Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yuning is about to intervene when Ye Qingcheng kills six would-be kidnappers without moving. Chen Mu then casually burns their bodies without harming the surrounding leaves.
• Shocked by their power, Xiao Yuning asks Ye Qingcheng how she used Sword Qi so precisely. Ye Qingcheng explains the technique, leaving Xiao impressed.
• Li Xuanyuan arrives and identifies Xiao Yuning as the princess of the Hengyang Kingdom, a state in the Daotian Realm that was overthrown three months earlier. Xiao escaped the massacre with help from her relatives and was rescued by Li.
• The group reaches Li’s elegant bamboo retreat. While Xiao and Ye go to prepare tea, Li tells Chen Mu he had hoped to make Xiao his daughter-in-law.
• Li urges Chen Mu to take Xiao as a concubine, revealing that she has a rare Heavenly Yin Enchanting Body that could greatly accelerate cultivation through dual cultivation.
• Chen Mu says the benefit is unimpressive: his pocket world already provides a hundredfold cultivation speed.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yuning shifts from frightened refugee to someone increasingly awed by Ye and Chen. Learning Chen’s identity—as the young master of Tianyuan Holy Land and a newly ascended Great Emperor—explains their extraordinary abilities and status.
• Ye Qingcheng demonstrates overwhelming strength and shares her swordsmanship knowledge with Xiao. Her reputation for indulging Chen becomes part of a joke between Chen and Li.
• Chen Mu remains calm about danger and unimpressed by the rare cultivation advantage. He privately reflects that Li’s matchmaking plan has nothing to do with an actual godmother.
• Li Xuanyuan is delighted to see Chen and sincerely wants what he considers beneficial for him, though his matchmaking advice embarrasses Chen. He assumes Chen may be tempted by Xiao’s special constitution.
• Chen falsely tells Li that Ye is possessive and would resist another concubine, prompting Li’s surprise.

Significant themes

• Power and status: Xiao’s understanding of Chen’s extraordinary background reframes what she has witnessed.
• Exile and political upheaval: Xiao’s story reveals the destruction of the Hengyang royal family and her precarious flight.
• Mentorship and knowledge: Ye’s explanation shows that mastery comes not only from strength but from understanding how to apply a technique.
• The limits of conventional opportunity: A rare advantage that would transform most cultivators means little to Chen, whose existing resources are even greater.
• Comic matchmaking: Li’s earnest plans contrast with Chen’s quiet resistance and his exaggerated account of Ye’s jealousy.

Key plot points and events

• Li Xuanyuan doubts Chen Mu’s claim that he owns a hundredfold cultivation space, assuming Ye Qingcheng’s public affection may not reflect their private relationship.
• Chen Mu’s system upgrades the space to a thousandfold cultivation speed. Ye Qingcheng vouches for him, and Chen Mu opens a Spatial Teleportation Gate to prove the space exists.
• Li Xuanyuan and Xiao Yuning enter cautiously, mistaking the gathering of powerful demon beasts for a beast tide. Ye Qingcheng explains that they are Chen Mu’s spirit pets, cultivating there.
• Li tests the space and discovers cultivation is now a thousand times faster. Ye Qingcheng confirms the increase; Chen Mu casually attributes it to a stronger spirit vein.
• Li realizes the space could greatly improve his Divine Talisman production. Chen Mu grants him permission to enter whenever he wishes and refine talismans—many of which will benefit Chen Mu.
• Xiao Yuning kneels before Chen Mu at the chapter’s end, but her reason is not yet revealed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains modest and composed, while demonstrating the extraordinary resources and power at his disposal. He conceals the system’s role in the upgrade.
• Li Xuanyuan moves from skepticism and affectionate sympathy to awe. His alarm at the demon beasts gives way to excitement over the space’s potential for his craft.
• Ye Qingcheng supports Chen Mu publicly, confirms his claims, and helps reassure the visitors when they encounter the beasts.
• Xiao Yuning goes from curiosity to profound respect—and perhaps gratitude or a request—after witnessing Chen Mu’s power and the space’s cultivation benefits.
• The visitors’ reactions underline Chen Mu’s growing reputation: both the supreme cultivation space and his loyal demon-beast attendants exceed their expectations.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and revelation: Chen Mu’s true capabilities repeatedly surpass what others believe.
• Cultivation and opportunity: The thousandfold space offers extraordinary prospects for personal growth and talisman-making.
• Trust and loyalty: Ye Qingcheng’s testimony and the beasts’ submission reinforce the loyalty surrounding Chen Mu.
• Humor through misunderstanding: Li misreads Chen Mu’s relationship with Ye Qingcheng and later mistakes the spirit pets for an attack.

