Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo considered True Person Youzhen’s invitation to explore a rift in the Profound Sun Realm and discovered that both its cultivators and demons had come from other worlds. He began preparing to strengthen his Profound Banner, while the injured Forgetting Daoist decided to contact other ghost market masters about Chu Mo.

• Chu Mo learned that True Person Youzhen wanted him to join an expedition through a rift in the Profound Sun Realm, valuing his Golden Vault’s escape passage.
• Chu Mo opened Qi Lian’s jade slip and discovered that cultivators from the Cloudmist Realm and demons from another plane had both entered the Profound Sun Realm before withdrawing.
• Chu Mo decided to refine his Profound Banner to the third tier and cultivate Soul-Seizing Treasure Mirror Light before pursuing the expedition.
• Chu Mo prepared to use the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array, planning to obtain three more kinds of ghost creatures from other markets.
• The Forgetting Daoist, still suffering from blazing sun power and fearing Chu Mo, decided to warn the other ghost market masters and considered contacting the Ninth and Eleventh Market Masters.

Chu Mo trapped Forgetting Daoist, Desire Daoist, and Paper Daoist in the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array. After they fought through the Plague Yin Palace, the array shifted into the Shadow Yin Palace, where darkness began consuming their light and souls.

• Forgetting Daoist led Desire Daoist and Paper Daoist to a dark town and explained their plan to seize the cultivation method of the man with an unusual power.
• The three entered the town, only for it to vanish and reveal a ghost domain filled with Plague Ghosts.
• Chu Mo watched from above and directed the Plague Yin Palace to attack the three Ghost Market lords.
• Desire Daoist used Desire Souls, Paper Daoist redirected attacks onto paper figures, and the Plague Ghosts ignored Forgetting Daoist.
• The Plague Yin Palace disappeared and the Shadow Yin Palace swallowed the three in darkness, where Shadow Blights began attacking.

The Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array trapped Desire Daoist, Paper Daoist, and Forgetting Daoist in successive ghost domains, where Desire Daoist and Paper Daoist were absorbed into their respective palaces. Forgetting Daoist escaped only to realize he was Youxuan, then faded as Chu Mo claimed him for the Nether Capital.

• The formation changed into the Bone Yin Palace, where White Bone Contemplation soldiers overwhelmed Paper Daoist’s Paper-Clad Divine Generals.
• Desire Daoist tried to dissolve into formlessness, but the Desire Yin Palace opened and absorbed her along with her Desire Souls.
• Paper Daoist and Forgetting Daoist fled the ghost domain, only to be drawn into the Paper Yin Palace, where Paper Daoist was refined into a paper ghost.
• Forgetting Daoist escaped into the real world and recognized the dark-robed Chu Mo, realizing that he was Youxuan and that his earlier choices had come from his own heart.
• Forgetting Daoist faded away as Chu Mo welcomed a new face among the Nether Capital’s Ghostfolk and summoned the Dark Banner to refine the Heart-Eating Ghost and unite all six palaces.

Chu Mo bound Paper Daoist and Desire Daoist to the Profound Banner, then advanced his Golden Core cultivation and investigated an image of a possible past life. After three months, he left seclusion and met Junior Brother Youxuan at True Person Youzhen’s cave abode.

• Chu Mo told Paper Daoist and Desire Daoist they could be refined into heavenly ghosts, and Desire Daoist quickly pledged obedience and asked to be called Desire Consort.
• Chu Mo asked whether they knew of the terrifying taboos said to exist in the Eternal Night Sea, but neither had heard of them; he then sent them back into the Profound Banner.
• Chu Mo went to collect Forgetting Daoist’s Heart-Eating Ghost, then spent three months in Fuli Heaven practicing [Karmic Tracing, Form-Illuminating].
• Chu Mo used the treasure mirror on himself and saw a young man in ancient clothing beheaded by an armored man, leaving him to wonder whether the scene came from a life before his previous life.
• Chu Mo found that his magical power had grown only slightly and estimated that reaching the middle-stage bottleneck could take more than a century without a special opportunity.
• Chu Mo emerged from seclusion and found True Person Youzhen speaking with Junior Brother Youxuan, asking whether he had thought it through.

