Chapter Summaries

Mo Yun saved Xu Zhiyi from the Demon God Cult, learned what she knew about its base, and continued exterminating demons across Cloud Province. After returning to the Five Elements Sect with 5,890 black points, he headed to the Blade Tower to join the seniors’ exploration of the ruins.

• Mo Yun killed the demons surrounding Xu Zhiyi, and she thanked him while wondering why his voice and figure reminded her of Yun Mo.
• Mo Yun asked Xu Zhiyi for everything she knew about the Demon God Cult’s base, then left to continue hunting demons in Cloud Province.
• Xu Zhiyi found the nearby mountain flattened and realized Mo Yun’s destructive power seemed beyond what late Core Condensation could achieve, causing her to suspect he might be Yun Mo.
• After five days, Mo Yun killed every demon in Cloud Province and returned to the Five Elements Sect with 5,890 black points.
• Mo Yun set off for the Blade Tower to take part in the seniors’ exploration of the ruins.

Mo Yun returned to the Blade Tower and warned Ge Xuanyi, Bai Zhi, and Chen Changsheng that a powerful being might be watching from within the ruins. After discussing the threat and preparing a way for Mo Yun to escape, the four entered the ruins together.

• Mo Yun arrived at the Blade Tower, where Bai Zhi, Ge Xuanyi, and Chen Changsheng were waiting to enter the ruins.
• Ge Xuanyi and Chen Changsheng warned Mo Yun about the danger of Seventh Realm beings and gave him a Teleportation Jade Talisman.
• Mo Yun described his experiences in the ruins and explained that he had sensed something watching him.
• Ge Xuanyi and Chen Changsheng suspected that the Sacred Relic might be a Seventh Realm demon or devil awakening inside the ruins.
• The four agreed on a plan and entered the ruins through the prepared transit passage.

Mo Yun and his companions entered the awakening ruins, where they encountered unusually powerful eerie creatures and sensed danger in the core region. Two seventh-tier beings arrived, but the orange cat immediately knelt before Mo Yun and begged him to save them, leaving the group confused.

• The orange cat and the Crimson Battle Armor sensed Mo Yun's arrival with three others and worried that the newcomers might threaten the ruins.
• Mo Yun, Bai Zhi, Ge Xuanyi, and Chen Changsheng found peak core condensation eerie creatures at the ruins' edge, and Bai Zhi swiftly destroyed them.
• Ge Xuanyi warned Mo Yun to use his Teleportation Jade Talisman if danger arose, and the group set off toward the core region.
• Two figures with seventh-tier auras appeared above the group, prompting Ge Xuanyi, Bai Zhi, and Chen Changsheng to prepare for a fight.
• The orange cat knelt before Mo Yun and begged him to save them, while Chen Changsheng questioned what the cat and the Crimson Battle Armor were.

Mo Yun learned that the orange cat and the Crimson Battle Armor needed to escape Greedy Wolf City before its field domain collapsed, and that they believed he was the prophesied Heaven's Mandate Bearer. They said he must reach the eighth realm to save them, and Mo Yun agreed to inspect the demon and devil corpses in their treasury.

• Bai Zhi challenged the orange cat and the Crimson Battle Armor, and the cat insisted Greedy Wolf City was its home, not Five Elements Sect territory.
• The orange cat and the Crimson Battle Armor explained that Greedy Wolf City's field domain would collapse within a year and asked Mo Yun to take them out.
• The Crimson Battle Armor revealed that divination had identified Mo Yun as the Heaven's Mandate Bearer, who would need to reach the eighth realm to rescue them.
• The Crimson Battle Armor offered Mo Yun the treasury's contents, including a demon corpse and a devil corpse, in exchange for his help.
• Mo Yun agreed to go see the corpses, and Bai Zhi realized they were the sacred relics coveted by the Demon and Devil Clans.

