Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo attacked Yuan Bai, who shared a body with Feng Yan, and trapped him in a Ghost Domain Grand Array. Yuan Bai tricked Feng Yan into yielding control of a broken seal, expelled and sacrificed him, then thanked Chu Mo for helping him regain his body.

• Chu Mo recognized the unusual names above Yuan Bai and attacked him with the Three Corpses Sword, which the broken seal repelled.
• Chu Mo trapped Yuan Bai in a Ghost Domain Grand Array, and Yuan Bai struggled to defend himself with the broken seal and Violet Cloud Furnace.
• Yuan Bai persuaded Feng Yan to transfer control of the broken seal by swearing not to harm him and promising to fight Chu Mo together.
• Yuan Bai used True Sun Transmutation to expel Feng Yan from his sea of consciousness, and Chu Mo's dark attack shattered Feng Yan's soul.
• Yuan Bai blocked the remaining attack with the broken seal and thanked Chu Mo for helping him eliminate Feng Yan and reclaim his body.

Chu Mo defeated Yuan Bai with an empowered imitation of the Six-Yang Thunderfire Gourd, destroying Yuan Bai’s dao mansion and killing him. He claimed the damaged seal and learned it could control the Crimson Sun Golden Vault grotto-heaven world.

• Yuan Bai used the damaged seal and Violet Cloud Furnace to resist Chu Mo’s Ghost Domain and summoned golden-flame figures to fight the Banner Spirits.
• Chu Mo empowered his imitation Six-Yang Thunderfire Gourd with the Wondrous True Being Treasure Talisman and attacked Yuan Bai with three golden-red sparks.
• The sparks pierced Yuan Bai’s defenses, ravaged his dao mansion, and left him helpless against Chu Mo.
• Chu Mo took the damaged seal, killed Yuan Bai, and sent his soul on its way with Mind-Cleansing Mantras.
• Chu Mo identified the damaged treasure as the Crimson Radiance Seal, which could control the Crimson Sun Golden Vault grotto-heaven world.

Chu Mo used the Crimson Radiance Seal to deceive the Golden Vault and seize True Person Crimson Sun’s place, gaining control of the True Sun Wheel. He left with a new confidence to visit Shadow Daoist and seek answers about the [Multitude].

• Chu Mo sent his Mystic Womb Incarnation toward the Golden Vault’s Great Sun with the Crimson Radiance Seal.
• Shadow Daoist studied the Celestial Circuit Qi-Gathering Method and questioned the nature of the embryo within him and whether other worlds existed.
• The Mystic Womb Incarnation convinced the Golden Vault to accept him as True Person Crimson Sun and merged with its golden sea.
• Chu Mo discovered that the usurpation had succeeded and tested his power by unleashing the True Sun Wheel, scorching a thousand miles of land.
• Chu Mo decided to visit Shadow Daoist and seek his guidance about the [Multitude].

Chu Mo sent his Mystic Embryo to the Eternal Night Sea with the Crimson Sun Golden Vault stored inside the Six-Yang Thunderfire Gourd, then entered the Shadow Puppet Market to retrieve Di Yang and confront the Shadow Daoist. As the Shadow Daoist attacked with Corrupt Shadow, Chu Mo revealed a blazing Sun behind him.

• Chu Mo mastered the True Sun Wheel and had the Mystic Embryo use the Six-Yang Thunderfire Gourd to absorb the Crimson Sun Golden Vault.
• The Mystic Embryo crossed into the Eternal Night Sea and appeared in Di Yang’s courtyard in the Shadow Puppet Market.
• Chu Mo reassured Di Yang that giving the Shadow Daoist the Celestial Circuit Qi-Gathering Method had been acceptable, then announced he had come to take Di Yang away and ask questions.
• The Shadow Daoist challenged Chu Mo and unleashed Corrupt Shadow, sending the courtyard’s shadows and shadow wraiths toward him.
• A blazing Sun rose behind Chu Mo and forced its light into the Shadow Daoist’s vision.

