Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo collected Blood Heaven Immortal Fruit fragments and blood-pool water before Tan Lie struck at the looters and drove weaker cultivators from the mountain. After escaping with two jade bottles, Chen Mo hid in a mountain cave and began healing his severe injuries.

• Chen Mo gathered fifteen Blood Mushrooms while Nangong Jinse collected thirteen, and the scramble for the Blood Heaven Immortal Fruits began.
• Peng Tian shattered the treasure tree, scattering fragments and sending four intact fruits fleeing; Chen Mo captured three fragments while Taotie, Fang Yueya, the Green Demon Giant Ape, and Ye Jin claimed the intact fruits.
• Taotie and others attacked Ye Jin, and the Nine-Tailed Red Ox knocked his fruit away before Peng Tian seized it; the Quan Ye Wolf King was killed in the ensuing fight.
• Chen Mo filled a jade bottle with blood-pool water, but Tan Lie struck at the looters; Chen Mo blocked the blow, took two jade bottles, and fled with God Shadow and Kunpeng Wings.
• Tan Lie and the other powerful experts agreed to expel cultivators below Transformation Profound Realm Stage 2, forcing Nangong Jinse and the others off the mountain.
• Chen Mo evaded the jade-bottle owner, hid in a mountain cave, and treated his broken bones by consuming Saint Medicines.

Chen Mo consumed Saint Medicines to heal his injuries and advance to the peak of the Grotto-Heaven Realm, while Tan Lie and the others fought over the depleted Blood Pool. He left seclusion unable to reach the Transformation Profound Realm and planned to return to the Demon Realm to cultivate with the Time Formation.

• Chen Mo consumed a Demon Essence Fruit, Blood Mushrooms, and other Saint Medicines, healed most of his injuries, and began a breakthrough under the protection of the Undying Demonic Flame and Demon Nightmare.
• Tan Lie and the others discovered that the Blood Pool had been drained of much of its essence and suspected Chen Mo had taken it.
• Youming Du and others called for people to be driven out, and Tan Lie's group expelled Ye Jin, the Nine-Tailed Red Ox, several pavilion officers, and other Heavenly Prides.
• Ye Jin blamed Chen Mo for the Blood Pool's condition, attacked a mountain in anger, and the Fire Pavilion suffered losses before leaving the Weeping Blood Land early.
• Chen Mo completed his breakthrough at the peak of the Grotto-Heaven Realm but found he lacked enough energy to enter the Transformation Profound Realm, so he planned to return to the Demon Realm and use the Time Formation.
• Chen Mo emerged from seclusion and sensed that the Weeping Blood Land's Spiritual Qi had drastically diminished.

Chen Mo returned from the Weeping Blood Land and discovered that its Blood Pool Water had grown far more potent, then entered seclusion to absorb it. As he encountered a powerful, unseen figure in a mysterious world, Nangong Jinse began refining the treasures she had collected.

• Chen Mo learned that Ye Jin blamed him for being driven from the blood pool and had killed several Fire Pavilion disciples, though Chen Mo denied causing it.
• The Demon Realm envoy opened a passage back to Demon Heaven, and Chen Mo, Nangong Jinse, Youming Mu, and Youming Qi returned through it.
• Chen Mo entered seclusion in Pavilion Master Volcano and discovered the Blood Pool Water had gained dense energy and multicolored runic light.
• Chen Mo absorbed barrel after barrel of Blood Pool Water until he entered a mysterious world and saw a figure whose aura surpassed the Demon God's.
• Nangong Jinse refined her sacred herbs and divine medicine petal into a pill, swallowed it, and began refining it.

Nangong Jinse’s secluded cultivation failed to bring her to the Return to One Realm, and she endured the grotesque roots consuming her body before discovering Chen Mo was undergoing the Immortality Tribulation. Chen Mo declared that he would prove his own Great Dao, charged into the unprecedented golden lightning tribulation, and was still fighting it a month later.

• Nangong Jinse found that divine medicine had not brought her to the Return to One Realm and endured the green roots on her body draining her strength.
• Nangong Jinse sensed that Chen Mo was undergoing the Immortality Tribulation, and Fire Pavilion’s members gathered as heavenly pressure shook the region.
• You Minghong explained that Chen Mo had created his own Great Dao and was proving it through the tribulation.
• Chen Mo emerged from the volcano, declared that his fate would be his own, and plunged into the tribulation clouds with a sword formed from black fragments.
• Golden lotuses and yin and yang appeared in the tribulation clouds as Chen Mo battled the lightning for a month without the tribulation ending.

