Arc 22The Return to True Captured

Zhang Yuan confronted the Blood-Mud Giant, revived the Chu Family, and returned to the Central Land with Xiao Yuanjun. After killing Lu Chaosheng in Heaven-Reaching City, he was bound by golden chains and arrested by an armored group.

  • Juesheng True Person sent the Blood-Mud Giant to devour life across the South Sea, but Zhang Yuan split it apart before True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts appeared and destroyed its body.
  • Zhang Yuan learned that Chu Qingyuan might still be alive, then reunited with her and Xiao Yuanjun, who had advanced to late celestial person.
  • A Day Patrol God arrived to apprehend long-lived cultivators, and Zhang Yuan used the Blood-Mud Giant’s remains to give bodies to the Chu Family’s souls.
  • Miaole declared Zhang Yuan a Fated Bodhisattva and invited him to the Western Heaven, but Zhang Yuan struck him down and left the Chu Family.
  • Situ Bikang surrendered Dark Gold City’s Sumeru stone to Zhang Yuan, who used some of it to modify an Array Plate and teleport with Xiao Yuanjun to Heaven-Reaching City.
  • Zhang Yuan tracked down Lu Chaosheng and killed him with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword].
  • An armored group attacked Zhang Yuan with golden chains after a hidden Divine Master suppressed his [Lamp-Lighting Oil-Adding Pill], and their leader ordered him arrested.
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Ch. 526This Old Man Has Exhausted His Strength!

Qin Tianyi saved Xia Ying, Situ Yuanbai, and the others from the Blood-Mud Giant’s suction, then attacked it with his mystic wonder [Mu Bingcheng]. The giant destroyed his summoned soldiers and knocked him to Zhang Yuan, where Qin Tianyi pretended to collapse and offered him a “tiny bit” of power.

  • Juesheng True Person ordered the Blood-Mud Giant to feed, and it began devouring life across the South Sea of the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm.
  • Qin Tianyi used a cyan thunderbolt to break the suction pulling Xia Ying, Situ Yuanbai, and the others toward the giant.
  • The Blood-Mud Giant grew more solid and took on a humanlike form, leading Zhang Yuan to conclude that Juesheng True Person was someone else’s pawn.
  • Qin Tianyi summoned divine soldiers and generals with [Mu Bingcheng], and they wounded the Blood-Mud Giant before it bit them away and struck him into a reef.
  • Qin Tianyi pretended to pass out after offering Zhang Yuan a bolt of azure thunder, and Zhang Yuan recognized his act.

Ch. 527It Must Have Been That Demon Fiend!

Zhang Yuan faced the Blood-Mud Giant while Eastern Continent cultivators rushed to investigate the devastation at sea. After seeing Zhang Yuan beside Juesheng True Person, the arriving Great Cultivators wrongly concluded Zhang Yuan was responsible and prepared to attack him.

  • Zhang Yuan crushed Qin Tianyi’s weak cyan lightning and turned his attention to the Blood-Mud Giant.
  • Venerable Youkong and Queyin True Person left the Eastern Cen Palace of the Azure Sea to investigate the giant and look for Xia Ying.
  • Heavenly Net True Person and other Eastern Continent Great Cultivators gathered at a safe distance from the Blood-Mud Giant.
  • The cultivators saw Juesheng True Person standing on the giant and Zhang Yuan confronting it, but they did not know what had happened.
  • After learning Zhang Yuan was the [Return to True Celestial Person], the cultivators blamed him for the slaughter and agreed to join Juesheng True Person in attacking him.

Ch. 528This Really Is a Good Idea

Zhang Yuan cleaved Juesheng True Person’s Blood-Mud Giant in two with a single sword strike, frightening the Eastern Continent Cultivators out of attacking him. As the others reunited with their companions, Juesheng devised a way to take possession of the damaged Dharma Body and destroyed his current body to carry it out.