Chu Mo overwhelmed Shadow Daoist with the Great Sun Dharma Wheel and forced him to surrender, then questioned him about Urban Legends and the Ghost Markets. Shadow Daoist revealed that there were thirty-three Ghost Markets and said Urban Legends could be made to reveal their true bodies by making them contend with one another.

• Chu Mo unleashed the Great Sun Dharma Wheel, destroying the Ghost Market and reducing Shadow Daoist to a fading shadow.
• Shadow Daoist reappeared, wary of Chu Mo’s power, but surrendered when Chu Mo raised another sun wheel.
• Chu Mo took Di Yang and demanded information about Urban Legend [Multitude] and how to capture an Urban Legend’s true body.
• Shadow Daoist denied knowing how to capture one and explained that the Nether Road had existed before he took over the Twenty-Third Ghost Market.
• Shadow Daoist said there were thirty-three Ghost Markets in the Eternal Night Sea and suggested making Urban Legends contend with one another to reveal their true bodies.

Shadow Daoist told Chu Mo that [Multitude] arose from the fusion of [Calling Voice], [Family and Friends], and [Ghost Mirror], then gave him records explaining how to manifest it. After Chu Mo stripped Shadow Daoist’s treasury and escaped, he flew with Di Yang to Xu Capital, where he spotted Heart-Examining Abbey.

• Shadow Daoist explained that the three urban legends had once merged across the Xu Kingdom, turning all its inhabitants into part of a unified being before separating again.
• Shadow Daoist gave Chu Mo a booklet describing [Multitude] and how its three component legends supplied existence, appearance, and voice.
• Chu Mo exploited Shadow Daoist’s fear of [True Sun Wheel] to take the contents of his treasury before leaving with Di Yang through the Nether Road.
• Shadow Daoist seethed over the loss and began considering joining forces with other ghost-market lords to seize Chu Mo’s power.
• Chu Mo carried Di Yang at Golden Core speed to Xu Capital and identified Heart-Examining Abbey.

Yin Yan’s attempt to perfect the Rising Sun Array unexpectedly manifested Chu Mo as a golden-flame figure, and Chu Mo demanded the Heart-Examining Abbey’s treasures and Ancient Mirror. After Chu Mo killed the arriving disciples, Abbey Master Xu stood alone before him, while Chu Mo recalled arriving near the abbey an hour earlier.

• Yin Yan struggled to draw yang qi from the Rising Sun Array as Abbey Master Xu warned him that the Ancient Mirror had stirred again.
• Abbey Master Xu blamed Yin Yan for exposing [Family and Friends] to the [Ghost Mirror] and urged him to abandon the array, but Yin Yan insisted he could perfect it.
• The array suddenly produced a golden-flame figure, and Chu Mo inspected his damaged [True Sun Transmutation] ability before demanding the abbey’s texts, secret arts, treasures, and Ancient Mirror.
• Abbey Master Xu confronted Chu Mo, but Chu Mo ignited the disciples who had rushed into the courtyard, leaving Xu alone.
• Chu Mo threatened Abbey Master Xu again and reflected on his arrival in the mountain woods near the abbey an hour earlier.

Chu Mo accidentally triggered the Ghost Mirror with his Divine Ability, died to his double, and revived after an unknown power reclaimed his stolen existence. At the Heart-Examining Abbey, he ordered Xu Yuan to sacrifice abbey disciples to the Ancient Mirror, and Xu Yuan obeyed.

• Chu Mo used his Soul-Seizing Treasure Mirror near the Heart-Examining Abbey, triggering the Ghost Mirror and creating a double with his abilities.
• The Mirror Ghost drained Chu Mo's existence and killed him, but another power stripped that existence from the double and restored Chu Mo.
• Chu Mo concluded that mirror-related abilities were dangerous near the Ancient Mirror and decided to proceed more cautiously.
• In the abbey's main hall, Xu Yuan told Chu Mo that gathering enough Nether Gathering Realm cultivators for the sacrifices had become difficult.
• Chu Mo ordered Xu Yuan to use the abbey's disciples as sacrifices, and Xu Yuan reluctantly obeyed as cries and screams came from outside.