Chen Mo endured an Immortality Tribulation that lasted 22,222 days, matching the Supreme God's record, before the clouds dispersed and he survived. His feat left the Demon Realm stunned as auspicious light spread across the land.

• Chen Mo fought the endless manifestations of the Lightning Tribulation, using the Mystic Tortoise Treasure Art and sacred medicine to restore his strength.
• Chen Mo passed 18,000 days, prompting Youming Du and Ye Shuang to reveal they were close to reaching Nirvana.
• Chen Mo surpassed Ye Yiren's record, and the Demon God instructed the elders not to interfere with his tribulation.
• Chen Mo endured past 20,000 days and consumed the Blood Heaven Immortal Fruit as he struggled to continue.
• Chen Mo reached 22,222 days, surpassing the Supreme God's record, and the tribulation clouds dispersed as auspicious light filled the area.

After completing his Immortality Tribulation, Chen Mo sought a way to return to the Great Thousand World before the Heavenly Evil God emerged. He learned that someone destined to face the tribulation had already appeared there—his descendant—but he still wanted to reunite with Qing Mo and the others, and the Five Pavilions Conference was about to begin.

• Chen Mo emerged from seclusion after years of refining his Undying Golden Body and learned that challengers had claimed the wages he had left uncollected.
• Elders tried to arrange marriages between Chen Mo and princesses from several races, but he declined and fled; Nangong Mu'er teased Nangong Jinse about liking him.
• Chen Mo went to the Demon Palace to ask the Demon God to send him home, but learned she had entered seclusion and asked Youming Mu about activating the interplanar array.
• Youming Mu brought Chen Mo to see the Great Sage, You Minghong, who said Chen Mo's descendant had already emerged in the Great Thousand World as the one destined to meet the tribulation.
• You Minghong said Chen Mo would have to return on his own, and Youming Mu told him the Five Pavilions Conference was about to begin.

Chen Mo learned that the Five Pavilions would compete to choose a Grand Pavilion Master and that the New Talent Ceremony would bring new recruits to the pavilions. He and Nangong Jinse discussed the Fire Pavilion’s weak prospects, and Chen Mo offered to improve its resources by refining pills.

• Youming Mu told Chen Mo that the Five Pavilions meeting might concern the New Talent Ceremony and the Grand Pavilion Master, then left Nangong Jinse to explain.
• Chen Mo gave Nangong Jinse Blood Pool Water, noticed a bluish vein on her arm, and apologized when she said it was a birthmark.
• Nangong Jinse explained that the Five Pavilions would earn points through contests among Pavilion Masters, Vice Pavilion Masters, and newcomers, with the highest-scoring Pavilion Master becoming Grand Pavilion Master.
• Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse agreed that Nu Tao should become the Fire Pavilion’s third Vice Pavilion Master and worried that the pavilion lacked the strength and resources to compete.
• Chen Mo promised to find resources for the New Talent Ceremony and said he planned to refine pills.

Chen Mo revealed pill formulas that could strengthen cultivators and enlisted Ye Ming to refine the Source Heaven Pill for the Fire Pavilion. After tests confirmed its effect, Chen Mo chose to sell the pills first to replenish the pavilion’s dwindling medicinal herb stockpile.

• Chen Mo told Nangong Jinse about the Source Heaven Pill and other formulas that could improve cultivation and increase breakthrough chances.
• Nangong Jinse summoned Ye Ming, whose Asura Divine Statue had reached the seventh level, and Chen Mo asked him to refine the Source Heaven Pill.
• Ye Ming questioned Chen Mo’s trust and warned that he might sell the formula, but he kept it secret and refined the pills.
• Chen Mo and the others tested the first batch and confirmed that it increased Spiritual Qi absorption efficiency by thirty percent for early- and middle-stage Grotto-Heaven Realm cultivators.
• Chen Mo had Ye Ming and trusted Fire Pavilion members produce more pills, then decided to sell them before distributing them so the pavilion could replenish its medicinal herbs.