Key plot points

• Xiao Yuning asks to serve Chen Mu and avenge the deaths of her parents and kingdom. Her experience in the thousandfold cultivation space has shown her how quickly she can advance under Chen Mu’s protection.
• Chen accepts her into Tianyuan Holy Land, giving her a mark that opens a teleportation gate to him. He warns her that betrayal will mean death; she vows lifelong loyalty.
• The group returns to the bamboo house. Chen gives adoptive father Li Xuanyuan three rare gifts: a Divine Rank Divine Inscription Brush, earth spirit ink, and Divine Rank talisman paper. Li is overwhelmed with joy and gratitude.
• In the Daotian Realm, Emperor Jiang Xiang faces pressure from the Great Emperor who helped him seize the throne. Jiang has failed to deliver Xiao Yuning, who has taken refuge with Li Xuanyuan. The Great Emperor threatens Li, dismissing him as an insignificant rival.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yuning moves from despair and helplessness toward hope, seeing Chen as her chance to grow strong enough to take revenge. Her gratitude becomes absolute loyalty.
• Chen Mu accepts Xiao into Tianyuan, both to protect her and to keep her out of others’ hands. He also shows affection and gratitude toward Li through thoughtful gifts.
• Li Xuanyuan is delighted by Chen’s generosity and embraces him so enthusiastically that Chen struggles to breathe. He imagines Xiao’s presence could bring her and Chen closer.
• Jiang Xiang appears frightened and submissive before the Great Emperor, anxious that his bargain—and his hard-won throne—will collapse. The Great Emperor reacts with contempt toward Li Xuanyuan and insists on claiming Xiao.

Significant themes

• Hope and loyalty: Chen’s support gives Xiao a path out of grief and toward vengeance.
• Power and protection: The cultivation space, teleportation mark, and Tianyuan’s shelter offer Xiao the means and security to pursue her aims.
• Family and gratitude: Chen and Li’s warm bond is reinforced by gifts and genuine affection.
• Coercion and ambition: Jiang’s rise depends on a bargain that puts Xiao at risk, while the Great Emperor treats her as payment owed.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Chengtian reveals why he backed Jiang Xiang’s rebellion: he wants Xiao Yuning’s Heavenly Yin Enchanting Body as a cultivation “furnace” to help him reach immortality.
• After Jiang’s failure to capture Xiao Yuning, Ye Chengtian decides to confront Talisman King Li Xuanyuan himself. Jiang privately welcomes this, though he must endure Ye’s contempt and accepts that his imperial authority is powerless against a Great Emperor.
• At Li Xuanyuan’s bamboo house, Chen Mu enjoys a meal of Phoenix Chicken and spirit bamboo shoots. When Ye Chengtian’s arrival interrupts the peaceful scene, Chen and Xiao Yuning recognize that he has come for her.
• Li Xuanyuan activates the house’s formations to protect Chen’s meal and attacks Ye with talismans. He blocks Ye’s spiritual-qi strikes, binds him with vines, and then poisons his palm with a Poison Talisman.
• Ye dismisses Li’s methods as childish and unleashes his emperor’s might. The chapter ends before the outcome of their fight is shown.

Character developments

• Ye Chengtian is established as ruthlessly ambitious: his pursuit of immortality outweighs loyalty or concern for others, and he is prepared to kill anyone who obstructs him.
• Jiang Xiang shows both humiliation and pragmatism. Though emperor in name, he submits to Ye because he believes resistance would be futile; he is also relieved to hand over the danger of dealing with Li and Xiao.
• Li Xuanyuan proves resourceful and combative, using layered defenses, deception, and poison to challenge an overwhelmingly powerful opponent.
• Chen Mu remains relaxed and pleasure-seeking, focused on the meal even as danger approaches. His easy rapport with Li is shown through their affectionate “godfather” relationship.
• Xiao Yuning quickly understands Ye’s motive and that she is his target.

Significant themes

• Power and political dependence: Jiang possesses the throne, seal, and army, yet remains subordinate to Ye’s vastly greater power.
• Ambition and exploitation: Ye treats Xiao’s rare constitution as a means to his own immortality.
• Strategy versus raw strength: Li’s clever talisman tactics temporarily trouble a Great Emperor, though Ye’s final response leaves the result uncertain.
• Peace interrupted by violence: Chen’s idyllic meal contrasts sharply with the sudden confrontation.

Character interactions

• Ye openly belittles Jiang, who kneels and accepts the insult to preserve his position.
• Chen praises Li’s cooking and tries to stop him from fetching wine; Li insists on sharing it.
• Li confronts Ye angrily over the destroyed wine and fights to defend his territory, while Ye demands that Li stop opposing him and threatens anyone in his way.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Chengtian’s city-slaughtering poison fails to stop Li Xuanyuan, who forces the poison out of his body as a drop of toxic blood.
• Li counters Ye Chengtian’s attacks with talismans: lightning bolts and layered golden shields. Ye’s golden-dragon techniques initially match Li’s first thunder strike, but his enormous chaos axe cannot break through the repeated barriers.
• Ye threatens Li and demands that he surrender the Heavenly Yin Enchanting Body. Li refuses.
• Li unleashes his Heavenly Thunder Array, using a hundred talismans to summon a massive torrent of heavenly thunder. Ye’s golden dragons are torn apart, and his attempt to use the chaos axe against the lightning is blocked by Li’s shields.
• Cornered and furious, Ye announces that he will bring out his Heavenly Dao imperial armament.

Character developments

• Li Xuanyuan proves calm, resourceful, and exceptionally powerful as the Talisman King. He combines offense and defense so effectively that Ye cannot gain ground.
• Ye Chengtian shifts from arrogant confidence to alarm and rage as his strength proves insufficient against Li’s talismans.
• Ye Qingcheng reassesses Li’s abilities and chooses to trust Chen Mu’s assurance that Li can handle the fight.
• Chen Mu remains relaxed and confident, eating through the battle and insisting that his godfather is no match for Ye.
• Xiao Yuning watches anxiously, unable to intervene.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity versus raw power: Li’s varied talisman techniques counter Ye’s formidable cultivation and weapons.
• Arrogance and misjudgment: Ye’s certainty that he can overpower Li gives way to desperation.
• Loyalty and protection: Li refuses to hand over the Heavenly Yin Enchanting Body, while Chen Mu trusts him to defend their group.