True Person Youzhen asked Chu Mo to help retrieve the White Rainbow Black Whale World Boat from the Jiang Clan, offering him its yin boat in return. Chu Mo learned the plan would require him to hold off Jiang Cheng while Youzhen stole the World Boat, and the chapter ended with Youzhen waiting for his answer.

• True Person Youzhen invited Chu Mo to join the Immortal Garden venture and warned that relying on its World Boat could be dangerous.
• Youzhen offered Chu Mo the Black Whale yin boat if he helped retrieve it from the Wuyuan Jiang Clan.
• Youzhen explained that the Jiang Clan head, Jiang Cheng, drew power from two Golden Vaults and could fight above his early Golden Core stage.
• Youzhen proposed disrupting the vaults' connection to the earth veins so Chu Mo could distract Jiang Cheng while Youzhen raided the secret vault.
• Youzhen asked Chu Mo what he thought of the plan.

Chu Mo entered the Jiang family’s wedding preparations under the false identity of Young Master Lin and learned that Cen Lingyi of the Heaven’s Will Sect wanted the family’s Bright Sun Golden Vault. He and Youzhen kept their midnight plan to steal it, while Youzhen concealed himself among the household workers.

• Chu Mo used I Am All Beings to make Steward Yi and the Jiang household accept him as Young Master Lin.
• Cen Lingyi arrived in her Cloud Crane Chasing the Rosy Clouds Carriage and told Lingmiao she intended to obtain the Jiang family’s Bright Sun Golden Vault.
• Cen Lingyi offered Jiang Cheng a place on an expedition into an Otherworld where Law existed in exchange for the Golden Vault, then declared that Heaven’s Will granted her success.
• Chu Mo contacted Youzhen, confirmed that their plan would proceed around midnight, and agreed to rendezvous at Three Rivers Crossing afterward.
• Chu Mo noticed the Golden Vault’s power shining from the spirit peak and left his courtyard.
• Youzhen worried that the Heaven’s Will Sect’s presence might disrupt the plan, but a steward mistook him for Jiang Erhe and ordered him to help at the storeroom.

Youzhen secretly planted thirty-six Life-Severing Nails at Jiangyuan Spirit Peak while Jiang Cheng celebrated Jiang Hao and Liu Ning’s wedding. When the nails disrupted the Golden Vaults, the wedding guests were poisoned, and the false Steward Yi revealed himself as an enemy.

• Youzhen planted the last of thirty-six Life-Severing Nails beneath an artificial rockery and planned to weaken Jiang Cheng’s household.
• Lingmiao questioned Youzhen, who posed as the servant Jiang Erhe and was allowed to leave after a divine-sense inspection.
• A tremor shook Jiangyuan Spirit Peak, severing Jiang Cheng’s connection to the Bright Sun and Hidden Moon Golden Vaults.
• Jiang Hao collapsed after eating a Harmony Fruit, and Jiang Cheng discovered pestilential poison in his heart meridians.
• The guests began collapsing from poisoned food and wine as the false Steward Yi confronted Jiang Cheng.
• Jiang Cheng demanded to know who the false Steward Yi really was.

Chu Mo, posing as Yi Huai'an, distracted Jiang Cheng while True Person Cen seized the Jiang Household's Bright Sun Golden Vault. Jiang Cheng realized the attackers had been working together and offered the Hidden Moon Golden Vault and the ancestral World Boats in exchange for sparing his household.

• Chu Mo demanded that Jiang Cheng hand over the Hidden Moon Golden Vault in exchange for curing the poisoned guests and his grandson.
• Jiang Cheng attacked Chu Mo with his Yin-Yang Flame, but Chu Mo used the Two-Aspect Treasure Mirror to suppress its power.
• Jiang Cheng recognized the mirror and accused Chu Mo of being Youzhen, while Chu Mo continued to stall him under that identity.
• True Person Cen severed Jiang Cheng's connection to the Bright Sun Golden Vault and carried it away, shocking both Jiang Cheng and Chu Mo.
• Jiang Cheng offered True Person Cen the Hidden Moon Golden Vault and the White Rainbow Black Whale World Boats, pleading for his household's survival.

