suppression Army, then reforged Heavenly Abyss City into a divine fortress and revealed the coming Dark Current Calamity to his inner circle. After Skywolf Pass was erased by a spreading black mist, Chu Bai recognized the calamity’s first probing strike and prepared to face it.

• Chu Bai rewarded Shen Feiyu, General Southern Guardian, and the allied forces for crushing the demons and expanding Qingzhou’s territory.
• Chu Bai merged the Primordial Void Heaven-Locking Grand Formation with the Earth Vein Mother-and-Son Grand Formation, turning Heavenly Abyss City into a Doomsday Divine City.
• Chu Bai showed Zhang Cheng, Shen Feiyu, General Southern Guardian, and his trusted officers the Primordial Void Immortal Palace’s record of the Dark Current Calamity and called on them to preserve civilization.
• The court in the Divine Capital received reports of Chu Bai’s victories and growing authority, while the old emperor ordered the campaign’s news suppressed.
• The Dark Current Calamity’s black mist destroyed Skywolf Pass and its hundred thousand defenders, and three days later Chu Bai received a secret report of the devastation.

Chu Bai discovered that the black mist destroying the northern frontier embodied laws of annihilation, then fused his five divine abilities into [Origin-Opening Great Firmament Heaven] and learned to reverse the mist into spiritual energy. After emerging from three months of seclusion, he addressed his assembled army and ordered it to march north following the fall of Skywolf Pass.

• Chu Bai examined the black mist recovered from Skywolf Pass and learned it erased spiritual energy and laws, threatening the Northern Garrison Army.
• Chu Bai ordered Zhang Cheng to govern while he entered seclusion to combine his five divine abilities against the annihilation laws.
• Chu Bai shattered and fused his five abilities over three months, creating [Origin-Opening Great Firmament Heaven] and advancing to the peak of the early Golden Core stage.
• Chu Bai tested his new domain on the black mist, reversing its annihilation and transforming it into pure spiritual energy he absorbed.
• Chu Bai emerged before the assembled Northern Garrison Army, revealed Skywolf Pass had fallen, and ordered the troops to march north to repel the invaders and secure Youyan.

Chu Bai led the Qingzhou Suppression Army north under imperial authority, winning the people’s support through military protection and relief. At Nine Rivers Crossing, he used the Peerless Prince’s seal and his power to dismantle the pass’s formation, secure Wei Chong’s surrender, and march into the Central Plains, leaving the Divine Capital in panic.

• Chu Bai explained that he would use Great Zhou’s lawful authority to gather resources and support while advancing north.
• The army rescued a town from a savage bear, while the Heavenly Abyss Merchant Alliance distributed food, medicine, and defensive aid across the provinces.
• Chu Bai’s relief efforts earned him popular devotion and caused his merit and vow power to surge.
• Wei Chong blocked Nine Rivers Pass and demanded that Chu Bai disband his army, claiming his advance without orders was rebellion.
• Chu Bai presented the Peerless Prince’s seal, causing the national destiny law net to destroy Wei Chong’s document, then used his domain to dismantle the pass’s grand formation.
• Wei Chong surrendered, Chu Bai’s army entered the Central Plains, and the Divine Capital’s nobles panicked upon hearing the news.

Chu Bai took control of Nine Rivers Pass, won the people and former Imperial Guards with strict discipline and generous aid, and used the crossing to squeeze the Divine Capital’s powerful clans. As his fortune and Golden Core foundation advanced, the Ji Clan allied with northern forces to lure a calamity toward him, and Chu Bai prepared to face it.

• Chu Bai’s 300,000 soldiers entered Nine Rivers Pass under strict orders not to harm residents, while Heavenly Abyss stewards distributed food and medicine, winning the people’s support.
• Chu Bai spared former defending general Wei Chong but reorganized the 100,000 Imperial Guards into his army, and Zhang Cheng repaid their withheld wages to secure their loyalty.
• Chu Bai imposed fivefold trade taxes and exhaustive inspections on the Divine Capital’s great clans while exempting small merchants and commoners, draining the clans’ resources and strengthening local support.
• The people’s faith strengthened Chu Bai’s Fortune Cauldron and helped complete his Golden Core Great Dao as his merit gained recognition across Great Zhou.
• The Ji Clan and Gu Tingzhi decided to collude with northern forces, offering territory and a demon emperor core in exchange for an attack that would destroy Chu Bai and his troops.
• Chu Bai sensed the northern black mist spreading and declared that he would defeat the calamity and remake Great Zhou.

Chu Bai answered the Primordial Origin, Beneficent Waters True Spirit’s plea and traveled to the Far North, where he defeated the barbarian shamans and freed it from the black calamity fog. By restoring the northern earth veins and earning unparalleled merit, he secured the outcome of the great trial and prepared to return to his base before challenging the Divine Capital.

• Chu Bai sensed the trapped Primordial Origin, Beneficent Waters True Spirit and ordered his army to hold Skywolf Pass while he, Shen Feiyu, and the Golden Armor Guards went to rescue it.
• At the Ice River Altar, Chu Bai nullified the shamans’ attack with his Origin-Opening Great Firmament Heaven and killed all three Golden Core shamans.
• Chu Bai cleansed the calamity chains and freed the true spirit, which joined his Immovable Mystic Yellow Body and linked the northern earth veins to his network of steles.
• The restored earth veins drove back the black fog, and the Merit Office recorded Chu Bai’s achievement as unparalleled merit, first-class Golden Register.
• Chu Bai recovered evidence that the Ji Clan had colluded with the northern barbarians, then ordered Shen Feiyu to gather the northern forces and publicize the shamans’ defeat.
• Chu Bai declared the great trial settled and led the army back to the Heavenly Abyss Main Base, vowing to march on the Divine Capital after his Golden Core breakthrough.

Chu Bai returned to Heavenly Abyss City as the convergence of Great Zhou’s northern and southwestern earth veins transformed the southwest, and he exposed the Ji Clan’s treason, forcing the Divine Capital to destroy the clan. After the court granted him the Supreme Golden Register and Qingzhou’s cultivation quota, Chu Bai unified his five origins and achieved three origins unification.

• Chu Bai returned to Heavenly Abyss City, where the Primordial Origin, Beneficent Waters True Spirit and converging earth veins brought new fortune and spiritual vitality to the southwest, while the Fortune Cauldron became the Nine-Dragon State-Quelling Divine Cauldron.
• Zhang Cheng broadcast the shaman’s memories and evidence of the Ji Clan’s schemes across Great Zhou, provoking nationwide outrage.
• Chu Bai threatened to march on the Divine Capital unless the Ji Clan was punished, as his troops advanced toward the capital and the court faced public fury.
• The emperor and cabinet ordered the Ji Clan’s core leadership, including Ji Xuance, executed and confiscated the clan’s wealth.
• Vice Minister Wang presented Chu Bai with the Supreme Golden Register and the decree granting him Qingzhou’s sole quota for the decade.
• Chu Bai accepted the register, which lawfully completed the fusion of his five origin divine abilities and brought about three origins unification.