Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo and Youzhen escaped Cloudmist after a True Lord manifested, but their return to Fuli cast them into the Sea Folk’s Outer Sea. After fighting their way toward the Turbid Abyss Sea, they encountered White Chi blocking their path.

• Sushang’s red thread briefly held back the eight lords’ assault, allowing the Heavenly Seal passages to form as a giant hand appeared from the heavens.
• Chu Mo and Youzhen fled through a vortex to the Eternal Night Sea, where Chu Mo opened another passage leading to Fuli.
• Chu Mo and Youzhen arrived in the Outer Sea, discovered their location from captured shrimp soldiers, and learned that the sea suppressed human cultivators.
• Chu Mo trapped a Crab General’s soul in his Profound Banner, and he and Youzhen fought past Sea Folk forces while traveling southwest.
• White Chi emerged from the sea and barred Chu Mo and Youzhen’s way near the Turbid Abyss Sea.

Chu Mo and Youzhen escaped the Outer Sea after Bai Li attacked them, using Youzhen’s Truth-Speaking and Chu Mo’s Tribulation Deliverance Command Token to force her to let them pass. At the Turbid Abyss Sea boundary, Chu Mo saw a dungeon notice identifying the Outer Sea as a level 95 realm and wondered where they had just been.

• Bai Li blocked Chu Mo and Youzhen’s path and attacked them with her True Unity Resplendence ability.
• Youzhen weakened the attack with Truth-Speaking and used the Two-Aspect Treasure Mirror to repel the droplets, though the mirror cracked.
• Chu Mo revealed his Tribulation Deliverance Command Token and threatened Bai Li with the consequences of killing Tribulation Deliverance disciples.
• Bai Li lowered her attack and ordered Chu Mo and Youzhen to leave the Outer Sea.
• As they reached the Turbid Abyss Sea, Chu Mo saw a level 95 dungeon notice over the Outer Sea and stopped to examine it.
• Youzhen noticed Chu Mo’s strange reaction and asked what he had discovered.

Chu Mo and Youzhen received a fate-numen blessing over the Turbid Abyss Sea, which raised Chu Mo’s cultivation and strengthened his soul. After they fled from pursuing cultivators, Chu Mo returned to Cloudsea Hanging Mountain with a new flying treasure and reflected on the treasures Dawnlight had given him.

• Chu Mo asked Youzhen whether he had heard of the True Realm, but Youzhen had not.
• A fate-numen blessing descended over Chu Mo and Youzhen, with portions going to their sect, the Immortal Garden, and the True Harmony Association.
• The remaining blessing favored Chu Mo, raising his level to 27 and clarifying his cultivation while changing his Life-bound Magical Treasure.
• Chu Mo and Youzhen departed as cultivators approached, but Li Xingzhou pursued them with his Wind-Cloud Twin Wings.
• Chu Mo returned to Cloudsea Hanging Mountain carrying the Wind-Cloud Twin Wings and found five Dharmic Treasures from Dawnlight in his Inventory.

Chu Mo examined his new treasures and divine abilities, then learned that the sect had awarded him eleven thousand Dharma Coins for the Cloudmist Realm expedition. Meanwhile, Sushang discussed the rewards and Chu Mo’s abilities with Gu Zhou before reporting to Senior Brother Jiqing.

• Chu Mo assessed his five Dharmic Treasures and studied Heaven's Heart, noting its power to revive a cultivator and its low success rate.
• Youzhen delivered the sect’s merit tally, showing Chu Mo had received eleven thousand Dharma Coins from a total award of four hundred and twenty-seven thousand.
• Chu Mo learned that True Lord Changle’s arrival had stabilized the Guidance Grand Array and that reinforcements were pouring into Cloudmist as battles intensified.
• Gu Zhou told Sushang that Han Ming, a native of the Profound Sun Realm and a planted Heaven's Will Sect pawn, had brought the Heavenly Sect disciples into Cloudmist.
• Sushang told Gu Zhou that Senior Brother Jiqing had approved the merit distribution, then privately considered Chu Mo’s abilities and sent Jiqing a message that the matter was settled.

Chu Mo tested the Black Gold Bow’s power, then told Bai Du that Ming He had died in the Otherworld. Bai Du pressed Chu Mo to take responsibility for Ming He’s debts and demanded the return of a borrowed treasure.

• Chu Mo charged the Black Gold Bow for thirty-six breaths and fired a shot that destroyed mountains ten thousand li away.
• Bai Du visited Chu Mo to ask about Ming He, who had gone to the Eternal Night Sea in search of an opportunity.
• Chu Mo returned with Ming He’s broken Life-bound Magical Treasure and told Bai Du that Ming He had perished.
• Bai Du accused Chu Mo of failing to protect Ming He, but Chu Mo showed him their contract and denied responsibility.
• Bai Du claimed Ming He owed him 180,000 Dharma Coins and demanded the return of the Myriad Dharma Furnace.