Chu Mo learned the Form-Substituting Ancient Mirror could summon a Ghost Mirror and killed Xu Yuan before ordering Zhao Shou to prepare Xu Capital for a ritual. At Shadow Daoist’s ruined market, he recruited Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist to help confront Chu Mo and proposed inviting Forgetting Daoist.

• Xu Yuan explained the Ancient Mirror’s danger and history, and Chu Mo burned him alive, preserving his soul in a pearl.
• Several days later, Chu Mo ordered Zhao Shou to arrange the Three Sources Returning to the Multitude Ritual throughout Xu Capital and threatened to kill him if he failed.
• Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist visited Shadow Daoist’s destroyed Ghost Market, where Shadow Daoist argued that Chu Mo’s strange power could lead them to a greater Dao Path.
• Shadow Daoist said they needed another ally to capture Chu Mo and named Forgetting Daoist from Ghost Market Number Ten, alarming Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist.

Chu Mo used a ritual ceremony to draw Ghost Mirror, Calling Voice, and Family and Friends into Xu Capital, where their domains clashed. The phenomena vanished, and the city’s residents—including Chu Mo—were marked by a new Area Event: Multitude.

• Chu Mo sealed Xu Capital with the Mistcloud Labyrinth Locking Formation and ordered every household to hang mirrors at the city’s thirty-six nodes.
• Chu Mo used the Form-Substituting Ancient Mirror to create a Glazed Sky Mirror above the city, triggering the Ghost Mirror event.
• Chu Mo tossed a Recording Stone tainted with Calling Voice into the sky, and residents who answered its calls vanished along with Chu Mo’s memories of them.
• Family and Friends manifested deceased relatives and acquaintances throughout Xu Capital as all three urban legends spread and fought over the city.
• Ghost Mirror proved strongest as the three legends’ powers converged, then their manifestations disappeared and the city returned to normal.
• Chu Mo saw a new Multitude event notification and found that the city’s residents and he himself were labeled Multitude.

Chu Mo burned Xu Capital and its [Multitude] with the True Sun Wheel, only for the city to regenerate and lure him to join it. As Shadow Daoist and three allies arrived, Chu Mo attacked them and threatened to destroy them again.

• Chu Mo unleashed the Great Sun Dharma Wheel and reduced Xu Capital and its residents to scorched glass, but the city soon rebuilt itself with more figures from his past.
• The [Multitude] beckoned Chu Mo to become one of them, but he resisted and concluded that it could not reproduce powerful figures such as True Lord Xuan Cheng or True Person Jiqing.
• A crash shattered the [Mistcloud Lock Pass Formation], and Shadow Daoist, Plague Daoist, Bone Daoist, and a fourth man entered Xu Capital.
• Shadow Daoist proposed that the four examine Chu Mo's cultivation method in exchange for ending their past grievances, but Chu Mo attacked them with the True Sun Wheel.
• Shadow Daoist survived by escaping into a shadow while Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist began reconstructing themselves, and Chu Mo summoned another true yang sun and warned them to retreat.

Chu Mo used the living qi in Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist to draw [Multitude] into them, then let it gather itself into Plague Daoist so he could trap it inside the Crimson Sun Golden Vault. Inside the vault, a middle-aged cultivator appeared beside Chu Mo.

• As Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist prepared to attack, [Multitude] showed them visions of their human pasts and nearly drew them into Xu Capital City.
• Bone Daoist realized concealed golden seals had given them living qi, and Chu Mo intensified [True Sun Transmutation] to make the seals blaze and draw [Multitude]'s attention.
• [Multitude] swallowed Plague Daoist and Bone Daoist, while Shadow Daoist apologized and tried to flee.
• Bone Daoist escaped, but [Multitude] absorbed Plague Daoist and concentrated its power in him, leaving Xu Capital City to fade away.
• Chu Mo trapped Plague Daoist inside the Crimson Sun Golden Vault and entered after him, where an unremarkable middle-aged cultivator suddenly appeared beside him.