Mo Yun and the others learned from the Orange Cat and the Crimson Battle Armor how Greedy Wolf City and its inhabitants had survived an ancient Apocalyptic Calamity, and how their era’s cultivation realms differed from the present. They reached the city’s treasury, where the Crimson Battle Armor offered to show Mo Yun the demon beast and Devil Corpse remains.

• Chen Changsheng asked the Crimson Battle Armor how the demon beast and Devil Corpse remains had survived, and learned that a special field domain preserved their bodies and primordial spirits.
• The Crimson Battle Armor revealed that he and the Orange Cat were orthodox human cultivators who had reached the peak of the seventh realm before the Apocalyptic Calamity destroyed their world.
• The Orange Cat objected to Bai Zhi calling him a demon beast, while the Crimson Battle Armor explained that his own primordial spirit had fused with the armor after his body was destroyed.
• The Orange Cat and the Crimson Battle Armor described their era’s cultivation realms, the starry world beyond the continent, and how the calamity had annihilated nearly all life.
• Mo Yun and the others passed through Greedy Wolf City’s walls and entered its treasury, where the Crimson Battle Armor offered to show them the demon beast and Devil Corpse remains.

Mo Yun and Ge Xuanyi entered Greedy Wolf City's treasury, a pocket dimension filled with treasures drained of their spiritual essence, and found two seventh-realm demon corpses. Mo Yun harvested 6,000 black points from them, leaving him thrilled by the unprecedented gain.

• Orange Cat opened the treasury, and Mo Yun entered with Ge Xuanyi while Chen Changsheng and Bai Zhi stayed outside.
• Mo Yun and Ge Xuanyi crossed the gateway into the pocket-dimension treasury and headed straight for the two demon corpses.
• Mo Yun identified the corpses as a black flood dragon and a white flood dragon whose bodies and primordial spirits remained vital despite their shattered souls.
• Ge Xuanyi assessed the demons' auras and concluded that he could potentially defeat an ordinary early seventh-realm demon.
• Mo Yun activated the Black-and-White Seal and gained 3,000 black points from each corpse.

Mo Yun and Ge Xuanyi destroyed two Seventh Realm corpses in the treasury, then learned that the treasury held no usable treasures. The Crimson Battle Armor offered them seventh- and eighth-realm martial arts methods, and Mo Yun discovered that the eighth-realm method was called Immortal Heaven Art.

• Mo Yun decided to return to Gravel Province to watch for a chance to absorb two more Seventh Realm corpses, and hoped to bring his senior sister with him once she reached core condensation.
• Mo Yun failed to damage the demon and devil corpses, so Ge Xuanyi shattered them with blade lights.
• Mo Yun and Ge Xuanyi searched the treasury but found no usable treasures, then confronted the Crimson Battle Armor and Orange Cat.
• The Crimson Battle Armor offered to teach the group the seventh- and eighth-realm martial arts methods preserved in his primordial spirit.
• The Crimson Battle Armor transmitted the methods, and Mo Yun's Virtual Panel displayed Immortal Heaven Art as not yet initiated.

Mo Yun learned that the Immortal Heaven Art once reached the emperor realm and that the world faced recurring apocalyptic calamities, then promised to return to the Ruins in a year if he reached the eighth realm. After Orange Cat and the Crimson Battle Armor speculated that Mo Yun might have the makings of a Great Emperor, he returned to the Blade Tower to advance his cultivation.

• The Crimson Battle Armor explained that the Immortal Heaven Art had lost its emperor-realm teachings and described how the world's incomplete Heaven and Earth Principles made cultivation difficult in the current era.
• The Crimson Battle Armor told Mo Yun that apocalyptic calamities periodically reset the world, and that only emperor-realm cultivators might escape them.
• Mo Yun decided he would investigate the calamities if he became powerful enough, then agreed to return in a year and free Orange Cat and the Crimson Battle Armor if he reached the eighth realm.
• Orange Cat and the Crimson Battle Armor trusted that Mo Yun would reach the saint realm, and the Crimson Battle Armor suggested he might even become a Great Emperor.
• Mo Yun returned to the Blade Tower, told his elders he would enter seclusion, and summoned the Virtual Panel to add points to his cultivation.