Chu Mo investigated the strange circumstances of Ming He's death after Bai Du asked him about the missing Myriad Dharma Furnace. Following a thread of karma, he reached the Netherworld Soil in the Eternal Night Sea, where the trail ended.

• Bai Du asked Chu Mo for the Myriad Dharma Furnace, but Chu Mo said Ming He had left only his bonded dharmic sword and denied knowing where the furnace was.
• Chu Mo recalled that this was the fourth Ming He and wondered whether the Heavenly Water Goddess legend had caused his death, then examined the broken sword and found its karma strange.
• Bai Du met True Person Jiqing, who admitted sending him to find a pretext to trouble Youxuan and hinted at old ties involving the Profound Sun Realm.
• Jiqing privately lamented that Xuan Cheng had reached Nascent Soul before him and wondered how long it had been since he left the Immortal Garden's inner peaks.
• Chu Mo followed the sword's thread of karma to the Netherworld Soil in the Eternal Night Sea, where the trail ended, and summoned the Dark Banner.

Chu Mo followed the Guide’s lantern procession along a Nether Road to a strange place called Netherworld Soil. After sending Paper Daoist ahead to check for danger, Chu Mo and Desire Consort entered and found themselves in absolute darkness as a new area event began.

• Chu Mo asked Desire Consort and Paper Daoist about Netherworld Soil, and Desire Consort recalled an ancient text describing a tablet that marked its location.
• A Guide’s lantern compelled Chu Mo’s Banner Spirits to follow it into a mist-covered Nether Road and onward to a lightless place.
• Chu Mo learned that the Banner Spirits were safe for the moment and ordered Paper Daoist to scout the path first.
• After Paper Daoist reported back, Chu Mo and Desire Consort followed him into the darkness.
• Chu Mo saw notifications that the Nether Road area event had ended and the Netherworld Soil area event had begun.

Chu Mo entered the Land of No Return, where he captured thousands of Yin Spirits with the Profound Banner and subdued the North Mountain Five Friends. Their leader, Lu Ming, explained that third-tier cultivation embryos corresponded to urban legends and could attract them to devour their cultivators.

• Chu Mo found countless dead souls wandering the Netherworld Soil and used the Profound Banner to capture and refine thousands of them.
• The North Mountain Five Friends confronted Chu Mo and demanded that he hand over the Profound Banner, but he suppressed them and made them spirits within it.
• Chu Mo questioned the five about the place, and their leader Lu Ming identified it as the Land of No Return, also called Netherworld Earth.
• Lu Ming revealed that he had entered the land over a hundred years earlier to escape disturbances in his cultivation embryo.
• Lu Ming explained that third-tier embryos corresponded to urban legends and could eventually attract those legends, which would devour their cultivators; Chu Mo asked how Lu Ming knew this secret.

Chu Mo learned that the Netherworld Soil was an urban legend that trapped everyone who entered, then found Ming He’s remains and recovered the Myriad Dharma Furnace containing the [Heavenly Water Goddess]. When the Nether Road failed to appear, Chu Mo opened a golden vortex that seemed to lead to another realm, leaving Lu Ming and the North Mountain Five Friends stunned.

• Lu Ming told Chu Mo that urban legends could arise anew and that a [Taboo] might dwell deep within the Netherworld Soil.
• Chu Mo revealed that the Netherworld Soil was itself an urban legend, then followed the karmic thread to Ming He.
• Chu Mo found Ming He’s decayed body and retrieved the Myriad Dharma Furnace, which held the [Heavenly Water Goddess].
• Chu Mo tried to summon the Nether Road, but Lu Ming warned that no one who entered the Netherworld Soil had ever escaped.
• Chu Mo opened a golden vortex beneath the astonished gaze of Lu Ming and the North Mountain Five Friends.

Chu Mo considered how to use the Heavenly Water Goddess law and received Sushang’s invitation to discuss his Cloudmist Realm merits. Before he could meet her, Bai Du confronted him over the missing Myriad Dharma Furnace and demanded compensation, prompting Chu Mo to challenge him.

• Chu Mo sent the Paper Daoist to explain the cave abode to Lu Ming and the North Mountain Five Friends while he considered using netherworld soil in his soul banner.
• Chu Mo opened the Myriad Dharma Furnace, restrained the restless Heavenly Water Goddess statue, and devised a plan to sell its law, gain a divine ability, and incur a cultivator’s karmic debt.
• Sushang invited Chu Mo to the Immortal Garden’s Outer Peak to reassess his Cloudmist Realm merit calculation, and he agreed to go.
• Bai Du stopped Chu Mo outside his cave abode and asked whether he had found the Myriad Dharma Furnace.
• Chu Mo denied finding the furnace, but Bai Du demanded three hundred thousand Dharma Coins; Chu Mo answered that he was willing to fight.