Chen Mo used the Source Heaven Pill’s popularity to strengthen Fire Pavilion’s standing, but the other pavilions mocked his bid for Grand Pavilion Master and threatened to deny Fire Pavilion points. After the tense meeting, Fire Pavilion turned its hopes to the New Talent Ceremony, which began at the Trial Grounds.

• The Source Heaven Pill’s proven thirty-percent boost to Spiritual Qi absorption spread across Demon Heaven and sold out in every batch.
• Chen Mo attended the Five Pavilions meeting with Nangong Jinse, Ye Ming, and Nu Tao, where the other pavilions’ leaders and Vice Pavilion Masters showed their strength and scorned Fire Pavilion.
• The other pavilions said Fire Pavilion would receive no points in the Grand Pavilion Master selection, and the meeting ended in an unpleasant atmosphere.
• Ye Ming urged Nangong Jinse to break through to the Return to One Realm, explaining that her inherited Heavenly Spirit Sacred Body could help her compete, but she insisted the group focus on the New Talent Ceremony.
• Several days later, Chen Mo and the others arrived at the Trial Grounds, where young Heavenly Prides would compete for entry into the Five Pavilions.

The Five Pavilions held their newcomer recruitment event, and Chen Mo assessed the strongest candidates while hoping to attract promising recruits to the Fire Pavilion. Youming Mu announced that the Gold Pavilion would accept only contestants who placed among the top five hundred, even if that meant taking fewer than its required quota.

• The Five Pavilions arrived on the island and prepared their recruitment areas, while the Fire Pavilion drew attention with its red-dressed women.
• Chen Mo and the other pavilion masters arrived, and Chen Mo surveyed the more than one thousand newcomers, focusing on twenty-six peak Grotto-Heaven Realm candidates.
• Nangong Jinse identified Youming Gui, Ling Zhonghe, Qi Feng, Nu Hai, and Yu Xiaoxiao as the five strongest newcomers and explained why most were unlikely to join the Fire Pavilion.
• Chen Mo took interest in Yu Xiaoxiao, whose Five Elements Spirit Body and Godly Lightning Body made her an exceptional candidate.
• Youming Mu announced that the Gold Pavilion would recruit only newcomers who ranked among the top five hundred, refusing to fill its quota with anyone else.

Chen Mo announced unusually selective recruitment and generous benefits for the Fire Pavilion, shocking the other Pavilion Masters and the newcomers. He demonstrated that his Source Earth Pills worked, then began to prove he could teach the Sword Canon.

• Youming Mu offered Gold Pavilion members monthly spirit stones and sacred herbs, and promised to lead peak Grotto-Heaven Realm recruits to the Demon Abyss to help them break through.
• Nu Mou and Yu Qingxuan matched the Gold Pavilion’s spirit-stone offer and promised a Demon Abyss expedition, while setting a lower recruitment threshold.
• Chen Mo said the Fire Pavilion would recruit only newcomers ranked in the top three hundred, drawing curses from those who expected to qualify.
• Chen Mo offered Fire Pavilion recruits fifty thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones, three Source Heaven Pills, and sacred herbs each month, plus body tempering and instruction in three forms of the Sword Canon for peak Grotto-Heaven Realm recruits.
• When Nu Mou questioned his claims, Chen Mo announced that the Fire Pavilion would sell Source Earth Pills and offered three for testing; an Earth Pavilion member confirmed their effects.
• Chen Mo summoned Demon Nightmare and prepared to demonstrate the Sword Canon.

Chen Mo demonstrated the first three forms of the Sword Canon to attract recruits to the Fire Pavilion, drawing a surge of newcomers. Yu Xiaoxiao defied Yu Qingxuan and asked to join the Fire Pavilion, leaving Chen Mo to decide whether to accept her.

• Chen Mo displayed a hundred-zhang sword strike, and Youming Mu confirmed that it was the Sword Canon.
• Fifth Endowment offered female recruits the chance to Dual Cultivate with him, while several newcomers joined the Wood and Fire Pavilions.
• Chen Mo promised Qi Feng the Sword Canon’s first three forms if he joined the Fire Pavilion, and more than a dozen newcomers followed Qi Feng’s lead.
• Yu Xiaoxiao walked toward the Fire Pavilion, but Yu Qingxuan tried to pull her away and urged her to register with the Water Pavilion.
• Yu Xiaoxiao rejected Yu Qingxuan’s objections and asked Chen Mo whether he would let her join the Fire Pavilion.