  • Zhang Yuan used Spring Harmony Scenery and the Three-Colored Qi Light to split the Blood-Mud Giant in two.
  • The Eastern Continent Cultivators abandoned their plans to attack Zhang Yuan, while Queyin True Person and Venerable Youkong recognized that Juesheng True Person had fallen into the Demonic Dao.
  • Situ Yuanbai, Xia Ying, Zhuang Rouyi, and the others called to Venerable Youkong and Queyin True Person from a reef, where they guarded the gravely injured Qin Tianyi.
  • Juesheng True Person weighed the risk of attracting the Nether Bureau against Zhang Yuan destroying his Dharma Body and decided to forcibly merge his Three Hun and Seven Po into it.
  • Juesheng True Person blew apart his current fleshly body and sent his Three Hun and Seven Po into the Blood-Mud Giant’s head.

Ch. 529Ji Guang! I'm Going to Kill You!

Zhang Yuan discovered that the Sumeru Stone was somewhere in Colorful Mist City and prepared to fight the blood-mud giant, whose divine will belonged to an Ancient True Lord. Before Zhang Yuan could attack, Ji Guang appeared, destroyed the giant’s body, and kicked its head away, prompting Zhang Yuan to threaten him.

  • Juesheng True Person was swallowed by the blood-mud giant, and Zhang Yuan sensed that the Sumeru Stone remained somewhere in Colorful Mist City.
  • Chi Guanguan recognized the giant as a primordial-era Xuanmen demonic cultivator who had reached Great Luo.
  • The giant’s gaze revealed that an Ancient True Lord’s divine will inhabited its dharma body, but Zhang Yuan remained prepared to fight it.
  • A young man appeared, burned away the giant’s body, and kicked its remaining head into the distance.
  • Zhang Yuan recognized the young man as Ji Guang and angrily vowed to kill him.

Ch. 530We're the Best Friends in the World

Zhang Yuan confronted True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts, whom he blamed for the Chu Family’s slaughter and for scheming against his Dao heart. The True Lord revealed that he had preserved the Chu Family’s souls, but Chu Qingyuan was still missing, leaving Zhang Yuan unwilling to forgive him.

  • Zhang Yuan attacked True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts, who dodged his strikes and changed his incarnation into Zhao Ye and then Ye Xiangning.
  • The True Lord showed Zhang Yuan a microcosm containing the Chu Family members’ souls, which wandered without awareness.
  • Zhang Yuan noticed that Chu Qingyuan was absent from the microcosm and demanded to know where she was.
  • The True Lord said Chu Qingyuan was probably still alive, easing some of Zhang Yuan’s anger without ending his desire for vengeance.
  • When the True Lord again put an arm around Zhang Yuan’s neck, Zhang Yuan demanded that he let go and swung his sword at the arm.

Ch. 531Reunion

[True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] gave Zhang Yuan the Microcosm containing the Chu Family’s souls and vanished, leaving him to wonder why they had helped the Blood-Mud Giant escape. Xiao Yuanjun arrived with Chu Qingyuan, whose eye sockets were empty, and Zhang Yuan asked his master whether she had faced danger.

  • [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] released Zhang Yuan, handed him the Microcosm containing the Chu Family’s souls, and disappeared.
  • Zhang Yuan suspected [True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts] had created the Blood-Mud Giant and deliberately spared its head, then asked Chi Guanguan to explain their motives.
  • Chi Guanguan guessed that Ji Guang was refining a Dharma Body for someone else and said she had heard Ji Guang was a pre-heaven lifeform.
  • Xiao Yuanjun arrived with Chu Qingyuan, and Zhang Yuan noticed Chu Qingyuan’s empty eye sockets.
  • Xiao Yuanjun happily greeted Zhang Yuan, and he asked whether she had encountered any danger.

Ch. 532Pretty, or Easy to Fool

Zhang Yuan reunited with Chu Qingyuan and learned how her family’s destruction had left her blind, then warned Xiao Yuanjun that her sudden opportunities might be part of a scheme to push her toward True-Seeking Dao Attainment. The chapter ended as a towering Day Patrol God of the Nether Bureau emerged from a rift above the South Sea.