Chu Mo escaped the Jiang Household after Youzhen obtained the White Rainbow Black Whale, but Cen Lingyi tracked down and killed the identity of Steward Yi with a powerful starry Divine Ability. She honored her bargain with Jiang Cheng, healed the poisoned guests, and departed; Chu Mo reached Three Rivers Crossing safely to meet Youzhen.

• Cen Lingyi questioned Chu Mo, who hid the Two-Aspect Treasure Mirror and vanished before she could detain him.
• Jiang Cheng told Cen Lingyi that Youzhen was a Harmony Truth Disciple of the Tribulation Deliverance Gate, and she used her hairpin to open a river of stars where Chu Mo had stood.
• Cen Lingyi's Divine Ability trapped Chu Mo as Steward Yi and killed that identity, though Chu Mo himself remained unharmed.
• Cen Lingyi honored her bargain by letting Jiang Cheng select a Law and used the Sun-Moon Treasure Carriage to cure the poisoned guests before departing with Lingmiao.
• Chu Mo flew to Three Rivers Crossing and found Youzhen, recalling that Youzhen had tried to summon the Two-Aspect Treasure Mirror back.

At Three Rivers Crossing, Chu Mo reunited with Youzhen and traded the Two-Aspect Treasure Mirror for the World Boat and a Heaven-and-Earth Bag of spoils. Youzhen then told him about Cen Lingyi’s formidable history and revealed that Dao Venerable Cinnabar Scenery, Containing Light had intervened in bringing her world under the Heaven’s Will Sect.

• Youzhen waited at Three Rivers Crossing, worried because he could no longer sense the Two-Aspect Treasure Mirror’s other half.
• Chu Mo arrived and demanded the World Boat, while Youzhen held onto it and asked for the mirror in return.
• Youzhen offered Chu Mo a Heaven-and-Earth Bag filled with spirit materials and Dharma Coins, and Chu Mo handed over the mirror while taking both the bag and the World Boat.
• Chu Mo asked about Cen Lingyi, and Youzhen said she had defeated a stronger Golden Core cultivator and escaped from a True Lord.
• Youzhen explained that Cen Lingyi’s world had entered the Heaven’s Will Sect’s territory after Dao Venerable Cinnabar Scenery, Containing Light personally intervened.

Chu Mo and Youzhen met True Person Sushang at the Blissful Immortal Garden and learned that a rift from the Profound Sun Realm led to an unknown Otherworld. They inspected the unstable passage and learned that the Immortal Garden planned to probe it when it next opened.

• Youzhen told Chu Mo that Dao Venerable Cinnabar Scenery, Containing Light had seized a world for a disciple, and then invited him to join the Immortal Garden undertaking.
• At Cloudsea Hanging Mountain, Youzhen introduced Chu Mo to True Person Sushang, who explained that a fissure in the Profound Sun Realm connected to an unknown Otherworld.
• Sushang brought Chu Mo and Youzhen to the Great Yin Dynasty's capital, where Han Ming reported that the Twenty-Sevenfold Origin-Returning Grand Array would be ready to activate in about ten days.
• Sushang showed Chu Mo and Youzhen the narrow, unstable rift and explained that it fluctuated every forty-nine days for half an incense stick's burning time.

Chu Mo and the Immortal Garden cultivators activated the Twenty-Sevenfold Origin-Returning Grand Array and traveled through the World Sea toward a severed passage to an Otherworld. A golden barrier blocked their route, and Sushang pressed Youzhen to use his Wondrous True Being Treasure Talismans.

• Sushang left Chu Mo and Youzhen to inspect the array, and Youzhen warned Chu Mo that the Immortal Garden used emotions to manipulate people.
• Ten days later, Sushang and the cultivators activated the array, opening the rift to the World Sea.
• Chu Mo summoned his Black Whale World Boat and followed Sushang's pleasure boat through the void along the old passage's lingering traces.
• A vast golden ring of runes appeared ahead and blocked the boats, and Sushang warned that forcing a way through could alert powerful beings.
• Sushang asked Youzhen to use Wondrous True Being, then suggested he must have Treasure Talismans for the divine ability, leaving him visibly displeased.

Chu Mo and his companions learned about Cloudmist Realm’s fate-artifact cultivation system and its ancient catastrophe as they planned to establish a Reception Grand Array without alerting the Nine Lords Alliance. They reached White Cang City, where Chu Mo asked how fate artifacts differed from their life-bound magical treasures.