Mo Yun perfected the Primordial Unity Chapter of the Geng Metal Art, reached the Primordial Unity peak, and quickly achieved preliminary mastery of the Heaven and Earth Laws. He decided to pursue cultivation across the five lineages and flew to the Metal Lineage after using his new white points to improve his potential.

• Mo Yun used the Virtual Panel to perfect the Primordial Unity Chapter of the Geng Metal Art, breaking through to the Primordial Unity peak and gaining nine hundred white points.
• Mo Yun tested his enhanced strength and judged that he could now hold his own against Demon Kings.
• Mo Yun attempted to resonate with heaven and earth and, within about an hour, formed a rule domain through preliminary mastery of the Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Mo Yun concluded that he was invincible beneath Martial Saints and planned to master the five-element domains and unite the five elements.
• Mo Yun added the nine hundred white points to his life value, raising it to 3672, then flew toward the Metal Lineage's mountain peak.

Mo Yun planned to master all five lineages and become an invincible Martial Saint, while preparing to return to Crouching Tiger Manor and hunt demons for black points. After White Tiger Slaughter broke through its limits, it evolved into the White Tiger Life-Sealing Seal, and Mo Yun began testing his new art.

• Mo Yun reviewed the four legacy fundamental methods he had obtained and estimated he could master them all and achieve Five Elements Unification within four months.
• Mo Yun planned to wait for Senior Sister to reach Core Condensation, then return to Crouching Tiger Manor and hunt demons while keeping watch for two Seventh Realm corpses in Gravel Province.
• Mo Yun collected his cultivation allowance and Heaven Ranking merit points from the Logistics Courtyard.
• After two days of cultivation, Mo Yun practiced White Tiger Slaughter until it broke through and transformed his body, divine soul, and primordial spirit.
• The Virtual Panel revealed that White Tiger Slaughter had evolved into the White Tiger Life-Sealing Seal, and Mo Yun began testing it.

After improving his cultivation and spending 600 white points on vitality, Mo Yun sensed that proving the Dao in Gravel Province would benefit him. He then challenged Bai Zhi to a spar, drawing Lin Qingxue and Liu Xiyan into the commotion.

• Mo Yun found that White Tiger Slaughter had advanced into the stronger White Tiger Life-Sealing Seal and saw that his white points had reached 600.
• He discovered that the four other branches' fundamental methods had combined into the Five Elements Art and allocated all 600 white points to vitality.
• Mo Yun's vitality rose to 4,272, and his intuition urged him to prove the Dao and become a Martial Saint in Gravel Province.
• Bai Zhi sensed danger from Mo Yun, and he proposed that they spar because he believed he could defeat her.
• Lin Qingxue was stunned that Mo Yun challenged Bai Zhi, while Liu Xiyan misinterpreted the challenge and exclaimed that he was going to mount his master.

Mo Yun fought and defeated Bai Zhi, a Blade Saint, astonishing everyone at the Blade Tower. After Bai Zhi accepted her loss, Mo Yun learned that Lin Qingxue had reached core condensation and prepared to return with her to Crouching Tiger Manor.

• Lin Qingxue and Liu Xiyan watched Mo Yun and Bai Zhi battle, while Lin Qingxue sensed that Mo Yun's strength rivaled her master's.
• Ge Xuanyi arrived and confirmed that Mo Yun was no weaker than Bai Zhi.
• Mo Yun knocked Bai Zhi into the Blade Tower plaza, leaving Ge Xuanyi, Lin Qingxue, and Liu Xiyan stunned by her defeat.
• Mo Yun helped Bai Zhi out of the crater, and Bai Zhi accepted her loss before asking how he had become so powerful.
• Mo Yun credited his strength to hard work, then learned that Lin Qingxue had reached core condensation and told her they would return to Crouching Tiger Manor.