  • Zhang Yuan told the blind Chu Qingyuan that he had destroyed the Shang Family and would kill Lu Chaosheng to avenge her family.
  • Chu Qingyuan asked Zhang Yuan whether he had thought her pretty or easy to fool, and he told her he had stayed in her family’s courtyard without her knowing.
  • Xiao Yuanjun told Zhang Yuan she had advanced to late celestial person after finding several strands of the five skandhas and six qi.
  • Zhang Yuan warned Xiao Yuanjun that someone might be manipulating her opportunities to push her toward True-Seeking Dao Attainment, but Xiao Yuanjun said she would succeed on her own terms.
  • Zhang Yuan sensed a disturbance as a towering Day Patrol God of the Nether Bureau appeared over the South Sea through a split in the Great Void.

Ch. 533Two Options

The Day Patrol God arrived to apprehend Juesheng True Person, but found him dead and instead declared that the long-lived Eastern Continent cultivators were targets for arrest. After the cultivators scattered, Zhang Yuan offered Chu Qingyuan a choice of materials for making new bodies for her family’s souls.

  • The Day Patrol God searched for Juesheng True Person, then announced he would apprehend the assembled cultivators whose lifespans exceeded eight hundred years.
  • Heavenly Net True Person and Venerable Youkong urged the cultivators to attack, but Queyin True Person warned them that resisting the Nether Bureau would bring harsher consequences.
  • The Eastern Continent cultivators thanked Queyin True Person and fled in different directions.
  • Zhang Yuan examined the Blood-Mud Giant’s remains and sent Chu Qingyuan an image of the flesh-mud.
  • Zhang Yuan told Chu Qingyuan he had her family’s souls and offered to make them bodies from the Blood-Mud Giant’s remains or lend other materials in exchange for an IOU.

Ch. 534Something was wrong-how about a soul search?

Zhang Yuan rebuilt bodies for the Chu Family’s souls and revived three of them, but their unusual souls and his sudden urge to search them revealed a hidden demonic influence. He rejected the trap, while Chu Zhankuo learned that Zhang Yuan had destroyed the Shang Family and restored his family.

  • Zhang Yuan shaped seventy-three bodies from blood mud near Dark Gold City and placed the Chu Family’s souls inside them.
  • Chu Zhankuo, Duan Zong, and Tan Sheng awakened first, and Zhang Yuan noticed their souls were unusually resilient.
  • Zhang Yuan realized that the urge to search the three men’s souls had been planted to ensnare him, so he dismissed the thought and invoked his allies’ protection.
  • Chu Zhankuo recognized Chu Qingyuan and asked Zhang Yuan what had happened, and Chu Qingyuan explained that Zhang Yuan had revived the family and avenged them.
  • Chu Zhankuo tried to bow in gratitude, but Zhang Yuan said his actions had served his own interests and were part of a larger design.

Ch. 535Nature Observation

The Mirror-Holding Armored Lord and Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu discussed a hidden True Lord conducting nature observation on Zhang Yuan, and the Armored Lord decided to send Lu Chaosheng to meet him. Elsewhere, a giant head landed on a South Sea island, where the Nine Serenities Lu Clan, South Sea Dragon Clan, and black-robed qi sea uniting spirit dao cultivators gathered.

  • The Mirror-Holding Armored Lord and Immortal Lord Daocheng Dejiu recognized that a concealed True Lord was observing Zhang Yuan’s nature, but they could not identify the observer.
  • The Mirror-Holding Armored Lord rejected the idea of asking Immortal Lord Cangyan Lianjie for help and decided to send Lu Chaosheng to meet Zhang Yuan.
  • A giant head kicked away by True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts’s avatar landed at the center of an island in the South Sea.
  • Lu Danyan praised the head as a potential ingredient for a great pill, and the black-robed leader reprimanded him.
  • The black-robed leader claimed his master had created the qi sea uniting spirit dao and had been an ancient Great Luo and its first Divine Master, while Lu Danyan privately doubted the claim.