Character interactions

• Ye tries to bargain with and intimidate Li, but Li rejects his demands and taunts him when he falls behind.
• Chen Mu reassures Ye Qingcheng that Li can manage the threat; she accepts his judgment.
• Ye Qingcheng considers helping but holds back, while Xiao Yuning remains fearful as the battle escalates.

Key plot points and events

• Ye Qingcheng explains that Heavenly Dao emperor weapons are rare artifacts sometimes granted to Great Emperors, far surpassing divine-rank weapons. She envies Ye Chengtian’s weapon and admits she has none.
• Chen Mu’s system upgrades, unlocking an unlimited ten-pull emperor-weapon draw and adding emperor weapons to its one-click artifact-refining catalog.
• Chen Mu draws ten Heavenly Dao emperor weapons, including a duplicate of Ye Chengtian’s Heaven-Breaking Axe.
• Meanwhile, Ye Chengtian’s axe overwhelms Li Xuanyuan, who is forced to burn through huge numbers of talismans to protect himself and the people behind him.
• Chen Mu reveals that he has a Heaven-Breaking Axe of his own. He says he made it through artifact refining, then tosses it to Li Xuanyuan to help him. Ye Chengtian assumes Li cannot wield it, but Chen Mu hints that his crafted weapons may work differently.

Character developments

• Chen Mu gains an extraordinary new advantage through his system and treats the acquisition of ten emperor weapons with casual amusement. He conceals his capabilities until they become useful.
• Ye Qingcheng shifts from envy to astonishment when Chen Mu produces an emperor weapon, but quickly accepts that his artifact-refining talent could explain it.
• Ye Chengtian goes from confident superiority to shock and despair when he sees Chen Mu’s matching axe.
• Li Xuanyuan remains focused on protecting the bamboo house and its occupants, even as his defenses are nearly exhausted. Receiving Chen Mu’s weapon may change the fight’s balance.

Significant themes

• The chapter contrasts rare, Heaven-bestowed power with power acquired through skill and technology.
• It emphasizes Chen Mu’s exceptional—and apparently limitless—resourcefulness, as system upgrades turn improbability into routine.
• Protection and sacrifice shape Li Xuanyuan’s choices: he endures the attack rather than dodge and expose those behind him.

Character interactions

• Ye Qingcheng explains emperor weapons to Xiao Yuning and discusses her bad luck with Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu reassures Ye Qingcheng while privately relying on his system, then surprises her by revealing his own axe.
• Ye Chengtian taunts Li Xuanyuan as he attacks, while Li silently struggles to hold the line.
• Chen Mu intervenes by giving Li the axe; Ye Chengtian dismisses the gesture, setting up a confrontation over whether Chen Mu’s refined weapons can be wielded like ordinary emperor weapons.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu explains that his Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons can be wielded without Great Emperor cultivation—and that they come in different grades. Li Xuanyuan uses Chen Mu’s Heaven-Breaking Axe to overpower Ye Chengtian’s Common-Grade weapon.
• Their repeated clashes damage Ye Chengtian’s axe until its blade is severed. Chen Mu shields Ye Qingcheng, Xiao Yuning, and the others from the battle’s destructive shockwaves.
• Ye Chengtian is stunned when Chen Mu reveals nine more Immortal-Grade Emperor Weapons. He tries to flee, but Chen Mu catches him through a spatial portal, kills him, and takes his body for later looting.
• Chen Mu assigns Ye Qingcheng to collect Ye Chengtian’s Spatial Ring and other belongings. Xiao Yuning remains speechless at the scale of Chen Mu’s power.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains casual and confident, using his overwhelming advantage to taunt Ye Chengtian and end the fight decisively.
• Ye Chengtian shifts from arrogant mockery to disbelief, panic, and pleading. He tries to escape and then offers to serve Chen Mu, but Chen Mu kills him anyway.
• Ye Qingcheng begins to suspect Chen Mu may be an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, given his seemingly limitless abilities. She keeps the thought to herself, deciding that his identity matters less than the fact that he is her young master.
• Xiao Yuning feels renewed admiration for Chen Mu, then is left stunned by how effortlessly he defeats a Great Emperor and produces divine weapons.
• Li Xuanyuan demonstrates the strength of Chen Mu’s axe by using it against Ye Chengtian’s weapon.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: Even weapons of the same divine category can differ enormously in quality; Immortal Grade outclasses Common Grade.
• Humility before overwhelming strength: Ye Chengtian’s pride collapses once his assumptions about his weapon and status are disproved.
• Loyalty and identity: Ye Qingcheng’s devotion to Chen Mu does not depend on knowing what he truly is.
• Casual comedy amid epic stakes: Chen Mu treats extraordinary feats—and even Ye Chengtian’s plea for mercy—with irreverent ease.