Mo Yun and Lin Qingxue returned to Crouching Tiger Manor, where Lin Qingxue reunited with her father and sister. Mo Yun then flew to the altar to continue unraveling its field domain, expecting to open it within a few days.

• Mo Yun told Lin Qingxue that proving the Dao as a Martial Saint might take him about four months, and they continued their journey home.
• Lin Qingxue reunited with Lin Yanshan and revealed that she had reached core condensation since leaving home.
• Lin Yanshan celebrated his daughter’s progress and was relieved when Mo Yun said he had not yet become a Martial Saint.
• Lin Qingxue and Mo Yiyi reunited and shared gifts and family news while Mo Yun checked the altar’s progress.
• Mo Yun flew to the altar, estimating that he could break open its field domain in two or three days and wondering whether two Seventh Realm demons lay in the Underground Palace.

Mo Yun sparred with Zhu Lie Kong after Zhu Lie Kong realized that Mo Yun had reached primordial unity peak and grasped rule power. Their battle ended with Mo Yun knocking Zhu Lie Kong through several mountain peaks, leaving Zhu Lie Kong stunned by the gulf in their strength.

• Zhu Lie Kong asked Mo Yun about his cultivation, then recognized him as a peer who had gained an initial grasp of rule power.
• Zhu Lie Kong invited Mo Yun to spar, and Mo Yun agreed to exchange pointers without harming their friendship.
• Zhu Lie Kong transformed into a flame giant and attacked Mo Yun with an enormous axe above the clouds.
• Mo Yun and Zhu Lie Kong fought with rule-powered domains, but Mo Yun gradually gained the upper hand.
• Mo Yun struck Zhu Lie Kong with the Broken Greatsword, sending him crashing through several mountain peaks and leaving him astonished by Mo Yun's strength.

Mo Yun learned that the Underground Palace’s field domain would take several more days to break and used the delay to hunt demons and build up black points. After seven days, Zhu Lie Kong told him the field domain had been broken and they could enter the palace.

• Mo Yun sparred with Zhu Lie Kong, who praised his strength as nearly equal to Xiao Changfeng’s.
• Zhu Lie Kong said surges of demonic qi and demon aura had corrupted the minds of the elders working on the Underground Palace’s field domain, delaying the breach by six or seven days.
• Mo Yun visited the array specialists, then returned to Crouching Tiger Manor and shared dinner with Mo Yiyi, Lin Qingxue, and Lin Yanshan.
• Over the following days, Mo Yun hunted demons, improved Commander Li’s cultivation method, and watched Huang Shan advance toward peak dark force.
• After clearing the demons from Azure Province, Mo Yun had accumulated 5570 black points when Zhu Lie Kong announced that the field domain had been broken.

After returning from the Underground Palace, Mo Yun practiced until Wind Riding and the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art achieved Limit Breakthrough, evolving into Thunderbolt and Golden Body Art. He tested their new abilities and saw his attributes and available points rise.

• Mo Yun absorbed the essence of two seventh-realm demon corpses in the Underground Palace and gained six thousand black points.
• Mo Yun saved his white points for future spiritual power increases and practiced Wind Riding and the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art on North Mountain.
• Wind Riding achieved Limit Breakthrough and evolved into Thunderbolt, letting Mo Yun move at lightning speed.
• The Indestructible Diamond Divine Art achieved Limit Breakthrough and evolved into Golden Body Art, granting Mo Yun a size-changing ability that doubled his strength at its limit.
• Mo Yun tested his new martial arts, then saw his constitution reach 42000, his defense reach 40000, and his white points rise to 690.

On New Year’s Eve, Mo Yun gathered his master Lin Yanshan and Commander Li’s family for dinner at his courtyard. As the celebration began, he reflected on how much his life and cultivation had changed over the past year.