Ch. 536The First God Cult

Lu Danyan negotiated with the First God Cult over completing a Dharma Body so the First God could descend and strengthen their alliance. They agreed to refine its missing parts in separate locations, and Lu Danyan asked the South Sea Dragon Clan’s representative to approve the division of labor.

  • The Nine Serenities Lu Clan, the South Sea Dragon Clan, and the First God Cult sought to strengthen their alliance against their enemies by bringing the First God into the world.
  • The black-robed cultivator explained that the First God could descend only after they completed his Dharma Body, whose head they had already refined.
  • Lu Danyan warned that another large-scale slaughter would attract the Divine Masters’ attention, so they needed to work in secret.
  • Lu Danyan proposed splitting into several groups to refine the Dharma Body’s remaining parts at separate locations in the Boundless Southern Heaven Realm.
  • The black-robed cultivator offered for the First God Cult to refine the torso while the Nine Serenities Lu Clan and South Sea Dragon Clan handled the four limbs, and Lu Danyan asked Wenren what he thought.

Ch. 537Who? Who was speaking?

Wenren Shangzhi warned Lu Danyan and the Black-Robed Cultivator that the South Sea Dragon Clan would destroy their Dharma Body if they failed to kill Zhang Yuan and Ao Xiu before completing it. After settling the resurrected Chu Family, Zhang Yuan spent the evening with Xiao Yuanjun, who heard an unseen voice slander their relationship and asked Zhang Yuan who was speaking.

  • Wenren Shangzhi demanded that Lu Danyan and the Black-Robed Cultivator honor their promise to kill Zhang Yuan and Ao Xiu before completing the Dharma Body.
  • Lu Danyan reaffirmed the Nine Serenities Sect's desire to kill Zhang Yuan, while the Black-Robed Cultivator boasted that he could defeat Zhang Yuan himself.
  • After dusk, Zhang Yuan left the clearing where the Chu Family had awakened and carved out a nearby cave abode.
  • Xiao Yuanjun asked Zhang Yuan whether he would heal Chu Qingyuan's blindness, and he explained that he lacked healing abilities.
  • Xiao Yuanjun settled onto Zhang Yuan's back, heard an unseen voice criticize their relationship, and asked him who had spoken.

Ch. 538Bright Yang

Xiao Yuanjun entered Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain to confront Chi Guanguan, an ancient Great Luo whose Divine Sense lived there. After recognizing Xiao Yuanjun as the source of bright yang, Chi Guanguan refused to leave and proposed moving into Zhang Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness instead.

  • Zhang Yuan told Xiao Yuanjun that Chi Guanguan’s Divine Sense lived in his Dao Domain, and Xiao Yuanjun offered to drive it out.
  • Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun entered the [Great Cavern Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain] and found Chi Guanguan in the Immortal Palace with Ao Xiu asleep nearby.
  • Xiao Yuanjun demanded to know who Chi Guanguan was, and Chi Guanguan identified herself as Great Luo.
  • Chi Guanguan recognized Xiao Yuanjun as bright yang, but Xiao Yuanjun declared that she was bright yang itself, not its reincarnation.
  • Xiao Yuanjun ordered Chi Guanguan to leave Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain, but Chi Guanguan refused and suggested living in his Sea of Consciousness instead.

Ch. 539A cunning old fox

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun tried to expel Chi Guanguan from the [Great Grotto Yin-Scenery Immortal Domain], but her Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Formation kept her anchored inside. Zhang Yuan realized he had brought the formation into his Dao Domain himself, while Chi Guanguan insisted she could have made another one anyway.