Chu Mo tested Forgetting Daoist’s memory-altering power inside the Crimson Sun Golden Vault, then fought the [Multitude] after Forgetting Daoist withdrew. He used the Divine Ability; Wondrous True Being to sever the [Multitude]’s control over the Golden Vault and suppress it beneath the Great Sun.

• Forgetting Daoist offered Chu Mo his Worryless Ghost Market and other rewards in exchange for examining Chu Mo’s art, but Chu Mo refused to agree and proposed testing their abilities first.
• Forgetting Daoist disrupted Chu Mo’s memory of how to use the True Sun Wheel, but Chu Mo quickly recovered inside the Crimson Sun Golden Vault.
• Forgetting Daoist withdrew through the golden vortex, and Chu Mo sealed the Golden Vault before turning to face the [Multitude].
• Chu Mo used the True Sun Wheel to erode the plague qi around “Plague Daoist; Multitude,” but the [Multitude] transformed into a copy of Chu Mo and began seizing control of the Golden Vault.
• Chu Mo unleashed [Divine Ability; Wondrous True Being], deemed the copy fake, and severed its connection to the Golden Vault.
• The Great Sun descended and suppressed the [Multitude].

Chu Mo refined "Multitude" with the True Sun Wheel and pure fire, turning the captured law into the foundation of his Golden Core. After completing his breakthrough, he sensed the hidden threads connecting heaven and earth.

• Chu Mo confirmed that the Forgetting Daoist had left and examined the golden sphere imprisoning "Multitude."
• After three days of recovery, Chu Mo drew the sphere into his Nether Capital Inner Landscape and began refining it in the Dao Mansion's pure fire.
• As the city within "Multitude" burned away, Ghostfolk grew more distinct and Chu Mo rose to the peak of Foundation Establishment.
• Chu Mo and the Mystic Embryo overcame the Plague Daoist's resistance with the True Sun Wheel and pure fire.
• Chu Mo killed the level 30 Plague Daoist, and true law took form in his inner landscape.
• Chu Mo broke through to Golden Core, became a True Person, and glimpsed threads interlacing between heaven and earth.

After reaching Golden Core, Chu Mo awakened [All Beings Aspect], which let him plunder others’ allotted fate and inherit their identities and legacies. He took over Plague Daoist’s powers and discovered Di Yang’s fate was linked to him and to a vast, unknowable force.

• Chu Mo understood that [All Beings Aspect] let him plunder the allotted fate of those connected to him and assume their identities, though powerful karmic ties could threaten him in return.
• Chu Mo examined the Nether Capital Golden Vault and saw that those whose allotted fate had been consumed, including former residents of Xu Capital City and Plague Daoist, had become lifelike ghostfolk.
• Chu Mo assumed Plague Daoist’s identity and inherited his plague abilities and access to Ghost Market Number Twenty-Six.
• Shadow Daoist worried that Chu Mo might come after him, reassured himself that the closed Ghost Market gates would keep Chu Mo out, and considered asking Forgetting Daoist for help obtaining Chu Mo’s cultivation method.
• Chu Mo released Di Yang from beneath the Crimson Sun Golden Vault and used [All Beings Aspect] to see the dense karmic threads extending from him, including links to Chu Mo and an immense force beyond Chu Mo’s perception.

Chu Mo used Di Yang’s fate as a disguise, then confronted the Forgetting Daoist and drove him off with the strengthened True Sun Wheel. After parting from Di Yang, Chu Mo set out to claim his Ghost Market and settle accounts with the Plague Daoist and Shadow Daoist.