• Mo Yun checked his accumulated points while putting up Spring Festival couplets, noting that his cultivation had reached the primordial unity peak and that he was nearing Five Elements Unification.
• Mo Yiyi asked Mo Yun to invite Lin Yanshan, Qingxue, and Commander Li’s family to dinner, and Mo Yun found Lin Yanshan practicing calligraphy to help settle his mind.
• Mo Yun invited Commander Li’s family, and Niuniu greeted him as Big Brother and received a gold bracelet as her New Year’s gift.
• Mo Yun brought everyone to his courtyard, where they paid respects to their ancestors and lit incense, candles, and firecrackers before dinner.
• Mo Yun smiled as he remembered spending the previous New Year’s Eve alone and reflected that he now had powerful cultivation and a house full of company.

On his seventeenth birthday, Mo Yun took his family and friends to celebrate the Lunar New Year in the Prefectural City, where Mo Yiyi broke through to bright force. After returning to Crouching Tiger Manor, Mo Yun prepared to push the Black Tortoise Hidden Truth Art through a limit breakthrough.

• Mo Yun flew Lin Yanshan, Lin Qingxue, Mo Yiyi, and Niuniu to the Prefectural City for the New Year festivities and his birthday.
• Lin Yanshan said he would spend a few days visiting old friends, while Lin Qingxue promised to buy Niuniu candy and new dresses.
• Mo Yiyi developed force energy, becoming a bright force martial artist after just over a month of cultivation.
• Mo Yun and the others explored the Prefectural City’s performances and food before returning to Crouching Tiger Manor at night.
• Mo Yun summoned the Virtual Panel and prepared to use black points to give the Black Tortoise Hidden Truth Art a limit breakthrough.

Mo Yun advanced the Black Tortoise Hidden Truth Art to Pure Mastery, gaining immense vitality, increased attributes, and 2,000 years of lifespan. After testing his heightened recovery, he prepared to check the cost of a limit breakthrough.

• Mo Yun spent 1,400 black points to advance the Black Tortoise Hidden Truth Art, releasing life force that turned the surrounding winter landscape green and warm.
• Mo Yun checked his Virtual Panel and saw increased constitution and defense, along with 140 newly gained white points.
• Mo Yun discovered that Pure Mastery had added 2,000 years to his lifespan and joked that one Mo equaled two Saints.
• Mo Yun tested his recovery and found that severed limbs healed in under five minutes and most of his body could recover in less than half an hour.
• Mo Yun decided to check how many black points a limit breakthrough would cost and focused on the Virtual Panel.

Mo Yun broke the Black Tortoise Hidden Truth Art’s limit, evolving it into the Primordial Spirit Nurturing Scripture and greatly strengthening his vitality and recovery. After returning to the Five Elements Sect with Lin Qingxue and spending months clearing demons, he sensed he was ready to unify the five elements and become a Martial Saint.

• Mo Yun spent 2,200 black points to break the Black Tortoise Hidden Truth Art’s limit, evolving it into the Primordial Spirit Nurturing Scripture and gaining greater constitution, defense, lifespan, and recovery.
• Mo Yun examined the scripture’s ability to restore primordial spirit light and considered simplifying the difficult Turtle-Breathing Art, as well as addressing Gravel Province martial artists’ cultivation barriers.
• Mo Yiyi and Lin Qingxue celebrated Mo Yun’s seventeenth birthday with longevity noodles.
• After the Lantern Festival, Mo Yun left elixirs and the Blade Saint’s Blade Talisman for Mo Yiyi, then flew with Lin Qingxue back to the Five Elements Sect.
• Mo Yun returned to the sect, exchanged demon corpses for resources, and spent the following months slaying demons across the provinces.
• Three months later, while cultivating in the Blade Tower, Mo Yun sensed he could unify the five elements, prove the Dao, and become a Martial Saint.