Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo questioned Daoist Mu about the Incense Burners, then used the Incense Burner Di Yang recovered to explain how urban legends held authority beyond ordinary cultivation. He offered to teach Di Yang a method based on the burner, and Di Yang accepted by becoming Chu Mo’s disciple.

• Chu Mo learned from Daoist Mu that seven people had received Incense Burners, then pulled Daoist Mu into the Profound Banner.
• Di Yang brought Chu Mo the Bronze Furnace after reporting that Incense City had fallen and Daoist Mu and his followers had died.
• Chu Mo explained that urban legends possessed station and authority that ordinary cultivators lacked.
• Chu Mo offered to adapt the True Edict of Netherworld Righteous Method using the Incense Burner as an earth foundation, and Di Yang agreed to learn.
• Chu Mo asked Di Yang to stop calling him Senior, and Di Yang knelt and called him Master.

Chu Mo studied the True Edict of Netherworld Righteous Method and concluded that adapting Divine Investiture for lower-level cultivators would be extremely difficult. He used the Ink Seal to make six Ritual Incense furnaces consume their keepers, then sent Di Yang to recover them, while Xi Sang traced the theft to Di Yang and unleashed the Death-Proclaiming Edict.

• Chu Mo accepted Di Yang as his disciple and assigned him to test a future simplified cultivation method.
• After studying the True Edict of Netherworld Righteous Method for several days, Chu Mo realized that simplifying Divine Investiture was nearly impossible and considered studying incense-related Dao Paths.
• Chu Mo sent Di Yang to retrieve incense burners from six locations, then used the Ink Seal to activate their Ritual Incense Urban Legends.
• The Ritual Incense furnaces consumed their keepers, and Di Yang and the alliance members collected the furnaces and brought them back to Chu Mo.
• Xi Sang learned that the furnaces and their keepers had disappeared, suspected Di Yang was acting under Declining Fate's influence, and sent the Death-Proclaiming Edict toward him.

Xi Sang ordered a search for Di Yang, while Chu Mo sent Di Yang to seize the gold of Jinming Ancient Kingdom and protect the mortals there. Di Yang captured the capital but became trapped in a battle with the kingdom’s ghostly forces as Xi Sang arrived.

• Xi Sang failed to trace Di Yang by name and ordered the ghost general to search for the Kindling Alliance so he could go in person.
• Di Yang told Chu Mo that the alliance needed gold to help its cultivators form cores and proposed taking the treasury of Jinming Ancient Kingdom.
• Chu Mo saw tribulation aura around Di Yang, granted him protective auspicious energy, and sent him on the expedition.
• Di Yang led the Kindling Alliance to capture Jinming’s capital, killed its king, and ordered his followers to take the gold and gather the enslaved mortals.
• Ghosts and cultivators arrived as the alliance withdrew, and Di Yang fought at the front until a black-robed Xi Sang appeared above the battlefield.

Xi Sang attacked the Kindling Alliance and Di Yang vanished through a fissure, while Chu Mo evacuated the valley’s survivors and prepared to find his disciple. Di Yang awoke in strange ruins and picked up a seal that called him “Fated one.”

• Xi Sang confronted Di Yang, but Di Yang disappeared into a fissure after the Kindling Alliance members sacrificed themselves to fight Xi Sang.
• Chu Mo learned that Di Yang was alive, then used the Profound Banner to evacuate the valley’s inhabitants and carried them to a distant river valley.
• Xi Sang found Di Yang’s Array Command Token and sent a Ghost General to locate the Kindling Alliance’s lair and kill its remaining members.
• Di Yang awoke in a collapsed hall, found a dark-gold seal, and heard an ancient voice call him “Fated one.”
• Chu Mo settled the survivors behind a Grand Array and decided to make further preparations to keep track of Di Yang.

Di Yang returned with a personal seal from the Ancient Underworld Bureaucracy, inspiring Chu Mo to create seals that let recipients borrow the rank of [Ritual Incense]. After testing their power, Chu Mo prepared to leave, leaving Di Yang bewildered.