Chu Mo learned that the Immortal Garden planned an early Unification of the Cloudmist Realm and suspected Sushang’s offer was connected to Jiqing and Bai Du. Meanwhile, Jue Ming returned to his cave abode and found a Black-Robed Figure waiting inside.

• Bai Du warned Chu Mo to watch himself before flying away, and Chu Mo continued to the Immortal Garden’s Outer Peak.
• Sushang offered Chu Mo compensation and invited him to join the early Unification of the Cloudmist Realm, explaining its rewards and the realm’s worsening condition.
• Chu Mo declined to decide immediately and, after leaving, wondered whether Sushang’s offer and Bai Du’s hostility were connected to Jiqing.
• Jue Ming lamented being stuck at Foundation Establishment Perfection without [Law], and his killing intent rose as he returned to his cave abode.
• Jue Ming entered his cave abode and stopped when he saw a Black-Robed Figure waiting inside.

Chu Mo offered Jue Ming a water-aligned Law in exchange for 400,000 Dharma Coins and an oath to kill Bai Du, True Person Xingdu. Jue Ming accepted the deal, received the Stone Statue, and left to seek the money before Chu Mo returned in five days.

• Chu Mo appeared in Jue Ming's Cave Abode and showed him a Stone Statue containing a Law suited to his cultivation.
• Chu Mo offered to bestow the Law if Jue Ming paid 400,000 Dharma Coins and killed Bai Du, True Person Xingdu.
• Jue Ming accepted the terms and swore to devote all his strength to killing Bai Du after entering Golden Core.
• Chu Mo gave Jue Ming the Stone Statue and said he would collect the Dharma Coins in five days.
• Jue Ming decided to visit the Upper Mound Commerce Association to gather the money.

Chu Mo arranged for Jue Ming to forge a powerful Life-Bound Divine Ability, then used [All Beings Aspect] to bind Jue Ming’s fortune to himself as Jue Ming joined the expedition to Cloudmist. As Cloudmist’s unification approached, Chu Mo declined Sushang’s invitation and accepted her forty thousand Dharma Coins in compensation.

• Chu Mo explained why he had chosen Jue Ming to kill Bai Du and planned to claim the fortune Jue Ming would gain in Cloudmist.
• Jue Ming completed his Golden Core breakthrough and formed the Life-Bound Divine Ability [Blood Treasure River].
• Chu Mo used [All Beings Aspect] to tether Jue Ming’s fortune to himself, intending to take it later.
• Jue Ming maneuvered his way into the Immortal Garden’s party traveling to Cloudmist, while Bai Du continued provoking Chu Mo.
• Sushang invited Chu Mo to join the Cloudmist expedition, but he claimed urgent business in the Heavenly Seal Realm and refused.
• Sushang offered Chu Mo an Embroidered Sachet containing forty thousand Dharma Coins, and he accepted it despite protesting.

Chu Mo rejected Sushang’s invitation and discovered that she and Bai Du were working with True Person Jiqing, who planned to send Bai Du to Cloudmist. Months later, the Immortal Garden’s invasion devastated the Cloudmist Realm, where Jue Ming slaughtered the inhabitants of a sanctuary.

• Chu Mo accepted Sushang’s Dharma Coins, dismissed her, and destroyed the sachet to spill the coins onto his floor.
• Sushang told True Person Jiqing that Chu Mo had refused, and Bai Du prepared to go to Cloudmist with Jiqing’s yin-type Otherworldly Art.
• Several months later, the Immortal Garden and its allies plundered the ruined Cloudmist Realm while besieging it with Immortal Vessels.
• A group of Cloudmist cultivators debated surrender before Heavenly Demons found their sanctuary and destroyed its Grand Array.
• Jue Ming killed the blue-robed elder and slaughtered everyone in the sanctuary with Blood Treasure River, strengthening his blood river and Karmic Severance.

Jue Ming ambushed Bai Du in the Cloudmist Realm and used the karma gathered from his slaughter to strengthen [Blood Treasure River]. Bai Du countered with his divine abilities and Nether Radiance Lantern, whose light began to pull Jue Ming’s soul from his body.

• Bai Du left the sanctuary after criticizing the Immortal Garden for allowing the Life-Ending Society to slaughter its inhabitants.
• True Person Qinghe visited Chu Mo’s cave abode, learned he was away in the Heavenly Seal Realm, and left a message with the Banner Spirit.
• Bai Du planted a formation nexus in a Cloudmist earth vein, then Jue Ming ambushed him with a Blood Blade that shattered Bai Du’s Purple Sash Jade.
• Bai Du split into six figures and used his Curse divine ability to corrode Jue Ming’s blood river while his divided souls attacked.
• Jue Ming poured his accumulated karma into [Blood Treasure River], which destroyed one of Bai Du’s divided souls.
• Bai Du summoned the Nether Radiance Lantern, and its light began drawing Jue Ming’s soul toward it.