Key plot points

• Chen Mu kills the fleeing Great Emperor Ye Chengtian by snapping his neck as he emerges from a spatial gate, ending the threat before Li Xuanyuan can pursue him.
• Li Xuanyuan praises the Heaven-Breaking Axe Chen Mu forged, calling it “invincible.” Chen Mu encourages his foster father to keep it, and Li accepts.
• The gift triggers a thousandfold system rebate: Chen Mu receives 1,000 customizable Heavenly Dao imperial weapons. Using the artifact-refining catalog, he selects a Nine-Star Heavenly Domain Sword for Ye Qingcheng and Twin Yin-Yang Swords for Xiao Yuning. Both gifts trigger further rebates.
• When Xiao Yuning doubts she can accept such rare weapons, Chen Mu displays exactly 1,000 Heavenly Dao imperial weapons, explaining that he plans to reward outstanding members of the Tianyuan Holy Land with them. He conceals the system by claiming he forged them himself.
• Li Xuanyuan, astonished by the weapons’ abundance and potential to attract powerful allies, says he may reconsider becoming a peak master of the Holy Land.
• Chen Mu asks whether Xiao Yuning wants revenge for her people. She does, but hopes to defeat the treacherous minister herself and recognizes that she is currently too weak. Chen Mu says strength is easy to provide and opens a collection of Great Emperor experience packs.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains generous and composed, using his extraordinary resources to equip his allies and support Xiao Yuning’s goals. He also stays cautious about revealing the system.
• Li Xuanyuan grows even more impressed by Chen Mu and accepts the axe as family, while realizing Chen’s arsenal could reshape the Holy Land’s fortunes.
• Xiao Yuning shows gratitude and humility over her swords, but her desire for personal vengeance is firm and self-directed.
• Ye Qingcheng accepts her weapon without surprise, suggesting she is accustomed to Chen Mu’s generosity.
• Chen Mu and Li share warm foster-family banter; Chen’s practical gifts reassure Xiao Yuning more than words do.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and abundance: Chen Mu’s weapons surpass even the rarest divine artifacts, making established measures of status and strength seem inadequate.
• Loyalty and mutual support: Chen Mu’s gifts strengthen his family and allies, while Li’s acceptance reinforces their bond.
• Agency and revenge: Chen offers Xiao Yuning a path to power but respects her wish to confront her enemy herself.
• Secrecy and protection: Chen Mu hides the system’s role, believing disclosure offers no benefit and could invite danger.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu uses a Great Emperor Experience Pack on Xiao Yuning, instantly granting her Great Emperor strength. The system’s thousandfold rebate gives him another thousand packs.
• Xiao Yuning thanks Chen Mu for making her revenge possible. She and Ye Qingcheng travel through a spatial gate to confront Jiang Xiang, the minister responsible for her family’s deaths.
• In the Imperial Study, Jiang Xiang worries about Ye Chengtian’s delayed return, then learns Ye’s Soul Lamp has gone out. He refuses to believe the Great Emperor could have been defeated.
• Xiao Yuning arrives with Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng. Jiang Xiang mistakes them for an easy target and summons tens of thousands of palace guards, including four Quasi-Emperors.
• Ye Chengtian’s corpse is dropped before Jiang Xiang, confirming his death. Xiao Yuning then attacks Jiang Xiang, revealing her new Great Emperor power and wielding two Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons.

Character developments

• Xiao Yuning moves from stunned gratitude to determined action, finally able to pursue justice for her family herself.
• Ye Qingcheng acts as Xiao Yuning’s supportive sister and confidently explains the extent of Chen Mu’s power.
• Jiang Xiang shifts from anxious concern to false confidence, then faces the horrifying proof that his powerful protector is dead.
• Chen Mu remains casually generous, treating the creation of a Great Emperor as routine.

Significant themes

• Power and favoritism: Chen Mu can grant emperor-level strength at will, overturning the world’s established hierarchy.
• Revenge and justice: Xiao Yuning’s newfound power lets her confront the person who destroyed her family.
• Arrogance and misjudgment: Jiang Xiang underestimates his opponents because they appear young and assumes Ye Chengtian cannot have fallen.
• Loyalty and support: Ye Qingcheng’s friendship helps Xiao Yuning face her revenge.

Character interactions

• Chen Mu gives Xiao Yuning her power and accepts her gratitude with simple reassurance.
• Ye Qingcheng and Xiao Yuning share a sisterly bond, with Ye Qingcheng taking her hand and accompanying her to seek revenge.
• Jiang Xiang relies on Ye Chengtian’s protection and plans to capture Xiao Yuning for his own political benefit.
• Xiao Yuning confronts Jiang Xiang directly, while the guards’ confidence falters when they recognize her as a Great Emperor.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yuning defeats Jiang Xiang, cutting off his arms and legs before killing him with a sword through the heart. His four Quasi-Emperor guards flee rather than help him.
• Jiang Xiang secretly activates the kingdom’s protective formation using its dragon qi, hoping to kill or cripple Xiao Yuning. Chen Mu summons a colossal black dragon, which swallows and refines the formation’s phantom Saint Dragon.
• Chen Mu destroys Jiang Xiang’s escaping remnant soul, preventing his return through reincarnation.
• Xiao Yuning thanks Chen Mu for making her revenge possible. When General Li Chang’en and his troops arrive, her Great Emperor aura convinces them to submit. She becomes Hengyang Kingdom’s first empress in centuries and announces her affiliation with the Tianyuan Holy Land.

Character developments

• Xiao Yuning completes her revenge and emerges as a powerful, decisive ruler. Though she had little personal ambition for the throne, she accepts it because Chen Mu wants her to take the position.
• Jiang Xiang falls from arrogant ruler to desperate victim, revealing both his cowardice and willingness to destroy the kingdom’s resources to save himself.
• Chen Mu again displays overwhelming power and control, effortlessly neutralizing Jiang Xiang’s final attack and escape attempt.
• General Li quickly recognizes Xiao Yuning’s strength and legitimacy, choosing allegiance over rebellion.