Chen Mo defended Yu Xiaoxiao’s choice to join the Fire Pavilion, then dealt with the consequences of her joining and the growing popularity of the pavilion’s benefits. The chapter left Chen Mo beginning to cultivate the Great Fu Tu Art so he could eventually fuse its Dharma Body with his Undying Golden Body.

• Chen Mo rejected Yu Qingxuan’s attempt to force Yu Xiaoxiao into the Water Pavilion, and he destroyed the water sphere she attacked him with.
• Youming Mu intervened, affirmed that Yu Xiaoxiao could choose the Fire Pavilion, and sent Yu Qingxuan and Nu Mou away after Yu Qingxuan warned Yu Xiaoxiao to answer to her parents.
• Chen Mo accepted Yu Xiaoxiao and Qi Feng into the Fire Pavilion and gave them the first three forms of the Sword Canon.
• News of the New Talent Ceremony spread through Demon Heaven, making Chen Mo famous and the other pavilions envious of the Fire Pavilion’s benefits.
• Chen Mo learned that Yu Xiaoxiao had been complaining about her lodging and surroundings and now wanted him to take her out for fun; he also allowed old members to cultivate the Sword Canon.
• Chen Mo asked about the Blood Pool Water, then began cultivating the Great Fu Tu Art to prepare to fuse its Dharma Body with his Undying Golden Body.

Chen Mo finished refining his cultivation methods and emerged from seclusion, where he agreed to take Yu Xiaoxiao on a training mission. The chapter ended with Chen Mo choosing a Green Task to hunt the ferocious beast Zheng, despite Nangong Jinse warning that it was at Transformation Profound Realm Stage 2 Late Stage.

• Chen Mo spent ninety years in the Time Formation modifying the Great Fu Tu Art, but Galaxy rejected the Fu Tu Pagoda while the Great Fu Tu Dharma Body was absorbed by the Undying Golden Body.
• Chen Mo learned that only the Demon God Society could refine Saint Artifacts in the Demon Realm, so he postponed upgrading the Fu Tu Pagoda.
• After leaving seclusion, Chen Mo found Nangong Jinse chasing Yu Xiaoxiao, who had neglected her cultivation and repeatedly asked to go out for fun.
• Chen Mo agreed to take Yu Xiaoxiao on a training mission and asked Nangong Jinse for the latest tasks from the Affairs Pavilion.
• Chen Mo selected a Green Task to hunt Zheng, an ancient ferocious beast that had fled from the Godly Realm and was causing destruction on the Demon Realm's western border.
• Nangong Jinse warned that Zheng was at Transformation Profound Realm Stage 2 Late Stage.

Chen Mo took Nangong Jinse, Ye Ming, and Yu Xiaoxiao to hunt Zheng in the Poisonous Mist Forest, hoping the harsh journey would temper Yu Xiaoxiao. Yu Qingxuan sent Ling Miao after them to injure Chen Mo, while the group arrived in Lingzhou unsure where to find the forest.

• Chen Mo persuaded Nangong Jinse to join the mission, planning for her to secretly protect Yu Xiaoxiao while he dealt with Zheng.
• Chen Mo, Nangong Jinse, Ye Ming, and Yu Xiaoxiao left Fire Island for the Poisonous Mist Forest.
• Yu Qingxuan told Ling Miao that Chen Mo had gone to Lingzhou and gave him a mask to conceal his identity as he went to injure Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo's group arrived in Lingzhou by teleportation, but Nangong Jinse's map showed little detail about the border region.
• Chen Mo asked Nangong Jinse where the Poisonous Mist Forest was, and she guessed it lay to the south.

Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse tracked Zheng to an abyss, where they found it waiting for a Quasi-God Pill to bloom. Chen Mo lured their pursuer Ling Miao into Zheng’s attack with an illusion array and a staged fight, then Nangong Jinse asked how he had known they were being followed.

• Yu Xiaoxiao flew south in a Top-Grade Saint Artifact, and Ye Ming followed her while Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse went toward Zheng’s abyss.
• Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse spotted Zheng beside a Quasi-God Pill and decided to wait for the flower to bloom before attacking.
• Ling Miao hid nearby, planning to let Zheng and Chen Mo weaken each other before stealing the beast.
• Chen Mo used an illusion array to make Ling Miao think a fight was underway, then struck Zheng with a falling boulder when Ling Miao approached.
• Zheng attacked Ling Miao, who realized Chen Mo had discovered him and set a trap.
• Nangong Jinse asked Chen Mo how he had known Ling Miao was following them and prepared the illusion array.

Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse discovered that a disguised Five Pavilions cultivator was targeting them while Zheng fought Ling Miao. Chen Mo stole the Quasi-God Pill and escaped, leaving Ling Miao to face Zheng with his Light-Containing Divine Sword.

• Chen Mo told Nangong Jinse that a Transformation Profound Realm Stage 2 cultivator was likely from the Five Pavilions and had come after him.
• Ling Miao trapped Zheng in a spiritual energy prison, but Chen Mo broke it with Demon Nightmare so Zheng could resume attacking Ling Miao.
• Chen Mo took the evolved Quasi-God Pill and fled, causing Zheng to mistake Ling Miao for his accomplice and attack him furiously.
• Ling Miao revealed his Light-Containing Divine Sword, and Nangong Jinse recognized it as a Spirit Clan secret art.
• Zheng struck Ling Miao with lightning as Ling Miao severed three of its four horns, and both were blasted away.

Chen Mo defeated Zheng after Ling Miao’s attack on the beast was interrupted, and Nangong Jinse drove Ling Miao away. Zheng’s Beast Core nearly exploded after its death, injuring Chen Mo and leaving him and Nangong Jinse to recover and inspect the core.

• Ling Miao attacked Zheng, but Chen Mo blasted both fighters apart and severed Ling Miao’s right arm.
• Nangong Jinse recognized Ling Miao and threatened him, prompting him to retrieve his arm and flee.
• Chen Mo killed Zheng and, after Nangong Jinse found its Beast Core, warned her to throw it away when lightning flickered across it.
• Chen Mo hurled the Beast Core away and shielded Nangong Jinse from its red-light blasts, but one struck his back and left them kissing as they fell.
• Nangong Jinse gave Chen Mo sacred herbs, and he asked her to check whether the Beast Core’s essence had leaked away.

Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse reached the Poisonous Mist Forest after defeating Zheng, where they found Yu Xiaoxiao unharmed after she had swept through the forest with powerful treasures. Chen Mo accepted her healing gift and gave her a Wind-Thunder Spirit Flower, and Yu Xiaoxiao offered him an even more potent Tear of the Merfolk.

• Chen Mo stored Zheng's Beast Core and hurried with Nangong Jinse to the Poisonous Mist Forest after recovering enough to travel.
• Yu Xiaoxiao used the Sky Dome Godly Lightning Skill and powerful talismans to destroy the forest's threats while Ye Ming followed her.
• Chen Mo and Nangong Jinse met Yu Xiaoxiao as she emerged from the forest, and she told them she had not found Zheng.
• Yu Xiaoxiao gave Chen Mo a Tear of the Merfolk, which began healing his severed meridians.
• Chen Mo gave Yu Xiaoxiao a Wind-Thunder Spirit Flower, and she accepted it before offering him a rare Tear of the Merfolk from her Father Emperor.

After returning from the Poisonous Mist Forest, Chen Mo learned that Law Pavilion was not going to punish Ling Miao for attacking him. As the Fire Spirit Ritual approached, Yu Qingxuan planned for Water Pavilion and Earth Pavilion to join forces against Fire Pavilion, while Chen Mo resolved to thwart them.

• Yu Xiaoxiao gave Chen Mo golden Tears of the Merfolk in exchange for his Wind-Thunder Spirit Flower, and she, Chen Mo, and Nangong Jinse waited for Ye Ming before returning.
• Yu Qingxuan rebuked Ling Miao for failing to deal with Chen Mo and exposing his identity, then said she would settle the matter with Nu Mou and Law Pavilion.
• Yu Qingxuan and Ling Miao discussed the upcoming Five Spirits Offering and agreed that Water Pavilion and Earth Pavilion would join forces to seize the Fire Attribute Ling's Spiritual Source.
• Nangong Jinse told Chen Mo that Law Pavilion was still investigating Ling Miao despite the evidence, and Chen Mo accepted that he had little support against the clans.
• Chen Mo said he would make Water Pavilion and Earth Pavilion leave the Five Spirits Offering empty-handed.