  • Chi Guanguan refused to leave Zhang Yuan's Dao Domain unless she could remain in his sea of consciousness.
  • Xiao Yuanjun and Zhang Yuan used the Dao Domain's conceptual image to try to drive Chi Guanguan out, but she weakened its rejection with her Great Luo divine sense.
  • Xiao Yuanjun countered Chi Guanguan's influence with [Dusk Veil] and [Jade Emperor's Journey], and Zhang Yuan intensified the attempt to expel her.
  • Zhang Yuan found that he could neither detect nor locate Chi Guanguan, and Xiao Yuanjun discovered the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Formation's Array Plate concealing her.
  • Zhang Yuan accused Chi Guanguan of deliberately getting him to bring the Array Plate inside, but she denied planning it and said she could have made another concealment formation.

Ch. 540A Contest of Wills

Xiao Yuanjun placed protective divine statues in Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain to restrain Chi Guanguan, who responded by making statues of herself. Their escalating contest spread across the Dao Domain, and Zhang Yuan tried to stop them.

  • Xiao Yuanjun proposed leaving safeguards in Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain and created statues of herself and Zhang Yuan that could suppress Chi Guanguan.
  • Chi Guanguan failed to erase Xiao Yuanjun’s statues, so she made a statue of herself to challenge them.
  • Xiao Yuanjun erased Chi Guanguan’s statue, and the two women repeatedly created and destroyed statues throughout the Immortal Palace.
  • The contest spread across Zhang Yuan’s Dao Domain, and Ao Xiu fled to Zhang Yuan’s shoulder as statues nearly crushed her.
  • Zhang Yuan called for Xiao Yuanjun and Chi Guanguan to take a break.

Ch. 541The Master and Disciple's Con

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun placated Chi Guanguan by making her question whether she had rewarded Zhang Yuan for occupying his Dao Domain. Chi Guanguan offered to grant Zhang Yuan a benefit, and he asked her to help him pursue true-seeking dao attainment immediately; she instead proposed making a temporary dharma body and promised him three treasures from her old cave abode.

  • Zhang Yuan urged Xiao Yuanjun and Chi Guanguan to stop fighting, then praised Chi Guanguan as kindhearted to ease tensions.
  • Xiao Yuanjun challenged Chi Guanguan to name what she had given Zhang Yuan, dismissing the Azure Vault Vast Sea Art and Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Formation as proper benefits.
  • Zhang Yuan suggested Chi Guanguan had merely forgotten to reward him, prompting her to offer him a benefit within her power.
  • Zhang Yuan asked Chi Guanguan to help him pursue true-seeking dao attainment at the celestial mid-stage.
  • Chi Guanguan said her constrained true body could not help immediately, but offered to make a temporary dharma body and let Zhang Yuan choose three treasures from her old cave abode.

Ch. 542Terms agreed

Zhang Yuan agreed to help Chi Guanguan locate her displaced Cave Abode in exchange for her legacy, after she promised to teach him and requested a divine statue in his Immortal Palace. The Chu Family awoke on the Eastern Continent, where Chu Dalong told them they would begin again.

  • Chi Guanguan proposed that Zhang Yuan find her Cave Abode, which held the treasures needed to make her a temporary Dharma Body, and offered him a choice of its contents.
  • Chi Guanguan explained that her Cave Abode had been blasted away during her battle with the Dark-Heaven World-Annihilating True Lord but remained somewhere in the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm.
  • Zhang Yuan agreed to seek the Cave Abode after returning to the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm and resolved to stay wary of the True Lord Ceased Light Punishes Thoughts.
  • Chi Guanguan offered to teach Zhang Yuan her legacy if he built a divine statue of her in the Immortal Palace, and he agreed.
  • The Chu Family members awoke in a clearing on the Eastern Continent, and Chu Dalong told them they would make a new life there.

Ch. 543A Monk Came from Western Heaven

The Chu Family settled in Moon Laurel Town and discussed their precarious position, Zhang Yuan, and Chu Qingyuan’s blindness. A monk named Miaole arrived claiming that a Fated Bodhisattva had appeared and that Buddha had sent him to bring the Bodhisattva to Western Heaven.