Significant themes

• Revenge and justice: Xiao Yuning’s killing of Jiang Xiang closes the chapter of her family’s destruction.
• Power and legitimacy: Her royal lineage, Great Emperor strength, and backing from the Tianyuan Holy Land secure her claim to the throne.
• Loyalty under pressure: Jiang Xiang’s guards abandon him, while Li and his troops submit to the stronger, rightful sovereign.
• Chen Mu’s influence: His support transforms Xiao Yuning’s personal victory into a political takeover and reinforces the Tianyuan Holy Land’s expanding reach.

Character interactions

• Jiang Xiang begs Xiao Yuning for mercy and invokes their childhood connection, but she remains unmoved.
• Chen Mu intervenes against Jiang Xiang’s dragon-qi attack and destroys his remnant soul.
• Xiao Yuning expresses gratitude to Chen Mu and later envies Ye Qingcheng for being able to travel with him.
• General Li kneels to Xiao Yuning, prompting his soldiers to acclaim her as sovereign.

Key plot points and events

• After resolving the affairs of the Daotian Realm and Hengyang Kingdom, Chen Mu returns to the Carefree Bamboo Grove and finishes a pot of Phoenix Chicken soup.
• Li Xuanyuan asks why Chen Mu has not studied talisman refining, offering to teach him. Chen Mu says he already knows “a little.”
• Li Xuanyuan takes Chen Mu to a vast lake where he tests talismans. Using the Grand Talisman Refiner function, Chen Mu selects an extremely powerful divine talisman.
• Chen Mu draws the World-Destroying Heavenly Fire Talisman with his finger, spiritual qi, and the air itself—an unprecedented technique even Li Xuanyuan, the renowned Talisman King, has never seen.
• The talisman summons a colossal fireball from beyond the stars, bright enough to outshine daylight and powerful enough to boil the lake. Chen Mu dismisses it before it can cause lasting destruction.
• As the lake recedes from evaporation, an enormous creature long hidden beneath its waters is revealed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains casually confident, treating extraordinary power as a minor demonstration and reassuring Li Xuanyuan that he has no intention of destroying the world.
• Li Xuanyuan’s confidence as a master falters. After seeing Chen Mu’s skill, he abandons his plan to teach and sincerely asks Chen Mu to teach him instead.
• Ye Qingcheng stays behind to wash the dishes, while Chen Mu and Li Xuanyuan head to the lake together.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming talent and reversed mastery: The supposed student easily surpasses the celebrated teacher.
• Power balanced by restraint: Chen Mu demonstrates world-ending force but dismisses it at once.
• Humor through understatement: Chen Mu calls his astonishing abilities “a little” knowledge, while Li Xuanyuan reacts with understandable alarm.
• Unintended consequences: The display exposes something hidden in the lake, setting up a new danger or discovery.

Plot points

• Chen Mu and Li Xuanyuan discover an enormous creature beneath the lake: the legendary Black Tortoise Divine Beast, whose presence explains the area’s unusually rich spiritual energy.
• When the beast rises and accuses the humans of trying to tame it, Chen Mu remains unfazed. Li Xuanyuan initially prepares for danger, then remembers how many powerful beasts Chen Mu commands.
• Chen Mu’s system upgrades his invincible domain. It can now be activated anywhere and includes an instant-kill mode that kills anyone inside who intends to harm him.
• The Black Tortoise attacks with a destructive beam, but Chen Mu’s domain blocks it completely. Chen Mu offers the beast a choice: submit or be forced.
• The beast refuses. Chen Mu then uses targeted Beast Taming draws to obtain ten more Black Tortoise Divine Beasts and releases them around the lake, surrounding the original. The chapter ends as the ten newcomers charge attacks and aim them at the lone beast.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu shows casual confidence in the face of a legendary threat. Rather than fight directly, he relies on his systems and turns the encounter into an overwhelming display of power. He also reveals a playful, ruthless streak in his willingness to psychologically break powerful beasts.
• Li Xuanyuan shifts from alarm to astonishment. Seeing Chen Mu’s calm, and then ten Black Tortoises appear, further convinces him that Chen Mu’s strength and resources are beyond ordinary measure.
• The Black Tortoise Divine Beast begins as a proud, hostile guardian, convinced the humans are beneath it. Its attacks prove useless, and it is suddenly outnumbered by its own kind.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and broken advantages: Chen Mu’s upgraded domain makes even a divine beast’s strongest attack irrelevant.
• Pride versus submission: The beast’s arrogance leads it to reject Chen Mu’s offer, setting up its likely defeat.
• Power through abundance: Chen Mu’s ability to summon multiple rare creatures transforms a seemingly impossible confrontation into an absurdly one-sided one.