• Di Yang returned to Chu Mo and recounted how Lu Ming had given him a personal seal tied to the Ancient Underworld Bureaucracy’s legacy.
• Chu Mo examined the seal and realized it could guide the Earth Foundation plan he had discussed with Di Yang.
• Six months later, Chu Mo used [Ritual Incense] to create personal seals that raised Di Yang, Daoist Xu, and the other alliance members above ordinary cultivators.
• At Chu Mo’s command, Di Yang used his borrowed rank to defeat Daoist Mu with Yin Thunder, stunning the onlookers.
• Chu Mo considered how to strengthen the method against Taboos and Origin Spirits, then told Di Yang he intended to leave for a while.

Chu Mo returned to Fuli Heaven and learned from Xi Hong that the Eastern Sea war had devastated Azure Depths and destroyed their Water Mansions. As they discussed the conflict and the sect’s penalty, two powerful auras arrived on Spirit Rhinoceros Island.

• Chu Mo left Di Yang to guard their place and returned to Fuli Heaven after the Eastern Sea fighting ended.
• Xi Hong told Chu Mo that Dragonkind had attacked Azure Depths and that Li Xing had died protecting him, while taking most of the blame for their failed guard duty.
• Chu Mo learned that he and Xi Hong owed a reduced penalty of half a million Dharma Coins and agreed to meet Xi Hong on Spirit Rhinoceros Island.
• Xi Hong explained that Dao Lord Zhiyun had ascended to spirit transformation and that the war had killed many mortals and ordinary Azure Depths disciples, along with several Outer Sea Flood Dragon Lords.
• Chu Mo and Xi Hong wondered why Dragonkind had targeted low-tier lives and why the Three Sects had sent no reinforcements before sensing two powerful auras descend on the island.

Xi Hong and Chu Mo negotiated with Mingxin and Shenxin to soften the report about the ruined Water Mansions, then faced True Lord Yuanyi’s ruling on their losses. Yuanyi accepted Chu Mo’s reason for leaving his post and asked about the current state of the Heavenly Register Realm.

• Mingxin accused Xi Hong and Youxuan of neglecting their duties, but Xi Hong gave him and Shenxin their Storage Bags, prompting them to revise their assessment.
• Mingxin questioned Chu Mo about his absence during the dragonkind assault, and Chu Mo explained that he had gone to the Heavenly Register Realm and offered the visitors Seaheart Stones.
• Mingxin and Shenxin agreed to give due consideration to their report, and the group completed the inspection and returned to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect.
• True Lord Yuanyi ordered Chu Mo to pay an additional hundred thousand Dharma Coins and Xi Hong to surrender seventy percent of his artificially created flood dragon corpses.
• Yuanyi accepted Chu Mo’s explanation for visiting the Heavenly Register Realm and asked whether anything unusual had happened there.

After True Lord Yuanyi questioned Chu Mo about his advancement and the Heavenly Register Realm, Qinglin brought him before True Lord Changle, who exposed his connection to the Red Silk Realm and the stolen origin spirit. Changle offered to spare him if he atoned by recovering an origin spirit for the Immortal Garden Lineage.

• True Lord Yuanyi questioned Chu Mo about the Heavenly Register Realm and dismissed him after hearing his answers.
• Qinglin intercepted Chu Mo and took him to the Immortal Garden Inner Peak on True Lord Changle's orders.
• True Lord Changle questioned Chu Mo, whose answers revealed that he had visited the Red Silk Realm and witnessed Lady Red Phoenix's disappearance.
• Chu Mo said that True Person Sushang had killed Jiqing and Wutang, while Changle watched to see whether he would reveal more about Lady Red Phoenix.
• True Lord Changle accused Chu Mo of taking an origin spirit from the Immortal Garden Lineage and offered to overlook his transgression if he recovered a suitable one.

Chang Le compelled Chu Mo to promise to bring her an Origin Spirit and inscribed that desire into his mind. Chu Mo used the Yin-Yang Jade to die and revive, erasing the imposed thought, and resolved to grow stronger despite the risks.