• Lu Shi mistook Youzhen for his master after Youzhen used his Truth-Speaking ability, and Sushang explained the ability to Chu Mo.
• Youzhen explained that the Nine Lords Alliance ruled Cloudmist Realm and that its cultivation path centered on fate artifacts, then described the white light that had erased half the realm.
• Youzhen proposed having Cloudmist cultivators choose a site and build the Reception Grand Array so the group would draw less attention from the realm’s Heavenly Dao and Body Fusion experts.
• Youzhen told Lu Shi to find a prosperous city, and Lu Shi led the group to White Cang City.
• Youzhen reported that three Deacons at the peak of True Manifestation were stationed in the city, and Chu Mo asked how fate artifacts differed from their life-bound magical treasures.

Chu Mo and his companions investigated whether Cloudmist Realm fate artifacts could serve as a second Life-bound Magical Treasure, then used a forged talisman to obtain cultivation texts from Mu Changfeng. They learned that advancement depended on the Nine Lords Alliance’s gift of true nature, and the chapter ended with Chu Mo confronting Mu Yunxuan.

• Chu Mo sent Lu Shi and his companions away with instructions to report that they had seen nothing, then led Youzhen and Sushang to White Cang City to investigate fate artifacts.
• Mu Changfeng and the other White Cang City branch deacons discussed their stalled cultivation and the dangers of seeking opportunities in Shattered Heaven Province.
• Youzhen posed as a junior alliance member and offered Mu Changfeng a forged Little Yi Azure Origin Life-Preserving Talisman in exchange for guidance and cultivation texts.
• Chu Mo studied the texts and learned that fate artifacts became life-bound at True Manifestation, but reaching that stage required true nature bestowed only by the Nine Lords.
• Chu Mo entered Mu Yunxuan’s room in disguise, and his smile caused Mu Yunxuan to smile back against his will.

Youzhen continued infiltrating the Nine Lords Alliance while Chu Mo and Sushang prepared the Guidance Grand Array, but Lord Treasured Radiance’s sudden arrival in White Cang City forced them to suspend their plans. Lord Treasured Radiance questioned Mu Changfeng about the Heavenly Abyss Grand Array and then asked whether any outsiders had recently visited the city.

• Youzhen used visits to the Nine Lords Alliance branch to influence Mu Changfeng and traded treasures for a rich haul.
• Chu Mo and Youzhen noticed Ye Liusì visiting an Immortal Garden disciple, while Chu Mo sensed Ghostfolk activity in the Nether Capital’s golden vault.
• Lord Treasured Radiance’s Golden Heaven Treasure Palace appeared above White Cang City without warning, and Mu Changfeng ordered the branch disciples to welcome him.
• Chu Mo, Youzhen, and Sushang decided to put the Guidance Grand Array plans on hold and consider withdrawing from the realm if necessary.
• Mu Changfeng assured Lord Treasured Radiance that the Heavenly Abyss Grand Array foundations were operating normally.
• Lord Treasured Radiance asked whether any outsiders had recently visited the city, leaving Mu Changfeng alarmed.

Lord Treasured Radiance secretly questioned Mu Changfeng about visitors, then granted Mu Yunxuan a wisp of true nature. After Mu Yunxuan left, Lord Treasured Radiance and Chen Ziliang discussed the threat from the Tribulation Deliverance Sect and the Heaven's Will Order, while Chu Mo learned that the Nine Lords were Dharmic Treasures-Fate Artifacts and considered the benefits of bringing the realm into the sect.

• Mu Changfeng denied that any visitors had come to White Cang City, and Lord Treasured Radiance let the answer pass.
• Mu Yunxuan met Lord Treasured Radiance, received a wisp of true nature, and left the palace without retaining clear memories of the encounter.
• Lord Treasured Radiance asked Chen Ziliang whether the visitors in White Cang City were people from Tribulation Deliverance, and Chen Ziliang confirmed they were.
• Chen Ziliang warned that the Tribulation Deliverance Sect intended to seize the Cloudmist Realm and offered help restoring it if it joined the Heaven's Will Orthodox Lineage.
• Lord Treasured Radiance challenged Chen Ziliang over the Heaven's Will Order's own covert plans, including its Guidance Grand Array.
• Chu Mo examined the true nature he had received and realized that bringing the realm into the sect would give their disciples more benefits.