  • Chu Zhankuo reported that Dark Gold City and its mystic dark golden sand vein lay a hundred li away, and Chu Dalong said the family would focus on establishing itself first.
  • Chu Dalong decided the Chu Family should leave Zhang Yuan undisturbed, while Chu Zhankuo reported that he had found no way to heal Chu Qingyuan’s eyes.
  • A Chu Family disciple announced that a thin, apparently uncultivated monk had come seeking Zhang Yuan, and Chu Zhankuo proposed receiving him while informing Zhang Yuan.
  • Miaole entered the courtyard, introduced himself as a monk from Western Heaven, and said Buddha had sent him to welcome a Fated Bodhisattva.
  • Miaole invited Chu Zhankuo, Duan Zong, and Tan Sheng to accompany the Bodhisattva as Vajras or Arhats, leaving the three rigid under his pressure.

Ch. 544Fated Bodhisattva

Miaole arrived at the Chu Family and declared Zhang Yuan a Fated Bodhisattva, inviting him to the Western Heaven to claim a Buddha Position on Sky Mountain. Zhang Yuan rejected the invitation and killed Miaole, though he sensed the monk might return.

  • Miaole identified the immortal on Osmanthus Fragrance Mountain as the Fated Bodhisattva, and Chu Dalong sent Chu Zhankuo to summon Zhang Yuan.
  • Chu Qingyuan objected to Zhang Yuan becoming a monk, then realized the choice belonged to Zhang Yuan himself.
  • Zhang Yuan appeared and challenged Miaole’s claim that he was a Bodhisattva, threatening to destroy him if his answers were unsatisfactory.
  • Miaole explained that he could read minds and invited Zhang Yuan to the Western Heaven to become master of the Buddha Position on Sky Mountain.
  • Zhang Yuan rejected Miaole’s explanation and struck him down with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword], but sensed Miaole had not died completely.

Ch. 545What Lowly Scoundrels? I'll Subdue Them with One Hand

Zhang Yuan killed Miaole and left the Chu Family, then traveled with Xiao Yuanjun to Dark Gold City to seek news of Sumeru Stone. There, Chu Hongfang offered loyalty to Situ Bikang just as Zhang Yuan arrived to claim ownership of the city.

  • Zhang Yuan killed Miaole, departed without farewell, and left the Chu Family wondering whether he would return.
  • Zhang Yuan met Xiao Yuanjun and told her they would go to Dark Gold City to ask about Sumeru Stone before returning to the Central Land.
  • Zhang Yuan considered whether he remained caught in the dragon clans’ schemes or had entered a larger game played by the Lords of Heaven and Earth.
  • Situ Bikang hosted a banquet to celebrate his recovery and granted Chu Hongfang’s family the mining rights to the mystic dark golden sand.
  • A soldier reported that Zhang Yuan, who called himself [Return to True] and the owner of Dark Gold City, had arrived and demanded that Situ Bikang receive him.
  • Chu Hongfang declared that he would confront Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, boasting that he could subdue them with one hand.

Ch. 546Damn, Why Didn't You Say So Earlier?

Situ Bikang panicked when he learned Zhang Yuan had arrived at Dark Gold City and amputated both arms to obey Zhang Yuan’s order. Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun waited outside the gates for him to explain the Sumeru Stone’s whereabouts, and Situ Bikang rushed out to kneel before them.

  • Situ Bikang slapped Chu Hongfang after Chu Hongfang called Zhang Yuan a fool, then feared Zhang Yuan would kill him.
  • Situ Bikang remembered Zhang Yuan had forbidden him to leave the city or restore his severed arm, so he cut off his left arm before going to greet him.
  • Chu Hongfang praised Situ Bikang for his resolve and pointed out that the arm Zhang Yuan had severed was his right one.
  • Situ Bikang cut off his right arm as well, crushed both arms to dust, and left the City Lord’s Residence with the banquet guests following.
  • Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun waited outside Dark Gold City’s gates, and Zhang Yuan warned her that thirteen cultivators were approaching.
  • Situ Bikang rushed ahead of the procession, stopped ten meters from Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun, and dropped to his knees.