• Chang Le demanded that Chu Mo bring her an Origin Spirit and magically implanted the desire to offer it to her.
• Chu Mo returned to his cave abode and realized Chang Le's implanted thought was spreading through his mind.
• Chu Mo traveled to the Desolate Land of the Eternal Night Sea and used [True Sun Wheel] on himself, spending one Yin-Yang Jade to revive.
• Chu Mo confirmed that revival had erased Chang Le's imposed desire and cursed her and Xuan Cheng.
• Chu Mo concluded that his weak cultivation had made him vulnerable and decided that advancing faster was worth attracting attention.

Chu Mo devised a plan to use Urban Legends and the Kindling Alliance to capture more fate, then returned with a method for strengthening the Alliance through prayer power. He transformed its valley base into the Hall of Yama, preparing to give the disciples greater strength.

• Chu Mo planned to grant Laws to cultivators, use their karmic debts to turn them into Other-Selves Aspects, and take the fate they gained through Otherworldly Conquest.
• Chu Mo selected the Gathering Prayers to Establish a Deity Method from Fuli Heaven's Scripture Repository, reasoning that Ritual Incense and Fate Artifact Seals could limit its dangers.
• After returning to the Kindling Alliance, Chu Mo summoned its disciples and announced that he would expand their strength and foundation.
• Chu Mo dissolved the Bronze Furnace and transformed the valley's temple and surrounding buildings into a dark complex centered on the Hall of Yama.

Chu Mo founded the Underworld in Eternal Night, appointing Di Yang as its King of Hell and ordering its officials to gather believers and capture Urban Legends in secret. After leaving Di Yang to develop it, Chu Mo prepared to distribute Otherworldly Arts in Fuli Heaven and sensed that Qinglin had revealed part of his Fate.

• Chu Mo renamed the Kindling Alliance the Underworld, and the Hall of Yama bestowed new offices and visions upon Di Yang, Daoist Xu, and the other core members.
• Chu Mo appointed Di Yang King of Hell and assigned the others offices, instructing them to develop the Underworld secretly, gather believers, and send captured Urban Legends into the Hall of Yama.
• Di Yang reorganized the Kindling Alliance into Underworld institutions, while its ghost gods spread their names and began gathering prayer power from the mortals.
• Chu Mo reviewed a Jade Slip of Foundation Establishment cultivators who might suit Eternal Night's Otherworldly Arts, then dismissed the idea of approaching the Immortal Garden Lineage's higher world.
• Qinglin met Chu Mo outside the General Affairs Hall and reminded him to take a True Lord's orders seriously; after Qinglin departed, Chu Mo realized he had glimpsed part of Qinglin's Fate.

Chu Mo trapped True Person Qinglin in the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array and used his uncanny misfortune to defeat him. After Qinglin’s consciousness faded, Chu Mo took his appearance and began searching his memories for information.

• Chu Mo obtained the Ghost Chain and learned that the Immortal Garden’s high-tier Gleaming Light Cosmos had begun Unification.
• Qinglin visited Chu Mo and asked to inspect the [Spirit] in the world under Chu Mo’s jurisdiction.
• Chu Mo attacked Qinglin with the Heavenly Ghost Sixfold Yin Palace Grand Array and used the Ink Seal to make Qinglin’s treasures and abilities fail.
• Bai Li and the flood dragon souls battered Qinglin, while his [Six Heavens Spirit-Suppressing Treasure Talisman] proved counterfeit and crumbled to ash.
• Chu Mo subdued Qinglin, took his appearance, and began searching his memories.

Chu Mo used Qinglin’s identity to infiltrate the Immortal Garden, recruit Zhou Buxing, and set plans in motion around the Hua Realm. After returning to Qinglin’s cave abode, he received another visit from Yun Yi.

