Chapter Summaries

Juesheng True Person revealed that he had orchestrated Colorful Mist City's blood sacrifices to refine a new body and target Qin Tianyi. As his monstrous city attacked Qin's Dao Domain, Qin and the others fought back while Qin warned that his violent-tempered old brother might arrive.

• Juesheng True Person watched the western quarter and revealed that Pei Leide had been his pawn in a scheme to lure cultivators to Colorful Mist City as nourishment.
• Juesheng True Person transformed the City Lord's Residence and buildings across the city into a mass of bloody mouths and sharp teeth, then sent them toward Qin Tianyi's sanctuary.
• Qin Tianyi confronted Juesheng True Person and realized that he had been the intended target of the scheme.
• Qin Tianyi warned Juesheng True Person that his old brother would arrive, but Juesheng ignored the threat and ordered the attack forward.
• Qin Tianyi unleashed Azure Thunder against the monstrous city, while Situ Yuanbai urged Xia Ying and the other cultivators to help defend the western quarter.

Xia Ying and the others struggled to survive Juesheng True Person’s attack while Qin Tianyi fought him in Colorful Mist City. Unaware of their danger, Zhang Yuan approached the city and prepared to strike from a distance after sensing a Celestial Person-level battle.

• Xia Ying and the others defended the courtyard from the Bloodmouth Brickstones while Qin Tianyi’s Dao Domain held back most of the enemy.
• Ji Chuan blamed Xia Ying for bringing him into danger, and Zhuang Rouyi rebuked him for choosing to come himself.
• Qin Tianyi realized Juesheng True Person had sealed the Great Void and used the city’s formation to prevent escape, leaving them evenly matched for the moment.
• Zhang Yuan planned to collect the Sumeru Stone, kill Lu Chaosheng, take Ao Xiu home, and enlist others to punish Ji Guang.
• After sensing thunder from a Celestial Person nearby, Zhang Yuan recognized the coastal city and decided to send a sword strike into it rather than enter.

Zhang Yuan arrived in Colorful Mist City and rescued Xia Ying, Qin Tianyi, and the others with a single sword strike. He confronted Juesheng True Person and offered him a choice between surrendering the city's opportunities or being killed.

• Juesheng True Person tried to devour Xia Ying and the others after failing to subdue Qin Tianyi.
• Zhang Yuan's Three-Colored Qi Light cleaved through Colorful Mist City's gates, swept away the monsters, and sent Juesheng True Person flying.
• Xia Ying recognized Zhang Yuan as her eldest senior brother, and Qin Tianyi rejoiced at his arrival.
• Zhang Yuan assessed Juesheng True Person's weakened condition and approached him.
• Zhang Yuan introduced himself as [Return to True] and offered to spare Juesheng True Person if he surrendered the city's opportunities.
• Juesheng True Person recognized Zhang Yuan as the disciple of the [True-Self Celestial] and angrily accused them of going too far.

Zhang Yuan attacked Juesheng True Person and grievously wounded the Blood-Colored Head, but the enemy regenerated and began absorbing Colorful Mist City and the coastline. Zhang Yuan evacuated the others as the city transformed into a colossal Blood-Colored Giant standing in the South Sea.

• Zhang Yuan realized Xiao Yuanjun had already beaten Juesheng True Person and struck him with the Primordial Form-Converging Sword, severely wounding the Blood-Colored Head.
• The Blood-Colored Head sprang back and swallowed Ji Chuan while Situ Yuanbai, Xia Ying, and Zhuang Rouyi dodged its bite.
• Juesheng True Person used a talisman to make Colorful Mist City and the coastline collapse into blood-red sludge that merged with the Blood-Colored Head.
• Zhang Yuan carried the nearby survivors away, and Qin Tianyi followed him as the rest of the city joined the transformation.
• Colorful Mist City and the coastline rose from the sea as a gigantic Blood-Colored Giant, whose aura made creatures throughout the South Sea tremble.

Zhang Yuan identified Juesheng True Person’s Blood-Mud Giant as a regenerating Dharma Body and judged that Juesheng had likely been deceived about escaping the Nether Bureau. As Juesheng confronted Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi, Zhang Yuan backed away and left Qin Tianyi to fight, promising to support him.

• Zhang Yuan tested the Blood-Mud Giant with sword qi, severing it before its powerful vitality restored it instantly.
• Juesheng True Person weighed whether to fight Zhang Yuan, fearing that acting would attract the Nether Bureau Ghost Deity.
• Qin Tianyi attacked Juesheng with Azure Thunder and declared that he would carry out heaven’s justice.
• Juesheng furiously accused Qin Tianyi and Zhang Yuan of turning heaven’s order upside down and said they had forced him to go this far.
• Zhang Yuan retreated several thousand meters and urged Qin Tianyi to slay Juesheng, promising to act if Qin Tianyi was in danger.
• Qin Tianyi reluctantly agreed to show Zhang Yuan what he could do, while secretly planning to make a few attacks and then flee.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.