• The Black Tortoise is defeated: Chen Mu reveals that the ten Black Tortoise Divine Beasts attacking their kin are his tamed beasts. The lone Black Tortoise insists its clan would never submit to a human, but it can only endure their attacks by retreating into its famously durable shell.
• Chen Mu’s power escalates: A system sign-in gives Chen Mu 1,000 Beast Taming Experience Fruits, each containing a hundred million years of cultivation. He feeds one to each of his ten beasts, instantly raising them beyond that threshold. Seeing the immense gap between them, the Black Tortoise abandons its pride and offers to submit—but Chen Mu declares that it is too late. The beasts kill it outright.
• The Black Tortoise returns as an undead: Chen Mu’s undead-summoning ability resurrects the slain beast as a more imposing servant, with a flame-edged, ink-black appearance. When Chen Mu notices a hidden observer, the undead beast prepares to attack. Li Xuanyuan identifies the stranger as an old friend, so Chen Mu recalls his creatures.
• Dai Zhenshan seeks to join Tianyuan: The observer introduces himself as Dai Zhenshan, a Great Emperor and old friend of Li Xuanyuan. He had come to investigate the lake and was astonished by Chen Mu’s ability to command Black Tortoises, grant them immense cultivation, kill their opponent, and resurrect it. Once Li Xuanyuan confirms their connection, Chen Mu greets Dai respectfully. Dai, shaken by what he has witnessed, asks to join Tianyuan and serve its Sacred Land.
  Character developments and interactions: Chen Mu remains calm and merciless toward an adversary who refuses to yield, while showing courtesy to someone connected to his adoptive father. The Black Tortoise’s pride collapses in the face of overwhelming power, but its late offer of submission is rejected. Li Xuanyuan acts as mediator between Chen Mu and Dai, whose awe and fear turn into a desire to serve.
  Significant themes: The chapter contrasts pride with practical submission, and individual strength with overwhelming numbers and power. It also emphasizes Chen Mu’s extraordinary, almost limitless ability to cultivate, command, and revive beasts—making traditional measures of power seem inadequate.

Plot points and events

• Dai Zhenshan, an old friend of Li Xuanyuan, voluntarily pledges allegiance to Tianyuan Holy Land, judging resistance to Chen Mu futile.
• Chen Mu welcomes him and uses the system to create a weapon suited to Dai’s fighting style: the Eight Desolations Demon-Breaking Hammers, a custom Heavenly Dao emperor weapon.
• Dai is stunned to learn Chen Mu can forge emperor weapons—and that his creations are immortal-grade, superior to those bestowed by the Heavenly Dao. Chen Mu displays over a hundred weapons to prove it, then lets Dai keep the hammers.
• Dai tests them by smashing a lake into a crater with a single blow and becomes convinced he made the right choice.
• Inspired by Dai’s reaction, Chen Mu proposes publicly offering an emperor weapon to every Great Emperor who pledges allegiance to Tianyuan. Li Xuanyuan predicts the offer could bring much of Great Cang under Tianyuan’s control within a day.
• Chen Mu decides to make the offer and opens a spatial gate to summon Chen Juexin, intending to spread the announcement through the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and the Martial World Bulletin. The proclamation itself has not yet been issued.

Character developments and interactions

• Dai Zhenshan moves from wary submission to enthusiastic loyalty after receiving a weapon that vastly exceeds his expectations.
• Chen Mu shows courtesy toward Dai because of his connection to Li Xuanyuan, while recognizing that his growing influence could reshape Great Cang. He chooses to accelerate that expansion through rewards rather than conquest.
• Li Xuanyuan takes pride in Chen Mu’s achievements and supports his plan, while realizing that even his own standing could be overshadowed unless he continues improving.
• Chen Juexin arrives when summoned, curious about what new project Chen Mu has in mind.

Significant themes

• Power and pragmatic allegiance: Dai chooses cooperation because he understands the vast gap between himself and Chen Mu.
• Generosity as political strategy: Chen Mu’s extraordinary gifts inspire loyalty and may unite Great Cang more quickly than force.
• Surpassing established limits: Chen Mu’s immortal-grade weapons overturn conventional beliefs about Heavenly Dao emperor weapons.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Juexin senses Dai Zhenshan’s powerful presence and initially suspects he may threaten Chen Mu. She learns, however, that Dai has joined the Tianyuan Holy Land and that Chen Mu gifted him two Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons.
• Chen Mu explains that he has recently developed skill in artifact refining and asks Juexin to use the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to announce that Great Emperors who voluntarily join Tianyuan will receive a Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon. He claims to have “a few thousand.”
• Juexin agrees to spread the news. Chen Mu also gifts her a custom weapon, the Xuanyuan Fan, which is even better than the Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons normally bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.
• After Juexin leaves, Dai asks what he should do. Chen Mu instructs him to continue safeguarding the region and seek help from Tianyuan if needed.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion rapidly prints and distributes the announcement. Most readers doubt it, believing only the Heavenly Dao can grant such weapons. At the chapter’s end, a disciple brings the news to an ancestor in the Land of the Primordial Abyss, suggesting the offer may attract new recruits.

Character developments

• Chen Juexin moves from suspicion and confusion to amazement and enthusiasm. Her long-standing disappointment at not receiving a Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon is resolved by Chen Mu’s gift.
• Chen Mu reveals extraordinary confidence and resources: he can create superior Emperor Weapons and has enough to use them as recruitment rewards.
• Dai Zhenshan is grateful to Chen Mu and firmly committed to serving Tianyuan, convinced that pledging allegiance early was the right decision.
• Li Xuanyuan and Dai are left speechless by Chen Mu’s claim that he has thousands of weapons.

Significant themes

• The extraordinary becoming routine: Chen Mu’s impossible achievements increasingly surprise others less than they once might have.
• Power and loyalty: Tianyuan’s influence grows by rewarding voluntary allegiance with exceptional weapons.
• Belief versus evidence: The public dismisses the announcement because it contradicts centuries-old assumptions about how Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons are obtained.