Jue Ming used an Interest-Bearing Loan to unleash a vast blood sea against Bai Du, then fled after wounding him. Chu Mo trapped Bai Du in a grand array to set up a distant bow attack, and the chapter ended as a scarlet-gold arrow rushed toward Bai Du.

• Jue Ming borrowed power through the Interest-Bearing Loan and expanded the Blood Treasure River into a blood sea that swallowed Bai Du and one of his split souls.
• Bai Du escaped by exchanging places with a split soul, but Jue Ming poured out his remaining power, wounded him, and fled.
• Chu Mo revealed he had replaced the boat-piloting disciple and trapped Bai Du in the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array.
• Bai Du recognized the array and addressed Chu Mo as Junior Brother Youxuan, but received no answer before breaking free.
• Bai Du saw a scarlet-gold arrow nearly upon him, its heat scorching his face and splitting his skin.

Chu Mo killed Bai Du before his soul could return to the Profound Nether Grotto-Scenery Banner, then escaped the collapsing Cloudmist Realm with its spoils. Back at the Immortal Garden, Jiqing learned of Bai Du’s death, while Jue Ming awaited his fate-numen blessing and was confronted by someone identical to himself.

• Chu Mo erased Bai Du’s remnant soul with Nether Radiance and collected the treasures and Ghost-Eating Insects left behind.
• The Immortal Garden’s disciples evacuated Cloudmist as its Formation Eyes consumed the ruined realm and it fell into the World Sea.
• Sushang told Jiqing that Bai Du had died in Cloudmist and his name had vanished from the Registry.
• Jue Ming returned to his cave abode with lingering curse injuries and waited for the fate-numen blessing.
• A golden cloud descended toward Jue Ming’s cave, but a figure identical to him appeared and claimed the fate-numen was theirs.

After gaining abundant fortune and breaking through three cultivation levels, Chu Mo examined the treasures he had taken from Bai Du. He entered Netherworld Soil with the North Mountain Five Friends and followed Lu Ming toward a powerful cultivator, stopping before a vast mountain of bones.

• Chu Mo absorbed fortune and broke through three cultivation levels, then returned to his cave abode.
• Chu Mo inspected Bai Du's Nether Radiance Lamp and Ghost-Eating Insects and decided to keep them for his own use.
• Chu Mo entered Netherworld Soil after the Nether Road event ended and wondered whether the two places were connected.
• Lu Ming told Chu Mo about a powerful cultivator trapped near North Mountain and led him deeper into Netherworld Soil.
• Lu Ming brought Chu Mo to a mountain made from ghost remains, where Chu Mo sensed something familiar.

Chu Mo crossed the mountain of bones, captured Xu Ji with the Profound Banner, and questioned him about the Netherworld Soil. Xu Ji explained that it had no fixed boundaries and grew more stable as it absorbed wandering souls, describing it as rootless soil without a foundation for heaven and earth.

• Chu Mo asked Desire Consort whether the mountain of bones resembled Bone Daoist’s embryo and learned from Lu Ming that the Netherworld Soil held other presences tied to urban legends.
• Chu Mo approached the mountain, which parted to open a path while its ghost creatures recoiled in fear.
• Chu Mo entered the black palaces, drew the arrogant Xu Ji into the Profound Banner, and took his seat in the central hall.
• Chu Mo learned that Xu Ji had spent over five hundred years in the Netherworld Soil and ordered him to explain what he knew.
• Xu Ji told Chu Mo that the Netherworld Soil had no fixed boundaries, expanded as it absorbed spirits, and was like rootless soil without a foundation for heaven and earth.

Chu Mo learned that Netherworld Soil grew from wandering souls and obsessions, and suspected Bai Du’s lantern had been arranged to draw him into a plan connected to Dao Lord Darkworld. After deciding to press on, he questioned Xu Ji about the Taboo beings hidden in Netherworld Soil and heard of one that spread overwhelming sorrow.

• Xu Ji explained that Netherworld Soil waxed and waned with wandering souls and obsessions, and could vanish if devoured or emptied.
• Chu Mo realized Bai Du’s palace lantern could dissolve souls and obsessions, suspected Dao Lord Darkworld had orchestrated its arrival, and chose to continue regardless.
• Chu Mo asked Xu Ji what would happen if every wandering soul in Netherworld Soil were delivered, and Xu Ji warned that it could disturb the Taboo beings in its depths.
• Xu Ji described a human-shaped Taboo he had seen five hundred years earlier, whose Sorrowful Intent turned rocks to ash and nearly shattered Xu Ji’s soul.