• Chu Mo reviewed Qinglin’s memories, learned why he had tried to seize an opportunity to become a True Lord, and decided he could use Qinglin’s identity to evade Chang Le’s watch.
• Chu Mo met True Person Yun Yi, agreed to join her expedition to the Mengke Realm, and spent a day cultivating with her in Qinglin’s cave abode.
• Chu Mo visited Zhou Buxing and offered him the Ghost Chain in exchange for helping with a future task.
• Chu Mo directed Zhou Buxing to join the Guiyin Realm’s unification, accumulate Karmic Severance, and gain fortune so he could handle a target later.
• Chu Mo returned to Qinglin’s cave abode, considered his other targets, and heard Yun Yi call to him from outside.

Chu Mo agreed to join Yun Yi and several fellow disciples in seeking the Dreamke Pearl, while news of Xuan Meng’s return stirred old tensions between them. After the group gathered to discuss the Mengke Realm, Xuan Meng challenged Chu Mo’s past and present strength, leaving him considering whether to recruit her to his side.

• Yun Yi told Chu Mo about the Dreamke Pearl and invited him to join the effort to claim it; he agreed while keeping his concerns about dream-related powers in mind.
• Yun Yi warned Chu Mo that Xuan Meng was nearing the end of her seclusion and might have reached Golden Core Perfection.
• Di Yang ordered Daoist Xu to postpone dealing with the Ghost Tree and instead seal the Ghost Wedding Dress inside the Hall of Yama.
• Chu Mo sensed that Zhou Buxing and another person had each cultivated a divine ability, then went with Yun Yi to meet the disciples planning to pursue the Dreamke Pearl.
• Xuan Meng emerged from seclusion and joined the gathering, where she hinted at confronting Chu Mo over their past and questioned whether his strength had improved.
• After Xuan Meng accepted the invitation to discuss the Mengke Realm, Chu Mo wondered whether he should recruit her as one of his own.

Chu Mo learned that True Lord Changle had returned and was told to stay out of the Mengke Realm’s Unification, while continuing to watch Youxuan. Changle left Xuan Meng to pursue the Dreamke Pearl and settle her own affairs with Chu Mo, setting the stage for their conflict.

• Xuan Meng warned Chu Mo to be careful, and Chu Mo advised Yun Yi to focus on gathering Fuli’s fortune rather than fixating on the Dreamke Pearl.
• After more than two months, True Lord Changle and the other True Lords returned, carrying a Light-and-Color Desire Stele whose true essence had been taken by the Dao Lord.
• The True Lords discussed Xuan Cheng’s theft of an origin spirit and Changle said she had her own way to deal with him.
• Changle summoned Chu Mo, asked about Youxuan, and ordered Chu Mo to skip the Mengke Realm’s Unification while continuing to watch him.
• After Chu Mo left, Changle told Xuan Meng to handle her own affairs and encouraged her to pursue the Dreamke Pearl and cultivate the Great Yin Chain-Form Mystical Furnace Reversal.

Chu Mo sent Yun Yi to the Mengke Realm to gather providence, then took Zhou Buxing’s life, divine ability, and accumulated providence for himself. After advancing to level 38, he looked forward to the Mengke Realm’s coming providence and planned to reach Golden Core Perfection and bind an origin spirit.

• Chu Mo reassured Yun Yi and urged her to prioritize accumulating providence in the Mengke Realm.
• Yun Yi and the other disciples entered the Mengke Realm through a vortex, while Chu Mo sensed providence returning from the Otherworld.
• Chu Mo appeared inside Zhou Buxing’s protected cave abode as Zhou’s accumulated providence descended.
• Chu Mo took Zhou Buxing’s body, fate, providence, and divine abilities, advancing from level 36 to 37.
• Chu Mo reclaimed another pawn and absorbed a second portion of providence, advancing to level 38.
• Chu Mo anticipated gaining another level from the Mengke Realm and vowed to return the blame to two others once he bound an origin spirit.

Chu Mo maintained his Qinglin identity while Yun Yi continued draining the Mengke Realm, then received a suspicious offer from Mingquan to retrieve a treasure that might restore Qinglin’s damaged divine ability. Mingquan’s scheme left Chu Mo wondering who the real target was, and an unexplained drowsiness made him realize something was wrong.