Character interactions

• Juexin instinctively prepares to protect Chen Mu from Dai, then questions them once she realizes Dai is a trusted recruit.
• Chen Mu and Juexin share a warm sibling moment when she excitedly thanks him with a kiss on the cheek.
• Chen Mu gives Dai practical duties and support, while the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion—under Juexin’s influence—turns his offer into public news.

Key plot points

• A young disciple brings Great Emperor Jiang Yulin a bulletin claiming that joining Tianyuan Holy Land will earn a person a Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon. Jiang dismisses it as an obvious scam and initially refuses to take it seriously.
• After reading the bulletin, Jiang laughs at the claim—until Great Emperor Shen Qingyun arrives, also heading to the Southern Region to investigate. Jiang decides to accompany him.
• The two reach Tianyuan Holy Land and are stunned by its scale, the extraordinary dragons above it, and the astonishing number of powerful cultivators among its disciples. Their skepticism begins to weaken.
• Ye Qingcheng welcomes them and leads them to a clearing where over a hundred Great Emperors have gathered. The crowd loudly demands proof of the promised weapons, while Ye assures them that her young master keeps his word.
• Watching through the Heaven-Peering Mirror, Chen Mu decides the gathering is large enough to begin his plan: bring at least half of Great Cang’s three thousand small worlds under Tianyuan’s control, using force if persuasion fails.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Yulin shifts from mocking the offer to wondering whether Tianyuan might truly possess such weapons. He joins Shen Qingyun partly out of curiosity and partly because he accepts the logic of checking for himself.
• Shen Qingyun is cautious but open-minded, arguing that investigating costs little. He treats Jiang respectfully, while Jiang teases him for supposedly falling for a scam.
• Ye Qingcheng calmly manages the arriving Emperors and speaks confidently on Chen Mu’s behalf, despite the crowd’s threats and impatience.
• Chen Mu appears relaxed but reveals an ambitious, decisive aim: expanding Tianyuan’s reach, with coercion as a fallback.
• The young disciple obeys Jiang’s warning about leaving the mountain, but makes sure to leave the bulletin behind so Jiang will eventually read it.

Significant themes

• Skepticism versus possibility: The Emperors initially dismiss the promise as absurd, yet Tianyuan’s extraordinary inhabitants and resources make them reconsider.
• Power and credibility: The gathered Emperors rely on their status and strength to pressure Tianyuan, while Tianyuan’s overwhelming displays challenge their assumptions.
• Ambition and coercion: Chen Mu frames expansion as diplomacy first, force second, revealing the tension between persuasion and domination.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu arrives through a Spatial Teleportation Gate and reveals himself as a young Great Emperor from Tianyuan. He summons a pavilion from his System Inventory, naming it the Emperor Weapon Pavilion.
• The gathered Great Emperors challenge his claim that he can provide Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons. Chen Mu suppresses them with a fraction of his Emperor’s Might, revealing a vast gap between his cultivation—at the thirty-fifth Great Emperor layer—and their first-layer strength.
• Chen Mu offers a Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon to any Great Emperor who submits to Tianyuan, but makes clear that submission must include the world they represent. He warns that they have only one chance to agree peacefully.
• He manifests thousands of exceptionally powerful Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons, astonishing the crowd.
• When some question his ability to enforce his demands, Chen Mu summons one million Divine-Rank Shadow Puppets. They overwhelm the gathered Great Emperors with their combined Emperor’s Might. The puppets then display the Starry Sky and Heaven-Burning Saint Bodies, leaving the crowd in stunned silence.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu demonstrates that his seemingly arrogant demands are backed by overwhelming power. Calm and confident, he controls the gathering through both intimidation and a tempting offer.
• Ye Qingcheng respectfully greets Chen Mu, confirming his identity to those present.
• The gathered Great Emperors shift from skepticism and bargaining to fear and disbelief as Chen Mu reveals his weapons and puppets.
• Jiang Yulin and Shen Qingyun are left speechless by the spectacle.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Chen Mu treats diplomacy as a choice between voluntary allegiance and forced conquest.
• The limits of conventional strength: The Great Emperors’ individual power—and even their imagined united resistance—seems insignificant beside Chen Mu’s forces.
• Spectacle as persuasion: Chen Mu answers challenges not with argument but with increasingly overwhelming demonstrations of power.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mu forces the hundred Great Emperors gathered at Tianyuan to choose: submit to Tianyuan or face the consequences. Du Fei submits first, and the others follow, each pledging allegiance to Chen Mu.
• As a reward, Chen Mu lets each submitter choose one Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon from the Emperor Weapon Pavilion, warning that they will be expelled after choosing and must not attempt to return.
• The Great Emperors are awed by the weapons and decide Tianyuan—and Chen Mu—are far too powerful to oppose. They privately accept their new role as “lackeys,” trying to recast it as an honor because Chen Mu is connected to the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Mu’s gifts trigger a thousandfold rebate, granting him a thousand custom Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapons for each weapon given away. He withdraws the million God Rank Shadow Puppets once the visitors are under control.
• Chen Mu notices Leng Aotian, ruler of the Heavenly Star Realm and a member of one of the Ten Great Sacred Domains. After Ye Qingcheng explains the sacred domains’ standing, Chen Mu sees their submission as a way to win over the remaining worlds.
• Leng Aotian has come not to submit but to seize Tianyuan and obtain its weapon-forging method. Confident in his strength and impressed by the weapons’ aura, he prepares to conquer what he dismisses as an obscure little place.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu shows calculated authority: he secures allegiance through overwhelming force and generous rewards, while benefiting even more through the rebate system. He is also weary of the familiar “arrogant rival gets crushed” scenario.
• The Great Emperors abandon pride in favor of survival and advantage. Their gratitude for the weapons—and the prestige they imagine comes from serving a Heavenly Dao envoy—helps them accept their subordinate status.
• Leng Aotian is introduced as powerful, proud, and ambitious: a second-layer Great Emperor with two Saint Bodies and an Emperor Weapon. Unlike the others, he intends to dominate Tianyuan rather than serve it.
• Ye Qingcheng provides Chen Mu with context about the Ten Great Sacred Domains.
• The newly submissive Emperors discuss Leng Aotian, doubting he would willingly bow to anyone.