• Chu Mo drew a strand of fate from Di Yang and used it to conceal himself from the Eternal Night Sea.
• Chu Mo detected the Forgetting Daoist, whose attempt to use his ability failed, and attacked him with the True Sun Wheel.
• The Forgetting Daoist escaped with help from the power of his “womb,” while Chu Mo chose not to pursue him.
• Chu Mo bid farewell to Di Yang, who left alone after thanking him.
• Chu Mo summoned the Nether Road and headed to claim his Ghost Market, intending to confront the Plague Daoist and Shadow Daoist.

Chu Mo discovered Ming He's Dao Seal had an unusual quality, then prepared to confront Bone Daoist and Shadow Daoist for their secrets. At the Twenty-Third Ghost Market, someone posing as Bone Daoist challenged Shadow Daoist to identify him.

• Chu Mo reviewed Plague Daoist's records and decided to add the early third-tier plague ghosts to his banner.
• Chu Mo pulled Ming He into his residence and learned that Ming He had come to summon the Heavenly Water Goddess.
• Chu Mo sensed something discordant about Ming He's Dao Mansion and learned that the Sect Master had bestowed his Dao Seal.
• Chu Mo let Ming He go and set his sights on Bone Daoist and Shadow Daoist after finishing his search of Plague Daoist's possessions.
• Shadow Daoist let Bone Daoist into the Twenty-Third Ghost Market, where the visitor asked whether Shadow Daoist really thought he was Bone Daoist.

Chu Mo impersonated Bone Daoist, defeated Shadow Daoist, and absorbed him into the Nether Capital as a Ghostfolk before returning to Fuli Heaven. There, he examined the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s intricate fates and discovered that a thread from him led to a deacon disciple’s illusory banner.

• Chu Mo used Bone Daoist’s identity to attack Shadow Daoist with three Great Suns and destroy the Shadow Puppet Market.
• Shadow Daoist tried to escape but was drawn into the Nether Capital, where he became one of its Ghostfolk.
• Chu Mo claimed Shadow Market’s Shadow Blights and reflected on why the ghost market lords knew nothing about taboos.
• Chu Mo opened a stable passage to Fuli Heaven and traveled through it to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect.
• Chu Mo observed the sect’s karma and fate with [All Beings Aspect] and noticed that his own thread led to a deacon disciple’s illusory banner.

After Chu Mo reached the Golden Core realm, Xuan Cheng explained how laws, divine abilities, and life-bound treasures shaped the path of cultivation, then unlocked new permissions in Chu Mo’s True Harmony Token. Chu Mo explored the True Harmony Association’s True Illusion Hall and encountered the suspicious True Person Youzhen.

• Xuan Cheng asked Chu Mo about spirits in the Heavenly Script Otherworld and Miao Xin’s search for a law, then unlocked more permissions in his True Harmony Token.
• Xuan Cheng taught Chu Mo about Golden Core cultivation paths and explained how refining an otherworldly law into a life-bound treasure could help a cultivator advance.
• Xuan Cheng examined Chu Mo’s Profound Banner and said it could become a third-tier Dharmic Treasure, but needed an otherworldly law to become a true Cave-Truth treasure.
• Chu Mo entered the True Illusion Hall through his True Harmony Token and learned that its points of light represented worlds the True Harmony Association had explored or marked.
• True Person Youzhen approached Chu Mo and asked whether this was his first visit to the True Illusion Hall.

Chu Mo met True Person Youzhen in the True Illusion Hall and learned how worlds and heavenly fortune worked. Youzhen ended by offering him a promising opportunity, whose details remained unrevealed.

• True Person Youzhen recognized Chu Mo as the cultivator who had achieved Heavenly Script Foundation Establishment and pretended they shared a close connection.
• Youzhen explained how the True Illusion Hall handled developing, unifying, and exchanging access to worlds.
• Youzhen urged Chu Mo to list the Eternal Night Sea for exchange, but Chu Mo asked about the rewards for advancing a world's unification instead.
• Youzhen described heavenly fortune as a blessing that could accelerate cultivation and broaden one's Dao Path.
• Youzhen told Chu Mo he had a promising opportunity and asked whether he wanted to hear about it.