• Chu Mo ignored an emergency order to assemble at the Outer Peak because Qinglin had not returned from the Eternal Night Sea.
• Yun Yi cleared another region of the Mengke Realm and dismissed the distant clash over the Dreamke Pearl as unrelated to her mission.
• More than a month later, Chu Mo was with Yun Jin when a summons brought him to the General Affairs Hall to meet Mingquan.
• Mingquan claimed that True Person Guizhen’s Golden Vault could restore Qinglin’s damaged [Offering Morning Rain] and asked Chu Mo to use [Thousand Entangling Threads] to retrieve it.
• Chu Mo declined to commit, while Mingquan paid a deacon who had supplied information about disciples and then left the hall feeling unusually drowsy.
• Alone in his cave, Chu Mo suspected Mingquan’s offer was bait and wondered whether its intended target was connected to Qinglin, Youxuan, Xuan Meng, or Chang Le before recognizing that his own sudden drowsiness was wrong.

Chu Mo returned from death, absorbed the fortune released when the Mengke Realm fell into Fuli Heaven, and took Yun Yi’s identity to pursue Xuan Meng’s fate. After Xuan Meng was reported missing in the World Sea, she suddenly returned to the Immortal Garden.

• Chu Mo revived after killing himself to clear an abnormal influence and suspected Xuan Cheng had been trying to reach him through Qinglin.
• Yun Yi returned from the collapsed Mengke Realm and told Chu Mo that Xuan Meng had been swept into the World Sea while fighting over the Dreamke Pearl.
• As the realm’s fortune descended, Chu Mo used All Beings Aspect to merge Yun Yi into himself and absorbed the auspicious cloud, advancing to level 39.
• Chu Mo learned from Xuan Meng’s companion that True Lord Changle believed Xuan Meng was protected, while Changle focused on restoring the Light-and-Color Desire Stele.
• Chu Mo decided to take Xuan Meng’s identity and fate, and days later Xuan Meng appeared at the Immortal Garden, pale and staggering through the sky.

Chu Mo impersonated Xuan Meng and used the recognition of her fellow disciples to make the stolen identity more real, even manifesting her first Life-Bound Divine Ability. When True Lord Changle summoned him, Chu Mo prepared to face the person whose recognition mattered most.

• Chu Mo entered Xuan Meng’s cave abode in disguise and realized that he still lacked her fate, so he needed people close to her to believe he was her.
• A gold-robed True Person visited, and Chu Mo answered his questions about escaping the World Sea before using an eerie question to confirm the man believed he was Xuan Meng.
• Mingjian and Mingjing visited Chu Mo, completing the group of witnesses who had seen Xuan Meng fall into the World Sea.
• Chu Mo manifested Xuan Meng’s Life-Bound Divine Ability, Painting Dreams of a Floating Life, and planned to gain True Lord Changle’s recognition.
• Two days later, True Lord Changle summoned Chu Mo, who set out for Everjoy Peak in Xuan Meng’s form.

Chu Mo impersonated Xuan Meng before True Lord Changle and passed her test, while the real Xuan Meng returned to Fuli Heaven and was erased from the world as Chu Mo’s Ghostfolk shadow became real. He absorbed the fortune released by her disappearance, broke through to Golden Core Perfection, and escaped as powerful Divine Thoughts searched for him.

• Chu Mo posed as Xuan Meng before True Lord Changle, demonstrated his understanding of [Painting Dreams of a Floating Life], and learned that Chang Le expected Youxuan to provide a Dream-Path Origin Spirit.
• True Lord Changle accepted Chu Mo’s performance and told him to cultivate Great Yin Chain-Form Mystical Furnace Reversal while awaiting a compatible Origin Spirit.
• As the real Xuan Meng approached Fuli Heaven, Chu Mo sensed her return and saw her likeness become fully real in the Golden Vault of the Nether Capital.
• Xuan Meng entered Fuli Heaven but found that the world no longer recognized her, and she vanished as her existence was erased.
• Chu Mo fled Cloudsea Hanging Mountain as fortune descended, raising his cultivation from level 39 to Golden Core Perfection.
• More than a dozen Divine Thoughts searched the area after Chu Mo escaped into a vortex, while one lingered angrily.