Significant themes

• Power and submission: Even rulers and Great Emperors yield when faced with overwhelming force.
• Pragmatism over pride: The visitors choose survival and valuable rewards over futile resistance.
• Self-justification: The Emperors reframe their loss of status as an honor to ease their humiliation.
• Strategic generosity: Chen Mu’s gifts secure loyalty while the rebate makes giving weapons profitable for him.
• Arrogance and misjudgment: Leng Aotian’s confidence sets him against a power he has not yet properly assessed.

Plot points

• Leng Aotian, a second-layer Great Emperor from the Heavenly Star Realm, arrives at Tianyuan Holy Land and demands that everyone submit or die. He boasts of the Ten Great Sacred Domains’ superiority and prepares to attack.
• Chen Mu uses the Heaven-Devouring Art, selecting Leng Aotian’s cultivation. Leng Aotian instantly loses his power and falls from the sky.
• Chen Mu then devours Leng Aotian’s two Saint Bodies, his Thunder-Roaring Sword—a Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon—and his valuables.
• Finally, Chen Mu takes Leng Aotian’s lifespan. The once-powerful Emperor rapidly withers and dies on his knees.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu remains calm and confident throughout, revealing the astonishing scope of his devouring ability. He turns Leng Aotian’s threat into a demonstration of overwhelming power.
• Leng Aotian goes from arrogant invader to helpless, frantic victim, unable to accept that Chen Mu can strip away everything that made him powerful.
• The Great Emperors at Tianyuan watch in shock. Their earlier decision to submit to Chen Mu now seems fortunate, as they realize they could have suffered Leng Aotian’s fate.
• Chen Tianlin considers intervening but decides against it after sensing Chen Mu’s presence, confident that his son needs no help.

Significant themes

• Power and arrogance: Leng Aotian’s confidence in his status and origins collapses when faced with a power he cannot understand.
• The reversal of dominance: The chapter transforms a threat of conquest into the invader’s total humiliation and death.
• Fear and allegiance: Witnessing Chen Mu’s abilities deepens the other Great Emperors’ awe and reinforces their choice to submit.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mu’s defeat of Leng Aotian shocks the onlookers: he has taken Leng Aotian’s cultivation, Saint Body, Heavenly Dao Emperor Weapon, and lifespan. The observers are relieved they never opposed him.
• Chen Mu hangs the drained Leng Aotian’s body at the Emperor Weapon Pavilion as a warning to future challengers.
• In the Heavenly Star Realm, Leng Chuan learns that Leng Aotian’s Soul Lamp has gone out. He realizes the realm has lost its strongest protector and orders the Leng clan to prepare to flee before rival sacred domains invade.
• Before the clan can leave, Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng arrive through a Spatial Teleportation Gate. Leng Chuan assumes they may be the vanguard of an invasion, but Ye Qingcheng identifies them as representatives of Tianyuan.
• Chen Mu says he has come to negotiate. He offers to let Leng Chuan keep ruling the Heavenly Star Realm, but under Tianyuan’s authority, with disloyalty punishable by death.
• Leng Chuan warns that without Leng Aotian, he cannot defend the realm from the other nine sacred domains. Chen Mu says the problem is easily solved and opens his Undead Summoning panel.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mu demonstrates both overwhelming power and political confidence. His calm, commanding manner makes Leng Chuan feel as if he is facing a dangerous beast. He seeks to turn Tianyuan’s victory into control of the Heavenly Star Realm.
• Leng Chuan shifts from shock and grief to cautious pragmatism. He considers evacuation, then recognizes that opposing Chen Mu could endanger his entire clan. He voices the practical problem of defending the realm rather than simply refusing.
• Ye Qingcheng accompanies Chen Mu and speaks for Tianyuan, making the newcomers’ allegiance clear.
• The witnesses to Leng Aotian’s defeat move from disbelief to fearful gratitude that Chen Mu is not their enemy.

Significant themes

• Power and fear: Chen Mu’s ability to strip away an opponent’s hard-won strength is more terrifying to observers than death itself.
• Conquest through negotiation: Chen Mu offers Leng Chuan continued rule, but only as a subordinate, showing how force shapes the terms of diplomacy.
• Leadership and survival: Leng Chuan weighs personal pride against the safety of his clan and realm.
• The instability of power: Leng Aotian’s death threatens to upend the balance among the sacred domains, leaving the Heavenly Star Realm vulnerable.