Ch. 547Sumeru Stone in Hand

Zhang Yuan returned to Dark Gold City and asked Situ Bikang about Sumeru stone, discovering that the city had a large supply. He took some for Chi Guanguan’s Teleportation Formation and learned that a True Lord had taken the rest from Chu Hongfang’s Spatial Treasure.

  • Zhang Yuan found Situ Bikang missing both arms and asked how he had lost the second one.
  • Situ Bikang told Zhang Yuan that Dark Gold City had Sumeru stone, though he knew nothing about other factions’ reserves.
  • Situ Bikang ordered Chu Hongfang to give Zhang Yuan the city’s Sumeru stone, and Chu Hongfang handed over a Spatial Treasure containing nine hundred jin.
  • Zhang Yuan took a hundred jin of Sumeru stone for Chi Guanguan and returned the Spatial Treasure to Chu Hongfang.
  • Chu Hongfang explained that two hundred jin had gone missing, and Zhang Yuan realized a True Lord had taken it from the Spatial Treasure.

Ch. 548Leaving the Eastern Continent

Zhang Yuan modified Venerable Youkong’s Teleportation Formation in Dark Gold City to lead to the Central Land. After activating it, he and Xiao Yuanjun vanished, leaving their exact destination unknown.

  • Zhang Yuan decided to set up the Teleportation Formation in Dark Gold City to avoid complications on another trip to the Eastern Cen Palace of the Azure Sea.
  • Situ Bikang explained that the Eastern Cen Palace forbade formations leading to the Central Land, but Zhang Yuan assured him Venerable Youkong would retrieve the Array Plate after he left.
  • Situ Bikang gave Zhang Yuan his enormous private residence, where Zhang Yuan used the Sumeru Stone and other treasures to modify the Array Plate with Chi Guanguan’s guidance.
  • Zhang Yuan learned that the modified formation’s exact destination was unknown, though Chi Guanguan assured him it would lead to the Central Land.
  • Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun stepped onto the formation, and Zhang Yuan activated it, transporting them away.

Ch. 549The Great Heng Dynasty

Zhang Yuan arrived with Xiao Yuanjun in Heaven-Reaching City and discovered that Lu Chaosheng was there, so he flew north to kill him. In a teahouse, Lu Chaosheng lied to a gathering of Great Heng Dynasty nobles about hunting Zhang Yuan, unaware that Zhang Yuan was coming for him.

  • Zhang Yuan and Xiao Yuanjun arrived in Heaven-Reaching City, where Zhang Yuan used karma to locate Lu Chaosheng in the northern district.
  • Zhang Yuan told Xiao Yuanjun he was going to take care of something, then flew toward the teahouse on his Golden Carriage Luan Chariot.
  • Huang Yingquan challenged Lu Chaosheng over his arrogance, and Tan Chengcheng and Tan Xingzhou calmed the gathering.
  • Lu Chaosheng claimed he had come to Great Heng to hunt the Return to True Demon Fiend, though he had actually sought the protection of the Great Heng Dynasty's Divine Master.
  • A girl in green asked Lu Chaosheng to take the group along when he went to find the Demon Fiend.

Ch. 550You're under arrest

Zhang Yuan killed Lu Chaosheng in the Great Heng Capital, then found himself restrained by the dynasty’s Divine Lock after a Divine Master suppressed his means of escape. The chapter left him under arrest as the armored cultivators ordered him to come with them.

  • Zhang Yuan destroyed Lu Chaosheng’s protective barrier and killed him with the [Primordial Form-Converging Sword].
  • The girl in green challenged Zhang Yuan for killing someone in the Capital, and he identified himself as the [Return to True Celestial Person].
  • Tan Chengcheng, Miaole, and an armored group called out to Zhang Yuan as he prepared to leave.
  • The armored cultivators attacked with golden chains, and a hidden Divine Master suppressed the [Lamp-Lighting Oil-Adding Pill] before the chains bound Zhang Yuan’s wrist.
  • The armored leader told Zhang Yuan he was under arrest and ordered him to come with them.
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