Chu Mo learned that Lord Treasured Radiance had left White Cang City and that envoys led by Chen Ziliang, likely disciples of Heaven's Will Sect, had arrived. The Tribulation Deliverance Sect prepared to advance its Guidance Grand Array plans, while two figures secretly headed for the Mu Residence.

• Chu Mo monitored Lord Treasured Radiance through Mu Yunxuan, then watched the Golden Heaven Treasure Palace depart for Heaven-Riven Province on its seventh day in White Cang City.
• Mu Changfeng introduced Chu Mo to Chen Ziliang and his companions, who said they would stay in the city to handle matters on Lord Treasured Radiance's orders.
• Lord Treasured Radiance reflected that neither the Tribulation Deliverance Sect nor Heaven's Will Sect could be allowed to dominate Cloudmist, and decided to let the two sides fight while he avoided becoming anyone's instrument.
• Chu Mo told Youzhen and Sushang about Chen Ziliang, and they agreed to speed up preparations for the Guidance Grand Array.
• Sushang revealed the [Sun and Moon Reversed] treasure, which could open a [False World] outside the present world.
• Two figures slipped out of separate courtyards and stealthily headed toward the Mu Residence.

Chen Ziliang and the Heaven's Will Sect disciples were trapped in a false realm by Sushang and the Tribulation Deliverance cultivators. While Sushang kept Chen Ziliang occupied, Youzhen headed to the Nine Lords Alliance branch to advance the Guidance Grand Array.

• Chen Ziliang and his fellow disciples discussed eliminating the Tribulation Deliverance cultivators and rescuing Cloudmist before deciding how to claim its Daoist legacy.
• Chen Ziliang sensed danger as a false realm enveloped the Mu Residence, where paper figures attacked the Heaven's Will Sect disciples.
• Brightlight burned the paper figures away, and a black-robed Tribulation Deliverance cultivator appeared with a soul banner.
• Sushang and the Immortal Garden disciples appeared, and Sushang used [Sun and Moon Reversed] to divide the battlefield and isolate Chen Ziliang.
• Sushang sent iridescent mist toward Chen Ziliang while Youzhen carried the Guidance Grand Array materials to the Nine Lords Alliance branch headquarters.

Chu Mo defeated Su Yu inside the false realm by trapping him in the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array and using the Soul-Seizing Treasure Mirror to leave him vulnerable. Su Yu died after recalling his treasures, and Chu Mo collected several of them.

• Chu Mo separated Su Yu from the others and trapped him in the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array.
• Su Yu used the Divine Illumination Dawnlight Pearl and Black-Gold Treasure Bow to resist Chu Mo, while Heaven's Heart helped him defend against the formation's attacks.
• After hundreds of exchanges, Chu Mo used the Nine Nether Grotto-Form Soul-Seizing Treasure-Mirror Light to trap Su Yu in the illusion of dying as an old man.
• Su Yu broke free under Heaven's Heart's warning, but the formation had already nearly destroyed him; he recalled his treasures before dying.
• Chu Mo obtained the Six-Yang Tower, Divine Illumination Dawnlight Pearl, and Black-Gold Sun-Drawing Treasure Bow.

Chu Mo defeated Su Yu by using their karmic ties to seize Su Yu’s Fate and take his treasures. Back in White Cang City, the Guidance Grand Array activated, drawing the Eight Lords as they prepared to destroy its pillar of light.

• Su Yu revived through his Life-Bound Divine Ability, but found that Chu Mo had taken his Dharmic Treasures.
• Su Yu attacked with a Crimson Firecloud, but Chu Mo used the Divine Illumination Dawnlight Treasure Pearl to make Su Yu realize they were connected, then absorbed his Fate.
• Chu Mo returned to the Mu Residence courtyard as the False Realm collapsed, where Sushang and Chen Ziliang had stopped fighting.
• The Guidance Grand Array at the Nine Lords Alliance Branch Altar sent a pillar of light skyward, and Youzhen urged Chu Mo to leave immediately.
• The Eight Lords arrived after a warning from the Heavenly Dao and unleashed their combined power against the pillar of light.